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Vulnerabilities associated with ransomware increased 4.5% in Q3 2021

Ransomware groups are continuing to grow in sophistication, boldness, and volume, with numbers up across the board since Q2 2021, a report by Ivanti, Cyber Security Works and …

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Mobile phishing exposure in the energy industry surged 161% in 2021

Mobile phishing exposure surged 161% within the energy industry between the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021, a Lookout report reveals. The research indicates …

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Tens of thousands unpatched GitLab servers under attack via CVE-2021-22205

Attackers are actively exploiting an “old” vulnerability (CVE-2021-22205) to take over on-premise GitLab servers, Rapid7 researcher Jacob Baines warns. The …

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Proven third-party risk management strategies

As cyber threats continue to plague enterprises and the third-party partners and suppliers they work with, organizations that have prioritized the development of a robust …

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Mapping ATT&CK techniques to CVEs should make risk assessment easier

Vulnerability reporters should start using MITRE ATT&CK technique references to describe what the attacker is trying to achieve by exploiting a given CVE-numbered …

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Trojan Source bugs may lead to extensive supply-chain attacks on source code

Cambridge University researchers have detailed a new way targeted vulnerabilities can be introduced into source code while making them invisible to human code reviewers, …

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Financial services need to prioritize API security to protect their customers

Noname Security and Alissa Knight, Partner at Knight Ink and recovering hacker, announced a research which unveils a number of vulnerabilities in the banking, cryptocurrency …

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API attacks are both underdetected and underreported

Akamai released a research into the evolving threat landscape for application programming interfaces (APIs), which according to Gartner will be the most frequent online attack …

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Organizations making security trade-offs in the push to innovate

The vast majority of organizations are increasing their investment in application security this year, but they continue to struggle to fully embrace secure innovation. A …

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Increased risk tolerances are making digital transformation programs vulnerable

Digital transformation programs could be vulnerable to cyber attacks due to increased risk tolerances and ongoing cybersecurity challenges, according to a global research of …

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Siloed security data hamper the ability to achieve collective defense

Cyware revealed a research detailing the challenges affecting modern security operations teams and the negative business impact of siloed security operations. According to the …

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Organizations losing business due to connected product security concerns

59% of executives with cybersecurity decision-making responsibility at large and mid-sized companies say that their organizations have lost business due to product security …

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