56% of organizations faced a ransomware attack, many paid the ransom
There’s a continued proliferation of ransomware, heightened concerns around nation-state actors, and the need for acceleration of both digital and security …
Attacks on biotech and pharmaceutical industry escalate
Attacks on the biotech and pharmaceutical industry had increased by 50% between 2019 and 2020, according to a BlueVoyant report. The report highlighted that nation-states are …
Consumer behaviors and cyber risks of holiday shopping in 2020
While consumers are aware of increased risks and scams via the internet, they still plan to do more shopping online – and earlier – this holiday season, McAfee reveals. …
Financial services lead when it comes to fixing open source flaws
The financial services industry has the best flaw fix rate across six industries and leads a majority of industries in uncovering flaws within open source components, Veracode …
Cisco Webex vulnerabilities may enable attackers to covertly join meetings
Cisco has fixed three bugs in its Cisco Webex video conferencing offering that may allow attackers to: Join Webex meetings without appearing in the participant list …
Google forces devs to reveal Chrome extensions’ data use, privacy practices
Starting January 2021, developers of Chrome extensions will have to certify their data use and privacy practices and provide information about the data collected by the …
The effectiveness of vulnerability disclosure and exploit development
New research into what happens after a new software vulnerability is discovered provides an unprecedented window into the outcomes and effectiveness of responsible …
A perspective on security threats and trends, from inception to impact
Sophos published a report which flags how ransomware and fast-changing attacker behaviors, from advanced to entry level, will shape the threat landscape and IT security in …
Manufacturing industry overwhelmed by innovative threat actors
TrapX Security and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) have released findings of a research that surveyed 150 cyber and IT professionals directly involved in security strategy, …
93% of businesses are worried about public cloud security
Bitglass released a report which uncovers whether organizations are properly equipped to defend themselves in the cloud. IT and security professionals were surveyed to …
Hybrid environments driving positive business impact amid pandemic
Nutanix announced the findings of its survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with adopting private, hybrid and public clouds. This year, survey …
Kali Linux 2020.4 released: New default shell, fresh tools, and more!
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2020.4, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. You can download it or upgrade to it. Kali Linux …