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Most companies have high-risk vulnerabilities on their network perimeter

October 29, 2020

Positive Technologies performed instrumental scanning of the network perimeter of selected corporate information systems. A total of 3,514 hosts were scanned, including …

Theory and practice of web application security efforts in organizations worldwide

October 15, 2020

75% of executives believe their organization scans all web applications for security vulnerabilities, while nearly 50% of security staff say they don’t, a Netsparker …

GitHub envisions a world with fewer software vulnerabilities

October 13, 2020

After five months in beta, the GitHub Code Scanning security feature has been made generally available to all users: for free for public repositories, as a paid option for …

Nmap 7.90 released: New fingerprints, NSE scripts, and Npcap 1.0.0

October 5, 2020

Over a year has passed since Nmap had last been updated, but this weekend Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon announced Nmap 7.90. About Nmap Nmap is a widely used free and …

Google offers high-risk Chrome users additional scanning of risky files

September 18, 2020

Google is providing a new “risky files” scanning feature to Chrome users enrolled in its Advanced Protection Program (APP). About the Advanced Protection Program …

Study of global hackers and the economics of security research

June 25, 2020

Human ingenuity supported by actionable intelligence were found to be critical ingredients to maintaining a resilient infrastructure, Bugcrowd reveals. In fact, 78% of hackers …

UPnP vulnerability lets attackers steal data, scan internal networks

June 9, 2020

A vulnerability (CVE-2020-12695) in Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which is implemented in billions of networked and IoT devices – personal computers, printers, mobile …

Healthcare industry at greatest risk of data breach

February 26, 2020

The healthcare industry has significantly more exposed attack surfaces than any other industry surveyed, according to Censys’s research findings of cloud risks and cloud …

IoC Scanner shows if Citrix appliances have been compromised via CVE-2019-19781

January 23, 2020

Citrix and FireEye have teamed up to provide sysadmins with an IoC scanner that shows whether a Citrix ADC, Gateway or SD-WAN WANOP appliance has been compromised via …

New method validates the integrity of computer chips using x-rays

October 11, 2019

Guaranteeing that computer chips, that can consist of billions of interconnected transistors, are manufactured without defects is a challenge. But how to determine if a chip …

A bug made some Windows Defender antivirus scans fail

September 19, 2019

Microsoft has released a fix for a bug that made its Windows Defender Antivirus fail after a few seconds when users opted for a Quick or Full scan of the system. Users are …

Attackers are targeting vulnerable Fortigate and Pulse Secure SSL VPNs

August 26, 2019

Attackers are taking advantage of recently released vulnerability details and PoC exploit code to extract private keys and user passwords from vulnerable Pulse Connect Secure …