Quantum computing and encryption: Key to achieving resilience, technological sovereignty and leadership
Cryptography is a vital part of cybersecurity. Security properties like confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation rely on strong cryptographic mechanisms, …
Rampant password reuse puts companies and customers at risk
25.9 million business account credentials and over 543 million breach assets tied to employees in the Fortune 1000 are readily available on the criminal underground, SpyCloud …
CFOs are becoming catalysts of digital strategy
As the pandemic continues to challenge organizations worldwide, the role of chief financial officers (CFOs) has moved further beyond “economic guardians” of the enterprise to …
Week in review: Improving vulnerability triage, RDP attacks soaring, hackers in high demand
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Vulnerabilities in widely used TCP/IP stacks open IoT, OT devices to attack Forescout …
Accellion to retire enterprise file-sharing product targeted in recent attacks
U.S.-based cloud solutions company Accellion will soon retire FTA, its legacy enterprise file-sharing solution, vulnerabilities in which have recently been exploited by …
5 cybersecurity trends MSPs must address in 2021
2020 was chock full of surprises and twists that no analyst could have predicted and came with a massive shift to remote working and tools that facilitate it. The good news is …
Successful BEC attacks become 56% more costly
The number of phishing attacks grew through 2020, fully doubling over the course of the year. Attacks peaked in October 2020, with a high of 225,304 new phishing sites …
mHealth apps consistently expose PII and PHI through APIs
All of the 30 popular mHealth apps that were tested are vulnerable to API attacks that can allow unauthorized access to full patient records including protected health …
2020 vulnerability disclosures on track to exceed those from 2019
2020 vulnerability disclosures are on track to exceed 2019 despite a sharp decrease of 19.2% observed earlier in the year, according to Risk Based Security. The team …
Researchers spot massive increase in RDP attack attempts
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to influence the cybercrime landscape in 2020, ESET reveals. Most notably, the new attack surface created by the shift to work from home …
Vulnerabilities in widely used TCP/IP stacks open IoT, OT devices to attack
Forescout researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities affecting nine different TCP/IP stacks widely used in IoT and OT devices. The vulnerabilities are due to weak …
Which users are at higher risk of email-based phishing and malware?
The risk of being targeted with email-based phishing and malware attacks is not evenly spread across geographic and demographic boundaries, Google and Stanford University …
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