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The 10 Most Impactful Types of Vulnerabilities for Enterprises TodayManaging system vulnerabilities is one of the old est - and most frustrating - security challenges that enterprise defenders face. Every software application and hardware device ships with intrinsic flaws - flaws that, if critical enough, attackers can exploit from anywhere in the world. It's crucial that defenders take stock of what areas of the tech stack have the most emerging, and critical, vulnerabilities they must manage. It's not just zero day vulnerabilities. Consider that CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog lists vulnerabilitlies in widely used applications that are "actively exploited," and most of them are flaws that were discovered several years ago and have been fixed. There are also emerging vulnerabilities in 5G networks, cloud infrastructure, Edge applications, and firmwares to consider.
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6/24/2017 | 9:28:32 AM
In a lot of cases your are definitely right, but just saying most is fiction is, for me, too simple.
There are a lot of examples: shuting down parts of the power grid, hack a car, hack home appliances, nuclear production manipulation, steel plant manipulation, hacks of ATMs with million dollar gains, manipulate ICS systems, take over railway control systems....
All in all in always is a question from which perspective you look on a hack and what is the real gain for a hacker.
This is sometimes not obvious, but if you take a deeper look on it it is mostly obvious and logical even most people think "I don't care if someone hacks my mew smart fridge".