Vulnerabilities/Threats

Duston Childs and Brian Gorenc of ZDI take the opportunity at Black Hat USA to break down the many vulnerability disclosure issues making patch prioritization a nightmare scenario for many orgs.

GitHub, the owner of the Node Package Manager (npm), proposes cryptographically linking source code and JavaScript packages in an effort to shore up supply chain security.

Unusually, SOVA, which targets US users, now allows lateral movement for deeper data access. Version 5 adds an encryption capability.

Back-end complexity of cloud computing means there's plenty of potential for security problems. Here's how to get a better handle on SaaS application security.

The head of Microsoft's Security Response Center defends keeping its initial vulnerability disclosures sparse — it is, she says, to protect customers.

During a keynote at Black Hat 2022, former CISA director Chris Krebs outlined the biggest risk areas for the public and private sectors for the next few years.

In her keynote address at Black Hat USA 2022, Kim Zetter gives a scathing rebuke of Colonial Pipeline for not foreseeing the attack.

Up-and-coming companies shoot their shot in a new feature introduced at the 25th annual cybersecurity conference.

Even among businesses with cyber insurance, they lack coverage for basic costs of many cyberattacks, according to a BlackBerry survey.

More than 1 million instances of firewalls running Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software have four vulnerabilities that undermine its security, a researcher finds.

Ransomware gang gained access to the company's VPN in May by convincing an employee to accept a multifactor authentication (MFA) push notification.

Industry standards would provide predictable and understandable IoT security frameworks.

Threat actors can abuse weaknesses in HTTP request handling to launch damaging browser-based attacks on website users, researcher says.

Four serious security issues on the popular appliance could be exploited by hackers with any level of access within the host network, Bitdefender researchers say.

Many of the technologies and services that organizations are using to isolate Internet traffic from the internal network lack session validation mechanisms, security startup says.