Vulnerabilities/Threats

New Cybersecurity National Security Memorandum will let the spy agency "identify vulnerabilities, detect malicious threat activity and drive mitigations," agency cybersecurity director says.

MoonBounce is the latest in a small but growing number of implants found hidden in a computer's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

The incident compromised the personal data and confidential information of more than 515,000 "highly vulnerable people," the Red Cross reports.

Policy as code and other techniques can help enterprises steer clear of the dangers that have befallen otherwise sophisticated cloud customers.

Just turning the patch dial to "high" is not enough, and if your company is using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize software patching, you are doing it wrong.

Using blockchain, multifactor authentication, or signatures can help boost authentication security and reduce fraud.

"WhisperGate" malware was used to overwrite Master Boot Record and other files to render systems inoperable at several organizations in Ukraine, Microsoft says.

VirusTotal can be used to collect large amounts of credentials without infecting an organization or buying them online, researchers found.

CISA issues alert for senior leadership of US organizations amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Cross-site scripting and broken access controls continued to be the top classes of vulnerabilities researchers discovered, according to Bugcrowd's annual vulnerability report.

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Timing of the move has evoked at least some skepticism from security experts about the country's true motives.

An attack discovered on Dec. 4, 2021 forced the Maryland Department of Health to take some of its systems offline.

The Log4j vulnerability is only the latest security flaw to have global impact, prompting the Biden administration and software developers to pledge to produce more secure software.