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Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned Thursday that foreign hackers are increasingly targeting vendors and suppliers that work with the government to compromise their products in an effort to steal intellectual property and carry out espionage. The NCSC said it is working with other agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to raise…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

In March 2020, shortly after COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic, SecurityWeek reached out to several experts for their thoughts on the effects of the pandemic on early-stage venture investment in cybersecurity. While most agreed that there would be some negative impact, investors were optimistic. Since then, tens of companies have announced raising millions, tens…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Power management may not be at the top of anyone’s priority list when they think about cybersecurity. But to quote the famous words of Bob Dylan: “The times, they are a-changin’.” As Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled devices have evolved and many business functions have shifted to remote operations, vulnerabilities are emerging in places that may…

Network Security

Issued by: CyberArk Blog

Almost a year ago, the world turned upside down and seemingly everything changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In that time, entire workforces went – and stayed – home, cloud adoption skyrocketed and digital transformation has become a business imperative at scale. This confluence of events has also spelled “opportunity” for attackers – a fact…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Week

Research conducted by Alissa Knight, partner at marketing agency Knight Ink, on behalf of mobile API threat protection firm Approov showed that the applications are to API attacks that unauthorized parties could leverage to access protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). With people increasingly relying on mHealth apps during the COVID-19 pandemic,…

Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

I switched from epidemiology to network security as my day job years ago, but today’s pandemic reminds me of the similarities between the two fields. There are many lessons we can take from the real-world virus and apply them to security in the online world. It may not be obvious, but the spread of information…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Week

Governments worldwide have released COVID-19 mobile apps to provide citizens with useful information and, in some cases, to track individuals in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak. An analysis of dozens of nation and government-sponsored mobile applications for Android released to help with the current COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the existence of privacy risks,…