In a rapidly changing business environment, the role of the CISO has hugely expanded in its scope and responsibilities, a BT Security survey of over 7000 professionals from across the world reveals.

The security of open source software has rightfully garnered the industry’s attention, but solutions require consensus about the challenges and cooperation in the execution.

Stormshield is a major provider of network security products to the French government, some used on sensitive networks, so it is being treated as a major security breach inside the French government.

Fraudsters had an early start anticipating the buzz surrounding tax filing season, with phishing campaigns impersonating the government agency as early as November 25, 2020, according to Bitdefender.

Trickbot recently added a fresh module to scan local network systems with open ports for quick lateral movement. Names masrv,  the component incorporates a copy of the Masscan open-source utility.

Retail firms are back on the targets of cyber adversaries; several organizations were hit by a variety of threats including phishing campaigns, code injection, and ransomware attacks lately.

Estate agent Foxtons Group is under pressure after a daily newspaper claimed that thousands of customers’ card and personal details have been uploaded to a dark web site.

More than 3.2 billion unique pairs of cleartext emails and passwords have just been leaked on a popular hacking forum, aggregating past leaks from Netflix, LinkedIn, Exploit.in, Bitcoin, and more.

The XS-Leak family of browser side-channel attacks that can be used to glean important information from a system, bypassing existing security measures to leak sensitive user data.

An unprivileged user on a Windows computer could place a malicious DLL file within the installation directory of Adobe ColdFusion, which would lead to arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges.