Properly securing APIs is becoming increasingly urgent

Imperva released a new study that uncovers the rising global costs of vulnerable or insecure APIs. The analysis of nearly 117,000 unique cybersecurity incidents estimates that API insecurity results... Read more »

MITRE promotes Beth Meinert to SVP and General Manager of MITRE Public Sector

MITRE has promoted Beth Meinert from vice president to Senior Vice President and General Manager, MITRE Public Sector (MPS) after a competitive search for the role. In this position,... Read more »

Hexagon appoints Paolo Guglielmini as CEO

Hexagon AB announced that Paolo Guglielmini will succeed Ola Rollén as President and CEO of Hexagon AB, effective 31 December 2022. Gun Nilsson has decided to step down as... Read more »

XM Cyber acquires Cyber Observer to help organizations improve their security posture

XM Cyber announced the acquisition of Cyber Observer, an innovator in Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). This marks the latest growth milestone for XM... Read more »

Python packages with malicious code expose secret AWS credentials

Sonatype researchers have discovered Python packages that contain malicious code that peek into and expose secret AWS credentials, network interface information, and environment variables. All those credentials and metadata... Read more »

OT security: Helping under-resourced critical infrastructure organizations

In this Help Net Security interview, Dawn Cappelly, Director of OT-CERT at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, talks about the OT security risks critical infrastructure organizations are facing, offers... Read more »

How phishing attacks are becoming more sophisticated

The latest APWG’s Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that in the first quarter of 2022 there were 1,025,968 total phishing attacks—the worst quarter for phishing observed to date. This... Read more »

Clearview fine: The unacceptable face of modern surveillance

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued its third largest ever fine of £7.5m. It was imposed on Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that has already... Read more »

48% of security practitioners seeing 3x increase in alerts per day

Panther Labs surveyed 400 active security practitioners, primarily, security analysts and security engineers, to reflect the “boots on the ground” perspective for security teams. The goal of the research... Read more »

Week in review: Log4Shell exploitation, DevSecOps myths, 56 vulnerabilities impacting OT devices

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: QNAP NAS devices hit by DeadBolt and ech0raix ransomware Taiwan-based QNAP Systems is warning... Read more »
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