
The Week in Cybersecurity: MFA shortcomings paved the way for Cisco breach
MFA’s shortcomings paved the way for Cisco’s data breach

MFA’s shortcomings paved the way for Cisco’s data breach

The National Vulnerability Database does not tell the full story of software risk. Here's why the NVD — and your AppSec approach — needs to be modernized.

There are many problems facing the cybersecurity community today, and they will only get worse before they get better. Despite this bleak view, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Chris Krebs reminded the audience at Black Hat USA 2022 to place their hope in people to have a more secure future.

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As the ReveringLabs team embraces the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas this week, we wanted to share some exciting news that will be vital to the company’s ongoing growth: Ali Khan has been named ReversingLabs’ first-ever Field CISO.

A new Chinese offensive framework may be abused by threat actors, hackers steal $190 million from Nomad Token Bridge, and more.

Black Hat is set to return next week with two years of pent up cybersecurity research and discoveries. Here are the talks you don't want to miss.

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Here is a run-down of the 10 streams from OpenSSF's Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan.

Updates include: Improved static analysis, improved integrations and automation, smoother workflows for a better user experience, and ease of administration.

An analysis of three in-the-wild payloads delivered using the recently discovered Follina exploit shows how attackers can use it to achieve persistent access in victim environments and turbo-charge efforts to ‘live off the land’ and avoid detection by security monitoring tools.

Better threat hunting and investigations with flexibility in threat status classifications, reliable dynamic and network analysis, and smoother workflows and maintenance.

Cozy Bear APT group is using Dropbox and Google drive to cover up attacks, malware is spreading via Google Play Store apps, and more.

More than 30 years after the AIDS computer virus spread via infected floppy disks, ransomware has taken the world by storm. But echoes of that first attack can still be heard today.
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