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2020 sees huge increase in records exposed in data breaches

Tech Republic Security

The number of breaches may have fallen, but the number of exposed records hit a high not seen since 2005, says Risk Based Security.

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MY TAKE: How digital technology and the rising gig economy are exacerbating third-party risks

The Last Watchdog

Accounting for third-party risks is now mandated by regulations — with teeth. Allen is a widely respected thought leader on this topic, having launched Shared Assessments in 2005 as an intel-sharing and training consortium focused on third-party risks. That out of the way, business can proceed with less risk.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Related: Atrium Health breach highlights third-party risks. Third-party cyber risks are likely to persist at the current scale for a while longer. According to a recent Ponemon Institute study , some 59% of companies experienced a third-party data breach in 2018, yet only 16% believe they are effectively mitigating third-party risk.

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Exclusive Interview With David Monnier, Chief Evangelist Of Team Cymru

SecureBlitz

In this interview, we spoke with David Monnier, Chief Evangelist at Team Cymru, a risk management solution launched in 2005 with a network that extends to 143 CSIRT teams in 86 countries and over 1,000 network operators and ISP community that helps keep the internet safe. Team Cymru has released the findings from their State […].

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Janet Jackson Music Video Declared Security Vulnerability

SecureWorld News

Very few new computers have hard disk drives, or drives that rotate at the speed of 5400 rpm, so the risk for new devices is essentially nonexistent. Do you have a laptop from 2005 still laying around? Yet, t he MITRE Corporation still made the decision to list it on the register of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).

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10KBLAZE exploits could affect 9 out of 10 SAP installs of more than 50k customers

Security Affairs

The availability of 10KBLAZE PoC exploits for old SAP configuration issue poses a severe risk of attacks for business applications. The risk of cyber attacks against SAP systems is increased after security researchers released PoC exploits for old SAP configuration flaws. ” reads the analysis published by Onapsis.

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Update Firefox and Thunderbird now! Mozilla patches several high risk vulnerabilities

Malwarebytes

In Firefox 105 a total of seven vulnerabilities were patched, three of which received the security risk rating "high". One with the rating “high” risk. Since UTF-8 as character encoding was introduced in 2005, there may be still some URLs which use a different encoding.

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