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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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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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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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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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Threat actors exploit discontinues Boa web servers to target critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

The experts pointed out that Boa has been discontinued since 2005. ” Microsoft experts explained that despite Boa being discontinued in 2005, many vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits (SDKs) continue to use it. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. ” concludes the report.

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On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

Malwarebytes

In 2005, one malware install which needed the.NET framework to run would helpfully install the whole thing for you if you didn’t have it. For one final slice of additional context, 2005 was also a key year for security happenings. By curious coincidence, the ASC also came into existence in 2005. Stay safe out there!