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12 Types of Vulnerability Scans & When to Run Each

eSecurity Planet

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. The agent gathers information and connects with a central server, which manages and analyzes vulnerability data.

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Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q1 2024

SecureList

We at Kaspersky continuously monitor the evolving cyberthreat landscape to ensure we respond promptly to emerging threats, equipping our products with detection logic and technology. Software vulnerabilities that threat actors can exploit or are already actively exploiting are a critical component of that landscape.

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IT threat evolution Q2 2021

SecureList

The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor. It is quite common for Chinese-speaking threat actors to share tools and methodologies: one such example is the infamous “DLL side-loading triad”: a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be side-loaded by it and an encoded payload, generally dropped from a self-extracting archive.

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Story of the year: the impact of AI on cybersecurity

SecureList

Over the past twelve months, this abbreviation has resonated across innumerable headlines, business surveys and tech reports, firmly securing a position as the Collins English Dictionary’s 2023 Word of the Year. The same survey states that 79% of respondents across all job titles are exposed to generative AI either at work or at home.

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McAfee Enterprise ATR Uncovers Vulnerabilities in Globally Used B. Braun Infusion Pump

McAfee

As part of our continued goal to provide safer products for enterprises and consumers, we at McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) recently investigated the B. This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. What Security Research has Already Been Performed? Background.