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How Holiday Hacking Puts Your Company at Risk

The holiday season brings many good things. Family, presents, decorations, joy, good cheer, peace on Earth, and so on. Unfortunately for anyone working in IT or cybersecurity, the holidays also bring something else: an increase in hacking threats and dat...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Scary Stats to Haunt Your Dev Team

It’s that time of year again — the leaves are changing, the air is getting chilly, and cybersecurity threats are lurking around every corner. That’s right, it’s Cybersecurity Month! And what better way to celebrate than by taking a look at some of the scaries...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Cyber Attacks on a Global Scale

IBM recently released its Cost of a Data Breach Report for 2022. It’s a helpful resource that offers IT, risk management, and security leaders insight into the year’s trends surrounding data breaches. Where they happen, how they happen, what kinds of organiza...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Phishing Scams & Ransomware Prevention in Europe

Since 2004, October has been recognized as Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States. Throughout this month, companies and IT professionals across the world should make sure that they’re rededicating themselves to cybersecurity best practic...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Top 5 Programming Languages in 2022 and Their Risks

According to a recent report by IBM, the average data breach will cost over $4.35 million in 2022. That’s why it’s more important than ever for programmers to be aware of the risks associated with different coding languages and take steps to protect their cod...

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Application Security for Energy Providers

In any industry, cybersecurity threats lurk around every corner. Cybersecurity breaches are costly. In 2021, the average cost of a cybersecurity data breach was $4.24 million, and can substantially damage a company’s reputation in ad...

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Github Repojacking: What You Need to Know

Threat actors have been exploiting GitHub’s repojacking flaw to hijack and inject malicious code into thousands of repositories. Since this flaw has yet to be fixed, GitHub users will likely see more of these attacks soon. Luckily, there are ways to pre...

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Understanding the SpringShell Vulnerability in Spring Java Framework

Researchers recently announced a gaping security hole in Spring, a widely used framework for developing Java applications. Designated CVE 2022 2965 and nicknamed SpringShell, the substantial chink in the collective Java development community’s armor left many...

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Public Sector Applications: Assessing the Risk

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard that cybercrime threatens small- to large-sized organizations across the globe. Not only are public sector organizations not immune, but they’re also a top target for hackers due to the volume of their prop...

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Protestware: Exploring a New Threat Vector

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, a new threat vector has circulated in the open-source community. This threat vector, known as protestware, involves activists injecting malicious content into open-source code libraries to express political opinions. While most p...

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Leveraging Kiuwan to Combat ‘Not the New Normal’ Cyber Attacks

With over 700 million attempted ransomware attacks in 2021, it’s natural to assume that major cyber attacks and data breaches are the new normal, just an unavoidable side effect of life in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, this defeatist attitude is ...

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