Enterprises Are Patching Faster, Reducing Vulnerability Debt
Enterprises are patching more high-risk vulnerabilities faster now than just a year ago, new data from Kenna Security shows.
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Dennis Fisher
Editor in ChiefDennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist who has been covering information security and privacy since 2000.
He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and most of his kids’ English papers.
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Featured Articles
In Wake of SolarWinds Breach, the Challenge of Building Secure Software Remains
SolarWinds is testing a system of parallel build servers to help prevent a future supply chain attack on its infrastructure.
SolarWinds Attackers Accessed Mimecast Source Code
The attackers behind the SolarWinds breach also gained access to and downloaded some Mimecast source code repositories.
SolarWinds Attackers Downloaded Some Microsoft Source Code Components
Microsoft said the SolarWinds hackers were able to view and download some source code components for Azure, Exchange, and Intune.
U.S. Indicts Three North Koreans for Broad Hacking Campaign
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted three North Koreans for allegedly hacking banks, private companies, and government agencies for many years.
Web Shell Attacks Spike
The volume of attacks using web shells as a persistence mechanism has nearly doubled in recent months, Microsoft said.
Decipher Podcast: Neil Daswani
Neil Daswani, co-director of the advanced security program at Stanford University and a former engineer at Twitter and Google, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his new book, Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone, and the common root causes and effects of major data breaches.
‘Stop Acting Like These Attacks are Special or Rare’
National security experts and policy makers say the U.S. needs to act now to raise the cost of doing business for state-backed attackers.