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The US National Institute of Standards and Technology updated its Digital Identity Guidelines to match current threats. The document detailed technical recommendations as well as suggestions for organizations.

Two critical N-able vulnerabilities enable local code execution and command injection; they require authentication to exploit, suggesting they wouldn't be seen at the beginning of an exploit chain.

Security budgets are lowest in healthcare, professional and business services, retail, and hospitality, but budget growth remained above 5% in financial services, insurance, and tech.

Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney and Google's Loren Hudziak discuss how the humble web browser has transformed from a simple web access tool into a common conduit through which a lot of business is done.

Companies ready to move beyond reactive defense and toward full-spectrum protection need to invest in strategies that rally around resiliency, unified cybersecurity, and data protection.

DPRK hackers are throwing every kind of malware at the wall and seeing what sticks, deploying stealers, backdoors, and ransomware all at once.

The company disclosed a critical FortiSIEM flaw with a PoC exploit for it the same week researchers warned of an ominous surge in malicious traffic targeting the vendor's SSL VPNs.

Developers maintaining the images made the "intentional choice" to leave the artifacts available as "a historical curiosity," given the improbability they'd be exploited.

According to a recent Forescout analysis, open source models were significantly less successful in vulnerability research than commercial and underground models.

Researchers observed exploitation attempts against a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10 in a popular Erlang-based platform for critical infrastructure and OT development.