Data Breaches Reach All-Time High
According to a new IBM security report, the global average cost of data breaches reached $4.35 million in 2022 which is an all time high, following the cost of $4.24 million in 2021.
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Hacker claims to have obtained data of 1 billion Chinese citizens
The hacker claims to have 23 terabytes of data in his possession obtained by the Shanghai National Police (SHGA).
8 Top Cybersecurity and Information Security Job Positions
The 8 top Cybersecurity and Information security job positions in this booming industry. Relevant job postings have grown significantly worldwide and are more likely for this demand to show more growth.
Passively Scanning Your Targets With Smap
Passively scan with Smap and avoid detection while gathering useful information on your targets.
Three New Web Application Security Risks Climb Up The OWASP Top 10
Three new web application security risks climb up the OWASP top 10, the standard awareness document which represent a consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.
Three Approaches to Penetration Testing
There are three primary approaches to conduct a penetration test. Choose between black, grey or white box depending on your end goals.
Apple Releases Patches Fixing 39 Vulnerabilities
Apple releases patches fixing 39 vulnerabilities several of which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device.
Cyberattack Crashes Israeli Government Websites
Users attempting to enter sites with gov.il extensions were unable to for at least an hour, before the sites slowly began to come back online.
ThePhish: An Open Source Phishing Email Analysis Tool
A new open source phishing email analysis tool that automates the entire analysis process has been made freely available.
Email Which Claims to Come from Saudi Aramco Delivers Malware
The email pretends to come from Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company, and one of the largest companies in the world by revenue.
Retailer Blames Third-Party for the Data Breach of More than 100,000 Payment Cards
Beauty product retailer Acro revealed that customers of two of its websites were impacted, exposing more than 100,000 payment cards
Awesome Free Hacking Tool for Red Teams and Pentesters
An awesome free hacking tool extremely useful for red teams and pentesters during their penetration testing or red team exercises.
How to Secure Your Microservices
Along with the many benefits of updating to microservices architecture, there are also new security challenges that organizations need to address.
War Between Russia and Ukraine Goes Cyber
The war between Russia and Ukraine goes cyber with several ongoing cyber-attacks from the Russian side, targeting Ukraine's banks and government department websites.
A New Tool to Help You Reveal Sensitive Information
Researchers have released a new tool to help you reveal sensitive information which has been redacted by the method of pixelation from a document.
Update Chrome Now to Patch an Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
Google has released an update for its Chrome browser that includes eleven security fixes, one of which has been reportedly exploited in the wild.
New Vulnerabilities Allow Hackers to Crash Siemens PLCs
Independent ICS security researcher Gao Jian recently discovered new vulnerabilities which can allow hackers to remotely crash Siemens PLCs.
Google Cloud Gets Virtual Machine Threat Detection to Help Detect Crypto Mining
Google announced the public preview of a tool which helps identify threats within virtual machines running on its Google Cloud infrastructure.