Tag: cybercriminals
Synopsys releases OSSRA report
February 27, 2024SSN Staff
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Synopsys, Inc. just released the ninth edition of its annual “Open Source Security and Risk Analysis” (OSSRA) report.
Research in the report highlights that nearly three-quarters of commercial codebases assessed for risk contain open source components impacted by high-risk vulnerabilities, Which Synopsys said represents a sharp uptick from the previous year.
In the 2024 OSSRA report, the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) analyzes anonymized...
Bit defenders
February 21, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
This week international members of law enforcement patted themselves on the back for slaying the proverbial dragon of LockBit, but in reality, it’s just one head of the Hydra.
I don’t mean to lessen or downplay that accomplishment either. This has been a serious blow to global cybercriminal activity and a victory against destabilizing actions taken by politically aligned criminal organizations (because let’s not pretend the ransomware gangs are largely state sponsored)....
SMS 2FA out at Twitter for non-subscribers
February 20, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter users are having a case of the blues, or not, as may be the case this week with the upcoming removal of SMS two-factor authentication (2FA) from non-subscribers.
On Feb. 15 in a product update blog, Twitter announced that the popular security process is being disabled on the platform by March 20 due to security issues stemming from what Twitter said are “Bad Actors” abusing the system. While SMS 2FA is one of the less secure forms of 2FA, it...
KPMG joins forces with Vectra AI to reduce hybrid cloud cyber risk
December 13, 2022SSN Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine – KPMG Netherlands (KPMG) has partnered with AI security solutions company Vectra to bolster the AI-driven behavioral attack intelligence of KPMG’s cybersecurity services.
KPMG says Vectra gives clients 24/7 internal security monitoring in real time. That allows it to leverage Attack Signal Intelligence and AI-driven threat intelligence to provide clients high-fidelity alerts and actionable security detection. The company states that Vectra is part of their Effective...