With the release of Acunetix Standard and Acunetix Premium versions 23.8 and 23.9 comes the addition of critical severity as a new vulnerability classification. Find out which vulnerabilities have changed to critical here. What’s changing? Our vulnerability classification system (High-Medium-Low) has expanded to include a fourth threat level — Critical Severity. On 5 September 2023,…
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All announcements about Acunetix product updates and new releases are now exclusively available on our changelogs page. For each release, we publish notes to announce new features, new security checks, improvements, and bug fixes. Information about our latest product updates and previous release notes are available on the links below according to your Acunetix product:…
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Oct 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananPhishing Attack / Cybercrime Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the seizure of 107 internet domains used by state-sponsored threat actors with ties to Russia to facilitate computer fraud and abuse in the country. “The Russian government ran this scheme to steal Americans’ sensitive information, using seemingly…
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“So we’re focusing on the MSP partners: If we do what’s right by them, from a product, from a community point of view, that’s what we focus on. All that other stuff kind of takes care of itself.” N-able President and CEO John Pagliuca said the company is primed to take share from its competitors…
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If your organization is like many, your employees may be relying on weak or easily guessable passwords — and inadvertently rolling out the red carpet for hackers and cybercriminals in the process. So how do you stop your staff from leaving the keys to your organization’s data and systems under the proverbial doormat? Integrating a…
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Image: Sellafield nuclear power station and reprocessing plant (Steve_Allen) Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive nuclear information at risk over four years, from 2019 to 2023. According to the ONR announcement, Sellafield failed to follow…
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Check out the best practices cyber agencies are promoting during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, as a report warns that staffers are feeding confidential info to AI tools. Meanwhile, a study highlights how business decisions can derail OT security. Plus, get the latest on Active Directory security, CISO salary trends and ransomware attacks! Dive into six things…
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Oct 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananWebsite Security / Vulnerability A new high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could enable malicious actors to execute arbitrary JavaScript code under certain conditions. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-47374 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability impacting all…
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Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. The web infrastructure and security company said it fended off “over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3…
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Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a strategic framework that helps organizations continuously assess and manage cyber risk. It breaks down the complex task of managing security threats into five distinct stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization. Each of these stages plays a crucial role in identifying, addressing, and mitigating vulnerabilities – before they…
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