Security News

The compliance illusion: Why your company might be at risk despite passing audits
2025-02-26 06:00

For many CISOs, compliance can feel like a necessary evil and a false sense of security. While frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS offer structured guidelines, they don’t automatically...

TSA’s airport facial-recog tech faces audit probe
2025-02-03 22:30

Senators ask, Homeland Security watchdog answers: Is it worth the money? The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has launched an audit of the Transportation Security...

CERT-UA Warns of Cyber Scams Using Fake AnyDesk Requests for Fraudulent Security Audits
2025-01-21 05:27

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests....

CERT-UA warns against “security audit” requests via AnyDesk
2025-01-20 09:22

Attackers are impersonating the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) via AnyDesk to gain access to target computers. The request (Source: CERT-UA) “Unidentified individuals are...

New HIPAA Rules Mandate 72-Hour Data Restoration and Annual Compliance Audits
2024-12-30 12:43

The United States Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new cybersecurity requirements for healthcare organizations with an aim to safeguard...

Major security audit of critical FreeBSD components now available
2024-11-18 15:19

The FreeBSD Foundation, in partnership with the Alpha-Omega Project, has released the results of an extensive security audit of two critical FreeBSD components: the bhyve hypervisor and the...

Audit finds notable security gaps in FBI's storage media management
2024-08-25 14:14

An audit from the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) identified "significant weaknesses" in FBI's inventory management and disposal of electronic storage media...

Where internal audit teams are spending most of their time
2024-08-09 03:30

Over half of key stakeholders including audit committees, company boards, and chief financial officers are looking to internal audit teams to take on more risk-related work, according to AuditBoard. The study revealed that these expanding expectations are coming at a time when internal audit has limited bandwidth for advisory-related services - and increasing risk demand and insufficient risk management capacity are creating a risk coverage gap for the business.

SolarWinds fixes 8 critical bugs in access rights audit software
2024-07-18 15:51

SolarWinds has fixed eight critical vulnerabilities in its Access Rights Manager software, six of which allowed attackers to gain remote code execution on vulnerable devices. Access Rights Manager is a critical tool in enterprise environments that helps admins manage and audit access rights across their organization's IT infrastructure to minimize threat impact.

OWASP dep-scan: Open-source security and risk audit tool
2024-05-16 05:00

OWASP dep-scan is an open-source security and risk assessment tool that leverages information on vulnerabilities, advisories, and licensing restrictions for project dependencies. Depscan utilizes cdxgen to produce Software Bill-of-Materials, which allows us to support many different languages and source code configurations.