Security News

Number of incidents affecting GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Jira continues to rise
2024-08-07 03:00

The possibility to integrate security in development processes has given rise to DevSecOps, where development and operations teams work together with security teams and all their processes are converged. The incidents affecting GitHub users in 2023 increased by over 21% compared to the previous year.

Enhancing Incident Response Readiness with Wazuh
2024-08-05 10:16

The Wazuh active response module triggers actions in response to specific events on monitored endpoints. Wazuh active response automatically executes some specific actions in response to certain security alerts by default, on both Windows and Linux endpoints.

Is Australia’s Public Sector Ready for a Major Cyber Security Incident?
2024-08-05 08:00

Recent investigations into the cyber security preparedness of Australian Federal Government agencies have found gaps in the public sector's readiness for cyber security attacks or major data breaches, contributing to a focus in 2024 on improving their cyber readiness. More Australia coverage AUSTRAC, Services Australia show cyber security deficiencies.

CrowdStrike Explains Friday Incident Crashing Millions of Windows Devices
2024-07-24 08:32

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Wednesday blamed an issue in its validation system for causing millions of Windows devices to crash as part of a widespread outage late last week. "On Friday,...

Cloudflare blames recent outage on BGP hijacking incident
2024-07-05 18:41

Internet giant Cloudflare reports that its DNS resolver service, 1.1.1.1, was recently unreachable or degraded for some of its customers because of a combination of Border Gateway Protocol hijacking and a route leak. The incident occurred last week and affected 300 networks in 70 countries.

4 key steps to building an incident response plan
2024-07-04 04:00

What are the key components of an effective security incident response strategy? An effective security incident response strategy includes four key components that work together to ensure a rapid and effective response to cybersecurity issues.

Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident'
2024-06-20 20:50

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Identity-related incidents becoming severe, costing organizations a fortune
2024-05-30 03:00

An astonishing 84% of identity stakeholders said incidents directly impacted their business, up from 68% in 2023. 22% of businesses see managing and securing digital identities as the number one priority of their security program, up from 17% in 2023.

Worried about job security, cyber teams hide security incidents
2024-05-24 04:00

The research reveals that 40% of cyber teams have not reported a cyber incident out of fear of losing their jobs - a disclosure that signifies a serious underreporting of cyber breaches globally. A rising skills gap between cyber teams and criminals.

The importance of access controls in incident response
2024-05-17 09:30

The worst time to find out your company doesn't have adequate access controls is when everything is on fire. That's why having adequate identity access management policies in place - which include both authorization and authentication - is especially critical when it comes to your incident management tooling.