The CISO Life is Half as Good

Lora Vaughn was at a crossroads -- and that was before mandated pandemic lockdowns came into play. Here's her story of how life got sweeter after she stepped away from the CISO job.

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Bolstering Our Nation's Defenses Against Cybersecurity Attacks

Shawn Henry, former Executive Assistant Director of the FBI and current CrowdStrike president of services and CSO, shares the top three cybersecurity priorities that the Biden administration needs to address.

2h

Dependency Problems Increase for Open Source Components

The number of components in the average application rose 77% over two years. No wonder, then, that 84% of codebases have at least one vulnerability.

2h

Test-DEU-169665

President Biden has nominated Jen Easterly as the new director of CISA and is expected to nominate Chris Inglis as the first national cyber director.

11h

DNS Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Internet-Connected Devices to Attack

Researchers uncover a fresh set of nine vulnerabilities in four TCP/IP stacks that are widely used in everything from powerful servers and firewalls to consumer IoT products.

17h

NSA Alerted Microsoft to New Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

Microsoft today patched 114 CVEs to address the Exchange Server flaws, more than 50 remote code execution vulnerabilities, and one zero-day.

18h

Compromised Microsoft Exchange Server Used to Host Cryptominer

Researchers say an unknown attacker is targeting vulnerable Exchange Servers with a payload hosted on a compromised Exchange Server.

18h

Global Dwell Time Drops as Ransomware Attacks Accelerate

The length of time attackers remain undiscovered in a target network has fallen to 24 days, researchers report, but ransomware plays a role.

19h

Dark Reading to Upgrade Site Design, Performance

Improvements will make site content easier to navigate, faster, and more functional.

20h

5 Objectives for Establishing an API-First Security Strategy

With APIs predicted to be the most common attack vector by 2022, an API-first security strategy is critical now more than ever.

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