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Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.

 

So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.

 

It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.

 

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Cyber SecurityNews

Only 1 in 3 Developers Confident They are Writing Secure Code

November 9, 2017
Executives concerned about secure applications but developers are not confident that they are writing secure code or the security of third party modules.
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Waves wash away sand castles on the beach showing how businesses have trouble achieving cyber resilience
Cyber SecurityNews

Only Half of Businesses Believe They Have Achieved Cyber Resilience

April 20, 2019
A new study from Tanium indicates that businesses overwhelmingly believe that cyber resilience and business resilience is fundamental, but have a great deal of trouble achieving it.
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Programmer working on laptop showing open source developer corrupting NPM libraries
Cyber SecurityNews

Open Source Developer Intentionally Corrupts NPM Libraries; Suspected Hack Turns Out to be Mischief

January 13, 2022
Thousands of companies using popular NPM libraries have just learned that the hidden price of free software is that the open source developer may withdraw their consent at any time.
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Developers working together on code showing issue with open source security
Cyber SecurityNews

Open Source Security Flaws Exist in 70% Of Applications, 80% Of Libraries Are Never Updated

June 25, 2021
Open source software has worked its way into the vast majority of organizations around the world. That makes open source security a universal business issue, and a new report from security firm Veracode presents some very troubling findings.
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Cyber SecurityInsights

Open Source Security in the Wake of the Log4j Vulnerability

February 18, 2022
While it might be tempting to view a major vulnerability as an indication of open source somehow being deficient, the reality is far from that. Open source software is not more or less secure than commercial software, and in reality, most commercial software either includes or runs on open source technologies.
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Binary code on monitor showing software supply chain attacks and open source
Cyber SecurityNews

Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks Have Tripled, But Nearly All Vulnerabilities Are Avoidable by Updating

October 17, 2023
Software supply chain attacks have spiked significantly year-over-year. Sonatype logged over 245,032 malicious packages in open source projects available to public download in 2023, double the number seen from 2019 to 2022. In total, one in eight open source downloads poses a risk.
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Glasses placed on the laptop with screen of codes showing open source vulnerabilities
Cyber SecurityNews

Open Source Vulnerabilities Take Four Years to Spot, Says GitHub

December 15, 2020
GitHub's State of the Octoverse report has found that open source vulnerabilities are continuing to go undetected for as long as four years on average and developers have an average patch time of roughly a month.
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OpenAI logo on phone showing security safeguards for AI model
Cyber SecurityNews

OpenAI Announces New Security Safeguards After Internal Model Crosses “Critical” Threshold

August 25, 2026
OpenAI is promising enhanced security safeguards and a pause on development for a period of "reinforcement" after internal findings indicate its upcoming model Astra has crossed "critical cybersecurity capability" thresholds.
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Exclamation alarm on smartphone showing ChatGPT outage due to DDoS Attack
Cyber SecurityNews

OpenAI Attributes ChatGPT Outages to a DDoS Attack Claimed by a Russian Hacktivist Group

November 15, 2023
OpenAI has attributed ChatGPT outages to a targeted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. A suspected Russian hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility.
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ChatGPT on phone showing ChatGPT conversations indexed by search engines
Cyber SecurityNews

OpenAI Blocks ChatGPT Conversations From Indexing by Search Engines

August 11, 2025
What OpenAI described as a "short-lived experiment" is now over, as the company will no longer allow Google and other search engines to index certain types of ChatGPT conversations.
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