What’s the deal with the massive backlog of vulnerabilities at the NVD?
Given the state of the NVD and vulnerability management, we felt it was worth looking at the current state of the NVD, how we got to this point, what it means for security teams, and where we go from here.
Could the Brazilian Supreme Court finally hold people accountable for sharing disinformation?
At most, someone who intentionally or repeatedly shares information on their social platform that’s misleading or downright false may have their account blocked, suspended or deleted.
The internet is already scary enough without April Fool’s jokes
The security community is still reflecting on the “What If” of the XZ backdoor.
Vulnerability in some TP-Link routers could lead to factory reset
There are also two out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in the AMD Radeon user mode driver for DirectX 11.
April’s Patch Tuesday includes 150 vulnerabilities, 60 which could lead to remote code execution
Though April’s monthly security update from Microsoft includes 150 vulnerabilities, only three of them are considered “critical."
There are plenty of ways to improve cybersecurity that don’t involve making workers return to a physical office
An April 2023 study from Kent State University found that remote workers are more likely to be vigilant of security threats and take actions to ward them off than their in-office counterparts.
“Pig butchering” is an evolution of a social engineering tactic we’ve seen for years
In the case of pig butchering scams, it’s not really anything that can be solved by a cybersecurity solution or sold in a package.
Netgear wireless router open to code execution after buffer overflow vulnerability
There is also a newly disclosed vulnerability in a graphics driver for some NVIDIA GPUs that could lead to a memory leak.
Not everything has to be a massive, global cyber attack
There are a few reasons why we’re so ready to jump to the “it’s a cyber attack!”