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Sports teams know how to balance offense and defense, but does your cybersecurity strategy?

Explore insights from CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024, including securing machine identities, digesting SLSA and GUAC, and the impact of quality documentation.

In today's digital landscape, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play an important role in driving innovation. They allow teams to integrate new applications with existing systems, reuse code and deliver software more efficiently. But, APIs are also prime targets for hackers due to their public availability and the large amounts of web data they transmit. API vulnerabilities can lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, and various other forms of attacks.

Note: Exploitation of this vulnerability remains highly likely, and Kroll experts are investigating. If further details are uncovered by our team, updates will be made to the Kroll Cyber Risk blog.

There's some possibly good news on the ransomware front. Companies are becoming more resilient to attacks, and the ransom payments extorted from businesses by hackers are on a downward trend. That's one of the findings of insurance broker Marsh, which conducted an analysis of the more than 1800 cyber claims it received during 2023 from its clients in the United States and Canada. According to Marsh, ransomware attacks were linked to less than 20% of all claims made to the firm during the last year.

Passwords are broken. They’re the weakest link in our digital security chain, costing businesses billions. According to a study by Forbes Advisor, 46% of Americans have had their passwords stolen in the past year. Traditional password-based authentication is weak and makes individuals and businesses vulnerable. But what if we didn’t have to use passwords at all?

Netacea is proud to announce that one year on from originally completing SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, we have successfully passed our latest audit. This is an accolade we take pride in as it further demonstrates our ongoing commitment to data security and protecting our customers.

Polyfill.js is a Javascript library that helps old browsers run new modern features which these old browsers do not support natively. The library is popular among developers for helping them offer consistent user experience regardless of the browser environment the user is using. In February 2024, a Chinese company bought the domain polyfill.io and the Github account associated with it. Since then, they’ve been serving malware via cdn.polyfill.io as pointed by the team at Sansec.

If you lose a Jira project it can seem like a terrifying experience, but there are ways to restore those deleted projects. Whether it’s an unintentional or purposeful deletion that has to be reversed, if you understand Jira’s restore functionality and the value of backup solutions, it may save a lot of your time, money, and work.

A high-severity security flaw in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer platform is being exploited in the wild just hours after its disclosure. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-5806, allows attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and pose as any valid user, thereby gaining access to sensitive files.