In season one of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, Paddy Considine played King Viserys, the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms—a character whose physical decline became more horrific as the series progressed. The actor has revealed he drew on deeply personal experiences to portray Viserys’ agonizing journey.
Kandiss Taylor, a GOP district chair in Georgia, claimed the Earth is flat on her podcast, Jesus, Guns, & Babies, alongside fellow flat-Earther David ‘Flat Earth Dave’ Weiss and Matt Long. She becomes the latest GOP member to jump on the flat Earth bandwagon, tacking this ideology onto her previous conspiracy theory…
After recovering from an explosion at the launch facility last month, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is getting ready to fire up its heavy-lift rocket for a flight readiness test before it can fly for the first time.
By Mark Sincevich, Federal Director of Illumio Data compromises hit record numbers in 2021 with 1,826 occurrences reported, up 23 percent from 2017. In the last two years alone, 66 […]
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Cybersecurity professionals who need to track the latest vulnerability exploits now have a new tool designed to make their job easier, with the launch today of VulnCheck XDB, a database of exploits and proof of concepts hosted on Git repositories.
The tool, from cyberthreat intelligence provider VulnCheck, is aimed at helping vulnerability researchers and security teams prioritize vulnerabilities based on the availability and criticality of new exploits that have been made public.
“There is a significant gap in exploit databases available today for modern security teams,” said Anthony Bettini, CEO and founder of VulnCheck. “That’s why we’re excited to launch XDB. This complementary tool will be instrumental in helping researchers, offensive teams and detection engineers solve the vulnerability prioritization challenge and bolster security.”
Inactive and non-maintained accounts pose significant security risks to users and businesses, with cybercriminals adept at using information stolen from forgotten or otherwise non-upheld accounts to exploit active accounts. That’s according to Okta’s first Customer Identity Trends Report which surveyed more than 20,000 consumers in 14 countries about their online experiences and attitudes towards digital security and identity.
It found that increasing identity sprawl can trigger significant account takeover (ATO) security risks due to accounts that haven’t been used or even thought about in years, particularly if customers reuse (or only slightly alter) passwords or do not perform security reviews. A breach to any service may equip a threat actor with a huge volume of user credentials and associated personal data, with attackers adept at using this information at scale to compromise active accounts including important business accounts and networks.
