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In today’s data-driven world, every other company and application collects a significant amount of important data and individual’s personal information such as name, email ID, address, date of birth, ID number, credit card information, and online behaviours, history and much more. Sharing data has become an essential component to many businesses and organisations; it allows the data controller and data subjects to stay connected and collaborate on many things.

As per UK DCMS’s data breaches survey, about 32% of businesses in the UK have faced a form of cybersecurity threat between 2018 and 2019. As a result of these network security vulnerabilities, these businesses incurred costs on lost data and many other damages that totalled £4,180.

Amidst the pandemic overwhelming the capacity of many hospital systems, malicious hackers have been quick to target healthcare providers and medical agencies. These cyber-attacks have hit both the United States and Europe in recent months, serving as a reminder for organizations to closely review their information security posture during these times of uncertainty.

For most internet users, there’s not much of a perceivable difference between the domain name they want to visit and the server that the domain queries. That’s because the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol does a good job of seamlessly routing users to different IP addresses that are all associated with a single domain name.

Complex address systems and its verification have continued to be a big riddle for technology companies. Currently address verification is done manually by matching the address mentioned in the identity document with the address filled in any kind of application form filled by the customer.

SuiteCRM is a free and open source Customer Relationship Management application for servers. This advisory details a PHAR deserialization vulnerability that exists in SuiteCRM which could be leveraged by an authenticated administrator to execute commands on the underlying operating system. This issue has been fixed in release 7.11.19. In PHP, PHAR (PHP Archive) files can be used to package PHP applications and PHP libraries into one archive file.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. With images of all the best spy movies out there, you just can’t help enjoy this one. While its not possible to control the driving of the car, flinging the car doors open at speed might have an interesting effect on the occupants (and allow our spy to gain access of course while swinging from the drone).

FIPS 140-3 is the long-awaited update to FIPS 104-2 which was established on May 25, 2001. This updated validation process is finally capable of addressing the cryptographic modules that have evolved since 2001. This validation process includes testing with respect to certain standards or protocols and then the issuing of an official certificate from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) confirming compliance with FIPS 140-3.

Inherent risks are the cyber risks and vulnerabilities within an organization before security measures are implemented. In contrast, residual risk is calculated after cybersecurity protections have been put in place to protect against all of these inherent risks; its calculation includes every possible attack vector that could affect a system or data.

For cloud-native organizations — those begun in the past decade or so — obtaining critical services from other cloud-native companies makes sense. After all, the whole point of being cloud native is to avoid physical infrastructure wherever possible. You want to focus on your business, not managing the systems and infrastructures that support it. That strategy applies to your logging and security information and event management (SIEM) solution, as well.