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4 Things a Good Vulnerability Management Policy Should Include

The Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report noted a 180% increase in exploited vulnerabilities over the previous year’s figures. The importance of keeping an up-to-date vulnerability management policy for remediating and controlling security vulnerabilities cannot be understated.

Heightened Exploit Attempts on Check Point's Recent VPN Zero-Day Vulnerability

A significant surge in exploitation attempts targeting a newly disclosed information disclosure flaw in Check Point's VPN technology has been observed recently. This has underscored the urgent need for organizations to address the vulnerability immediately.

Security Flaws Discovered in Popular WooCommerce Plugin

Patchstack has recently identified multiple security vulnerabilities in the WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates (WZone) plugin. Created by AA-Team, this widely-used premium WordPress plugin has garnered significant popularity, amassing over 35,000 sales. It serves as a crucial asset for website owners and bloggers aiming to monetize their sites through the Amazon affiliate program.

Snyk and AWS announce native Amazon EKS support directly from the AWS Management Console

We’re excited to announce that Snyk has now developed an AWS Marketplace add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), embedded directly into the AWS Management Console! Snyk joins a small number of approved ISVs around the globe, allowing customers to deploy a Snyk agent on Amazon EKS clusters using the same methods you would use to deploy native AWS services, either manually via the AWS Management Console or by using AWS’ command-line interface (CLI).

AI quality: Garbage in, garbage out

If you use expired, moldy ingredients for your dessert, you may get something that looks good but tastes awful. And you definitely wouldn’t want to serve it to guests. Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) applies to more than just technology and AI. Inputting bad ingredients into a recipe will lead to a potentially poisonous output. Of course, if it looks a little suspicious, you can cover it in frosting, and no one will know. This is the danger we are seeing now.