BlackBerry publicly disclosed that its QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is affected by a BadAlloc vulnerability—CVE-2021-22156, with a CVSS score of 9. BadAlloc is a collection of 25 vulnerabilities affecting multiple RTOSs and supporting libraries of critical infrastructure organizations and other organizations developing, maintaining, supporting, or using affected QNX-based systems.
Zero trust has become the latest buzzword in the security industry. It’s helpful to analyze the model from the attacker’s perspective to identify assumptions or actions that could provide a foothold for cybercriminals.
Dr. Tommy Gardner, Chief Technology Officer of HP Federal, believes a proactive mindset that bridges the digital divide, recruits top talent and implements the right policies is needed for the U.S. to achieve success and remain competitive on a global scale. Here, he discusses how a national strategy for critical technologies can shape the industries of the future as well as address national security and global challenges.
As businesses continue to navigate the current economic environment, it’s critical they also strategize for the future to position themselves for success once the environment improves. This means implementing robust fraud prevention strategies and tools that accurately separate fraud types to treat them correctly and address risk.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has designated 40 shootings in 2020 as active shooter incidents. Although 2020 witnessed the highest rate of active shooter incidents for the period 2000 to 2020, casualties were significantly lower. Here’s a breakdown of the FBI’s Active Shooter Incidents in the U.S. in 2020.
Governor Ralph Northam announced that Virginia plans to direct more than $114 million in federal and state funding to support public safety initiatives across the Commonwealth, including hazard pay and compensation for public safety officials.
With more than a hundred continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools to choose from and hundreds of plugins and services connected to those tools, no wonder security teams have a hard time grasping the amount of information and security requirements of these environments.
There were 1,767 publicly reported breaches in the first six months of 2021, which exposed a total of 18.8 billion records, according to a new Risk Based Security 2021 Mid Year Data Breach QuickView Report.
