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Disclosure in information security means sharing details about vulnerabilities, breaches, or security incidents. This can be done privately with affected parties, coordinated to allow fixes before public release, or fully public, sometimes before patches exist. The method chosen affects how quickly risks are mitigated and how much attackers might exploit the information.
Proper disclosure helps organizations prioritize patching and reduces the window attackers have to exploit flaws. Poorly timed or incomplete disclosure can expose systems to increased risk, while transparent, coordinated disclosure supports effective vulnerability management and trust between researchers and defenders. Understanding disclosure practices is essential for assessing the urgency and reliability of security news.
Ransomware group BlackCat/ALPHV files SEC complaint against its latest victim, putting an audacious new twist on cyber extortion tactics.
Federal Contractor Must Comply With New Reporting Measures Following Data BreachGlobal Tel*Link, a major telecommunications provider for state and federal prison systems, will be required to notify the FTC and consumers of future security incidents after a sweeping data breach left hundreds of thousands of its users vulnerable to identity theft and other privacy concerns.
Official Says Disclosure Rule Includes Exceptions, Extensions for Smaller CompaniesThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's requirement for publicly traded companies to report cyber incidents that have a material impact within four days is "not about playing gotcha with public companies," said the commission’s director of the corporation finance division.
A hacking group that leveraged a recently disclosed security flaw in the WinRAR software as a zero-day has now been categorized as an entirely new advanced persistent threat (APT)
Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs
Another two bugs in this month's set of fixes for 63 CVEs were publicly disclosed previously but have not been exploited yet.
VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cloud Director appliance deployments. [...]
A group of academics has disclosed a new "software fault attack" on AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to infiltrate encrypted virtual machines (VMs) and even perform privilege escalation
Mandiant/Google Cloud’s Jill C. Tyson and Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney on how companies can better plan and prepare for the Security and Exchange Commission’s new cybersecurity disclosure rule.
Got a Confluence server? Listen up. Malware said to have wide-ranging capabilities A new backdoor was this week found implanted in the environments of organizations to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence.…
Mandiant/Google Cloud's Jill C. Tyson and Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney on how companies can better plan and prepare for the Securities and Exchange Commission's new cybersecurity disclosure rule.