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There were 5,501 vulnerabilities aggregated by Risk Based Security’s VulnDB that were disclosed during the first three months of 2019. This represents a 1% increase over the same period in 2018, making this Q1 an all-time high. The results were release… Continue reading Over half of all reported vulnerabilities in Q1 2019 have a remote attack vector
There were 1,903 publicly disclosed data compromise events in the first three months of the year, exposing over 1.9 billion records, according to Risk Based Security. No other first quarter has seen this level of activity, putting 2019 on pace to be ye… Continue reading 3 months, 1900 reported breaches, 1.9 billion records exposed
Over 22,000 new vulnerabilities were disclosed during 2018, according to Risk Based Security’s 2018 Year End Vulnerability QuickView Report. While approximately 33% of published vulnerabilities received a CVSSv2 score of 7 or above, the number of… Continue reading A third of 2018’s vulnerabilities have public exploits, 50% can be exploited remotely
There were 6,515 publicly disclosed data compromise events through December 31, 2018, exposing over 5 billion sensitive records, according to Risk Based Security’s Year End 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report. While the year ended below 2017’s high… Continue reading 2018 saw 6,515 reported breaches, exposing 5 billion sensitive records
There have been 16,172 vulnerabilities disclosed through October 29th, which is a 7% decrease from the high record reported last year at this time. The 16,172 vulnerabilities cataloged through Q3 2018 by Risk Based Security’s research team eclipsed the… Continue reading 66.1% of vulnerabilities published through Q3 2018 have a documented solution
There have been 3,676 publicly disclosed data compromise events through September 30. Breach activity continues at a consistent pace for 2018, which although significant in level, will likely not reach the numbers we saw in 2017, according to the 2018 … Continue reading Reported breaches in the first 9 months of 2018 exposed 3.6 billion records
Risk Based Security released its Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView report, showing there have been 2,308 publicly disclosed data compromise events through June 30th. After a surprising drop in the number of reported data breaches in first quarter, br… Continue reading 2.6 billion records exposed in 2,300 disclosed breaches so far this year
There have been 10,644 vulnerabilities disclosed through June 30th, according to Risk Based Security’s 2018 Mid Year VulnDB QuickView report. This is the highest number of disclosed vulnerabilities at the mid-year point on record. The 10,644 vuln… Continue reading 10,644 vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 2018
Unless the pace of vulnerability disclosure slows down in the coming quarters, we are looking at yet another record-breaking year, according to Risk Based Security’s 2018 Q1 Vulnerability QuickView Report. Note that bug bounties are a subset of t… Continue reading The pace of vulnerability disclosure shows no signs of slowing
After year over year increases in the number of reported data breaches, Risk Based Security has released the results of their Q1 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report, showing the number of breaches disclosed in the first three months of the year fell to 6… Continue reading Breach activity declines, number of compromised records remains high