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NIST Scraps Passwords Complexity and Mandatory Changes in New Guidelines Using a mixture of character types in your passwords and regularly changing passwords are officially no longer best password management practices according to new guidelines published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In NIST’s latest version of its Password Guidelines, the leading security stan

Malicious npm Packages Used to Target GitHub Developer SSH Keys Security researchers have uncovered two new malicious packages on the npm open source package manager that utilized GitHub to store stolen Base64-encrypted SSH keys taken from developer systems. These packages, identified earlier this month, have since been removed from npm. According to a ReversingLabs report published today, this di

Twitter Mentions More Effective Than CVSS at Reducing Exploitability Monitoring Twitter mentions of vulnerabilities may be twice as effective as CVSS scores at helping organizations prioritize which bugs to patch first, according to new research. Kenna Security’s latest report, Prioritization to Prediction, Volume 8: Measuring and Minimizing Exploitability, was compiled with help from the Cyentia

Security researchers are urging Docker customers to upgrade to the latest version after detailing a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack exploiting a critical vulnerability, which could lead to full container escape. The CVE-2019-14271 flaw was fixed in Docker version 19.03.1, but if left unpatched could give an attacker full root code execution on the host. “The vulnerability can be exploited, provided