The Internal Revenue Service should improve the way it scans for cybersecurity vulnerabilities and remediates the ones it finds, according to a new report. The report, released last week by the ...

Quick Summary Struggling to keep track of security gaps across your systems and applications? Discover the top seven vulnerability scanning tools of 2025 that can help you identify, prioritise, and ...

Vulnerability scanning is a staple of information security, but no software is perfect. Vulnerabilities are discovered on a daily basis — possibly exposing critical systems or data to exploit and ...

Companies have increased the cadence of application-security testing — with triple the number of applications scanned and 20 times more scans per application — compared to a decade ago, according to ...

The operators behind the highly adaptable RondoDox botnet campaign that kicked off in late March have proven to be ready to embrace the latest attack trends. Most recently, in December they began ...

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WordPress powers about 43% of all websites worldwide. This makes it an indispensable platform for organizations of all sizes. Unfortunately, that popularity also makes WordPress a prime target for ...

One year after acquiring software security scanning specialist Semmle, and following a successful five-month beta process, GitHub is making its CodeQL code scanning capabilities available publicly, ...

A vulnerability scanner, as its name implies, scans your network or system (such as a computer, server or router) and identifies and reports back on open ports, active Internet Protocol (IP) addresses ...

There are two approaches to network vulnerability scanning, active and passive. The active approach encompasses everything an organization does to foil system breaches, while the passive (or ...