Tag: cve

ESET joins ranks as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

June 29, 2021

Working in concert with the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program, ESET, the leading Europe-based endpoint protection platform vendor, is authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). Organizations designated as CNAs are responsible for the assignment of CVE IDs to vulnerabilities, and for creating and publishing information about the vulnerability in … More ESET joins ranks as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

Record‑breaking number of vulnerabilities reported in 2020

February 16, 2021

High-severity and critical bugs disclosed in 2020 outnumber the sum total of vulnerabilities reported 10 years prior. An analysis of data collected by the United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) about common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) has found that 2020 saw more reports of security loopholes than any other year to date. … More Record‑breaking number of vulnerabilities reported in 2020

Exploit kits: What are they and what is an exploit blocker?

March 27, 2020

What are exploit kits? Unwary internet users may not realize that in the course of normal browsing they can be exposed to malicious exploit kits that lurk on some websites. Exploit kits consist of malicious code to exploit one or more potential vulnerabilities in common web browsing and document viewing software. More sophisticated exploit kits … More Exploit kits: What are they and what is an exploit blocker?