During a ransomware attack, a victims vital internal processes are seized and encrypted, completely forcing their business offline. These crippling actions are only reversed if a ransom payment is made. Ransomware attacks are an escalating threat to global security and the Australian Government is taking a firm stance against it. With global ransomware damage costs predicted to reach $20 billion and increasing cyberattack complexity, this isn't a fight a single country can win alone.

John Laban is the Founder & CEO at OpsLevel. This blog post originally appeared on the OpsLevel blog. Snyk is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for businesses that want to build security into their continuous software development processes. And with their developer-first tooling and best-in-class security intelligence, it’s no surprise.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is designed to protect the personal data of EU residents by regulating how that information is collected, stored, processed and destroyed. The data security and privacy law applies to all organizations that collect the personal data of European Union citizens, regardless of location. The penalties for noncompliance with GDPR requirements are stiff. Many organizations are struggling with how to comply with GDPR.

The recently released JFrog Xray versions 3.31 & 3.32 have brought to the table a raft of new capabilities designed to improve and streamline your workflows, productivity and user experience.

In December 2020, I wrote the article Serialization and deserialization in Java: explaining the Java deserialize vulnerability about the problems Java has with its custom serialization implementation. The serialization framework is so deeply embedded inside Java that knowing how dangerous some implementation can be is important. Insecure deserialization can lead to arbitrary code executions if a gadget chain is created from your classpath classes.

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack is potentially one of the worst cyberattacks to have happened this decade. A hacker group known as DarkSide stole nearly 100GB of data from the Colonial Pipeline servers before locking them down and demanding a ransom. Colonial Pipeline, with the assistance of FBI, paid around 5 million dollars to recover its systems. And it didn’t stop there.