Laura Paine

Laura Paine

Laura Paine is a senior product marketing manager at Veracode, based in Burlington, MA.

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  • Quest Diagnostics Breached Through…
    | By Laura Paine

    Quest Diagnostics has reported that nearly 12 million patients’ may have been impacted by a breach into American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), the medical testing company’s third-party billing provider. According to a data breach filing with the Security and Exchange Commission, as many as 11.9…

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  • WhatsApp Releases Update Following…
    | By Laura Paine

    On Monday, The Financial Times reported that attackers have been exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in the popular messaging service WhatsApp. The vulnerability has been fixed, and updates were released on Friday. WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, is urging both iPhone and Android users to…

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  • 2019 Verizon DBIR Shows Web…
    | By Laura Paine

    According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, there was a noticeable shift toward financially motivated crime (80 percent), with 35 percent of all breaches occurring as a result of human error, and approximately one quarter of breaches occurring through web application attacks.…

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  • Learning From the Vodafone-Huawei…
    | By Laura Paine

    Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Vodafone uncovered hidden backdoors in Huawei equipment used for the carrier’s Italian business, which could have given Huawei unauthorized access to Italian homes and businesses. The alleged backdoors were found in 2011 and 2012, and Vodafone told Bloomberg that…

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  • Your AppSec Program Can Make Your…
    | By Laura Paine

    While cybersecurity risk is steadily growing, so too is the recognition that application security (AppSec) is critical to protecting valuable enterprise resources. More than ever, ensuring that you have a program that spans the entire SDLC is critical to preventing breaches into your organization…

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  • Docker Hub Database Breached, As Many…
    | By Laura Paine

    Docker, a company that created an open platform for building and running distributed applications, reported to users that its Docker Hub database had been breached, exposing sensitive data from approximately 190,000 accounts. While that figure makes up less than five percent of Hub users, the data…

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