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Tenable.io users have been asking for new dashboards to make implementing Cyber Exposure easier, and the Tenable dashboard and reporting teams have delivered. We’ve added five new dashboards to Tenable.io, allowing you to gain more visibility into key topics like vulnerability metrics, risk mitigations and exploit reporting.

These five new dashboards are popular dashboards available in SecurityCenter, now upgraded for the Cyber Exposure Lifecycle. Let’s take a peek:

Twenty years ago this week, I released the first public version of Nessus. Little did I know at the time the profound impact it would have both on the industry and on me personally.

Drupal is popular, free and open-source content management software. On March 28, the Drupal security team released patches for CVE-2018-7600, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Drupal core. The vulnerability affects Drupal versions 6, 7 and 8. Patches have been released for versions 7.x, 8.3.x, 8.4.x and 8.5.x. No patches are expected for version 6 or 8.2.x and below.

Cryptography is like finding and patching system vulnerabilities. Both are a race. In the former, the race is between mathematicians finding efficient, hard-to-reverse computations and opposing mathematicians solving hard numerical problems to defeat them. In the latter, the race is between IT and malicious actors who may find the vulnerabilities first to exploit them. The race in encryption is fueled by the exponential increase in computing power outlined by Moore’s law, constantly driving the algorithms we use toward obsolescence.

A new APT malware attack has been discovered by Kaspersky Lab. The malware named Slingshot, due to a string in one of the hijacked system DLLs, is a sophisticated attack that leads to a nasty rootkit. The final rootkit named Cahnadr takes control of system processes, allowing for monitoring of keystrokes, clipboard, network traffic and more.