An analysis of cybersecurity attacks published today by the X-Force arm of IBM finds there was a 44% increase in the exploitation of public-facing applications in 2025. More troubling still, out of the 40,000 vulnerabilities tracked by IBM X-Force, more than half (56%) didn’t require any type of authentication for an attacker to bypass before..

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Michael Vizard

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