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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

Log4j, aka Log4Shell, blasted a surgical light on the multiplying tiers of attack vectors arising from enterprises’ deepening reliance on open-source software. It’s notable that open-source software vulnerabilities comprise just one of several paths ripe for malicious manipulation. Related: The exposures created by API profileration.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

Krebs on Security

“The largest category of information accessed was information on consumers and small businesses as of the time they applied for one of our credit card products from 2005 through early 2019,” the statement continues. “She allegedly used web application firewall credentials to obtain privilege escalation.

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Capital One discovered more customers’ SSNs exposed in 2019 hack

Security Affairs

Paige Thompson is a former Amazon Web Services software engineer who worked for a Capital One contractor from 2015 to 2016. THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. Law enforcement arrested the hacker Paige A. District Court in Seattle.

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SAML: Still Going Strong After Two Decades

eSecurity Planet

In 2005, the open standard consortium OASIS released SAML 2.0 Read more : Best Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software. Application and software developers are responsible for establishing the necessary backend database and protocol for storing and accepting user account credentials. In 2005, OASIS released 2.0,

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Top 20 Cybersecurity Companies You Need to Know in 2025

eSecurity Planet

Check Point: Best for Firewalls 11 $25.34 Palo Alto Networks Best protection against network, endpoint, and remote asset attacks Headquarters: Santa Clara, California Founded: 2005 Annual Revenue: $7.52 Fortinet: Best for Network Security Perimeter Protection 15 $74.33 Cisco: Best for Integrated Network Security 16 $242.51

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Capital One data breach: hacker accessed details of 106M customers before its arrest

Security Affairs

“A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for an intrusion on the stored data of Capital One Financial Corporation, announced U.S. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach.

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NEW TECH: Exabeam retools SIEMs; applies credit card fraud detection tactics to network logs

The Last Watchdog

Launched in 2013 by Nir Polak, a former top exec at web application firewall vendor Imperva, Exabeam in just half a decade has raised an eye-popping $115 million in venture capital, grown to almost 350 employees and reaped over 100 percent revenue growth in each of the last three years. The earliest SIEMs cropped up around 2005 or so.

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