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Supply Chain Flaws Found in Python Package Repository

eSecurity Planet

Administrators overseeing the Python Package Index (PyPI) in recent days found themselves responding to vulnerabilities found in the repository of open source software, the latest security problems to hit the Python community. As I’ve mentioned several times before, some supply chains have critical vulnerabilities.

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Threat Actors Focus on the Application Layer, Do You?

Security Boulevard

How application security affects you. Organizations worldwide spent approximately $123 billion (USD) on IT security in 2020. Applications are the main attack vector exploited by threat actors. In fact, an estimated 84% of cyber attacks occur on the application layer. Network security equipment.

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Neural Fuzzing: A Faster Way to Test Software Security

eSecurity Planet

Software vulnerabilities are a grave threat to the security of computer systems. They often go undetected for years until it is too late and the consequences are irreversible. However, this can take months or even years of work due to the scale of modern software projects. One way of handling all this is with fuzzing.

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TOP 10 unattributed APT mysteries

SecureList

They implement a variety of techniques to make investigation of their campaigns more difficult. Using LOLBINS, common legitimate pentesting tools, and fileless malware; misleading security researchers by placing false flags—these and other anti-forensic tricks often make threat attribution a matter of luck. Project TajMahal.

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How to Perform a Vulnerability Scan in 10 Steps

eSecurity Planet

Vulnerability scans play a vital role in identifying weaknesses within systems and networks, reducing risks, and bolstering an organization’s security defenses. Determine the scanning process’s exact targets, such as exposing known vulnerabilities, analyzing patch management efficacy, or identifying configuration flaws.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? One night I found the light in the crawl space beneath the cottage was on and off and on again. So he queued up some hash MAC addresses and wrote a simple script.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? One night I found the light in the crawl space beneath the cottage was on and off and on again. So he queued up some hash MAC addresses and wrote a simple script.

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