The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Here’s how to leverage the power of decoupling to create a distributed data lake architecture where security teams can choose to use multiple data platforms like Splunk and Snowflake, while maintaining a consistent security analytics layer.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2022

Risks to Your Network from Insecure Code Signing Processes. Developers often put sensitive code signing credentials, such as private keys, in areas convenient and accessible to their build automation scripts. However, InfoSec teams need to understand that significant risks exist around poor code signing hygiene.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2024

Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. As such, it would not be detected at process load time.

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Google Security

JUNE 16, 2023

Asra Ali, Razieh Behjati, Tiziano Santoro, Software Engineers Every day, personal data, such as location information, images, or text queries are passed between your device and remote, cloud-based services. How can I recreate the artifact? We encourage you to containerize your build and try the container-based SLSA 3 builder !

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 21, 2022

How Cybercriminals Misuse Code Signing Machine Identities. If your pipeline doesn’t require digital signatures of all artifacts used to build your products, anyone could slip in a malicious change and the automation will incorporate that change and produce a malware-infected executable that you deliver to your customers.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

October 2023’s Cyber Security Awareness Month led to a flurry of blog posts about a new attack called Quishing (QR Code phishing) and how new AI powered email gateways can potentially block these attacks. So, to get initial access your only realistic attack path is the end user, and this is where phishing comes in.

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Veracode Security

JANUARY 26, 2021

What was top of mind for your peers regarding AppSec in 2020? But we are going to carry on with our annual look-back at our most popular blogs from the previous year. Did you catch all these popular blog posts? Clearly, training developers on secure coding is a requirement and a concern for many.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your data is stored across countless databases for various purposes, making it a prime target for criminals. With access to your personal information, bad actors can drain your bank account and damage your credit—or worse. But that doesn’t mean you and your family have to become victims.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Cybernews contacted Dimas Volvo and data protection officers at Volvo headquarters, and the issue causing the leak was fixed. Access to source code Among the leaked data, researchers also observed the URL of the Git repository where the website’s source code is stored, revealing the repository name and who created it.

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Pen Test Partners

MAY 2, 2024

This can cause a time difference between the various sizes of blocks due to the way that the Message Authentication Code (MAC) is calculated. Source code for the attack was not released, although it would not be difficult to write your own code to exploit this from the original paper. What is it?

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this blog I want to show you how you can operationalize the data linked to this alert in MVISION Insights together with your investigation and protection capabilities to better protect your organization against this threat. Insufficient Endpoint Security protection. Exposed devices.

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Pen Test

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

TLDR; Upgrade Confluence to a patched version and employ the open-source security scanner n0s1 to proactively address potential secret leaks. This practice is acceptable for local testing, with the intention of removing the secret prior to pushing the final code to Source Code Management (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, etc.).

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recent events have demonstrated very clearly just how persistent and wide-spread the Pegasus spyware is. Both of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-4863 were based on a heap buffer overflow in Libwebp, the code library used to encode and decode images in the WebP format.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart -alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command and control (C2) servers. The code used on the web skimming victims is designed to look like popular third-party services such as Google Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Have you given much thought to how secure your smartphone is? But what happens if you think your mobile has been breached? How would you know? In this blog, we’ll look at how you can minimise the impact of your personal mobile being compromised. This brings us to the next step, protect.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2023

If you're brave enough to run the payload on your macOS, you'll be met with this message, says Wardle. Indicators in the malware's code suggest it's Linux-based but compiled for macOS with basic configuration settings included. So.what are you going to do if you have lots of Macs in your organization? No worries for now!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

Intel TDX is designed to isolate VMs from the virtual-machine manager (VMM)/hypervisor and any other non-TD software on the platform to protect TDs from a broad range of software. The researchers reviewed the source code of the core Intel TDX software components and the design and documentation provided by Intel. scores to them.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

Where Exactly Are Code Signing Machine Identities Used? Signing software before shipping is important because it’s how customers know they can trust the software when they download it from the internet and install. Your organization relies on many outside software packages for daily operations. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How Thales and Red Hat Protect Telcos from API Attacks madhav Thu, 02/22/2024 - 04:55 Application programming interfaces (APIs) power nearly every aspect of modern applications and have become the backbone of today’s economy. Unfortunately, API attacks are increasing as vectors for security incidents. What are APIs?

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Google Security

JUNE 23, 2023

Julie Qiu, Go Security & Reliability, and Roger Ng, Google Open Source Security Team “Secure your dependencies”—it’s the new supply chain mantra. With attacks targeting software supply chains sharply rising , open source developers need to monitor and judge the risks of the projects they rely on.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Can Code Signing Macros Help Your Company Thwart Ransomware Attacks? Macros are code: a 'smack' in the head. Automated security controls via CodeSign Protect. Venafi showed how automated security controls for code signing could disable and remove any unsigned macro. Case Study]. brooke.crothers.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Following up on last week’s blog titled, “ How to Look for Malware in your Website Files ” we talk about how to look for malware in databases and what types of things you should be looking for. If your host offers a different tool, you may want to check their local knowledge base for further support. base64_decode.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

The ransomware gang behind the attack on Taiwanese PC maker MSI leaked the company’s private code signing keys on their darkweb leak site. Now the ransomware gang has leaked the company’s private code signing keys on their darkweb leaksite. How do you leak an OEM private key for a trusted boot system.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The ability to understand indirect access paths to sensitive data is crucial in understanding how to mitigate risk of insider threats in the public cloud. Poor Appsec - Poorly coded web applications continue to provide front door access to cloud environments. Learn more about how to respond to such incidents in our latest blog.

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Google Security

APRIL 7, 2022

But until now, generating verifiable information that described where, when, and how software artifacts were produced (information known as provenance) was difficult. This information allows users to trace artifacts verifiably back to the source and develop risk-based policies around what they consume. How does it work?

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Prevent Compromised Credentials IdentityIQ Protecting your personal information and online identity is crucial, especially as cyber threats continue to gain traction. How Can Your Credentials Become Compromised? Why Is It Important to Protect Against Compromised Credentials?

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Prevent Compromised Credentials IdentityIQ Protecting your personal information and online identity is crucial, especially as cyber threats continue to gain traction. How Can Your Credentials Become Compromised? Why Is It Important to Protect Against Compromised Credentials?

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Google Security

APRIL 13, 2023

Posted by Julie Qiu, Go Security & Reliability and Oliver Chang, Google Open Source Security Team High profile open source vulnerabilities have made it clear that securing the supply chains underpinning modern software is an urgent, yet enormous, undertaking.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2022

A significant source of this cybersecurity debt stems from failure to protect sensitive assets and data from unauthorized access as identities are created en masse and proliferate unchecked across the entire IT environment,” the report said. How to protect machine identities: Venafi's guidance. Find out how. "> Off.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 24, 2022

Avid readers of the Malwarebytes Labs blog are quite aware of QR code shenanigans—both within and outside of the United States. Take, for example, that QR code scam in the Netherlands that victimized at least a dozen (and likely a lot more) car owners. Only, it isn’t just $5 USD that leaves your account.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

It was important to them that I be a co-author, not a source. There were details—what had been found, and how, and where it helped—and sometimes there were attaboys from “customers” who used the intelligence. There were so many code names. Sometimes code names had their own code names.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Understanding How Code Signing Impacts Your Organization. The same is true if your private code signing keys are stolen and used to sign standalone malware. This creates significant liability for your organization with not only your customers but also with regulatory agencies. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 5, 2022

For every change to an application, the code is regularly built, tested, and merged to a shared repository.”. Aqua blog, June 13, 2022. CI environments allow developers to build and test code, then save it to a shared repository where other developers can access the changes. What is a continuous integration service?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Zero Trust Is (also) About Protecting Machine Identities. Just think of all the machines we need to protect: Servers and VMs in public and private clouds. Automate your machine identity management. Protect associated cryptographic keys. Find out how Venafi can help. "> Off. UTM Source. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 29, 2021

Finding XXE vulnerabilities in applications via code analysis. Last time, we talked about the fascinating XXEs vulnerabilities and how they can affect your application. We will be analyzing the source code of an example application that is vulnerable to XXEs: the OWASP WebGoat. Diving into the source code.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The DevSecOps process is impossible without securing the source code. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) — dynamic analysis of an application without access to the source code and execution environment (using the black box method). What is SAST?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. How safe are your company’s online transactions? Source; Pexels. They could expose your sensitive data and put you, your employees, clients, and customers at risk of identity theft and fraud. How to protect your transactions.

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