The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

The Solarwinds hack has brought vendor supply chain attacks — and the lack of readiness from enterprises to tackle such attacks — to the forefront. Let’s discuss how the SolarWinds hack relates to a regular website supply chain. Supply chain attack tactics. So what does the average modern website look like?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When building a business website or blog, it is essential to make your website security a top priority. In addition to learning how to build a website, any small business owner or blogger should understand how to secure their website. If malicious traffic is detected, the WAF will prevent it from accessing your website.

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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. They are compromised to behave as an attacker-controlled server. In some cases, the exploited host websites appear to have been abused in both ways.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, it’s possible for attacks and infections on your website to go undetected for years. In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. Common types of cyberattacks and how to identify them.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

However, as with any software component, APIs are also prone to security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work? API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work? How do APIs work? But for those new to the world of APIs, lets cover the basics: What is an API?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

However, the truth is that businesses of all sizes hold valuable data in their hands, and cybercriminals work to create new sophisticated attack methods to acquire this information. To help you get started, we break down the most common attacks into a simple small business cybersecurity guide for your business.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore common techniques used to penetrate systems and how organizations can defend against each type of attack. The steps involved in a successful social engineering attack are: Research - Criminals gather information about the target, such as employees' names, job titles, and email addresses.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Two of the four HotNews Notes are updates on a critical OS Command Injection vulnerability in IS-OIL that was reported to SAP by the Onapsis Research Labs earlier this year. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to obtain arbitrary permissions within the application leading to high impact on the application’s confidentiality and integrity.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Using Ocular to search for command injection in an application by tracing dataflow. When learning how to find, exploit, or prevent different types of security vulnerabilities, you’ll want to understand the vulnerability’s root causes and what happens to an application when it’s exploited. Searching for command injections.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

The threat actor’s methodology wasn’t unique — they used a six-step approach that can be mapped directly to cyber attack frameworks. Even industry giants like Target and Equifax, who have robust security measures, still struggle to combat supply chain attacks. Most of these steps could’ve been blocked with the aid of DNS protection.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We’ll also discuss how major data breaches occur, and what you can do to protect yourself in the Age of the Large Data Breach. If you’re not familiar, the federal organization is the Office of Personnel Management, and OPM announced it was compromised in June of 2015, with the attackers possibly having access as early as March 2014.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

This blog post explores the DevSecOps best practices that development teams can use to ensure that security is ingrained in the development process, leading to better products with reduced security risks and faster time-to-market. DevSecOps is a practice that integrates security into the DevOps workflow.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Devs can run SAST, DAST, and IAST tools on the app to determine how well each detects problems. This demand for better training highlights the incredible value offered by OWASP , the Open Web Application Security Project. OWASP is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving software security. The OWASP Mobile Security Resources.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Team82 researchers have disclosed an attack technique that bypasses industry-leading web application firewalls (WAFs) by appending JSON syntax to SQL injection payloads. ” Also read: How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks. Blinded by JSON. “This turned out to be JSON.”

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

How penetration testing is done How to choose a penetration testing company How NetSPI can help Penetration testing enables IT security teams to demonstrate and improve security in networks, applications, the cloud, hosts, and physical locations. Table of Contents What is penetration testing?

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

At its core, a prompt injection in the context of AI chatbots is the act of feeding the model crafted or malicious input to elicit undesired responses or behaviours. Think of it as a digital form of trickery where the attacker aims to manipulate the AI’s output. Image source: Greshake et al. Image source: Greshake et al.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Top ten vulnerabilities that threaten your API, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. Today, let’s go through each of these vulnerabilities to understand how they happen, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. Let’s start with API #1, Broken Object Level Authorization.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

So how did West Point change him? I'm Robert Vamosi, and in this episode I'm talking about the shortage of infosec experts and how, through the use of computer Capture the Flag competitions, or CTF, the US military, for example, is attempting to address the shortage of information security experts through gamification. The answer?

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

So how did West Point change him? I'm Robert Vamosi, and in this episode I'm talking about the shortage of infosec experts and how, through the use of computer Capture the Flag competitions, or CTF, the US military, for example, is attempting to address the shortage of information security experts through gamification. The answer?

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

So how did West Point change him? I'm Robert Vamosi, and in this episode I'm talking about the shortage of infosec experts and how, through the use of computer Capture the Flag competitions, or CTF, the US military, for example, is attempting to address the shortage of information security experts through gamification. The answer?

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

How SQL injection and command injection happen in APIs. Today, let’s talk about OWASP API #8, injections, a type of vulnerability that affects most applications and API systems. Injection is the underlying issue for a large number of vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, OS command injection, and XML injection.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

That was really our mandate - understanding the impact on how we verify ourselves - but I want to go back a step and focus on how we tackle data breaches themselves. That was really our mandate - understanding the impact on how we verify ourselves - but I want to go back a step and focus on how we tackle data breaches themselves.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 17, 2021

How about a new twist? The quantity and frequency of hacker attacks,” says Cisco VP Al Huger , “coupled with the typical time to identify and contain a breach, then multiplied by the various applications running on-prem, multi-cloud and cloud-native microservices, security risk remains a major challenge.”.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2023

In this report, "known attacks" are those where the victim didn't pay a ransom. This provides the best overall picture of ransomware activity, but the true number of attacks is far higher. MalasLocker attacked vulnerabilities in Zimbra servers, including CVE-2022-24682 , to enable remote code execution (RCE).

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Post initial compromise, to be able to execute meaningful attacks, attackers would need to steal credentials to move laterally inside the network, access critical network assets and eventually exfiltrate data. Executive Summary.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The input is rigorously checked for any variables which lead the software to act strangely, which might cause threats like injection and cross-site scripting. Modern organizations rely heavily on software and systems. Input validation. Figure 1 Source: w3schools.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

RicardoSerpa.com is a website dedicated to the photographic work and professional blog of Ricardo Serpa. Website Background. Serpa first began his career in photography over 25 years ago when he left his day job as an export manager in Brazil to chase his true passion, photography. Challenges. Solution and Result.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. It's also an era where this sort of information is constantly leaked to unauthorised parties; last year Equifax lost control of 145.5 Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. Of course it can!

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2022

The BlackByte Go variant was used in attacks described in an FBI advisory that warned BlackByte had compromised numerous businesses, including entities in US critical infrastructure sectors. BlackByte is a full-featured ransomware family that first emerged around July 2021. Previous versions of the ransomware were written in C#.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The easiest (and a significantly profitable) way for attackers to get into a system is logging in with valid user credentials. Phishing attacks are the second most common cause of a breach, as well as the costliest. There are different known types of attacks to gain user credentials. Password Hash Values in SAP.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

In part one of our Black Hat USA 2022 NOC blog, we discussed building the network with Meraki: Adapt and Overcome. Also, for the first time, we had two Talos Threat Hunters from the Talos Incident Response (TIR) team, providing unique perspectives and skills to the attacks on the network.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The top ten vulnerabilities that threaten your API, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. Today, let’s go through each of these vulnerabilities to understand how they happen, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. We’ll start with API top ten #1, Broken Object-Level Authorization.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

We appreciate Iain Thompson of The Register , for taking time to attend a NOC presentation and tour the operations. Check out Iain’s article: ‘ Inside the Black Hat network operations center, volunteers work in geek heaven.’ Integration is key to success in the NOC. Investigation of the IP confirmed it was known malicious.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. And all this was just super cool to me seeing how he was able to program these things from scratch. Amen game kind of a Facebook thing.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. And all this was just super cool to me seeing how he was able to program these things from scratch. Amen game kind of a Facebook thing.

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