eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

This article will highlight three specialized tools that can be considered for any organization’s vulnerability scanning tool arsenal. That section explains what research went into creating this list of tools and how many other technologies that include vulnerability scanning features did not make the list.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The variables fall into three key categories: complexity, composition, and popularity. Each category is rated as either high, medium, or low risk. This will help keep the tools you’ve sourced from outside vendors as secure as possible. Because of the open-source aspect of a CMS, anyone can create add-ons and plug-ins.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by a 15-Year-Old unpatched Python vulnerability. More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by an unpatched Python vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 (CVSS score: 6.8), that was discovered 15 years ago.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 14, 2022

The Metasploit project contains some of the best security tools available, including the open source Metasploit Framework. The tool, maintained by Rapid7 , even offers comprehensive documentation , where you can learn the basics to start using it. However, Metasploit is not just another hacking tool.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 25, 2021

Fuzzing is broadly classified into three categories: Blackbox fuzzing, Whitebox fuzzing, and Greybox fuzzing. It also involves limited source code evaluation, such as calculating code coverage with the use of lightweight code instrumentation. Open Source Neural Fuzzing Tools. Fuzzing Methods.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

In this article, we’ll delve into various types of vulnerability scans, explore their benefits, outline the ideal scenarios for running each type, and list the best vulnerability scanning tool to use for each type of scan. The scanner detects which ports are open, closed, or filtered by analyzing the results.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Brad LaPort , a veteran Gartner analyst and I were on a content project, talking about why the market was missing out on a new category to encapsulate the disparate exposure data and derive actionable insights. We were debating about what we should call this new category. It is no longer a tooling problem, it is a data problem.

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Marketing Risk Digital transformation Software 52

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The typical header information that filters packets includes the sender’s IP address, receiver’s IP address, protocol, source port, destination port, and transmission control protocol (TCP) sequence numbers. The header categories used to make rules include: Direction: Informs the filter to apply either inbound or outbound rules for filtering.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Truth be told, I most definitely fall into the 75% category. Therefore, Liking is such a powerful tool for a social engineer both on the phone and on the stage. Think of holding an outer door open for someone entering a building, often the individual might hold the inner door open for you in return.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2021

What are Secure Scorecards for open source projects? Open-source code is the developer’s “wheel” that doesn’t need to be remade. Open-source code is the developer’s “wheel” that doesn’t need to be remade. While open-source code can make product development faster, it also comes with security risks.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

In short, products in this category aim to catalogue and help manage an organization’s exposed assets. Our goal is to clearly define it as a category and provide useful context for the individual product reviews that accompany this report. To see specific methodology used for the reviews in this category, click here.

Penetration Testing 87

Penetration Testing Marketing Internet Internet 87

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Database Admin Tool. In most cases, a web host will offer a web-based database administration tool that makes it relatively easy to search through the contents of a database. 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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A critical vulnerability discovered in the open-source load balancer and proxy server HAProxy could enable bad actors to launch an HTTP Request Smuggling attack, which would let them bypass security controls and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. HAProxy fits into that category. Increasingly Common Web Architecture.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

APRIL 28, 2021

Category Privacy, News, Awareness Risk Level. We know there have been third-party and open source attempts to help limit tracking across devices in the past. You’ll likely to see a new alert pop-up when you open an app for the first time after the update. OK, big deal. There’s new emojis.”

Advertising 93

Advertising Small Business Risk Internet 93

Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Open Web Application Security Project (aka OWASP) recently announced its latest updates to the venerable OWASP Top Ten list. The frameworks, software libraries, and other tools that development teams rely on are updated with increasing speed.

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Risk Software Architecture Technology 78

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. As a bonus, many of these tools are free to access and have specialized feeds that focus on different industries and sectors.

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Internet Internet Cybersecurity Malware 81

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

These complex multi-location entities often deploy local networks, virtual computing environments, cloud infrastructure, and a variety of devices that classify into the internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) categories. Some even deploy applications, web servers, and containers.

Penetration Testing 92

Penetration Testing IoT Engineering Risk 92

Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

CyberChef is “a simple, intuitive web app for analyzing and decoding data without having to deal with complex tools or programming languages.” ” CyberChef was published as open source on GitHub, it allows users to analyze encryption, compression and decompression, and data formats with simple drag and drop operations.

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Encryption Data Analyst Advertising Education 80

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2023

Information floods into the Security Operations Center (SOC) from network tools, security tools, cloud services, threat intelligence feeds, and other sources. AI-powered tools are changing the way security teams operate. The Open Threat Exchange is among the largest threat intelligence sharing platforms in the world.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

The DNS backdoor borrows the code from an open-source tool named DIG.net , it was used to perform “DNS hijacking.” Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. ” reads the analysis published ZScaler.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Not all patch management solutions will cover linux servers, network equipment, installed software, and a full range of devices without operating systems belonging to categories such as the internet of things (IoT), medical technology (medtech), industrial control systems (ICS), operations technology (OT), or industrial IoT (IIoT).

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Penetration Testing IoT Firmware Software 109

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Chinese hackers employed open-source tools for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning, according to the government experts, they have utilized open-source router specific software frameworks, RouterSploit and RouterScan [ T1595.002 ], to identify vulnerable devices to target. To nominate, please visit:?.

Telecommunications 95

Telecommunications Authentication Passwords Accountability 95

SecureWorld News

JULY 14, 2022

The report starts by reminding everyone what Log4j is and why it is such a big deal, which if you're not familiar with, you should read the report's executive summary (or maybe open your email for the first time this year). Open source software developers should participate in community-based security initiatives.

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Software Government Risk Cybersecurity 72

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Tools such as endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) send an increasing number of alerts to provide that visibility. To address that limitation, a new tool is emerging: Security data lakes (SDLs), which might provide a solution that enables unfiltered visibility for security teams. What is SIEM?

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Unstructured Data Artificial Intelligence Technology Architecture 111

Google Security

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Category Attack Scenario Guidance Prompt Attacks: Crafting adversarial prompts that allow an adversary to influence the behavior of the model, and hence the output in ways that were not intended by the application. In Scope Prompt injections into any tools in which the response is used to make decisions that directly affect victim users.

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Architecture Accountability Engineering Software 91

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Along with “direct software dependencies,” NIST also uses the FAQ to define the term “critical trust” as: categories of software used for security functions such as network control, endpoint security, and network protection. The recommended guidelines around vendors’ source code testing is not limited to EO-critical software.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The MASQ tool could be used by attackers to emulate device fingerprints thus allowing them to bypass fraud protection controls. Such activity is not limited to just payments – bad actors are also abusing social media and e-mail accounts using such tools. The tool is available for $130 and each new device fingerprint starts from $1.

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Mobile Authentication Accountability Cyber threats 122

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Category News, Vulnerabilities Risk Level. Log4j is an open source, Apache maintained Java-logging library that is used across the globe in popular applications and services. Source: Swiss Government CERT. “Ok, What is Log4j?” But how does the exploit work?” Ok, but how do I protect myself and my organization?”

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Risk Government Software Internet 106

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

Researchers at security firm Duo Security have created a set of open source tools and disclosed techniques that could be used to identify large Twitter botnet. Security experts from Duo Security have developed a collection of open source tools and disclosed techniques that can be useful in identifying large Twitter botnet.

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Accountability Advertising Cryptocurrency Scams 54

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The vulnerabilities affect scores of commercial and open source products, quite literally from A to Z, starting with Accellion and ending with ZyXEL. See our list of the Top Patch Management Tools. See our picks for the Top Vulnerability Management Tools. Five Other Vulnerability Categories Noted.

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Software Firmware Computers and Electronics Risk 115

Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 3, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals Risk Level “What are HTTP and HTTPS? This information is necessary to set up a secure and encrypted connection, and to validate that it is a trusted source. Here’s a great Google tool you can use to determine if the URL is safe or harmful. Are they the same? ”

Internet 96

Internet Internet Encryption Cybersecurity 96

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Employee cybersecurity training is ranked as one of the top three categories where many companies are increasing security spending. This demand for better training highlights the incredible value offered by OWASP , the Open Web Application Security Project. Screen capture of the OWASP Dependency Track tool available at [link].

Mobile 59

Mobile Software Risk Firewall 59

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Separate categories exist for spam and deceptive practices; sensitive content; violent / dangerous content; regulated goods; and, just recently, misinformation, which covers things like election misinformation, COVID-19 medical misinformation, and vaccine misinformation. The guidelines are pretty much what you’d expect.

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Scams Media Technology 64

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

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Encryption Software Artificial Intelligence Marketing 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

Encryption 52

Encryption Software Artificial Intelligence Marketing 52

Security Boulevard

JULY 18, 2022

Google Play Store is typically considered to be one of the safest sources for users to find and install android apps. All of these apps were downloaded over 300k times combined and they typically fall into one of the following common categories: Communication. Category: Tools. Personalization. Photography.

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Banking Malware Encryption Architecture 98

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2018

App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system.” ” reads the report published by Privacy International. ” continues the report.

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Advertising Software Hacking Accountability 94