Infosec Teams Race To Secure DevOps

With DevOps adoption spreading, infosec teams are scrambling to address the new security challenges stemming from DevOps’ accelerated code development and app deployment. But while IT organizations have made notable progress adapting security to their DevOps processes, work remains to be done...

PHP Security Advent Calendar 2018

In our first calendar edition in 2016, we analyzed exceptional vulnerabilities in some of the most popular open source PHP applications. Last year, we released 24 PHP security challenges with a hidden security pitfall in every days code challenge. This year we would like to give once again...

Zero-Trust Frameworks: Securing the Digital Transformation

Given the ongoing, rapid rise in digital transformation, the “zero-trust” concept is fast gaining traction as the go-to strategy for securing modern business networks. Zero trust refers to the notion of shifting access controls from the perimeter to the individual users and their devices. Thus,...

Inspiring Gender Diversity at Women of the Channel Leadership Summit

At Trend Micro we’re proud to be walking the talk on gender diversity — from our co-founder and CEO, Eva Chen, all the way down. It’s always been a keen part of our corporate culture, from the very beginning 30 years ago. But we also realize that there’s still a major diversity challenge facing t...

Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign

Introduction FireEye devices detected intrusion attempts against multiple industries, including think tank, law enforcement, media, U.S. military, imagery, transportation, pharmaceutical, national government, and defense contracting. The attempts involved a phishing email appearing to be from the...

Pentagon Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Include Physical Systems

The Department of Defense is expanding its “Hack the Pentagon” bug-bounty program to include hardware assets, tapping the Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd platforms to attract more white hats to the effort. The news comes two weeks after the Government Accountability Office GAO released a report...

Compromising vital infrastructure: how voting machines and elections are vulnerable

In our first post in a series about vital infrastructure, we aim to explore how secure our voting machines—and our votes in general—are ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Here, we ask ourselves: How can our infrastructure be compromised? What are the consequences, and how can we prevent...

Let’s Continue the Skills Gap Conversation

Most analysis is that the cybersecurity skills gap or shortage is getting worse. ESG reported in CSOOnline that 2018 had the highest levels, at 51%, where organizations "claimed their organization had a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills." It’s a complex problem, but I believe with...

Partner Perspectives: IR Challenges Solved by IncMan SOAR + Cb Response

John Moran is the Senior Product Manager for DFLabs. Cb Response is one of the most effective endpoint solutions when it comes to detecting, investigating and responding to advanced threats. I do not say this as a marketing person I am not, but as a former incident response consultant who utilize...

Podcast: Two Billion IoT Devices Still Vulnerable to BlueBorne Bug

Almost a year after the BlueBorne flaws were disclosed in 2017, up to 2 billion IoT devices are still vulnerable to the Bluetooth driver spoofing vulnerability. Joe Lea, VP of product at Armis Security, talks to Threatpost about the challenges that exist in patching IoT devices, and why more and...

Twenty Years of Network Security Monitoring: From the AFCERT to Corelight

I am really fired up to join Corelight. I’ve had to keep my involvement with the team a secret since officially starting on July 20th. Why was I so excited about this company? Let me step backwards to help explain my present situation, and forecast the future. Twenty years ago this month I joined...

Securing Container Deployments with Qualys

With container adoption booming, security teams must protect the applications that DevOps teams create and deploy using this method of OS virtualization. The security must be comprehensive across the entire container lifecycle, and built into the DevOps pipeline in a way that is seamless and...

Microctfs - Small CTF Challenges Running On Docker

Small CTF challenges running on Docker logviewer Build and Start logviewer challenge exposed on port 8000 cd logviewer docker build -t logviewer . docker run -d -p 8000:80 --name logchallenge logviewer Restart logviewer challenge docker rm -f logchallenge && docker run -d -p 8000:80 --name...

Offensive and Defensive Cryptography: Crypton

Crypton is an educational library to learn and practice Offensive and Defensive Cryptography. It is basically a collection of explanation and implementation of all the existing vulnerabilities and attacks on various Encryption Systems Symmetric and Asymmetric, Digital Signatures, Message...

Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller: How to Secure Autonomous Vehicles

LAS VEGAS – Concerns over cybersecurity issues in vehicles are nothing new – with worries peaking after the 2015 hack of a Jeep Cherokee that enabled control of key functions of the car. And now, the rise of autonomous vehicles are driving a new set of challenges and concerns for the infosec...

ThreatList: SMB Security Challenges Grow with the Cloud

Firewall and network security is the No. 1 concern when it comes to small- and medium-sized business SMB security, according to research, particularly as they begin to move more and more of their mission-critical infrastructure to the cloud. However, preparing for increasing security threats...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Securing Containers – From Build to Deployments

DevOps teams have embraced Docker container technology because it boosts speed, agility, and flexibility in app development and delivery. But it also creates security and compliance challenges. “Containers are revolutionizing the IT landscape,” Hari Srinivasan, a Qualys Director of Product...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Vulnerability Risk Management

When vulnerability risk management is proactive, organizations don’t have to hurriedly react to attacks that exploit bugs for which patches are available, as happened with WannaCry. “The vast majority of WannaCry remediation took place as an emergency type process,” Jimmy Graham, a Qualys Directo...

Stego-Toolkit - Collection Of Steganography Tools (Helps With CTF Challenges)

This project is a Docker image useful for solving Steganography challenges as those you can find at CTF platforms like hackthebox.eu. The image comes preinstalled with many popular see list below and several screening scripts you can use check simple things for instance, run checkjpg.sh image.jpg...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Global IT Asset Discovery, Inventory, and Management

Maintaining an IT asset inventory is essential for a strong security posture, but digital transformation has further complicated this already challenging task. “The volume and variety of assets, including cloud, virtualization, mobility and IoT, is disrupting IT, and security takes center stage,”...