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2022 Planning: The Path to Effective Cybersecurity Maturity
When it comes to bringing cyber safety and resilience to all parts of your organization, there is no silver bullet. Achieving cybersecurity maturity isn't something you can do overnight — it requires a significant amount of planning, prioritizing, and coordinating across the business. While this...
Protect your business with Microsoft Security’s comprehensive protection
Securing an organization has never been simple. But over the past year, we’ve seen significant changes in the threat landscape that are having a major impact on organizations of every size in every sector. The frequency and sophistication of cyber events have increased significantly. We see...
Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends from Q3 2021
Ransomware again dominated the threat landscape, while BEC grew By David Liebenberg and Caitlin Huey. Once again, ransomware was the most dominant threat observed in Cisco Talos Incident Response CTIR engagements this quarter. CTIR helped resolve several significant... This is only the beginning!...
oaklandlandscapecommittee.org Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-2207212
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...
Keep Attackers Out of VPNs: NSA, CISA Offer Guidance
Unsecured VPNs can be a hot mess: Just ask Colonial Pipeline which got pwned by the REvil ransomware crooks with an old VPN password or the 87,000 at least Fortinet customers whose credentials for unpatched SSL-VPNs were posted online earlier this month. Vulnerabilities in VPN servers are like...
coloradoledlandscapelighting.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2147706
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Midyear 2021 Cybersecurity Landscape Review: Attacks From All Angles Abound
Here is a rundown of data related to the crucial security issues that enterprises faced during this period, as examined in our report, “Attacks From All Angles: 2021 Midyear Cybersecurity Report.”...
Afternoon Cyber Tea: Learn how to stop misinformation threats from nation-state bad actors
Information has long been wielded as an instrument of national power and influence. In today’s digital world, misinformation can also be just as powerful. On a special episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson, Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of Mandiant Intelligence at...
Afternoon Cyber Tea: Learn how to stop misinformation threats from nation-state bad actors
Information has long been wielded as an instrument of national power and influence. In today’s digital world, misinformation can also be just as powerful. On a special episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson, Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President and Head of Mandiant Intelligence at...
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in H1 2021
The H1 2021 ICS threat report at a glance Percentage of ICS computers attacked 1. During the first half of 2021 H1 2021, the percentage of attacked ICS computers was 8%, which was 0.4 percentage points p.p. higher than that for H2 2020. Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were...
How to Exploit SQL Server Using Registry Keys
At the Imperva Research Labs we have the chance to scrutinize various security situations. In this blog, we will take a closer look at database security on SQL Server. One routine approach that security practitioners employ to protect databases is deploying honeypots and waiting for bad actors to...
The pitfalls of relying only on your ISP for DDoS protection
Relying on your Internet Service Provider ISP for DDoS protection is like going to a restaurant known for the freshest, tastiest seafood and ordering beef. Sure, they have it on the menu and they are happy to sell it to you, but the experience is not likely to compare well to what you’d have in a...
Ransom DDoS: What you need to know now
According to the 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report, Ransom DDoS RDoS threats are on the rise. Imperva researchers have been monitoring threats against several of our customers where extortionists have demanded payment in BitCoin to prevent DDoS attacks. The attack patterns this year are very...
5 high-profile DDoS attacks that should chill you to the bone
Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks are malicious attempts to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. Data revealed in the 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report strongly suggests attacks are constantly...
The 4-phase approach smart companies take to mitigate DDoS attacks
Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have been a significant feature of the cyber threat landscape over the past two decades. The 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report reveals that attacks today are constantly evolving in complexity, volume, size, and frequency. The only constant in DDoS attack...
6 ways cybersecurity teams can save time and money
The phrase “time is money”, originally attributed to Benjamin Franklin, reprimands the slothful for wasting their working hours. As one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin clearly never worked a day in cybersecurity. This is an area where fresh blood is hard to find to...
Trend-spotting email techniques: How modern phishing emails hide in plain sight
With the massive volume of emails sent each day, coupled with the many methods that attackers use to blend in, identifying the unusual and malicious is more challenging than ever. An obscure Unicode character in a few emails is innocuous enough, but when a pattern of emails containing this obscur...
#LetsTalkSecurity - Security at the Speed of Change
Let's Talk Security: Season 02 // Episode 05: Host, Rik Ferguson, interviews Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Carrier, Nicole Darden Ford. Together they discuss the changing cybersecurity landscape...
Cutting Through the Noise from Daily Alerts
According to a survey run on IR and SOC teams, analysts are required to keep track of an average of 6.8 threat intelligence feeds and manually handle an excessive number of alerts. The average security operations team receives over 11,000 alerts per day. Most of an analyst’s time almost 70% is...
Best Practices to Thwart Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks
Business email compromise BEC refers to all types of email attacks that do not have payloads. Although there are numerous types, there are essentially two main mechanisms through which attackers penetrate organizations utilizing BEC techniques, spoofing and account take-over attacks. In a recent...