A Search for API Security in the Operator’s Tool Box

Much has been written about modern application security tools and solutions from the provider’s perspective about their functionality and security features. When I was asked to write a blog about API Gateways and API Security, I felt it may be more useful to think about the subject from the user’...

The Bug Report - December 2021 Edition

The Bug Report - December 2021 By Philippe Laulheret · January 19, 2022 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Why am I here? If you’re reading these words, CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve made it to 2022! And even better, you found your way to ATR’s monthly security digest where we discuss our favorite...

3.1M Neiman Marcus Customer Card Details Breached

Dallas-based Neiman Marcus Group is known worldwide as the go-to luxury retailer for the well-heeled. But their reputation for impeccable quality just took a big hit with revelations that the company was breached by an attacker back in May 2020. It took 17 months for the retailer to notice. Just...

Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Content delivery networks CDNs are the pipelines of the Internet. Working behind the scenes, they are reshaping how information is consumed online, accelerating web traffic, enhancing user experience, and providing every website with the ability to truly go global. As you may imagine, any...

Digital Offense Capabilities Are Currently Net Negative for the Security Ecosystem

Proposition Digital offense capabilities are currently net negative for the security ecosystem.0 The costs of improved digital offense currently outweigh the benefits. The legitimate benefits of digital offense accrue primarily to the security one percent securityonepercent, and to intelligence,...

Add Security Events to Your Monitoring Tools

Real-time monitoring is important in every organization because it enables stakeholders to understand what is happening at any given time and react quickly. There are a lot of systems and devices we can and should monitor using tools such as application performance monitoring, digital performance...

Securing Space 4.0 – One Small Step or a Giant Leap? - Part 2

ARCHIVED STORY Securing Space 4.0 – One Small Step or a Giant Leap? Part 2 By Eoin Carroll · September 30, 2020 McAfee Advanced Threat Research ATR is collaborating with Cork Institute of Technology CIT and its Blackrock Castle Observatory BCO and the National Space Center in Cork, Ireland. In th...

DEF CON 28: 747 Walkthrough from a Hacker’s Perspective

This post is a companion to the DEF CON 28 video available here Airframe tour Alex: Welcome to this virtual 747-400 walkthrough. One of the advantages of DEF CON Safe Mode this year is that we’re able to bring you things like this. Nothing beats being able to climb onboard and poke around a real...

Inductive Automation Ignition 8.x < 8.0.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Inductive Automation Ignition

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Inductive Automation Equipment: Ignition 8 Gateway Vulnerability: Improper Access Control 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to write endless...

The HITRUST shared responsibility matrix – the assessor’s point of view

HITRUST® announced the availability of the new Shared Responsibility Program and MatrixTM Version 1.0 to help communicate and assign security and privacy responsibilities between cloud service providers CSPs and their customers. Coalfire is proud that we helped develop the Matrix as part of the...

How to Do More with Less — a CISO’s Perspective

I’ve learned a ton of lessons over my years in the InfoSec world. I’ve made a lot of the right calls, but also a bunch of wrong ones. One of the lessons I have learned is how to operate in an environment of scarcity. This lesson started long before my career did. Growing up, I was the child of a...

CVE-2020-8812

Bludit 3.10.0 allows Editor or Author roles to insert malicious JavaScript on the WYSIWYG editor. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that this is "not a bug...

CVE-2020-8812

Bludit 3.10.0 allows Editor or Author roles to insert malicious JavaScript on the WYSIWYG editor. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that this is "not a bug...

Code injection

Bludit 3.10.0 allows Editor or Author roles to insert malicious JavaScript on the WYSIWYG editor. NOTE: the vendor's perspective is that this is "not a bug...

A Feminist Take on Information Privacy

Maria Farrell has a really interesting framing of information/device privacy: What our smartphones and relationship abusers share is that they both exert power over us in a world shaped to tip the balance in their favour, and they both work really, really hard to obscure this fact and keep us...

Meet the BlueHat Content Advisory Board

We couldn’t do BlueHat without the Content Advisory Board, the brain trust reviewing submissions to the CFP. Representing both Microsoft and other parts of security community, the CAB applies their industry and speaker experience to create the BlueHat agenda that’s the right mix of topics and...

Microsoft Exchange – Domain Escalation

Microsoft Exchange servers are a high valuable target for red teams as they are the main entry point for the majority of the external attacks. From the internal perspective and if initial foothold to the network has been already achieved can allow a user to obtain privileges that would allow him ...

Let's Destroy Democracy

Election security through an adversary's eyes By Matt Olney. Executive summary Over the past few years, Cisco Talos has increasingly been involved in election security research and support, most recently supporting the Security Service of Ukraine in their efforts to secure the two Ukrainian...

XenServer Hardware Compatibility List Explained

This article provides an understanding of the Hardware Compatibility List HCL for Citrix Hypervisor and XenServer. This article also contains information about how products get qualified for inclusion in the HCL and what listing in the HCL represents from a support perspective. Background The...