Secure Your SaaS Apps With Security Posture Management Platform

As security professionals who have spent more than a few years in the industry, we know a good challenge when we see one. SaaS and cloud-based technologies are growing rapidly, offering organizations convenience and constant feature refreshes without the need to install and deploy software...

Verizon DBIR: Web App Attacks and Security Errors Surge

Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR, released Tuesday, analyzed 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches to sniff out the top causes of data breaches over the past year. While cyber-espionage attacks and malware decreased, other trends, such as security “errors” cloud...

GitLab: Full Read SSRF on Gitlab's Internal Grafana

Apparently, Grafana is bundled with Gitlab by default. So the grafana instance that is accessible via /-/grafana/is vulnerable to the SSRF outlined below. Summary By chaining together some redirects and a URL decoding bug, it is possible to achieve a full-read, unauthenticated, SSRF from your...

Cloud Transformation Is The Biggest Opportunity To Fix Security

This overview builds on the recent report from Trend Micro Research on cloud-specific security gaps, which can be found here. Don’t be cloud-weary. Hear us out. Recently, a major tipping point was reached in the IT world when more than half of new IT spending was on cloud over non- cloud. So rath...

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019 From massive credential spills on the Dark Web and hacked data to card-skimming and rich profiles exposed by way of cloud misconfigurations, 2019 was a notable year for data breaches. Big names like Capital One, Macy’s and Sprint were impacted, a...

Intimate Details on Healthcare Workers Exposed as Cloud Security Lags

Yet another non-password protected cloud database has come to light, this time exposing a raft of highly personal information on healthcare workers and traveling nurses – including drug tests and arrest records. The incident showcases the unfortunate reality that cloud data security remains a...

Ladders, SkyMed Leak Employment, Medical Data for Millions

Cloud storage misconfigurations continue to plague the data-privacy space, as evidenced by the new discovery of employment and health information for millions exposed on the web, wide open to any internet passerby. Two misconfigured cloud databases inadvertently leaked personally identifiable...

Security Round-up: Five Things We’ve Learned in 2017

The past 12 months have been packed with geopolitical incidents, global malware threats and ubiquitous big-name data breaches. From the CIA Vault7 and NSA Shadow Brokers leaks at the start of the year, to the WannaCry and NotPetya ‘ransomware’ campaigns, and Uber’s shocking revelations just last...