Part 2: Reading SPAM For Research

A couple weeks ago, I posted a blog that is a follow up of an article I published in Information Security Magazine. In that post I wrote about collecting phishing samples and identifying domain squatters that might be looking to harvest information from their target. This is the final blog entry...

Five Mistakes I Bet You Are Making with your Managed Services business

As a managed service provider, your customers have entrusted you to manage their IT infrastructure and their security so it’s important that you are making the right choices to secure their environments and keep cyber criminals at bay. In my years of working with our Managed Service Provider...

AnswerX - Akamai's 'Secret' DNS Platform

As I work with Operators all over the world, I'm amazed at two worrying. First, Operators are still treating DNS as an afterthought. Everyone knows that if DNS is down, the network is down. Too many people are taking DNS's resiliency for granted. DNS "just works" is assumed to be norm until it do...

Average Cost of Breach Goes Down, For the First Time Ever

NEW YORK–The global average cost of a data breach last year dropped 11.4 percent from 2015 to $3.6 million. The reduction is attributed mostly to a strong U.S. dollar, with wins also offset by a 1.8 percent increase in the size of breaches in 2016. The numbers come from Peter Allor, senior cyber...

PaulShop - SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: PaulShop CMS = 2017-03-25 Sql Injection Date: 10-06-2017 Exploit Author: Se0pHpHack3r Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/paulshop-cms-with-shopping-cart-system/18070714 Version: 2017-03-25 1. Description SQL Injection ...

PaulShop - SQL Injection

PaulShop - SQL Injection Exploit Title: PaulShop CMS = 2017-03-25 Sql Injection Date: 10-06-2017 Exploit Author: Se0pHpHack3r Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/paulshop-cms-with-shopping-cart-system/18070714 Version: 2017-03-25 1. Description SQL Injection on Shipping Cost page in Cart...

PaulShop CMS 2017-03-25 SQL Injection

Exploit Title: PaulShop CMS = 2017-03-25 Sql Injection Date: 10-06-2017 Exploit Author: Se0pHpHack3r Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/paulshop-cms-with-shopping-cart-system/18070714 Version: 2017-03-25 1. Description SQL Injection on Shipping Cost page in Cart, with "country" & "weigh...

PaulShop - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: PaulShop CMS = 2017-03-25 Sql Injection Date: 10-06-2017 Exploit Author: Se0pHpHack3r Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/paulshop-cms-with-shopping-cart-system/18070714 Version: 2017-03-25 1. Description SQL Injection on Shipping Cost page in Cart, with "country" & "weigh...

Digital Forensics Platform: Autopsy

Digital Forensics Platform Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It is used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from...

Mark Dowd on Exploit Mitigation Development

Mark Dowd, fresh off his 2017 Security Analyst Summit keynote, discusses why certain exploit mitigations have been so successful in driving up the cost of exploit development for attackers...

Native Auditing Tools – Performance, Cost, and Compliance Issues

As we covered in a previous post, data-centric security measures need to be implemented to meet compliance requirements and protect against complex, ever-evolving attacks. There are two primary approaches to implementing these measures: Native auditing, which uses a database server's built-in too...

DDoS Attacks Can Cost Businesses Up to $2.5M Per Attack, Report Says

The time to respond and mitigate DDoS attacks can be costly for companies, and some businesses can lose roughly $2.5 million on average per attack, a research report released today said. Neustar, an analytics firm that sees swathes of DDoS attack telemetry daily, boiled down some of the figures i...

Vulnerability subscriptions in terms of business

The question is: do we really need an employee in organization that deals with vulnerabilities in infrastructure on a full-time basis? Since this is similar to what I do for living, I would naturally say that yes, it is necessary. But as person, who makes security automation, I can say that there...

We asked 170 cyber security pros about ransomware. Here’s what they had to say.

The first week of January, my daughter called to say she couldn’t get into her college website to make changes to her spring schedule. Assuming servers were probably struggling to keep up with increased traffic, I told her to keep trying. However, it soon became apparent what the issue was. An...

Zero Days Have Staying Power

It takes less than a month for most zero-day exploits to be developed, and about a quarter of those previously unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities will go undiscovered and undisclosed to the vendor for an average of 9.5 years. And the odds two hackers will find the same zero day are slim. RAND...

Backdoor Found in Firmware of Some Android Devices

Nearly three million Android devices are vulnerable to an attack that could allow a hacker to compromise over-the-air OTA updates to the devices and allow adversaries to remotely execute commands with root privileges. The problem stems from what researchers call an insecure implementation of an O...

Optimizing your PCI Compliance Investments

Everybody knows that the cost of a breach is high. Given the fact that the chance of a data breach for all merchants is nearly 1-in-4, its important to not only have PCI compliance in place, but also the right solutions to optimize your compliance spend...

Mindoktor: Vulnerable Mobile Phone configuration

Information I've found that when you register in "https://clinic.mindoktor.se/user/register", there is a specific field that says: "Mobile Phone - is needed to receive one-time codes via SMS". According to the description: You need your mobile phone every time you log in, so for every login an sm...

fixr.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.fixr.com/cost-estimates/?description=';...

EU Struggles to Determine Growing Cost of Cyberattacks

After painstakingly calculating the true cost of cybercrime in the European Union researchers conclude it’s nearly impossible to come up with hard numbers. In a study released this week by the European Union Agency For Network And Information Security ENISA researchers assert that it’s vitally...