Security for SaaS Companies:Leveraging Infosec for Business Value

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Distributed Network Vulnerability Scanner: Prowler

Prowler is a Network Vulnerability Scanner implemented on a Raspberry Pi Cluster, first developed during Singapore Infosec Community Hackathon – HackSmith v1.0. Capabilities Scan a network a particular subnet or a list of IP addresses for all IP addresses associated with active network devices...

Apple in the InfoSec Spotlight, as GitHub Falls Prey to Amplified DDoS Attack

Apple has been all over InfoSec news in the past week or so, along with Spectre / Meltdown developments, a tax season scam alert from the feds, and an apparent solution to the Winter Olympics' hack whodunit. In addition, researchers warned about a new trend of using Memcached servers to...

Securing IT Assets By Prioritizing Protection And Remediation

As hackers get faster at weaponizing exploits for disclosed bugs, InfoSec teams need — more than ever — automated, continuous and precise IT asset inventorying, vulnerability management, threat prioritization and patch deployment. Critical vulnerabilities that linger unpatched for weeks or months...

January 26, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Friday” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 26, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: New infosec products of...

Singapore government gets into the network defense game

There is a common assumption in the infosec community that enormous breaches like those at Equifax, Anthem, and Target are the new norm. That the next mega breach is simply a matter of time. This is because large companies loathe spending money on things that are not directly profitable like secu...

Daniel Miessler on My Writings about IoT Security

Daniel Miessler criticizes my writings about IoT security: I know it's super cool to scream about how IoT is insecure, how it's dumb to hook up everyday objects like houses and cars and locks to the internet, how bad things can get, and I know it's fun to be invited to talk about how everything i...

Cloud Security Improves, But Much Work Still Remains to Be Done

As cloud computing adoption accelerates among businesses, InfoSec teams are struggling to fully protect cloud workloads due to a lack of visibility into these environments, and to hackers’ increasingly effective attacks. That’s the main finding from SANS Institute’s “Cloud Security: Defense in...

PHP Security Advent Calendar 2017

The end of the year is coming closer and the cheery advent time begins. We are looking back at a spectacular year and it is time to thank and give back to the great PHP, infosec, and RIPS community. Thank you for developing, auditing, and securing your PHP applications with us in 2017! Similar to...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Building Upon Foundational Cyber Hygiene

Most successful cyber attacks exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or take advantage of weak configuration settings that could have been easily hardened. You can significantly lower the risk of being victimized by this type of common, preventable attack by adopting the...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Slash Risk of Cyber Attacks by 85%

If a CISO needed to cut cyber attack risk by 85%, how would this security chief go about accomplishing that? Would the CISO even know where to begin? It’s safe to say that such a mandate would be considered daunting, and maybe even overwhelming. CISOs are scrambling to protect IT infrastructures...

IRISSCON security conference comes to Dublin in November

It's that time of the year when IRISSCON—the biggest security conference in Ireland, in my humble opinion—springs into life with a great collection of talks and Capture the Flag events. Held on November 23 in Dublin, there will be a strong focus on working in Infosec this year, alongside some of...

The Hacker News Celebrates 7th Anniversary — Big Thanks 🥂 to Our Readers

The Hacker News THN, the widely-read cybersecurity news source for hackers and technologists, is celebrating its 7th Anniversary today. This is a huge milestone for THN and our team, but this day really belongs to you—our readers. Without you, we would not be here, and we appreciate you for...

InfoSec Pros Must Fasten Their Seatbelts for Digital Transformation Ride

The IT industry has gone through multiple revolutions – client-server computing, the Internet’s rise, virtualization, mobility – but none rivals the unprecedented impact of today’s digital transformation. The implications for InfoSec professionals are broad, requiring that they adapt quickly to t...

Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust

Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide! Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a "comprehensive transparency initiative," to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community. Kaspersky launch...

Gartner: The Pursuit of Perfection Weakens InfoSec Effectiveness

While malicious hackers are the obvious enemies of InfoSec pros, there’s something else that puts IT environments in danger: Perfectionism. When applied to security, perfectionism becomes detrimental, creating a false certainty that all bases are covered and yielding a fundamentally flawed approa...

QSC17 Focuses on Digital Transformation’s Challenges and Opportunities

Qualys Security Conference 2017 finds Qualys rapidly advancing in its ongoing quest to seamlessly and transparently thread security into the fabric of IT environments, and to make it essential for digital transformation. At QSC17, happening this week in Las Vegas, Qualys executives will share how...

Search Engine For Hackers: OSINT SPY

Performs OSINT scan on email/domain/ipaddress/organization using OSINT-SPY. It can be used by Data Miners, Infosec Researchers, Penetration Testers and cyber crime investigator in order to find deep information about their target. It includes gathering data from various public sources and their...

SANS Institute: Hackers Paint a Bullseye on Your Employees and Endpoints

End users and their devices are right smack in the center of the battle between enterprise InfoSec teams and malicious hackers, and it’s not hard to see why. When compromised, connected endpoints — desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets — offer intruders major entry points into corporate network...

IBM Patches Reflected XSS in Worklight, MobileFirst

IBM fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in two products last month that could have let an attacker execute malicious JavaScript code in a victim’s browser to steal sensitive information, or user credentials. The vulnerability CVE-2017-1500 lingered in the products, Worklight and MobileFirs...