Evolution Cyber Intelligence

This is a book written by indoushka that covers the evolution of cyber intelligence from historical methodologies to modern day attacks. Written in Arabic...

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges

Stablecoins, with a capitalization exceeding 200 billion USD as of January 2025, have shown significant growth, with annual transaction volumes exceeding 10 trillion dollars in 2023 and nearly doubling that figure in 2024. This exceptional success has attracted the attention of traditional...

Manipulation Attacks by Misaligned AI: Risk Analysis and Safety Case Framework

Frontier AI systems are rapidly advancing in their capabilities to persuade, deceive, and influence human behaviour, with current models already demonstrating human-level persuasion and strategic deception in specific contexts. Humans are often the weakest link in cybersecurity systems, and a...

Real Performance Improvements 2025

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Schneider Electric PowerLogic ION7400 / PM8000 / ION8650 / ION8800 / ION9000 Power Meters

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: PowerLogic ION7400 / PM8000 / ION8650 / ION8800 / ION9000 Vulnerability: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this...

The 2021 OWASP Top 10 Have Evolved: Here's What You Should Know

Late last week, the Open Web Application Security Project OWASP released its top 10 list of critical web application security risks. The last OWASP Top 10 came out in 2017, and in the intervening 4 years, we've seen a fundamental shift in application security that includes greater emphasis on...

SimuLand: Understand adversary tradecraft and improve detection strategies

At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with customers and the InfoSec community to learn more about the latest adversary tradecraft so that we can improve our detection strategies across all our security services. Even though those detections are already built into our products, and protecting...

Interview with a bug bounty hunter: Youssef Sammouda

Behind the scenes there are many people working in cyber-security that make the internet a safer place. Youssef Sammouda is one of these people. He has submitted at least a hundred reports to Facebook which have been resolved, making Facebook a safer platform along the way. Generally speaking,...

Attack vs. Data: What You Need to Know About Threat Hunting

Mitigate threats by going on the offensive While the definition of threat hunting may be straightforward—proactively hunting for threats—the reality of implementing a threat-hunting program is a bit more complicated, as there are different threat-hunting methodologies to choose from. In order to...

Coalfire and HITRUST – 9 years, 1,000 engagements and counting

Since 2007, HITRUST® has offered programs that protect sensitive information and allow organizations to manage information risk globally across all industries and throughout the supply chain. In collaboration with information security, privacy, and risk management leaders from public and private...

IntruderPayloads

A collection of Burpsuite Intruder payloads, BurpBounty payloads, fuzz lists, malicious file uploads and web pentesting methodologies and checklists...

Barracuda and Microsoft: Securing applications in public cloud

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association guest blog series. To learn more about MISA, go here. Barracuda Cloud Application Protection CAP platform features integrations with Microsoft Azure Active Directory Azure AD and Azure Security Center. A component of CAP,...

New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 1

I'm very pleased to announce that I've published a new book! It's The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 1: Milestones, Philosophy and Strategy, Risk, and Advice. It's available now in the Kindle Store, and if you're a member of Kindle Unlimited, it's currently free. I may also publish a print...

Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity

Kathryn Waldron at R Street has collected all of the different resources and methodologies for measuring cybersecurity...

How to Solve the Developer vs. Cybersecurity Team Battle

There is an ongoing tension between developers and security teams in many organizations. On one hand, developers face mounting pressure to build rich, feature-driven applications on nearly impossible timelines to remain competitive. On the other hand, security teams face rising pressures of their...

XSS Hunter – A Modern Approach to Testing for Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-site Scripting XSS origins go arguably back to a lab in Microsoft in 1999. With the first disclosure of the issue titled “ Malicious HTML Tags Embedded in Client Web Requests “, this research sparked an entire generation of an attack that somehow still seems to persist in modern web...

Threat Modeling, Legos and Dancing Babies

SAN FRANCISCO–The concept of threat modeling has evolved quite a lot in the last few years, moving from an activity that massive software companies such as Microsoft and Google use to anticipate and defend against potential threats to their products to something that many smaller organizations...

A Proven Strategy for Implementing Vendor Management Programs

Every regulated industry includes a requirement for managing third-party risk. Some industries are further along the path and have more mature processes than others. However, there are tried and true methodologies and standards established by those early movers that we can utilize across other...

[Dradis Pro v1.7] Framework to enable effective information sharing

Dradis Pro is framework to enable effective information sharing, specially during security assessments. Dradis is a self-contained web application that provides a centralised repository of information to keep track of what has been done so far, and what is still ahead. Changelog v1.7 This is the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.0 update

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.3.0 roll up patch 2, which fixes one security issue and various bugs, is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...