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Webinar - Mastering API Security: Understanding Your True Attack Surface
Believe it or not, your attack surface is expanding faster than you realize. How? APIs, of course! More formally known as application programming interfaces, API calls are growing twice as fast as HTML traffic, making APIs an ideal candidate for new security solutions aimed at protecting customer...
How to Improve Your API Security Posture
APIs, more formally known as application programming interfaces, empower apps and microservices to communicate and share data. However, this level of connectivity doesn't come without major risks. Hackers can exploit vulnerabilities in APIs to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data or even ta...
Wiz for CSPM: A modern approach to cloud security
Reduce noise of traditional CSPM tools with context-based deep risk assessment, enabling you to prioritize the misconfigurations that put your environment at critical risk...
Kubestroyer - Kubernetes Exploitation Tool
Kubestroyer Kubestroyer aims to exploit Kubernetes clusters misconfigurations and be the swiss army knife of your Kubernetes pentests About The Project Kubestroyer is a Golang exploitation tool that aims to take advantage of Kubernetes clusters misconfigurations. The tool is scanning known...
Legion Malware Upgraded to Target SSH Servers and AWS Credentials
An updated version of the commodity malware called Legion comes with expanded features to compromise SSH servers and Amazon Web Services AWS credentials associated with DynamoDB and CloudWatch. "This recent update demonstrates a widening of scope, with new capabilities such the ability to...
The vulnerability of the Azure Service Connector allows attackers to circumvent existing security restrictions and enhance their privileges.
The vulnerability of the Azure Service Connector relates to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass existing security restrictions and gain increased privileges...
Packagist Repository Hacked: Over a Dozen PHP Packages with 500 Million Installs Compromised
PHP software package repository Packagist revealed that an "attacker" gained access to four inactive accounts on the platform to hijack over a dozen packages with over 500 million installs to date. "The attacker forked each of the packages and replaced the package description in composer.json wit...
Modernizing Vulnerability Management: The Move Toward Exposure Management
Managing vulnerabilities in the constantly evolving technological landscape is a difficult task. Although vulnerabilities emerge regularly, not all vulnerabilities present the same level of risk. Traditional metrics such as CVSS score or the number of vulnerabilities are insufficient for effectiv...
Risk Fact #4: Misconfigurations Still Prevalent in Web Applications
Qualys Blog Series – Threat Research Unit Report The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP Top 10 is a list of the most common and most critical vulnerabilities that can impact a web application. Security experts rely on the OWASP Top 10 when talking about web app security. The list helps...
Detect critical application misconfiguration risks
Some application misconfigurations are equivalent to remote code execution or information disclosure vulnerabilities, but often go unnoticed. Wiz’s agentless capabilities detect these and correlate them to attack surface and business impact risks, highlighting the most critical misconfigurations...
3 Steps for Ramping Up to Fully Automated Remediation
The number one threat to cloud security is misconfiguration of resources, and frankly, it's not hard to understand why. The cloud is getting bigger, more tangled, and flat-out more unmanageable by the day. In modern Amazon Web Services AWS environments, there are typically millions of resources...
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Management Port Exposure Confusion
Prior to March 9, 2023, Microsoft Defender for Cloud incorrectly marked some Azure virtual machines as having secured management ports including SSH port 22/TCP, RDP port 3389/TCP and WINRM port 5985/TCP, when in fact one or more of these ports were exposed to the internet. This occured when the...
2023 Browser Security Report Uncovers Major Browsing Risks and Blind Spots
As a primary working interface, the browser plays a significant role in today's corporate environment. The browser is constantly used by employees to access websites, SaaS applications and internal applications, from both managed and unmanaged devices. A new report published by LayerX, a browser...
How to Tackle the Top SaaS Challenges of 2023
Are you prepared to tackle the top SaaS challenges of 2023? With high-profile data breaches affecting major companies like Nissan and Slack, it's clear that SaaS apps are a prime target for cyberattacks. The vast amounts of valuable information stored in these apps make them a goldmine for hacker...
K70084351: Apache HTTPD vulnerability CVE-2017-9798
Security Advisory Description Apache httpd allows remote attackers to read secret data from process memory if the Limit directive can be set in a user's .htaccess file, or if httpd.conf has certain misconfigurations, aka Optionsbleed. This affects the Apache HTTP Server through 2.2.34 and 2.4.x...
Microsoft shifts to a comprehensive SaaS security solution
Software as a service SaaS apps are ubiquitous, hybrid work is the new normal, and protecting them and the important data they store is a big challenge for organizations. Today, 59 percent of security professionals find the SaaS sprawl challenging to manage1 and have identified cloud...
Streamlining OS and Application Hardening: Revealing Misconfigurations with Wiz’s Agentless Custom Host Configuration Rules
Shell commands that once had to be run manually now can be coded into a custom rule and run daily using Wiz agentless workload scanning...
Unpatched Systems Vulnerable to Spoofed Linked Certificates in KDC
Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Windows Server provides Public Key Infrastructure PKI technology to enable capabilities such as Encrypting File System EFS, domain authentication, digital signatures, and email security. Misconfiguration...
PowerHuntShares - Audit Script Designed In Inventory, Analyze, And Report Excessive Privileges Configured On Active Directory Domains
PowerHuntShares is design to automatically inventory, analyze, and report excessive privilege assigned to SMB shares on Active Directory domain joined computers. It is intented to help IAM and other blue teams gain a better understand of their SMB Share attack surface and provides data insights t...
Kinsing Crypto Malware Hits Kubernetes Clusters via Misconfigured PostgreSQL
The threat actors behind the Kinsing cryptojacking operation have been spotted exploiting misconfigured and exposed PostgreSQL servers to obtain initial access to Kubernetes environments. A second initial access vector technique entails the use of vulnerable images, Sunders Bruskin, security...