Top SaaS Cybersecurity Threats in 2023: Are You Ready?

Cybercriminals will be as busy as ever this year. Stay safe and protect your systems and data by focusing on these 4 key areas to secure your environment and ensure success in 2023, and make sure your business is only in the headlines when you WANT it to be. 1 — Web application weaknesses Web...

Secret-based cloud supply-chain attacks: Case study and lessons for security teams

CI/CD pipelines, as an essential part of the software development process, are an attractive target to malicious actors. Based on our research of cloud environments, we share common misconfigurations and provide tips on how to remediate them in order to prevent supply-chain attacks...

Top 4 SaaS Security Threats for 2023

With 2022 coming to a close, there is no better time to buckle down and prepare to face the security challenges in the year to come. This past year has seen its fair share of breaches, attacks, and leaks, forcing organizations to scramble to protect their SaaS stacks. March alone saw three...

Legitify - Detect And Remediate Misconfigurations And Security Risks Across All Your GitHub Assets

Strengthen the security posture of your GitHub organization! Detect and remediate misconfigurations, security and compliance issues across all your GitHub assets with ease Installation 1. You can download the latest legitify release from https://github.com/Legit-Labs/legitify/releases, each archi...

Wiz introduces agentless solution for detecting host and application misconfigurations

Wiz extends its risk assessment to support host and application level misconfigurations, enabling customers to ensure security and compliance posture for applications...

Misconfigurations of Cloud-Managed Infrastructures Continue to be a Major Challenge to Data Security

In case you missed the memo, cloud-hosted data is here to stay. Recent data shows spending on cloud services reached a total of $178 billion in 2021, a 37 percent increase over the $130 billion spent in 2020 and twice the amount enterprises are spending on their data centers. As more organization...

The vulnerability of the Mark of the Web operating system mechanism, which allows a hacker to circumvent existing security restrictions

The vulnerability of the Mark of the Web operating system mechanism is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass existing security restrictions remotely...

QSC 2022: Qualys’ Threat Research Unit (TRU) – Our Shield Is Your Shield

Day two of QSC profiled the special launch of the Qualys Threat Research Unit, TRU. Taking the audience through a madcap tour of what the threat research unit is doing to provide intelligence and actionable insights into its census was Travis Smith, VP of Qualys Threat Research Unit. He dove deep...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 3, 2022): Mastodon, evolution, and LiveJournal oh my!

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Im fascinated by how things live and die on the internet. Things that are ubiquitous to our daily lives are simply gone the next. LiveJournal and Myspace we hardly knew you. Elon Musks purchase of Twitter and the subsequent exodus led...

Default credentials

Fedora CoreOS supports setting a GRUB bootloader password using a Butane config. When this feature is enabled, GRUB requires a password to access the GRUB command-line, modify kernel command-line arguments, or boot non-default OSTree deployments. Recent Fedora CoreOS releases have a...

Why Identity & Access Management Governance is a Core Part of Your SaaS Security

Every SaaS app user and login is a potential threat; whether it's bad actors or potential disgruntled former associates, identity management and access control is crucial to prevent unwanted or mistaken entrances to the organization's data and systems. Since enterprises have thousands to tens of...

Microsoft Security tips for mitigating risk in mergers and acquisitions

Sixty-two percent of organizations that undertake mergers and acquisitions face significant cybersecurity risks or consider cyber risks their biggest concern post-acquisition.1 Threat actors that focus on corporate espionage often target the acquiring company, which we will refer to as the Parent...

How Imperva Mitigates Security Threats in Oracle Cloud Infrastructures

Most organizations today rely on an unprecedented number of computing resources to build, deploy and scale the workflows and applications they need to succeed. They are responsible for more data than ever before, on-premises and in the cloud, which presents them with challenges they’ve never face...

Common Cloud-Native Security Misconfigurations & Fixes

Cloud configuration errors are a major concern for modern DevOps teams, introducing a new attack surface with numerous potential points of vulnerability. Read on to discover some of the most common errors and learn how to resolve them...

Improve your security posture with Wazuh, a free and open source XDR

Organizations struggle to find ways to keep a good security posture. This is because it is difficult to create secure system policies and find the right tools that help achieve a good posture. In many cases, organizations work with tools that do not integrate with each other and are expensive to...

SaaS Eliminates Barriers to Applying Security Controls to Your Entire AWS and Azure Data Repository

Businesses today widely regard data as “the new oil,” the most valuable resource on earth. At the same time, we are in the midst of the most dynamic IT landscape in history which is increasing the risk to this most valuable asset. Organizations, without sufficiently skilled staff to effectively...

Microsoft Teams' GIFShell Attack: What Is It and How You Can Protect Yourself from It

Organizations and security teams work to protect themselves from any vulnerability, and often don't realize that risk is also brought on by configurations in their SaaS apps that have not been hardened. The newly published GIFShell attack method, which occurs through Microsoft Teams, is a perfect...

PT-2022-4910 · Talos · Talos

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Talos versions prior to 1.2.2 Description: The issue is related to improper validation of the request while signing a worker node CSR, which might allow a Talos control plane node to issue a Talos API certificate with full access to the Talos...

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to bypass the secure boot mechanism and gain increased privileges.

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to bypass secure boot mechanisms and increase their privileges...

Vulnerabilities are Beyond What You Think

A software vulnerability is a weakness in an operating system or application that can be exploited by an attacker to invade an IT network. When publicly disclosed, these software vulnerabilities are usually assigned a CVE identifier. CVE is a popular term when referring to a vulnerability, and 50...