Command with Confidence: Insights from Andrew Bustamante

At the recent Take Command Summit, former CIA intelligence officer and US Air Force combat veteran Andrew Bustamante shared valuable tools, tactics, and techniques from elite intelligence agencies with Rapid7’s Americas Field CTO Jeffrey Gardner in an informal chat. His session, "Command with...

Improving Apache httpd Protections Proactively with Orange Tsai of DEVCORE

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Key Takeaways From The Take Command Summit: Command Your Cloud

The Cloud security landscape is constantly changing. During the "Command Your Cloud" session at the Rapid7 Take Command Summit, industry experts Ryan Blanchard, Jeffrey Gardner and Devin Krugly shared vital strategies for staying ahead of that constant change. Effective cloud security requires a...

Kaminari Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

A moderate severity security vulnerability has been identified in the Kaminari pagination library for Ruby on Rails, concerning insecure file permissions. This advisory outlines the vulnerability, affected versions, and provides guidance for mitigation. Impact This vulnerability is of moderate...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration

Welcome to the 9th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API8:2023 Security Misconfiguration. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and...

Survey Provides Takeaways for Security Pros to Operationalize their Remediation Life Cycle

Ask any security professional and they'll tell you that remediating risks from various siloed security scanning tools requires a tedious and labor-intensive series of steps focused on deduplication, prioritization, and routing of issues to an appropriate "fixer" somewhere in the organization. Thi...

Western Digital confirms breach, affects My Cloud and SanDisk users

Western Digital, a big brand in digital storage, says it has suffered a "network security incident--potentially ransomware--which resulted in a breach and some system disruptions in its business operations. The company identified the incident on March 26 and said an unnamed third party unlawfully...

Workshop: Building Modern Applications with DevOps Security

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to leverage DevOps Security with your serverless applications running on AWS Lambda or containerized applications running on AWS Fargate. Learn how to make cloud security more efficient, proactive, and gain visibility...

Breaking Down Joe Biden's $10B Cybersecurity 'Down Payment'

President Joe Biden laid out a series of cybersecurity initiatives last week at his inauguration, including earmarking $10 billion for various cybersecurity defense initiatives. Those included hiring key security personnel to support for the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. The...

A week in security (March 30 – April 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered readers tips for safe online shopping now that cybercriminals are ramping up Internet-based attacks, showed the impact that GDPR has around the world, and helped users understand how social media platforms mine their personal data. We also hosted our...

Threat Analysis: CVE-2020-0796 – EternalDarkness (ghostSMB)

On March 10, 2020 analysis of a SMB vulnerability was inadvertently shared, under the assumption that Microsoft was releasing a patch for that vulnerability CVE-2020-0796. As of March 12, Microsoft has since released a patch for CVE-2020-0796, which is a vulnerability specifically affecting SMB3...

Why Rust for safe systems programming

In this series, we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represen...

Why Rust for safe systems programming

In this series, we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represen...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID23502: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 17, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 46730 First Published: 2016 June 17 14:43 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID23502 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

What is Threat Intelligence and How It Helps to Identify Security Threats

Simply put, threat intelligence is knowledge that helps you identify security threats and make informed decisions. Threat intelligence can help you solve the following problems: How do I keep up to date on the overwhelming amount of information on security threats…including bad actors, methods,...

LastPass Forces Users to Change Master Passwords Following Suspicious Activity

LastPass, one of the most popular cloud-based password management services, is forcing users to change their master passwords as a precaution after it discovered an unauthorized data transfer out of its network. In a post on its blog the company explains, in sufficient detail, what prompted this...