Building Confidence in Cyber Essentials Compliance with Qualys Policy Audit

In an era where cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, sophisticated, and damaging, organizations in the UK and around the world are under increasing pressure to adopt effective cybersecurity measures. Threats such as phishing, ransomware, data breaches, and supply chain compromises now target...

Adversaries are leveraging remote access tools now more than ever — here’s how to stop them

Remote system management/desktop access tools such as AnyDesk and TeamViewer have grown in popularity since 2020. While there are many legitimate uses for this software, adversaries are also finding ways to use them for command and control in their campaigns. There is no easy way to effectively...

MFA Spamming and Fatigue: When Security Measures Go Wrong

In today's digital landscape, traditional password-only authentication systems have proven to be vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. To safeguard critical business resources, organizations are increasingly turning to multi-factor authentication MFA as a more robust security measure. MFA...

CVE-2021-3655

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in versions prior to v5.14-rc1. Missing size validations on inbound SCTP packets may allow the kernel to read uninitialized memory. Recent assessments: fevar54 at August 08, 2021 4:18pm UTC reported: Considere la posibilidad de implementar planes de...

DNS Rebinding Attack Framework: Singularity

Singularity of Origin is a tool to perform DNS rebinding attacks. It includes the necessary components to rebind the IP address of the attack server DNS name to the target machine’s IP address and to serve attack payloads to exploit vulnerable software on the target machine. It also ships with...

Want to bolster your security program? Keep users from making decisions.

How many times have you witnessed security problems caused by a user making bad decisions? I'd venture to guess at least a few dozen if not hundreds. We've all seen where the perfect storm forms through weaknesses in technical controls, user training, and - most often - common sense and the outco...

Q&A: Bob Maley on Designing and Implementing a State-wide Security Program

Dennis Fisher: Welcome to the Digital Underground podcast. This is the first episode in what’s going to be a series of podcasts with CSOs from states around the country. We’re going to be discussing the unique challenges of running an InfoSec program in the public sector and what lessons enterpri...