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Cyberattack Incidents at Financial Services Companies Like payment processors, financial services companies are private companies that serve the financial sector by providing data processing for banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions. They can perform loan analyses, credit ratings, check printing, data storage, or analytics. Basically, they provide any outsourced service except payment processing (the…
Read MoreApply appropriate updates provided by WordPress to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing. (M1051: Update Software) Safeguard 7.1 : Establish and Maintain a Vulnerability Management Process: Establish and maintain a documented vulnerability management process for enterprise assets. Review and update documentation annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard. Safeguard 7.2:…
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Microsoft addresses 59 CVEs in its March 2024 Patch Tuesday release with no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Microsoft patched 59 CVEs in its March 2024 Patch Tuesday release, with 2 rated critical and 57 rated as important. Elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities accounted for 40.7% of the vulnerabilities patched this month, followed by Remote…
Read MoreThe sector with the largest single attack in 2021, however, was ISP/Hosting, which saw attacks peak at 1.4 Tbps. Where DDoS Attacks Come From Denial-of-service attacks are most frequently launched from compromised servers or consumer devices, such as Internet-of-Thing (IoT) products and broadband routers. In producing this report, we made use of data not only…
Read MoreAre cybersecurity budgets increasing or decreasing? In December 2019, experts were predicting 2020 would see a modest 8.7% growth in cybersecurity spending. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it comes as no surprise that security budgets instead are being slashed, prompting Gartner to revise its estimate to 2.4% growth in spending. Are they right? Let’s look…
Read MoreAttackers are always on the lookout to compromise digital identities. A successful account takeover allows a cybercriminal to impersonate a genuine user for monetization purposes. Enterprises large and small have utilized various means to secure someone’s digital identity, and credentials are the starting point. F5 Labs 2021 Credential Stuffing Report indicates that 1.8 billion credential…
Read MoreAPIs Power Applications—and Pose Security Challenges Application programming interfaces (APIs) form the chassis for modern applications. They are interfaces to software components that developers use to integrate valuable information into their applications (like Google Maps in a rideshare app or YouTube videos into a webpage) and they are everywhere—even in security products. APIs are key…
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Fortinet warns of a critical SQL Injection vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable FortiClientEMS software. Update March 21: The Analysis section has been updated to include confirmation by Fortinet that in-the-wild exploitation of this flaw has been observed. View Change Log Background On March 12, Fortinet published an…
Read MoreAugust Port Scan Data F5 Labs also analyzes data for TCP ports other than 80 and 443 from the Efflux network. The top 10 ports for August 2022 follow patterns we’ve been seeing for years, with port 5900 (VNC) topping the list, followed by a collection of ports used mainly for remote access (ssh, telnet,…
Read MoreIf we think about vulnerabilities in this way, as a matter of action signaling, then malicious actors are, in their own malicious way, members of our audience. Applications are engineered to function, but they are designed to signal. The specific ways we design apps tell our audience how we expect them to act. When we…
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