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Single points of failure are the bane of engineering, and engineers put great effort into eliminating them from the systems they design. Increasingly, however, companies are handing over large amounts of their IT infrastructure and application portfolios to third-party providers. This reveals an interesting form of the single point of failure. If an organization uses…
Read MoreUsing Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware Interesting social-engineering attack vector: McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the “C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS,” known as vcpkg. The attacker is exploiting a property of GitHub: comments to a…
Read MoreTo find the correct password, attackers must check word after word until they find one which outputs the same hash value as the one they have stolen. While this sounds tedious, password cracking tool, such as Hashcat, are capable of calculating billions of hashes per second on a single computer. Renting cloud computing services allows…
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Apr 22, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Endpoint Security The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed using a wide range of tools to retain access to compromised environments and steal valuable data. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky characterized the adversary as relying on various programs to harvest data on an “industrial scale” from primarily governmental organizations,…
Read MoreThe 2021 Application Protection report notes that ransomware was a factor in roughly 30 percent of U.S. breaches in 2020. Looking at the breach analyses, we found some of the most important controls were user account management, network segmentation, and data backup. We realize that implementing these controls can be difficult, so this article goes…
Read MoreBanking has undergone some huge transformations over the last decade as it becomes more embedded in consumers’ everyday lives. In the last year alone, technology adoption in banking has accelerated at an unprecedented rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A testament to this India, where digital payments over the unified payment interface (UPI) increased from…
Read MoreYou also need to restrict administrative access at the application level. This can mean that only certain individuals have administrative privileges in the app, or it can mean that administrators can only access the control surfaces from specific subnets. Data sources for the application, whether internal or external, need to be treated to the same…
Read MoreF5’s executive leadership got an urgent message: a malicious actor within the company was sending confidential information to a third party that could put customers at serious risk. We immediately formed a combined response team of technical cybersecurity experts, executives, and business process stakeholders. Working together, we began to gather information about the nature and…
Read MoreFraud has become a pervasive part of the discussion around cybersecurity. In part, this reflects a change in attacker motives, as cyber-attacks were not always as vicious as they are now. From the 1980s into the early 2000s, hacking was not really about profit. It was primarily about achieving fame in the hacker community by…
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Modern software has completely transformed the way organizations operate and compete in the market. With the increasing demand for secure and reliable software delivered at scale, the pressure to meet time-to-market deadlines has never been greater. To manage software risk and also increase development velocity and agility, organizations are deploying more and more security tools…
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