Intro F5 Labs security experts spent a year researching application security. With the increasingly essential role of applications, one major question arises: If organizations don’t understand all the ways attackers can compromise their applications and exploit their data, how can they possibly defend their most critical assets? Join threat researchers Sara Boddy and Ray Pompon…
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Regardless of the organizational structure, CISOs will need to work with facilities, CSOs and anyone else in charge of physical security to plan out measures that take the following crucial physical security considerations into account. Top 10 physical security considerations Hardening IT facilities and data centers Day-to-day office facility concerns Blocking lateral movement in physical…
Read MoreIn 2018 we published our first Application Protection Report, which summarized trends and attack patterns for 2017 across multiple disciplines of information security and offered a big picture strategy for controlling application risk. We created that report in order to provide three things that we felt the security industry needs: a specific focus on application…
Read MoreTo both understand and keep pace with evolving cybercriminal mindsets, many businesses are fighting fire with fire – in other words hiring hackers for help. In fact, large corporations such as Airbnb, PayPal and Spotify, recently revealed that they have willingly spent over £38M on ethical hackers to tighten their cyber defences and avoid crippling…
Read MoreCryptominers are frequently included in recent attack campaigns; if you would like to learn more about cryptominers, please check out some of our previous monthly attack campaign wrap-ups. Conclusion Campaigns aimed at mining cryptocurrency and targeting Oracle WebLogic continue to rise in popularity. This has been fueled in part by the zero-day vulnerability found in…
Read MorePoor security is another clue that young novices are operating botnets. The Owari authors left their command and control (C&C) MySQL database wide open (port 3306), “protected” with both the username and password of “root.” Control of IoT devices is a highly competitive market, where rivals commonly DDoS each other. In one case, a competing…
Read MoreAs the Chief Information Security Officer at F5, it is my pleasure to welcome you to F5 Labs’ CISO to CISO section. This is an arena for frank and transparent discussions on all aspects of running an information security program. We’ll discuss topics like technical guidance on mitigating specific risks, as well as broader perspectives…
Read MoreIn-App Testing Since the HSTS and HPKP protocols allow for genuine interception of SSL by trusted certificates, nothing can be done to warn end users that their communications are being intercepted. For those that need to inform their users of interception, in-app testing could be considered. By performing an additional SSL/TLS handshake, using Javascript within…
Read MoreConclusion Campaigns aimed at mining cryptocurrency and targeting Oracle WebLogic are clearly on the rise, and F5 researchers anticipate this trend to continue. This has been fueled partly by the zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-2725)found in April 2019. Oracle WebLogic is used widely by large corporations, and the servers are resource-intensive. This attracts threat actors looking to…
Read MoreThen there are the technical questions that need to be answered. What data will be captured, shared, and processed? What mobile platforms will the app run on? What server-side platforms will it need to talk to? Internal platforms? Third-party services? You also need to dig into the questions of expectations and dependencies. How important will…
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