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Make sure you keep an eye on your APIs
Application programming interfaces have always been important gateways to our applications, but in recent years, they’ve silently become both more prevalent and more central …
Anomali discovers phishing campaign targeting Chinese government agencies
Anomali, a leader in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions, published at Black Hat USA 2019 its latest research report: Suspected BITTER APT Continues Targeting …
Nmap 7.80 released: A mature Npcap Windows packet capturing driver, 11 new NSE scripts
Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network …
Moving away from spreadsheets: How to automate your third-party risk management process
Spreadsheets are dumb. Okay, it’s not that spreadsheets are dumb, or that the people who use them are dumb. That’s not at all what I’m saying. What’s dumb is using …
Kubernetes security matures: Inside the project’s first audit
Auditing 1.5 million lines of code is a heroic undertaking. With resources provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Kubernetes Project leadership created …
Week in review: SWAPGS attack, DNS security, vulnerable Siemens PLCs, Black Hat USA 2019
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Embracing the cloud and meeting its security demands You might expect …
Vulnerabilities in Siemens’ most secure industrial PLCs can lead to industrial havoc
Critical vulnerabilities in the Siemens S7 Simatic programmable logic controller (PLC) have been discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Tel Aviv University and the …
Security flaw could turn load balancers into beachheads for cyber attacks
Cyber security provider F-Secure is advising organizations using F5 Networks’ BIG-IP load balancer, which is popular amongst governments, banks, and other large corporations, …
August 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Expect updates from Adobe, stay current on other updates
Microsoft released details on August 6 regarding another variant of the Spectre Variant 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125). The vulnerability …
Six critical areas to focus on when integrating DevSecOps into an organization
The omnipresence of consumer electronics and computer power, alongside modern trends (i.e., DevOps, microservices, and open source) that accelerate deployment cycles continue …
Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2019, part two
Black Hat USA 2019 is underway in Las Vegas. Here are a few photos from the Business Hall and the Arsenal. Featured companies: Bugcrowd, Sumo Logic, Devo Technology, Akamai, …
Attackers’ growing use of anti-analysis, evasion tactics pose a challenge to enterprises
Cybercriminals continue to look for new attack opportunities throughout the digital attack surface and are leveraging evasion as well as anti-analysis techniques as they …
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