A recent court case underlines the importance of good operational security procedures to manage employee and contractor exits to ensure all their access is revoked. A man has been sentenced to two years after deleting 456 virtual machines from Cisco’s infrastructure – 4 months after resigning from the firm. As a result of the malicious […]
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SolarWinds provides tools used by security and network managers in many of the largest businesses and governments in the world. Since March 2020 hackers inserted their own code into SolarWinds Orion software which was downloaded by some 18,000 customers – providing a backdoor into those customers’ networks. SolarWinds Orion is a network health and performance
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File Integrity Monitoring systems generate alerts when intruders make unexpected changes to the files on your servers – either by changing existing files or creating new ones. Robust cybersecurity can be most effectively achieved by adopting a ‘defence in depth’ approach. This means deploying several layers of protection, using different technologies so that the overlapping
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According to a new report, 68% of organisations that suffered a network breach are the victim of a repeat attack within a year. Cyber-criminals assume that organisation will not learn a lesson from the first attack and return in the hope of easy pickings the second time around. The report from cybersecurity response firm Crowdstrike
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SAD DNS is a protocol level vulnerability in the DNS system. Microsoft has published a new security advisory which offers a mitigation to protect your DNS systems from spoofing or poisoning. If an attacker is able to successfully exploit the SAD DNS vulnerability (CVE-2020-25705), it will be possible to spoof a DNS packet which is
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A vulnerability in the Drupal web content management system can be exploited to allow arbitrary code execution, affecting almost a million websites. A security advisory from Drupal describes how this critical vulnerability can be exploited to perform arbitrary execution of PHP code. Security patches are available for Drupal versions 7, 8 and 9. The problem
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Oracle patched a vulnerability in their WebLogic server in October 2020 – eight days later working exploit code was published online and now it is being used by criminals. CVE-2020-14882 allows an attacker to perform a Remote Code Execution attack with minimal effort or skill required. Juniper Networks security researchers reports at least five different
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