Verizon has published their 13th annual Data Breach Investigations Report – and it focuses on security incidents and breaches that occurred during 2019. The 2020 DBIR analysed 157,525 incidents, 32,002 in detail and confirmed 3950 breaches in 81 countries. Although the scope is global, half of the incidents in the data come from North AmericaRead more
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A serious vulnerability, dubbed Ghostcat, has been discovered in Apache Tomcat and criminals are already trying to exploit it. Tomcat is one of the most popular Java application servers, with over 800k active installations visible on the web. According to the researchers who discovered the bug at Chaitin Tech: Due to a flaw in theRead more
Microsoft has released a patch to a remote code execution vulnerability in Exchange server which is being actively targeted. CVE-2020-0688 is a flaw in the installation procedure resulting in all Exchange Servers using the same cryptographic keys for ASP.NET ViewState data. A detailed write-up by the Zero Day Initiative demonstrates the flaw in action. In summary:Read more
The CWE top 25 is a list of the most common software defects that give rise to CVE being reported. Mitre, the organisation behind the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database, has scanned some 25,000 CVE reports logged within their database and the NIST National Vulnerability Database in order to compile the list for 2019. ByRead more
Vulnerability scanners are tool that identify mis-configured or flawed devices and systems on your network that could be exploited by attackers in order to gain access to your data and systems. In order to successfully infiltrate access your network, an attacker has two questions they want answered: What software and devices are used on theRead more
Atlassian has released new versions of Jira Server and Jira Data Centre that address a critical vulnerability which has lived in the code for almost 8 years. The vulnerability, CVE-2019-11581 is a server-side template injection vulnerability. According to the security advisory from Atlassian: There was a server-side template injection vulnerability in Jira Server and Data Center,Read more
Software Supply chain attacks – do you know what you are importing? Many websites and applications routinely import additional code modules from external repositories. These could be javascript libraries for a webpage or source code for an application. Two recent incidents illustrate the risks of supply chain attacks against the code of your applications andRead more
Checkpoint research have published an interesting demonstration of hacking a customer account for an EA online game by chaining together a series of conventional attacks including social engineering, phishing and session high-jacking. What makes this demonstration noteworthy is the use of poor DNS hygiene in order to take control of a subdomain of EA.com. ForRead more
Formjacking is a type of cyber attack that can be used by an attacker to steal sensitive information that is entered by website users through forms. Most usually this type of attack targets ecommerce sites to obtain payment card details and personal information that are entered by customers; however, Formjacking attacks can target any website whichRead more
A wave of DNS hijack attacks has been sweeping across Europe, the Middle-East and America according to recently published reports from FireEye and Cisco. While the attacks are creative and sophisticated, the root attack vector is often a simple credential compromise to the DNS control panel of an organisation’s domain name registrar. The scale ofRead more
