The public servants and educators that keep state and local governments and higher education institutions running stand at the nexus of change. They’re tasked with providing citizens with new services that account for rapid changes in the tech landscape and societal processes, while maintaining the same rock-solid dependability, security, and safety that people have expected of governing bodies for generations.
While the attack needed for such a single-click account takeover would be complex, the research by Frans Rosén, Security Advisor at Detectify, discovered that some of the most popular consumer and business websites in the world currently are not following the OAuth specification best practices and thus are vulnerable to the attack chain. Rosén recently undertook extensive research on how OAuth tokens could be stolen.
Are your trade secrets safe against corporate spies? These examples of corporate espionage highlight the great lengths that foreign governments and competing companies will go to to maintain an advantage over their competitors. If you like this article be certain to check out our article on the Worst Examples of Data Theft by Employees. Table of Contents.
The necessity of a SIEM for organizations and their security teams has evolved dramatically over time. It has gone from edge use cases and compliance to the current form of threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting. As the use cases have changed, so has the architecture. As a result, organizations that have been quite familiar with running their SIEM on-premises are now looking for modern architectures to reduce the workload on their analysts. The simple choice: SaaS, of course.
Webhooks are one of the best ways to transfer information about occasional events from one system to another. In contrast to methods like HTTP polling — which involves the client repeatedly asking for information from the server — webhooks are triggered by events. This makes them simple and effective. A client can subscribe to a webhook to send a message to an endpoint whenever a specific event happens.
The new PCI DSS Standard, version 4.0, contains all the steps, best practices, and explanations required for full compliance. In fact, even an organization that does not process cardholder data could follow the PCI Standard to implement a robust cybersecurity program for any of its important data.
Elaine Feeney is a member of the Netskope Network Visionaries advisory group. For any business, speed matters a lot. Speed of service is key to happy customers because any delays that users experience directly impact the success of the organization. Security processing that causes delays for the customers or employees has negative business impacts. Now more than ever, security controls have become a board-level priority due to elevating risks.
CI/CD pipeline attacks are a growing threat to enterprise security. In this article, we’ll provide an overview of CI/CD for non-developers, discuss the cybersecurity issues involved, and offer some recommendations for developers, companies, and security teams.
In the OT space it is increasingly common to see devices that are used to bridge the gap between the world of PLCs and IP based networks. These types of devices are commonly referred to as ‘smart-devices’. While smart-devices offer the convenience of remote management, this functionality also may create potential weaknesses exploitable by threat actors as well, and practical exploitation of such flaws is being witnessed in the wild.
