A web developer’s ultimate goal is to not only develop a website or an app that is aesthetically and functionally stunning but highly secure as well. Cybersecurity is inevitable and no end-user would want to have an app that could breach or compromise their data security and integrity (no matter how useful the app is). With hackers and middlemen working on creative ways to explore vulnerabilities, it is on developers like us to take charge and be a step ahead of them.

First observed in 2019 and advertised (Figure 1) as a 'Malware-as-a-Service' (MaaS) threat on various cybercriminal forums, Raccoon is an information stealer targeting victim credentials and cryptocurrency wallets. Seemingly favored by some threat actors due to its simplicity, the malware element of Raccoon omits advanced features, such as those used to evade detection, and instead focuses on the 'stealer' task in hand.

As more businesses collect and share customer personal data for their digital economy, it has significantly influenced data privacy in today’s digital age. Data is the most critical asset to both businesses and customers/users. Businesses must ensure the confidentiality and integrity of users’ data and impose strict control over personal data collection and processing.

Best practices for securing an AWS environment have been well-documented and generally accepted, such as AWS’s guidance. However, organizations may still find it challenging on how to begin applying this guidance to their specific environments. In this blog series, we’ll analyze anonymized data from Netskope customers that include security settings of 650,000 entities from 1,143 AWS accounts across several hundred organizations.

Digital transformation is creating unpredictable mutations across the attack surface. As a result, some third-party risks have outgrown the discovery mechanisms offered by the hundreds of standard security frameworks currently available. To cater to these growing use cases, UpGuard has introduced custom questionnaires to its industry-leading third-party risk management platform. Custom questionnaires are vendor security questionnaires that you can design yourself.

On May 8th, I was at a gas station filling up my car before a trip I was taking when the news about a cyberattack against a large pipeline company broke. The attack led them to halt all operations. Ultimately, the incident stemmed from a ransomware infection in which a well-known threat actor took volumes of corporate data in just two hours and made their demands including the threat to block and encrypt the company’s network. They even threatened to release the data to the internet.

Hotels across the globe have been subject to massive data breaches and widespread loyalty fraud over recent years. Competitive bookings have become a prime target for cybercriminals who take advantage of look-to-book ratios and the vast amounts of data held by hotel chains to execute loyalty program abuse. But as severe travel restrictions came into play and bookings ground to a halt, hotels became almost redundant for 12 months of the pandemic.

The great Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights once said, “If you ain’t first, you’re last.” Whether we’re talking about a NASCAR race or responding to a security alert, being able to quickly discover attacks and adversaries and respond rapidly is critically important to reducing risks and managing threats to your organization. How do we suggest you do that? With a SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation & Response) tool.

2020 is the year that remote working exploded. Businesses and the general public had to quickly adapt to new ways of working caused by the pandemic. There was suddenly a heightened awareness of cyber security and its importance. The need for further education on cyber security highlights the important work Sentrium carries out every day. Sentrium’s commitment and passion for providing best-practice cyber security support helps businesses to gain assurance in the security of their assets.

While the world is still more familiar with physical IDs (which may then be linked to online government records), it continues to be inadequate today, as they can be easily manipulated or purchased illegally. IDENTITY –still on a piece of paper? This needs another thought, in a world where hard copies are going obsolete. Hence, governments of different countries have taken up new projects to build a 100% secure and digitized identity by levelling up their existing systems.