While major, multi-million dollar man-in-the-middle attacks have remained under the radar in recent months, spear phishing and social engineering attacks are on the rise as fraudsters continue to take advantage of the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19.
Warcarting, war dialing, wartoothing, wardriving, wartransit… Also known as NetStumbling or WILDing, WarXing is a search of Wi-Fi networks. Keep reading to learn more! In our hyper connected world, an active and stable internet connection is akin to oxygen. Our smartphones, tablets, computers and even smart watches need internet connection to fulfil the entirety of their functions.
This issue has been compounded in recent months due to the impact of COVID-19 on IT and security spending. Research by Gartner suggests that worldwide expenditure on information security and risk management technology and services is due to increase by only 2.4% in 2020 – significantly less than the 8.7% growth originally anticipated. To be effective, cyber security requires not only technology but the skilled security experts and threat intelligence to leverage it.
Open source components are a major part of the software products we create and use. Along with the many advantages that using open source projects brings to software development organizations, it also comes with obligations and added responsibilities. One of these requirements is open source licensing compliance.
Designing software is tough. Whether you’re a designer, a product manager, or an engineer, we all play a major role in what the end user gets their hands on. Perhaps one of the most critical pieces on the journey to making great software is the relationship between designers and developers. When software is done right, it’s easy, intuitive, and a joy to use. This is no accident - it’s very intentional and it often takes countless iterations to get products to look and feel great.
More information has emerged related to last week’s attack which saw a number of high profile Twitter accounts hijacked for the purposes of spreading a cryptocurrency scam. Twitter has already said that 130 Twitter accounts were targeted by hackers, using tools that should only have been available to the site’s internal support team.
At Bearer, the whole team is focused on helping developers that rely on third-party APIs. In 2019, our engineers developed a solution that eased the integration with any API that uses OAuth as the authentication method. By handling both the authentication strategy (with refresh tokens) as well as proxying the request, it saved hours of engineering time when working with API integrations.
OneDrive for Business is a secure cloud-based solution for convenient telecommuting, remote access and private file sharing. Indeed, files stored on OneDrive are private by default: Users control access to the files they upload, so they can be seen by other employees only if they have been shared by the OneDrive owner. Even users with Global Administrator access cannot access files unless the OneDrive account holder has granted them the appropriate permissions.
Modern web applications are complex, it is often made up of many layers where potential flaws could appear making it hard to secure. That’s why it’s important to understand the key attack vectors hackers use to spot entry points and map your attack surface during reconnaissance and work back from there to protect your web application footprint.
