How and why do attackers target an organization’s Active Directory (AD)? This blog, which is part 8 of the series A Practical approach to Active Directory Domain Services, will provide you with the answers. In this part, we will examine what attackers gain by compromising the AD setup. We will also look at some of the most noted means by which AD is compromised. There are two main sections to this blog.

In June 2022, Cyberint observed a new hacktivist campaign targeting multiple Israeli organizations and enterprises coordinated via different social media platforms. The campaign is led by hacktivists originating in a group called GhostSec. GhostSec was first identified in 2015 and was initially founded to attack ISIS in the cyber realm as part of the fight against Islamic extremism.

This is the first part of a three-blog series on startup security. Software vulnerabilities are the bane of every security team. A newly discovered vulnerability can turn a crucial software product into a ticking timebomb waiting to be exploited. Security practitioners and IT teams tasked with protecting their organizations must identify and mitigate a constant stream of new vulnerabilities before their presence results in a breach.

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Microsoft has shared details of a widespread phishing campaign that not only attempted to steal the passwords of targeted organisations, but was also capable of circumventing multi-factor authentication (MFA) defences. The attackers used AiTM (Attacker-in-The-Middle) reverse-proxy sites to pose as Office 365 login pages which requested MFA codes, and then use them to log into the genuine site.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is one of the principal techniques for assessing the source code of applications to detect possible vulnerabilities. SAST enhances application security during the early stages of the development life cycle and plays an important role in shifting security left. However, there are quite a few myths that are often associated with implementing SAST security tools. Let’s run through the big three.

SAST is one of the matured security testing methods. In the SAST, the source code is examined from the inside out while components are in a static position. It performs scanning in-house code and design to identify flaws that are reflective of weaknesses, and that could invite security vulnerabilities. The scans performed by SAST tools are dependent upon prior identification of rules that specify coding errors to examine and address.

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X11 forwarding, ssh -X, is an SSH protocol that enables users to run graphical applications on a remote server and interact with them using their local display and I/O devices. It is commonly relied upon by developers for securely interacting with remote machines across wide and heterogeneous server fleets.