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Building a Safer Learning Environment for K-12 Schools

Cyberattacks targeting our educational institutions impact all of society. They may force schools to close and parents to take time off work for days or weeks at a time. But more insidiously, they cause further disruption to learning, which has already been severely impacted by the pandemic. That means children fail to achieve their potential, which can impact lifetime earnings and gross domestic product (GDP).

OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free CVE-2023-25136 - Writeup and Proof-of-Concept

OpenSSH’s newly released version 9.2p1 contains a fix for a double-free vulnerability. Given the severe potential impact of the vulnerability on OpenSSH servers (DoS/RCE) and its high popularity in the industry, this security fix prompted the JFrog Security Research team to investigate the vulnerability. This blog post provides details on the vulnerability, who is affected, and a proof-of-concept to trigger it causing a Denial of Service (DoS).

How To Do Unit Testing In Java

Unit testing is a crucial aspect of software development and helps to ensure that individual units of code are working as intended. In Java, the most popular framework for unit testing is JUnit. In this article, we will go over the basics of how to write and run unit tests in Java using the popular testing framework, as well as some best practices for unit testing.

Top 5 Inadvertent Mistakes of Privileged Users and How to Prevent Them

Your organization most likely has privileged users — employees, subcontractors, and even customers who are authorized to access critical applications and sensitive data. But those elevated access rights make an organization vulnerable. If a privileged user makes a mistake or an attacker gets access to a privileged account, your most valuable data is at risk.

36% of CISOs see the shortage of skilled workers as their key cybersecurity challenge

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, it is estimated that 3.5 million security analyst positions remain unfilled. It’s no surprise, then, that more than a third of CISOs find the skills shortage to be their primary challenge, according to the ThoughtLab study Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World.

A Guide to LimaCharlie's Microsoft Integrations

LimaCharlie has multiple integrations that offer security teams greater visibility into Microsoft Windows. If you’re familiar with LimaCharlie, you probably know about some of these already. But over the past few months, we’ve added quite a bit to our catalog of capabilities. For this reason, we wanted to put together an updated guide to our most important Microsoft integrations.

Docker Container Security: Challenges and Best Practices

The containerization of software and applications continues to escalate, and although alternatives have emerged to challenge Docker, it continues to enjoy major adoption by developers for building and sharing software and apps. In 2022, Docker estimated that 44% of developers are using some form of continuous integration and development with Docker containers.

Stranger Danger: Your JavaScript Attack Surface Just Got Bigger

Building JavaScript applications today means that we take a step further from writing code. We use open-source dependencies, create a Dockerfile to deploy containers to the cloud, and orchestrate this infrastructure with Kubernetes. Welcome - you're a cloud native application developer! As developers, our responsibility has broadened, and more software means more software security concerns for us to address.

Five Tips for Data Breach Prevention

Data breaches are on the rise and they can be both unexpected and costly. The average estimated cost of a data breach has peaked at an all-time high—an astounding $4.35 million, according to a 2022 report by IBM and the Ponemon Institute. Poor password hygiene and legacy software are two key culprits that will increase your chances of falling victim to a password breach.