The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was passed by the United States Congress to protect the public from fraudulent or erroneous practices by corporations or other business entities. The legislation set new and expanded requirements for all U.S. public company boards, management, and public accounting firms with the goal to increase transparency in financial reporting and to require formalized systems for internal controls. In addition, penalties for fraudulent activity are much more severe.

It can sometimes be a little challenging to figure out specifically how to address different vulnerability classes in Python. This article addresses one of the top finding categories found in Python, CWE 117 (also known as CRLF Injection), and shows how to use a custom log formatter to address the issue. We’ll use this project, which deactivates or deletes user accounts from the Veracode platform, to illustrate the functionality.

Last week, the United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advised on initial steps to take in response to the SolarWinds software that was compromised by advanced persistent threat actors. While federal agencies were under a deadline to complete certain actions, this issue will require continued clean-up and longer-term efforts to mitigate the threat.

For any organization that felt prepared, with their operations well-planned as they headed into 2020, that feeling disappeared quickly. 2020 became the year of the unexpected, forcing organizations to adapt, repeatedly. Looking ahead to 2021, companies of all types and sizes are working to be as prepared, agile, and adaptable as possible. This is certainly true when it comes to building or restructuring an organization’s cybersecurity posture.

The rise of open source software is not without risks for today’s applications. Use a software composition analysis tool to mitigate these risks. Gartner, in its “Market Guide for Software Composition Analysis,” details the need to make software composition analysis (SCA) part of your application security testing tool suite. We discussed the what and why in a recent blog post; today let’s discuss the how.

Security breaches are becoming increasingly commonplace and dangerous. The World Economic Forum nominated cyber-attacks as one of the major threats to global stability for 2019. Not only money is at stake, as breaches have an appalling effect on organizations’ reputation, trustworthiness, and often prove to a business killer. Most important, however, is the data – our personal data that once stolen is available to cybercriminals to exploit.

Every website on the Internet is somewhat vulnerable to security attacks. The threats range from human errors to sophisticated attacks by coordinated cyber criminals. According to the Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon, the primary motivation for cyber attackers is financial. Whether you run an eCommerce project or a simple small business website, the risk of a potential attack is there.

Security groups either make or break your IT security. Group memberships are responsible for administrative access in your your network and define access to other privileged resources and data on your domain. Ever wondered how a simple misconfiguration of a group membership could lead to a security incident? This blog elaborates the most common misconfiguration or security loopholes that can cause damage to the sensitive data in your network.

In contrast to legacy antivirus technology, next generation antivirus (NGAV) advances threat detection on the endpoint by finding all symptoms of malicious behavior across an endpoint system rather than fixating on looking for known malware file attributes.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24 What an interesting week. I’m going to skip the issues over SolarWind breach and go for the usual non-sensationalist articles. The first, and one I so welcome along with many out there I’m sure is the final, and I mean final end of Flash. Yay.