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The rapid advancement of technology in over 10-15 years has significantly impacted cybersecurity. With the ever-expanding cyber world, cybercriminals constantly adjust their tactics to exploit new vulnerabilities. As a result, software developers are now facing numerous cybersecurity issues that must be addressed to create a safe and secure cyberspace. In this guide, we are some of the most common cybersecurity challenges that software developers are currently facing.

The Trustwave SpiderLabs team conducted a months-long investigation into the cyber threats facing the healthcare industry and has provided a roadmap displaying how threat actors conduct an attack, methodologies used, and what organizations can do to protect themselves from specific types of attacks.

In the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity, it’s critical for businesses to stay ahead of the curve to ensure the safety of their sensitive data and infrastructure. By implementing proactive and continuous testing of the deployed security controls, teams can optimize their preparedness against advanced threats. It’s no surprise, then, that attack surface management has emerged as a potential solution.

Cybersecurity is fundamentally a data problem. As adversary techniques continue to mature, organizations still struggle to collect the right data from all their security and IT point products to detect and respond to evolving threats. CrowdStrike offers a clear data advantage in the cybersecurity market.

Since 2020, Forescout Research – Vedere Labs has been tracking the riskiest devices on organizations’ networks. In 2020, we released the first Enterprise of Things Security Report, followed in 2022 with the Riskiest Connected Devices in Enterprise Networks report. Our reports are entirely based on data coming directly from connected devices.

With the evolution of technology, network activities have increased excessively. Many day-to-day tasks are intertwined with the internet to function. On one level of the infamous OSI model, the data exchanged between devices is broken down into smaller units and transmitted in the network in the form of packets. These packets contain information that is useful for investigators and network administrators for analysis and troubleshooting purposes.

In terms of unencrypted traffic, several highly used protocols lend themselves to logging and can significantly reduce the burden of packet capture without lowering the fidelity of information or the capabilities of analysts.

Since December 22nd, 2022, there has been an increase in malware sent via Phishing emails via a OneNote attachment. As with most phishing emails, the end user would open the OneNote attachment but unlike Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, OneNote does not support macros. This is how threat actors previously launched scripts to install malware.

On July 11th, 2023, Fortinet published a security advisory detailing a remote code execution vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy (CVE-2023-33308). This stack-based overflow vulnerability affects proxy policies and/or firewall policies with proxy mode and SSL deep packet inspection enabled. This CVE was discovered and responsibly disclosed to Fortinet by security researchers.

We’re delighted to announce that 1Password is now available for download on the Microsoft Store on Windows!