When hunting, advanced security Splunkers use apps. Specifically, three related apps from an incredibly generous man named Cedric Le Roux! (You can guess from the name that yes, he's French.) And frankly, you probably only know one: URL Toolbox. One of the most popular Splunk security apps of all time, URL Toolbox’s URL parsing capabilities have been leveraged by thousands who want to separate subdomain, domain, and top level domain (TLD) from a URL.

As defenders, we need to keep pace with all kinds of different aspects of the attack surface. For Windows, the attack surface seems to just continue beyond our grasp every way we look, especially when we start to dig into trust and the registry. As previously outlined in the Splunk Threat Research Team’s blog, "From Registry With Love: Malware Registry Abuses," the vast methods used by adversaries to persist and abuse the Windows registry goes deep.

Passkeys have been publicly available for roughly a year. Engineered for security and phishing protection, this new form of passwordless authentication is still in the headlines — now under scrutiny.

Discover the inner workings of the recently implemented Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in the EU and explore why this framework has raised concerns about jeopardizing the open-source ecosystem. Join us in our latest blog post to delve into this important topic.

When you hear the phrase “security policy,” a number of things may come to mind — cyberattacks, malware, data breaches and the like. While these are some reasons an organization might create security policies, a security policy for an organization covers protection of not only its digital assets, but its physical assets as well.

Data classification is essential for achieving, maintaining and proving compliance with a wide range of regulations and standards. For example, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX and GDPR all have different purposes and requirements, but data classification is necessary for compliance with all of them — after all, you need to accurately identify and tag health records, cardholder information, financial documents and other regulated data in order to protect that data appropriately.

As you use your computer, the registry can collect obsolete, redundant or even damaged entries. By using a reg cleaner tool, you can: However, there is no clear consensus on the value of registry cleaning.

Czech and Ukrainian police have arrested six individuals responsible for a call center-based vishing scam designed to trick victims into thinking they were already victims of fraud. Imagine getting a call on your mobile phone from your bank. The caller ID shows the number you have saved in your contacts, so it must be your bank, right? The person on the other end tells you your account has been compromised and the remaining funds must be moved to a safe account. Sounds legit?

There is no doubt that more pervasive deepfake and AI technologies will make for more realistic, sophisticated, phishing attacks, and add to an already huge problem. The days of phishing attacks rife with spelling and language errors are coming to an end. This is more the reason why you need a great security awareness training (SAT) program to fight back.

Access control is crucial for modern web development as it enables the management of how users, processes, and devices should be granted permissions to application functions and resources. Access control mechanisms also determine the level of access permitted and manifest activities carried out by specific entities. Broken access control vulnerabilities arise when a malicious user abuses the constraints on the actions they are allowed to perform or the objects they can access.