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Understanding Serialization Attacks: Risks, Examples, and Prevention

Serialization is the process of converting data structures or object states into a format that can be easily stored, transmitted, or reconstructed later. While serialization facilitates data maintenance and communication between different systems, it also introduces security risks. Serialization attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the serialization process to manipulate data, execute arbitrary code, or gain unauthorized access to systems.

15 Critical KPIs to Assess Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management isn’t just about identifying weaknesses; it’s about effectively addressing them. How do you know if you’re on the right track? Are you effectively addressing vulnerabilities and minimizing risks? To answer these questions, you need more than just a list of potential metrics – you need clarity on what truly matters.

Essential Features Required for an Efficient DDoS Mitigation Solution

DDoS attacks affect millions of websites every day. AppTrana blocked over 4.25 million DDoS attacks on 709 websites in 2023. Indusface continues to observe a steady flow of DDoS attempts against customers: DDoS attack trends – The State of Application Security, 2023 No business is safe. How can you protect your business against DDoS? DDoS attack mitigation solution is the best weapon to protect your business against the attack.

OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications - Critical Vulnerabilities and Risk Mitigation

GPT’s debut created a buzz, democratizing AI beyond tech circles. While its language expertise offers practical applications, security threats like malware and data leaks pose challenges. Organizations must carefully assess and balance the benefits against these security risks. Ensuring your safety while maximizing the benefits of Large Language Models(LLMs) like ChatGPT involves implementing practical actions and preparing for current and future security challenges.

CVE-2024-1071 - Critical Vulnerability in Ultimate Member WordPress Plugin

A critical security flaw, known as CVE-2024-1071, has been found in the Ultimate Member plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, poses a significant risk to over 200,000 active installations. It potentially enables attackers to extract sensitive data from compromised databases, presenting a severe threat to website security.

Account Takeover Attack Live Simulation

Account takeover attacks have increased by 354% y-o-y in 2023. What’s worse? It takes 11 months to solve an ATO breach. By that time, attackers would have laterally traversed your entire digital infrastructure, including databases. So, how do you protect your organisations against sophisticated ATO attacks that even bypass 2FA? In this live attack simulation, Karthik Krishnamoorthy (CTO) and Vivekanand Gopalan (VP of Products) demonstrate various ways in which account takeover can happen, along with practices to protect your websites and APIs against ATO attacks.

Website Security - 10 Effective Website Protection Strategies

In 2023 alone, the global landscape faced a staggering 6.8 billion cyberattacks on websites, underlining the critical need for robust security measures. Banking, finance, and insurance sectors witnessed over 90% bot attacks, while healthcare sites experienced a 100% bot attack rate. These alarming statistics highlight the urgent need for robust website security measures. This blog explores the fundamentals of website protection and best practices to secure your website.

Understading Cloud Security - Challenges, Best Practices and Benefits

As businesses shift to modern hosting platforms, they must go beyond just network security and pay closer attention to protecting their applications. Simply building walls around data centers won’t keep attackers away when apps are in the cloud. In today’s digital world, where companies depend on cloud services for storage, computing, and software, having strong cloud security is crucial.

ScreenConnect Authentication Bypass (CVE-2024-1709 & CVE-2024-1708)

ConnectWise ScreenConnect, a widely used remote desktop product, has recently been found vulnerable to two critical security flaws, assigned CVE numbers CVE-2024-1709 and CVE-2024-1708. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, can lead to remote code execution, potentially compromising sensitive data and critical systems. What’s more alarming is that reports are indicating active exploitation of these vulnerabilities in the wild.

Web Browser-Based Attacks - Types, Examples, and Prevention

Web browsers are now essential for any business, offering a convenient window to websites and a single platform for accessing content. However, this convenience comes at the cost of browser security. 95% of undetectable malware is spread through web browsing. Even more alarming is that browse-borne malware costs organizations an average of $ 3.2M. So, how do you protect your end-users from these attacks?