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3x more subdomain takeovers now discovered

Today, we have over 600+ unique techniques to discover subdomain takeovers in over 2,000 Detectify customers. Identifying subdomain takeovers is tricky business as they rely on signature-based tests which are prone to false positives due to outdated signatures. That’s why we run our subdomain takeover tests on hundreds of thousands of customer assets every day.

What is the FTC Safeguards Rule?

The FTC Safeguards Rule, is a set of regulations promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission in order to protect the privacy of consumers’ personal information. The Rule requires financial institutions to develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive information security program designed to safeguard customer information.

DDoS Attacks in the Financial Industry: How to Protect Your Infrastructure and Payments

While Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been around for over a decade, they still continue to evolve and escalate, particularly during 2022. The tense geopolitical situation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the nature and intensity of these types of attacks, making states official participants in the DDoS mitigation market.

Introducing Change Control

Companies depend on Tines to automate their mission-critical security workflows. We take this responsibility extremely seriously, and we’re always enhancing our platform’s capabilities to make it even more trustworthy and reliable. Today, we introduced Change Control. When enabled, it adds a test environment to your Story, allowing you to prototype and experiment with changes, before applying them to your Story.

Updated Guidance for Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

On Wednesday, October 5, 2022, Microsoft published updated mitigation guidance for two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server: CVE-2022-41040 (SSRF vulnerability) and CVE-2022-41082 (RCE vulnerability). Arctic Wolf covered initial assessments on this blog post. Organizations that run Microsoft Exchange on-prem or in a hybrid model should complete both Microsoft provided mitigations to reduce the potential for successful exploitation.

Additional Updated Guidance for Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Late Wednesday, October 5, 2022, Microsoft published additional updated mitigation guidance for the two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server that were exploited in the wild: CVE-2022-41040 (SSRF vulnerability) and CVE-2022-41082 (RCE vulnerability).

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Why You Need To Use Strong Passwords

To kids, their Halloween candy stash might as well be a treasure chest. It is their most valuable possession and must remain hidden from pirates … or at least siblings dressed up like pirates. I grew up in a big family. With many kids in the house sharing the same love for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, I knew the value of my candy. I knew how important it was to keep it secure. I’d count the pieces multiple times a day.

Compromising Plaintext Passwords in Active Directory

A lot of attention gets paid to preventing pass-the-hash and pass-the-ticket attacks, but these tactics limit adversaries to what they can perform from the command line. Compromising a plaintext password gives an attacker unlimited access to an account — which can include access to web applications, VPN, email and more. One way to extract plaintext passwords is through Kerberoasting, but this brute-force technique takes a lot of time and patience.