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Rockwell Advises Disconnecting Internet-Facing ICS Devices Amid Cyber Threats

By: Newsroom β€” May 22nd 2024 at 12:21
Rockwell Automation is urging its customers to disconnect all industrial control systems (ICSs) not meant to be connected to the public-facing internet to mitigate unauthorized or malicious cyber activity. The company said it's issuing the advisory due to "heightened geopolitical tensions and adversarial cyber activity globally." To that end, customers are required to take immediate
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"Linguistic Lumberjack" Vulnerability Discovered in Popular Logging Utility Fluent Bit

By: Newsroom β€” May 21st 2024 at 06:43
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in a popular logging and metrics utility called Fluent Bit that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS), information disclosure, or remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4323, has been codenamed Linguistic Lumberjack by Tenable Research. It impacts versions from 2.0.7 through
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Code Keepers: Mastering Non-Human Identity Management

By: The Hacker News β€” April 12th 2024 at 11:13
Identities now transcend human boundaries. Within each line of code and every API call lies a non-human identity. These entities act as programmatic access keys, enabling authentication and facilitating interactions among systems and services, which are essential for every API call, database query, or storage account access. As we depend on multi-factor authentication and passwords to safeguard
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Google Chrome Beta Tests New DBSC Protection Against Cookie-Stealing Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” April 3rd 2024 at 13:07
Google on Tuesday said it's piloting a new feature in Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to help protect users against session cookie theft by malware. The prototype – currently tested against "some" Google Account users running Chrome Beta – is built with an aim to make it an open web standard, the tech giant's Chromium team said. "By binding authentication sessions to the
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Microsoft Edge Bug Could Have Allowed Attackers to Silently Install Malicious Extensions

By: Newsroom β€” March 27th 2024 at 12:54
A now-patched security flaw in the Microsoft Edge web browser could have been abused to install arbitrary extensions on users' systems and carry out malicious actions.  "This flaw could have allowed an attacker to exploit a private API, initially intended for marketing purposes, to covertly install additional browser extensions with broad permissions without the user's knowledge," Guardio
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APIs Drive the Majority of Internet Traffic and Cybercriminals are Taking Advantage

By: The Hacker News β€” March 19th 2024 at 16:20
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the connective tissue behind digital modernization, helping applications and databases exchange data more effectively. The State of API Security in 2024 Report from Imperva, a Thales company, found that the majority of internet traffic (71%) in 2023 was API calls. What’s more, a typical enterprise site saw an average of 1.5 billion API
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Cisco Fixes High-Risk Vulnerability Impacting Unity Connection Software

By: Newsroom β€” January 11th 2024 at 04:55
Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Unity Connection that could permit an adversary to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying system. Tracked as CVE-2024-20272 (CVSS score: 7.3), the vulnerability is an arbitrary file upload bug residing in the web-based management interface and is the result of a lack of authentication in a specific
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Tell Me Your Secrets Without Telling Me Your Secrets

By: The Hacker News β€” November 24th 2023 at 10:53
The title of this article probably sounds like the caption to a meme. Instead, this is an actual problem GitGuardian's engineers had to solve in implementing the mechanisms for their newΒ HasMySecretLeaked service. They wanted to help developers find out if their secrets (passwords, API keys, private keys, cryptographic certificates, etc.) had found their way into public GitHub repositories. How
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27 Malicious PyPI Packages with Thousands of Downloads Found Targeting IT Experts

By: Newsroom β€” November 17th 2023 at 09:56
An unknown threat actor has been observed publishing typosquat packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository for nearly six months with an aim to deliver malware capable of gaining persistence, stealing sensitive data, and accessing cryptocurrency wallets for financial gain. The 27 packages, which masqueraded as popular legitimate Python libraries, attracted thousands of downloads,
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Alert: 'Effluence' Backdoor Persists Despite Patching Atlassian Confluence Servers

By: Newsroom β€” November 10th 2023 at 08:58
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor namedΒ EffluenceΒ that's deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. "The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence," Aon's Stroz Friedberg Incident Response ServicesΒ saidΒ in an analysis published
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Make API Management Less Scary for Your Organization

By: The Hacker News β€” October 24th 2023 at 10:59
While application development has evolved rapidly, the API management suites used to access these services remain a spooky reminder of a different era. Introducing new API management infrastructure with these legacy models still poses challenges for organizations as they modernize. Transitioning from monolithic architectures to agile microservices empowers developers to make quick changes. Using
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API Security Trends 2023 – Have Organizations Improved their Security Posture?

By: The Hacker News β€” October 3rd 2023 at 11:52
APIs, also known as application programming interfaces, serve as the backbone of modern software applications, enabling seamless communication and data exchange between different systems and platforms. They provide developers with an interface to interact with external services, allowing them to integrate various functionalities into their own applications. However, this increased reliance on
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APIs: Unveiling the Silent Killer of Cyber Security Risk Across Industries

By: The Hacker News β€” October 2nd 2023 at 11:21
Introduction In today's interconnected digital ecosystem, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in enabling seamless communication and data exchange between various software applications and systems. APIs act as bridges, facilitating the sharing of information and functionalities. However, as the use of APIs continues to rise, they have become an increasingly attractive
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How to Prevent API Breaches: A Guide to Robust Security

By: The Hacker News β€” September 11th 2023 at 11:11
With the growing reliance on web applications and digital platforms, the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) has become increasingly popular. If you aren’t familiar with the term, APIs allow applications to communicate with each other and they play a vital role in modern software development. However, the rise of API use has also led to an increase in the number of API breaches.
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Webinar - Mastering API Security: Understanding Your True Attack Surface

By: The Hacker News β€” June 13th 2023 at 10:50
Believe it or not, your attack surface is expanding faster than you realize. How? APIs, of course! More formally known as application programming interfaces, API calls are growing twice as fast as HTML traffic, making APIs an ideal candidate for new security solutions aimed at protecting customer data, according to Cloudflare. According to the "Quantifying the Cost of API Insecurity" report, US
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How to Improve Your API Security Posture

By: The Hacker News β€” June 8th 2023 at 11:28
APIs, more formally known as application programming interfaces, empower apps and microservices to communicate and share data. However, this level of connectivity doesn't come without major risks. Hackers can exploit vulnerabilities in APIs to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data or even take control of the entire system. Therefore, it's essential to have a robust API security posture to
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Critical OAuth Vulnerability in Expo Framework Allows Account Hijacking

By: Ravie Lakshmanan β€” May 27th 2023 at 07:45
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Open Authorization (OAuth) implementation of the application development framework Expo.io. The shortcoming, assigned the CVE identifierΒ CVE-2023-28131, has a severity rating of 9.6 on the CVSS scoring system. API security firm Salt LabsΒ saidΒ the issue rendered services using the framework susceptible to credential leakage, which could
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Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data?

By: The Hacker News β€” May 22nd 2023 at 11:12
It's no secret that data leaks have become a major concern for both citizens and institutions across the globe. They can cause serious damage to an organization's reputation, induce considerable financial losses, and even have serious legal repercussions. From the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal to the Equifax data breach, there have been some pretty high-profile leaks resulting in massive
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Why Shadow APIs are More Dangerous than You Think

By: The Hacker News β€” April 13th 2023 at 10:19
Shadow APIs are a growing risk for organizations of all sizes as they can mask malicious behavior and induce substantial data loss. For those that aren't familiar with the term, shadow APIs are a type of application programming interface (API) that isn't officially documented or supported.Β  Contrary to popular belief, it's unfortunately all too common to have APIs in production that no one on
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AlienFox Malware Targets API Keys and Secrets from AWS, Google, and Microsoft Cloud Services

By: Ravie Lakshmanan β€” March 30th 2023 at 10:08
A new "comprehensive toolset" calledΒ AlienFoxΒ is being distributed on Telegram as a way for threat actors to harvest credentials from API keys and secrets from popular cloud service providers. "The spread of AlienFox represents an unreported trend towards attacking more minimal cloud services, unsuitable for crypto mining, in order to enable and expand subsequent campaigns," SentinelOne security
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Smart Mobility has a Blindspot When it Comes to API Security

By: The Hacker News β€” March 29th 2023 at 11:43
The emergence of smart mobility services and applications has led to a sharp increase in the use of APIs in the automotive industry. However, this increased reliance on APIs has also made them one of the most common attack vectors. According to Gartner, APIs account for 90% of the web application attack surface areas.Β  With no surprise, similar trends are emerging also in the smart mobility
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