Author: DEFENDEDGE

Original release date: October 28, 2021 The National Security Agency (NSA) and CISA have published the first of a four-part series, Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures. Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures – Part I: Prevent and Detect Lateral Movement provides recommendations for mitigating lateral movement attempts by threat actors who have gained initial… Read more

Original release date: October 28, 2021 The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, has released the 2021 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List. The 2021 Hardware List is a compilation of the most frequent and critical errors that can lead… Read more

Defending against ransomware will take a move to zero-trust, argues Daniel Spicer, CSO, Ivanti. Read more

The flaw, found in the Hashthemes Demo Importer plugin, allows any authenticated user to exsanguinate a vulnerable site, deleting nearly all database content and uploaded media. Read more

Out of 92 security vulnerabilities, 66 are rated critical in severity, mostly allowing code execution. The most severe can lead to information disclosure. Read more

A researcher was able to crack 70 percent of the gathered hashes in an experiment in a residential neighborhood. Read more

Original release date: October 27, 2021 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with attacks using Ranzy Locker, a ransomware variant first identified targeting victims in the United States in late 2020. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the IOCs and technical details in… Read more

Researchers found that one critical flaw in question is exploitable from the browser, allowing watering-hole attacks. Read more

Much is made of shared responsibility for cloud security. But Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, notes there’s no guarantee that Azure or AWS are delivering services in a hardened and secure manner. Read more

New software and code stand at the core of everything we do, but how well is all of this new code tested? Luckily, autonomous application security is here. Read more