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2023-10-19 10:00:00 | Pourquoi les organisations ne détectent-elles pas les menaces de cybersécurité? Why are organizations failing to detect cybersecurity threats? (lien direct) |
The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. With the changing security landscape, the most daunting task for the CISO and CIO is to fight an ongoing battle against hackers and cybercriminals. Bad actors stay ahead of the defenders and are always looking to find new vulnerabilities and loopholes to exploit and enter the business network. Failing to address these threats promptly can have catastrophic consequences for the organization. A survey finds that, on average, it takes more than five months to detect and remediate cyber threats. This is a significant amount of time, as a delayed response to cyber threats can result in a possible cyber-attack. One can never forget the devastating impacts of the Equifax breach in 2017 and the Target breach in 2013 due to delayed detection and response. This is concerning and highlights the need for proactive cybersecurity measures to detect and mitigate rising cyber threats. Amidst this, it\'s also crucial to look into why it is challenging to detect cyber threats. Why do organizations fail to detect cyber threats? Security teams are dealing with more cyber threats than before. A report also confirmed that global cyber attacks increased by 38% in 2022 compared to the previous year. The increasing number and complexity of cyber-attacks make it challenging for organizations to detect them. Hackers use sophisticated techniques to bypass security systems and solutions - like zero-day vulnerabilities, phishing attacks, business email compromises (BEC), supply chain attacks, and Internet of Things (IoT) attacks. Some organizations are unaware of the latest cyber threat trends and lack the skills and resources to detect them. For instance, hackers offer professional services like ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) to launch ransomware attacks. Surprisingly, two out of three ransomware attacks are facilitated by the RaaS setup, but still, companies fail to have a defensive strategy against them. Enterprises relying on legacy devices and outdated software programs are no longer effective at recognizing certain malicious activities, leaving the network vulnerable to potential threats. Additionally, the lack of trained staff, insider threats, and human errors are other reasons why many organizations suffer at the hands of threat actors. Besides this, much of the company\'s data is hidden as dark data. As the defensive teams and employees may be unaware of it, the hackers take complete advantage of dark data and either replicate it or use it to fulfill their malicious intentions. Moreover, cloud migration has rapidly increased in recent years, putting cybersecurity at significant risk. The complexity of the cloud environments, poorly secured remote and hybrid work environments, and sharing security responsibilities between cloud service providers and clients have complicated the situation. In addition, cloud vulnerabilities, which have risen to 194% from the previous year, have highlighted the need for organizations to look out for ways to strengthen their security infrastructure. Security measures to consider to prevent cyber threats Since businesses face complex cyber threats, mitigating them require | Ransomware Data Breach Tool Vulnerability Threat Cloud | Equifax | ★★ |
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2023-09-07 11:09:35 | L'outil de pirate pour obtenir des données personnelles des bureaux de crédit The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus (lien direct) |
Le nouveau site 404 Media a un bon article sur la façon dont les pirates obtiennent à moindre coût les informations personnelles des bureaux de crédit:
C'est le résultat d'un criminel d'armes secret vend l'accès en ligne qui semble exploiter un ensemble de données particulièrement puissant: l'en-tête de crédit de la cible.Il s'agit d'informations personnelles que les bureaux de crédit Experian, Equifax et TransUnion ont sur la plupart des adultes en Amérique via leurs cartes de crédit.Grâce à un réseau complexe d'accords et d'achats, ces données se déplacent des bureaux de crédit à d'autres sociétés qui l'offrent aux collecteurs de dettes, aux compagnies d'assurance et aux forces de l'ordre ...
The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus: This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header. This is personal information that the credit bureaus Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion have on most adults in America via their credit cards. Through a complex web of agreements and purchases, that data trickles down from the credit bureaus to other companies who offer it to debt collectors, insurance companies, and law enforcement... |
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2020-10-01 14:10:28 | 96% of Organizations Use Open Source Libraries but Less Than 50% Manage Their Library Security Flaws (lien direct) |  Most modern codebases are dependent on open source libraries. In fact, a recent research report sponsored by Veracode and conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found that more than 96 percent of organizations use open source libraries in their codebase. But ??? shockingly ??? less than half of these organizations have invested in specific security controls to scan for open source vulnerabilities.
Why is it important to scan open source libraries?
For our State of Software Security: Open Source Edition report, we analyzed the security of open source libraries in 85,000 applications and found that 71 percent have a flaw. The most common open source flaws identified include Cross-Site Scripting, insecure deserialization, and broken access control. By not scanning open source libraries, these flaws remain vulnerable to a cyberattack. ﾂ?ﾂ?ﾂ?
Equifax made headlines by not scanning its open source libraries. In 2017, Equifax suffered a massive data breach from Apache Struts which compromised the data ??? including social security numbers ??? of more than 143 million Americans. Following the breach, Equifax's stock fell over 13 percent. The unfortunate reality is that if Equifax performed AppSec scans on its open source libraries and patched the vulnerability, the breach could have been avoided. ﾂ?
Why aren???t more organizations scanning open source libraries?
If 96 percent of organizations use open source libraries and 71 percent of applications have a third-party vulnerability, why is it that less than 50 percent of organizations scan their open source libraries? The main reason is that when application developers add third-party libraries to their codebase, they expect that library developers have scanned the code for vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, you can???t rely on library developers to keep your application safe. Approximately 42 percent of the third-party code pulled directly by an application developer has a flaw on first scan. And even if the third-party code appears to be free of flaws, more than 47 percent of third-party code has a transitive flaw that???s pulled indirectly from another library in use.
What are your options for managing library security flaws?
First off, it???s important to note that most flaws in open source libraries are easy to fix. Close to 74 percent of the flaws can be fixed with an update like a revision or patch. Even high priority flaws are easy to fix ??? close to 91 percent can be fixed with an update.
So, when it comes to managing your library security flaws, the concentration should not just be, ???How |
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