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Content tagged with Careers & People posted in May 2021
Modern SOCs a 'Painful' Challenge Amid Growing Complexity: Report
Quick Hits  |  5/28/2021  | 
A new study examines the tools and technologies driving investment and activities for security operations centers.
The Changing Face of Cybersecurity Awareness
Commentary  |  5/21/2021  | 
In the two decades since cybersecurity awareness programs emerged, they've been transformed from a good idea to a business imperative.
Dev-Sec Disconnect Undermines Secure Coding Efforts
News  |  5/20/2021  | 
Rather than continue to complain about each other, developers and security pros need to work together and celebrate their successes.
Cobalt Strike Becomes a Preferred Hacking Tool by Cybercrime, APT Groups
News  |  5/19/2021  | 
Incident response cases and research show how the red-team tool has become a become a go-to for attackers.
Name That Toon: Road Trip
Commentary  |  5/17/2021  | 
Feeling creative? Submit your caption in the comments, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.
When AI Becomes the Hacker
News  |  5/13/2021  | 
Bruce Schneier explores the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems gone rogue in society.
66% of CISOs Feel Unprepared for Cyberattacks
Quick Hits  |  5/12/2021  | 
More than half of CISOs surveyed are more concerned about a cyberattack in 2021 than in 2020, researchers report.
Gap Between Security and Networking Teams May Hinder Tech Projects
Quick Hits  |  5/5/2021  | 
Professionals in each field describe a poor working relationship between the two teams
Wanted: The (Elusive) Cybersecurity 'All-Star'
News  |  5/5/2021  | 
Separate workforce studies by (ISC)² and ISACA point to the need for security departments to work with existing staff to identify needs and bring entry-level people into the field.
Dark Reading Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Commentary  |  5/3/2021  | 
Cybersecurity news site begins 16th year with plans to improve site, deliver more content on cyber threats and best practices.


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I Smell a RAT! New Cybersecurity Threats for the Crypto Industry
David Trepp, Partner, IT Assurance with accounting and advisory firm BPM LLP,  7/9/2021
News
Attacks on Kaseya Servers Led to Ransomware in Less Than 2 Hours
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  7/7/2021
Commentary
It's in the Game (but It Shouldn't Be)
Tal Memran, Cybersecurity Expert, CYE,  7/9/2021
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Everything You Need to Know About DNS Attacks
It's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask. Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted. Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
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CVE-2023-33196
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences. Cross site scripting (XSS) can be triggered by review volumes. This issue has been fixed in version 4.4.7.
CVE-2023-33185
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Django-SES is a drop-in mail backend for Django. The django_ses library implements a mail backend for Django using AWS Simple Email Service. The library exports the `SESEventWebhookView class` intended to receive signed requests from AWS to handle email bounces, subscriptions, etc. These requests ar...
CVE-2023-33187
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Highlight is an open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Highlight may record passwords on customer deployments when a password html input is switched to `type="text"` via a javascript "Show Password" button. This differs from the expected behavior which always obfuscates `ty...
CVE-2023-33194
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web.The platform does not filter input and encode output in Quick Post validation error message, which can deliver an XSS payload. Old CVE fixed the XSS in label HTML but didn’t fix it when clicking save. This issue was...
CVE-2023-2879
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
GDSDB infinite loop in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file