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Content tagged with Careers & People posted in August 2019
Bug Bounties Continue to Rise, but Market Has Its Own 1% Problem
News  |  8/29/2019  | 
The average payout for a critical vulnerability has almost reached $3,400, but only the top bug hunters of a field of 500,000 are truly profiting.
10 Low-Cost (or Free!) Ways to Boost Your Security AI Skills
Slideshows  |  8/23/2019  | 
The following hardware and software options will amplify your know-how about artificial intelligence and how to apply it to security — without busting any budgets.
Beat the Heat: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners
Commentary  |  8/16/2019  | 
Phishing, token codes, training, MFA, polluted data entry, and whales. And the winners are ...
Does Personality Make You Vulnerable to Cybercrime?
News  |  8/13/2019  | 
A new study explores the connections between personality traits and susceptibility to different cyberattacks.
2019 Pwnie Award Winners (And Those Who Wish They Weren't)
Slideshows  |  8/13/2019  | 
This year's round-up includes awards into two new categories: most under-hyped research and epic achievement.
Dark Reading News Desk Live at Black Hat USA 2019
News  |  8/8/2019  | 
Watch right here for 40 video interviews with speakers and sponsors. Streaming live from Black Hat USA Wednesday and Thursday 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern.
Black Hat 2019: Security Culture Is Everyone's Culture
News  |  8/7/2019  | 
In his Black Hat USA keynote, Square's Dino Dai Zovi discussed lessons learned throughout his cybersecurity career and why culture trumps strategy.
Security & the Infinite Capacity to Rationalize
Commentary  |  8/6/2019  | 
To improve the security posture of our organizations, we must open our eyes to rationalization and put an end to it with logic. Here's how.
Black Hat: A Summer Break from the Mundane and Controllable
Commentary  |  8/2/2019  | 
Enjoy the respite from the security tasks that await you back at home. Then prepare yourself for the uphill battles to come. Here's how.
SecOps Success Through Employee Retention
Commentary  |  8/1/2019  | 
To keep your turnover low, focus on these areas: compensation, advancement opportunities, training, and environment.


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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
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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