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Content tagged with Advanced Threats posted in December 2017
Avoiding Micro-Segmentation Pitfalls: A Phased Approach to Implementation
Commentary  |  12/29/2017  | 
Micro-segmentation is very achievable. While it can feel daunting, you can succeed by proactively being aware of and avoiding these roadblocks.
The Financial Impact of Cyber Threats
Commentary  |  12/27/2017  | 
Determining the financial impact of specific IT vulnerabilities is a good way to prioritize remediation and prevent attacks.
Block Threats Faster: Pattern Recognition in Exploit Kits
Commentary  |  12/22/2017  | 
When analysts investigate an indicator of compromise, our primary goal is to determine if it is malicious as quickly as possible. Identifying attack patterns helps you mitigate quicker.
Advanced Deception: How It Works & Why Attackers Hate It
Commentary  |  12/18/2017  | 
While cyberattacks continue to grow, deception-based technology is providing accurate and scalable detection and response to in-network threats.
Why Hackers Are in Such High Demand, and How They're Affecting Business Culture
Commentary  |  12/14/2017  | 
White hat hackers bring value to organizations and help them defend against today's advanced threats.
Cyberattack: It Can't Happen to Us (Until It Does)
Commentary  |  12/6/2017  | 
Just because your small or medium-sized business isn't as well known as Equifax or Yahoo doesn't mean you're immune to becoming a cybercrime victim.
Deception: Why It's Not Just Another Honeypot
Commentary  |  12/1/2017  | 
The technology has made huge strides in evolving from limited, static capabilities to adaptive, machine learning deception.


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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