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Why We Need a 'Cleaner Internet'
By blocking threats and attacks nearer to their sources, cybersecurity pros could help turn the connected world into a safer place for all.
How to Raise the Level of AppSec Competency in Your Organization
Improving processes won't happen overnight, but it's not complicated either.
GoT Guide to Cybersecurity: Preparing for Battle During a Staffing Shortage
Faced with an overwhelming adversary, Game of Thrones heroes Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow have a lot in common with today's beleaguered CISOs.
Legacy Apps: The Security Risk Lurking in Dusty Corners
Four best practices to keep old code from compromising your enterprise environment.
Selecting the Right Strategy to Reduce Vulnerability Risk
There's no one-size-fits-all strategy for eliminating vulnerability risk. Knowing how your organization operates is what makes the difference.
Benefiting from Data Privacy Investments
GDPR-ready companies experience lower overall costs associated with data breaches, research finds.
New Attacks (and Old Attacks Made New)
Although new attacks might get the most attention, don't assume old ones have gone away.
The Single Cybersecurity Question Every CISO Should Ask
The answer can lead to a scalable enterprise security solution for years to come.
Cloudy with a Chance of Security Breach
Businesses must be aware of the security weaknesses of the public cloud and not assume that every angle is covered.
In Security, All Logs Are Not Created Equal
Prioritizing key log sources goes a long way toward effective incident response.
When Your Sandbox Fails
The sandbox is an important piece of the security stack, but an organization's entire strategy shouldn't rely on its ability to detect every threat. Here's why.
Merging Companies, Merging Clouds
Integrating cloud environments is anything but easy. Evaluating the security risks in doing so must be a starting component of an overall M&A strategy.
Safe Harbor Programs: Ensuring the Bounty Isn't on White Hat Hackers' Heads
As crowdsourced security-testing surges in popularity, companies need to implement safe harbor provisions to protect good-faith hackers -- and themselves.
A New Approach to Application Security Testing
If the appsec industry were to develop a better AST solution from scratch, what would it look like?
Stop Mocking & Start Enabling Emerging Technologies
Mocking new technology isn't productive and can lead to career disadvantage.
Ignore the Insider Threat at Your Peril
Attacks from insiders often go undiscovered for months or years, so the potential impact can be huge. These 11 countermeasures can mitigate the damage.
Advanced Persistent Threat: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners
From sushi and phishing to robots, passwords and ninjas -- and the winners are ...
The Matrix at 20: A Metaphor for Today's Cybersecurity Challenges
The Matrix ushered in a new generation of sci-fi movies and futuristic plotlines with a relentless, seemingly invulnerable set of villains. Twenty years later, that theme is all too familiar to security pros.
3 Lessons Security Leaders Can Learn from Theranos
Theranos flamed out in spectacular fashion, but you can still learn from the company's "worst practices."
True Cybersecurity Means a Proactive Response
Successful, secure organizations must take an aggressive, pre-emptive posture if they want true data security.
Privacy & Regulatory Considerations in Enterprise Blockchain
People who understand information governance, privacy, and security should be active participants on the distributed ledger technology implementation team to ensure success.
In Security, Programmers Aren't Perfect
Software developers and their managers must change their perception of secure coding from being an optional feature to being a requirement that is factored into design from the beginning.
War on Zero-Days: 4 Lessons from Recent Google & Microsoft Vulns
When selecting targets, attackers often consider total cost of 'pwnership' -- the expected cost of an operation versus the likelihood of success. Defenders need to follow a similar strategy.
Airports & Operational Technology: 4 Attack Scenarios
As OT systems increasingly fall into the crosshairs of cyberattackers, aviation-industry CISOs have become hyper-focused on securing them.
In the Race Toward Mobile Banking, Don't Forget Risk Management
The rise of mobile banking and payment services has sparked widespread adoption, making a focus on risk essential.
20 Years of STRIDE: Looking Back, Looking Forward
The invention of STRIDE was the key inflection point in the development of threat modeling from art to engineering practice.
Quantum Computing and Code-Breaking
Prepare today for the quantum threats of tomorrow.
Everything I Needed to Know About Third-Party Risk Management, I Learned from Meet the Parents
How much do you trust your vendors? You don't have to hook them up to a polygraph machine because there are better ways to establish trust.
Threat Hunting 101: Not Mission Impossible for the Resource-Challenged
How small and medium-sized businesses can leverage native features of the operating system and freely available, high-quality hunting resources to overcome financial limitations.
The 'Twitterverse' Is Not the Security Community
The drama on social media belies the incredible role models, job, training, and networking opportunities found in the real world of traditional cybersecurity.
Data Privacy Manifestos: Competitive Advantage or the Start of Something Bigger?
Facebook is the latest company to weigh in with a corporate manifesto focused on privacy. Though it's a welcome trend, only time will tell how many follow through.
Under Attack: Over Half of SMBs Breached Last Year
Many small and midsize businesses work faster and harder than large enterprises, but they're just as vulnerable to cybercrime.
A Glass Ceiling? Not in Privacy
According to a new study, female professionals in the US privacy profession outnumber males 53% to 47%.
Security Lessons from My Game Closet
In an era of popular video games like Fortnite and Minecraft, there is a lot to be learned about risk, luck, and strategy from some old-fashioned board games.
Hacker AI vs. Enterprise AI: A New Threat
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being weaponized using the same logic and functionality that legitimate organizations use.
What the Transition to Smart Cards Can Teach the US Healthcare Industry
Healthcare information security suffers from the inherent weakness of using passwords to guard information. Chip-based smart cards could change that.
The Insider Threat: It's More Common Than You Think
A new study shows why security teams must look holistically across cybersecurity, compliance, technology, and human resources to truly address the business effects of workforce risk.
TLS 1.3: A Good News/Bad News Scenario
Stronger encryption standards are improving the privacy of data in motion, but enterprises will need to adapt their security architectures to maintain visibility into network traffic.
The Case of the Missing Data
The latest twist in the Equifax breach has serious implications for organizations.
Crowdsourced vs. Traditional Pen Testing
A side-by-side comparison of key test features and when best to apply them based on the constraints within your budget and environment.
Are You Prepared for a Zombie (Domain) Apocalypse?
When a domain registration expires, they can be claimed by new owners. And sometimes, those new owners have malicious intent.
On Norman Castles and the Internet
When the Normans conquered England, they built castles to maintain security. But where are the castles of the Internet?
Anomaly Detection Techniques: Defining Normal
The challenge is identifying suspicious events in training sets where no anomalies are encountered. Part two of a two-part series.
4 Reasons to Take an 'Inside Out' View of Security
When you approach security from the inside out, you're protecting your data by determining the most vital applications and using a risk-based strategy, which focuses on the most valuable and vulnerable assets.
IoT Anomaly Detection 101: Data Science to Predict the Unexpected
Yes! You can predict the chance of a mechanical failure or security breach before it happens. Part one of a two-part series.
The Case for Transparency in End-User License Agreements
Why it behooves technology companies to consider EULAs as an opportunity to accurately inform customers about privacy issues and other important information.
5 Essentials for Securing and Managing Windows 10
It's possible to intelligently deploy and utilize Windows 10's many security enhancements while avoiding common and costly migration pitfalls.
The 12 Worst Serverless Security Risks
A new guide from the Cloud Security Alliance offers mitigations, best practices, and a comparison between traditional applications and their serverless counterparts.
IT Security Administrators Aren't Invincible
IT security administrators and their teams are responsible for evaluating an organization's security tools and technologies, but are they armed with the proper tools, considerations, and budget to do so? Fourth in a six-part series.
Debunking 5 Myths About Zero Trust Security
Rather than "trust but verify," a zero trust model assumes that attackers will inevitably get in — if they aren't already. However, several misconceptions are impeding its adoption.
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From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2019-11378
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From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database CVE-2019-11378
PUBLISHED: 2019-04-20
An issue was discovered in ProjectSend r1053. upload-process-form.php allows finished_files[]=../ directory traversal. It is possible for users to read arbitrary files and (potentially) access the supporting database, delete arbitrary files, access user passwords, or run arbitrary code.
CVE-2019-11372PUBLISHED: 2019-04-20
An out-of-bounds read in MediaInfoLib::File__Tags_Helper::Synched_Test in Tag/File__Tags.cpp in MediaInfoLib in MediaArea MediaInfo 18.12 leads to a crash.
CVE-2019-11373PUBLISHED: 2019-04-20
An out-of-bounds read in File__Analyze::Get_L8 in File__Analyze_Buffer.cpp in MediaInfoLib in MediaArea MediaInfo 18.12 leads to a crash.
CVE-2019-11374PUBLISHED: 2019-04-20
74CMS v5.0.1 has a CSRF vulnerability to add a new admin user via the index.php?m=Admin&c=admin&a=add URI.
CVE-2019-11375PUBLISHED: 2019-04-20
Msvod v10 has a CSRF vulnerability to change user information via the admin/member/edit.html URI.
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