Dark Reading is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Commentary

Content posted in August 2011
Smartphones And Tablets Targets For Getting 'Juiced'
Commentary  |  8/29/2011  | 
Awareness campaign at DefCon shows how easy data can be stolen from smartphones using free charging kiosks
Google+ Naming Policy Causes Social Butterflies
Commentary  |  8/24/2011  | 
How far out there do you want to be? Readers debate rising tensions related to social network privacy.
PCI QSA Status Revocation A Shot Across The Bow For QSAs?
Commentary  |  8/24/2011  | 
The PCI Security Council's move spells trouble for unscrupulous QSAs and shows that the Council means business in enforcing its quality standards
Fraud Detection And DAM
Commentary  |  8/23/2011  | 
DAM can be used for fraud detection, but you need to review your alerts
Anonymous Hackers Are Hypocrites, Not Hacktivists
Commentary  |  8/22/2011  | 
An amorphous group of hackers has proven its ability to breach, torment, and embarrass. But as its dance with BART shows, its larger ambitions ring hollow.
McAfee Stews; HP Speculation Brews
Commentary  |  8/22/2011  | 
McAfee takes heat for fear mongering, while HP watches its future predicted. One scenario envisions an Oracle takeover.
HP's Biggest Problem: Securing Its Message
Commentary  |  8/19/2011  | 
HP's stock has fallen more than 20 points this week largely because its change in direction was leaked and HP's message was lost
Medical Device Security Under Fire At Black Hat, DefCon
Commentary  |  8/18/2011  | 
New research on medical device security is shining light on potentially deadly vulnerabilities
3 Security Lessons From BART's Anonymous Breach
Commentary  |  8/18/2011  | 
As BART continues to face attacks from the hacker group Anonymous, its security weak points have become painfully obvious. Here's what your IT staff can learn from BART's mistakes.
Database Auditing, Forensics Style
Commentary  |  8/15/2011  | 
Forensic auditing of databases is not new, but there's a growing need for breach analysis
Dark Reading Launches New Tech Center On Security And Compliance
Commentary  |  8/15/2011  | 
New Compliance Tech Center will cover relationship between security initiatives and compliance initiatives
WarVOX Gets An Overhaul; Wardialing Added To Metasploit
Commentary  |  8/12/2011  | 
Rewrite of WarVOX brings new features, better audio fingerprinting, and a Ruby VoIP stack that has been integrated into Metasploit
Judge Thyself
Commentary  |  8/11/2011  | 
The haters came out of the woodwork regarding Defcon Kids. What are they scared of? That kids may actually learn something useful?
Shady RAT No China Smoking Gun
Commentary  |  8/11/2011  | 
Kudos to McAfee for discovering attacks that go undiscovered too often, but questions about attack severity, sophistication, or nation-state backing remain.
Tween Hacker's Time-Travel Trick
Commentary  |  8/10/2011  | 
DefCon Kid discovers new class of vulns
The Death Of DRAM?
Commentary  |  8/10/2011  | 
SSD increasingly will be used to replace DRAM in everything from laptops to servers. Here's why that makes sense.
Data Breaches On The Rise?
Commentary  |  8/9/2011  | 
Nope -- but publicity is
Cloud Security Certification Not So Simple
Commentary  |  8/9/2011  | 
Current pass rate of CSA's CCSK test is only 53 percent
Don't Blame RIM, Twitter For London Riots
Commentary  |  8/9/2011  | 
You may dislike social networking or smartphones all you want--but remember they're just tools used by people.
McAfee Finds A Shady RAT -- But I Smell Something Worse
Commentary  |  8/8/2011  | 
A serious problem in adequate disclosure could represent a bigger exposure than the massive ongoing attacks in the report
Android Malware On The Rise
Commentary  |  8/5/2011  | 
The unvetted Android app marketplace is a major cause of the escalating attacks on the platform.
The Week In Security: 4 Big Stories
Commentary  |  8/5/2011  | 
Cyber threats as part of future wars, Android malware, and Shady Rats made news. Don't miss the week's key security stories.
LulzSec Intrigue; Hurd Talks Oracle's Real Battle
Commentary  |  8/1/2011  | 
A youthful hacker on a remote island surfaces. Plus Mark Hurd goes one-on-one about what Oracle really wants.
WAFs And SQL Injection
Commentary  |  8/1/2011  | 
WAFs protect databases from SQL injection for only so long
How to Choose A Cloud Storage Provider: Availability
Commentary  |  8/1/2011  | 
Access varies across cloud storage providers. Here's how to make sure you get what you need, when you need it.


Edge-DRsplash-10-edge-articles
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
Register for Dark Reading Newsletters
White Papers
Video
Cartoon
Current Issue
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
Flash Poll
Twitter Feed
Dark Reading - Bug Report
Bug Report
Enterprise Vulnerabilities
From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database
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