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.

Database Security
Authentication
Mobile
Privacy
Compliance
Careers and People
Identity & Access Management
Security Monitoring
Advanced Threats
Insider Threats
Vulnerability Management

Attacks/Breaches

Breach Awareness Made Easy

What if companies had to disclose breach history in the same way food companies display nutritional information?

Comment  | 
Print  | 
//Comments
Newest First  |  Oldest First  |  Threaded View
ODA155
ODA155,
 User Rank: Ninja
10/9/2014 | 3:12:02 PM
Re: Security Seals of approval (or disapproval)
I think you're looking for a simple solution to a very complicated problem. So, my question, who explains to the consumer what a CrossSite Scripting attack is... DDoS or SQL Injection?

Instead, I would recommend something like this, although government sponsored. If you want to get people attention they will need to know what you're talking about and if you search this DB you will see the shock value it could have if more people (consumers) were aware of its existance.

 

Chronology of Data Breaches Security Breaches 2005 - Present

https://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach

 
Sara Peters
Sara Peters,
 User Rank: Author
10/6/2014 | 2:09:01 PM
Re: Security Seals of approval (or disapproval)
@Marilyn  Definitely hard to argue against more transparency when it comes to breaches. One thing that's going to take some time to do, though, is to educate the general public.so that they'd actually understand what the heck the data meant. Maybe things like "cross-site scripting vulnerabilities" on an app security box would only matter to IT people anyway. But a breach disclosure box for the general public would have to be a bit simpler.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
10/6/2014 | 1:54:21 PM
Re: Security Seals of approval (or disapproval)
That appsec lable, is cool, isn't it? Would be a litte trick to implemment for web apps, to be sure. But it's hard to argue against the idea of more transparency when it comes to breach disclosure.... 
Sara Peters
Sara Peters,
 User Rank: Author
10/6/2014 | 12:47:21 PM
Re: Security Seals of approval (or disapproval)
@Marilyn  Ooo I like the OWASP version with app security too. The tricky thing with doing it for Web apps is that you could only focus on the app and not the implementation on the Website, since looking for vulnerabilities on someone else's site is illegal without permission.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
9/29/2014 | 8:02:03 AM
Re: Security Seals of approval (or disapproval)
Agreed, Robert. More so, I think a public disclosure of breach history would put security right where it belongs -- on the front burner of the C-suite which sould give security teams much more clout and visibility for getting the resources they need to be proactive.
Robert McDougal
Robert McDougal,
 User Rank: Ninja
9/28/2014 | 1:29:52 PM
Re: Security Seals of approval (or disapproval)
Not only would it make the information more digestable and understandable for consumers, it would additionally drive business away from the poorest performers and shepard business to the most secure companies.   I like it.
Marilyn Cohodas
Marilyn Cohodas,
 User Rank: Strategist
9/26/2014 | 4:27:01 PM
Security Seals of approval (or disapproval)
This isn't totally analagous but Jeff Williams creator of the OWASP Top 10 came up with a similar idea for application security. I'm sure something similar could come be fashioned for data breach disclosure. Check it out: 

on security. Take a look 

 
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
How Enterprises are Developing Secure Applications
How Enterprises are Developing Secure Applications
Recent breaches of third-party apps are driving many organizations to think harder about the security of their off-the-shelf software as they continue to move left in secure software development practices.
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