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The 10 Most Impactful Types of Vulnerabilities for Enterprises TodayManaging system vulnerabilities is one of the old est - and most frustrating - security challenges that enterprise defenders face. Every software application and hardware device ships with intrinsic flaws - flaws that, if critical enough, attackers can exploit from anywhere in the world. It's crucial that defenders take stock of what areas of the tech stack have the most emerging, and critical, vulnerabilities they must manage. It's not just zero day vulnerabilities. Consider that CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog lists vulnerabilitlies in widely used applications that are "actively exploited," and most of them are flaws that were discovered several years ago and have been fixed. There are also emerging vulnerabilities in 5G networks, cloud infrastructure, Edge applications, and firmwares to consider.
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8/26/2017 | 12:10:57 PM
* Spoof the email from a source (accounts.googlemail.com) that *looked like* the source from which real notifications would be sent ([email protected]) ...
* ... where this domain was not used by Google, and Google did not have a DMARC policy in place that caused rejection traffic appearing to come from subdomains not in use.
Of course, the attackers could have done "better" -- after all, the email was delivered in the spam folder of the intended victims. They could, for example, have used the "Spam phishinhg" techniques described by Hossein Siadati at the recent Decepticon conference, to overcome this drawback.
Maybe the attackers fouled up. Maybe they did not realize. Or maybe it just did not matter much to them: their yield was sufficient for them to be satisfied.