Collaborate Disseminate
We all know that HTTPS = secure. But do you know how HTTPS works under the hood? Let’s take a look at how HTTPS works to make the internet safer…
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Discover How You Can Protect Users and the Organization in Today’s New Normal
The past six months have been a whirlwind of change. Security teams across the world have scrambled to empower distributed users with the tools and information they need… Continue reading Five Cloud Security Considerations for CISOs
Google is rolling out 35 security fixes, and a new password feature, in Chrome 86 versions for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS users. Continue reading Google’s Chrome 86: Critical Payments Bug, Password Checker Among Security Notables
Popular ‘safe browsing’ padlocks are now passe as a majority of bad guys also use them. Continue reading Why Web Browser Padlocks Shouldn’t Be Trusted
At one point this spring, a single set of money-hungry hackers controlled nearly a quarter of the endpoint infrastructure through which the anonymizing internet browser Tor routed traffic, a researcher who tracks Tor claimed this week. The unidentified attacker likely used those Tor “exit relays” — the IP addresses through which Tor traffic passes — to manipulate the traffic and mine cryptocurrency, said the researcher, who goes by nusenu. How much bitcoin the attackers were able to generate, if any, remains unclear. It’s the latest example of how malicious hackers can subvert parts of Tor’s infrastructure for their own gain, and follows another set of malicious Tor activity documented by the same researcher last year. Users ranging from human rights workers in repressive countries to U.S. drug dealers rely on Tor to try to maintain their anonymity online. “So far, 2020 is probably the worst year in terms of malicious Tor exit relay activity since I started monitoring it about […]
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By Ben Reardon, Corelight Security Researcher Having a CVE 10 unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability on a central load balancing device? That’s bad… Not being able to detect when a threat actor attempts and/or succeeds in compr… Continue reading Zeek in it’s sweet spot: Detecting F5’s Big-IP CVE10 (CVE-2020-5902)
Secure Remote Worker Use Case 2: Security and Visibility of Data and Traffic
As we now accept the new norm, combating malicious cyberthreats comes down to two things: visibility and control. If you can monitor traffic flowing to and from usersR… Continue reading Security and Visibility When Users Are Not in the Office
The good news is that this was a bureaucratic necessity rather than an actual cybersecurity attack. Continue reading Digicert revokes a raft of web security certificates
Security has always been an issue with IoT devices. Off the shelf devices often have terrible security while DIY solutions can be complicated, needing recompilation every time a website’s fingerprint changes. [Johannes] wrote in to let us know he’s been working on a way to make HTTPS requests easier to …read more
Making .GOV domains secure – it’ll take “a few years” yet Continue reading United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time