While Zoom is in the News, Other Vendors are Also Plagued with Vulnerabilities
The first few months of 2020 had the world thrust apart because of COVID-19. In response, organizations and individuals alike turned to one technology more than any other: teleconferencing software. During the first three weeks of April 2020, Zoom saw a...
DHS Warnings Bring Light to Surging VPN Vulnerabilities
Since the start of 2020, virtual private networks (VPNs) have spiked in usage by 33% due to the flood of people forced to work from home. With this increase in VPN usage also comes a wave of new research into VPN vulnerabilities. One vulnerability,...
What You Don’t Know, Your RiskSense Penetration Tester Does
Knowing the Lay of Your Network Land As a Security Analyst, my job is to identify all possible hosts within a predefined scope of network ranges and assess them for vulnerabilities. I exploit my way through the network to acquire all appropriate access and...
Surging Remote Access Technology Vulnerabilities – See how they affect you
Since the beginning of the year, remote access technologies, such as remote desktop protocols and virtual private networks (VPNs), have spiked in usage by 41% and 33% respectively. Further, Zoom has seen roughly a 340% increase in Daily Active Users since...
Application Vulnerability Patterns
Introduction According to Imperva’s 2019 Cyberthreat Defense Report[1], a staggering 78% of organizations were affected by a successful cyberattack in the past year. Imperva also found that application development and testing is the biggest security...
Getting a Handle on Vulnerabilities in App and Web Frameworks
Web and application frameworks have revolutionized how modern applications and websites are developed and maintained. Whether using WordPress to quickly develop a blog or building fully dynamic web applications using Ruby on Rails, Angular JS, or Apache...
RDP Exposures
In the midst of the SARS-CoV-2 (aka COVID-19) pandemic, governments around the world are locking down non-essential businesses, and many industries are moving to remote access work in order to limit the exposure of their employees to the disease. However,...
Coronavirus and Cybersecurity
As most of the U.S. enters its 3rd week of lockdown, everyone that is able to work from home has pretty much figured how their “new normal” works. IT teams have been working around the clock to provide the hardware, software, and systems to allow their...
SMBGhost: Detailed Information and RiskSense System Filter
Detailed information regarding the SMBGhost vulnerability and how to use the SMBGhost filter in RiskSense.
Vulnerability Management Has Its “Concorde Moment”
When the Wright brothers first got an airplane off the ground in 1903, the aircraft in question did not have a cockpit, let alone a control panel or dashboard. This changed quickly as aircraft designers realized that pilots needed more protection and...
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