There are several different types of vulnerabilities, determined by which infrastructure they’re found on. Vulnerabilities can be classified into six broad categories: 1. Hardware Any susceptibility to humidity, dust, soiling, natural disaster, poor encryption, or firmware vulnerability. 2. Software ...
Echobot attacks a wide range of IoT devices, exploiting over 50 different vulnerabilities, but it also includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server and VMWare’s SD-Wan networking software. In addition, the malware looks for unpatched legacy systems. Echobot could be used by malicious actors to ...
In 2016, over one million connected devices in the IoT were compromised by attackers who took advantage of existing software vulnerabilities. It is the largest DDoS attack to date and one that caused outages in the global DNS affecting popular services including Netflix, PayPal, Twitter, and many...
Business logic vulnerabilities are design and implementation flaws in software applications. They have a legitimate business function, but can also be exploited by malicious attackers to create unexpected behavior. These flaws often result from an application’s inability to identify and safely handle une...
Software testingOPTIMIZATIONALGORITHMAdversarial examples remain a critical concern for the robustness of deep learning models, showcasing vulnerabilities to subtle input manipulations. While earlier research focused on generating such examples using white-box strategies, later research focused on gradient-based...
threats are potential risks that have the capability of disrupting the normal functioning of computer systems. Cyber threats are on the rise each day, especially with the digitization of the world. Let’s take a look at all kinds of major computer security threats, issues, and vulnerabilities. ...
Keep track of OS and application end of life Forget zero-day attacks on the latest software; software that has already reached end of life will stop receiving security updates from the vendor and will remain forever vulnerable to any discovered zero-day vulnerabilities. Therefore, it's essential...
critical infrastructure, IT companies and others. The multiplatform ransomware was originally written in Golang, but later 2022 variants used Rust. It infiltrated systems via RDP, VPN and other remote network connection protocols, as well as phishing scams and exploiting Exchange Server vulnerabiliti...
Google Firing range Firing Range is a test bed for web application security scanners, providing synthetic, wide coverage for an array of vulnerabilities. It can be deployed as a Google App Engine application. License: Apache 2 , . Fitnesse FitNesse is the fully integrated stand-alone acceptance...
Detect and remediate all system vulnerabilities - This should be done for both the internal and external vendor networks. An attack surface monitoring solution can help you do this. Keep antivirus software updated - Updates keep antivirus software informed of the latest cyber threats roaming the in...