A side-channel attack is a security exploit that aims to gather information from or influence the program execution of a system by measuring or exploiting indirect effects of the system or its hardware -- rather than targeting the program or its code directly. Most commonly, these attacks aim ...
An example of such an incident is the Colonial Pipeline attack. Russian cybercriminal group, DarkSide infected Colonial Pipelines's IT systems with ransomware, disrupting all of its operations. To resume its critical supply of gasoline to the state, Colonial Pipeline paid Darkside's ransom in excha...
This is a complete overview of attack surface management. Learn how attack surface management can keep your organization secure in this in-depth post.
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Is WannaCry still active? WannaCry has not been completely eradicated, despite the kill switch that managed to halt the May 2017 attack. In March 2018, Boeing was hit but was able to contain the damage quickly. Other attacks remain possible. Not only that, other strains of ransomware that ut...
As a result, as a network continues to grow in size and capacity it becomes harder and harder to launch an effective DDoS against anyone using the CDN. It is not easy to setup a true Anycasted network. Proper implementation requires that a CDN provider maintains their own network hardware,...
To ensure financial data security, access to the financial server is allowed only from the president office; access from the R&D department to the financial server is blocked. The implementation method is as follows: Configure an ACL in the inbound direction of Interface 1 to block the packets...
Probing different MTU sizes determines the optimum fragment sizes for an attack. Offset Obfuscation NOP sleds are split across random fragment offsets to avoid signature detection. Payload Obfuscation Malicious code is sent across multiple reordered fragments with junk fragments interleaved to avoid scans...
Though Threat Modeling can be done at a low cost, and with its implementation, the benefits it will provide can outweigh the cost in the long run. It is a one-time process As we discussed earlier, Threat Modeling is an ongoing process that should be integrated into the Software Development...