Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Lately I’ve been confronted more and more with the notion of holding two opposing ideas at the same time, while being able to accept that they can both be true. This cognitive dissonance surfaced again for me when I was asked to participate in a DeVry University roundtable discussion focused on innovative ways to bridge the talent gap. Spending a virtual lifetime in education, I’m of two minds when it comes to talent and skills.

Attackers use remote code execution as a way to gain unauthorized access, perform data breaches, disrupt services and deploy malware. Here’s how you can prevent your organization from RCE attacks: Let’s dive deep into remote code execution and, importantly, its prevention techniques.

PaperCut NG is a popular print management software that has 100 million users at over 70,000 organizations around the world. Recent discoveries have unveiled critical vulnerabilities in this widely-used software, specifically the CVE-2023-27350 authentication bypass vulnerability. This vulnerability, if exploited, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on a target system.

For years, security leaders have debated the advantages of building in-house security operations centers or outsourcing the SOC function to a third party. Both options have their pros and cons. The best choice for each organization depends on a few factors: the type of threats it encounters, the resources it has at its disposal, the complexity and breadth of their attack surface, and the commitment it wants to make to advanced threat hunting.

Investigating a security event is the less glamorous version of an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Without the snazzy, high-end, mostly-fictitious technology that television shows you, your actual digital forensics investigation usually involves an arduous process of reviewing technical data and looking for the breadcrumbs a malicious actor left behind.

RedLine Stealer is a malware strain designed to steal sensitive information from compromised systems. It is typically distributed through phishing emails, social engineering tactics, and malicious URL links.

IoCs are forensic data threat intelligence teams use to confirm cyberattack occurrences and build cyber-defense strategies. IoCs are critical in identifying system vulnerabilities, and determining how a cyber-crime was executed. While the relevance of IoCs cannot be downplayed in the cyber security space, they are not all that’s needed in building an effective cyber-defense strategy.