Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

July 2023

Forged Azure Access Tokens Exploited by Storm-0558: A Cloud Vulnerability Transparency Gap

Starting May 15, 2023, threat actor Storm-0558 illicitly employed forged Azure Access tokens tokens to gain unauthorized access to user emails in around 25 organizations, encompassing government agencies and various consumer accounts hosted on the public cloud.

Control your role! Kubernetes RBAC explored

Role-based access control (RBAC) is an approach for controlling which actions and resources in a system are available to different users. Users are assigned roles that grant them permission to use particular system features. Kubernetes has a robust built-in RBAC implementation for authorizing user interactions with your cluster. Setting up RBAC allows you to define the specific actions that users can perform on each Kubernetes object type.

What Can be Learned from the JumpCloud Security Incident

In an ideal world, security incidents result in minimal damage, and we can learn from them to improve our future defenses. Fortunately, such appears to be the case with JumpCloud. According to JumpCloud’s blog post, its recent security incident impacted fewer than 5 JumpCloud customers and fewer than 10 devices. Moreover, working together with their incident response (IR) partner Crowdstrike (also a Salt Security partner), JumpCloud has mitigated the attack vector used by the threat actor.

FYI: the dark side of ChatGPT is in your software supply chain

Let’s face it, the tech world is a whirlwind of constant evolution. AI is no longer just a fancy add-on; it’s shaking things up and becoming part and parcel of various industries, not least software development. One such tech marvel that’s stealthily carving out a significant role in our software supply chain is OpenAI’s impressive language model – ChatGPT.

Voices from Validate: Bridging the Gap - Communicating Security Risk to the Board

SafeBreach recently held its second annual Validate Summit at The Star in Frisco, Texas, where SafeBreach customers, cybersecurity experts, and influencers explored how enterprises can stay ahead of risk and safeguard their critical business assets from inevitable cyberattacks by implementing proactive security practices. One hot topic was communicating security risk to the board.

Cybernews Expert Interview with Tigera President and CEO, Ratan Tipirneni

The challenges companies face regarding private and professional data protection are more important today than ever. In the modern enterprise, cloud computing and the use of cloud-native architectures enable unmatched performance, flexibility, velocity, and innovation. However, as digitalization pushes applications and services to the cloud, cyber criminals’ intrusion techniques have become increasingly sophisticated.

Managing MFA and MFA Role Out

Hello everyone! Welcome to this video where we'll delve into the intricacies of managing MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) and #MFA roleout. Throughout this session, we'll navigate through various challenging scenarios, including tenants with security defaults, conditional access policies, and per-user MFA. Our main focus will be on Octiga, a powerful tool that analyzes MFA from a risk perspective. We'll explore a template that allows you to easily include or exclude users from MFA policies, giving you greater control over your security measures.

Businesses Lose Data in Office 365 Targeted Cyber Attacks

Microsoft is a large tech company based in the United States with operations in many other parts of the world. The organization is best known for its computer operating systems and its Microsoft 365 suite of business applications. The company employs more than 220,000 individuals and is involved in the management of countless businesses around the world.

SEC requires reporting cyberattacks within 4 days, but not everyone may like it.

New rules requiring publicly-listed firms to disclose serious cybersecurity incidents within four days have been adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The tough new rules, although undoubtedly well-intentioned, are likely to leave some firms angry that they are being "micromanaged" and - it is argued - could even assist attackers.

Tripwire Enterprise: Reimagining a Winning Product

How many security products does it take to monitor an organization? Even a small company often finds itself working with multiple monitoring tools to gain visibility into its security posture. This creates multiple blind spots, as a security analyst needs to jump between different tools with different formats and configurations to research a security incident. Adding to this problem is that the reporting from each tool usually differs, making the creation of a uniform report a chore.