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Overcoming the Barriers to Automating Your Cybersecurity

"Automation" has become a buzzword in cybersecurity circles. That is not surprising in an environment where security specialists are in short supply and under intense pressure to defend the business against a huge variety of threats from innumerable different sources. Using technology to do at least some of the work seems like a no-brainer. Nevertheless, it seems that organisations are finding it hard to get the right approach to cybersecurity automation.

China-Taiwan Threat Intelligence Landscape

Over the past couple of months, the tension between China and Taiwan has increased dramatically. The well-known conflict between both countries began in 1949 when Taiwan became a self-governing state, while Beijing still considers the island part of its territory. Beijing has promised to “unify” Taiwan with the rest of the mainland, using force if necessary.

Squiz Matrix CMS Authenticated Privilege Escalation through IDOR

During a recent engagement, Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered an Indirect Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability within Squiz Matrix CMS which would allow any low privileged user to change the contact details of any other user on a Squiz Matrix instance (including administrators). An attacker exploiting the vulnerability could change an administrator’s email address to an attacker-controlled email address after which the attacker could reset the administrator’s password.

Detecting Ransomware on Unmanaged Devices

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If an unmanaged device is infected with ransomware, will the security operations team receive an alert? Consider a contractor or employee who uses their personal laptop for work. If that device becomes infected with ransomware, not only does it pose a risk to the organization’s data and a risk to other devices within the organization, but the device is not centrally managed.

Developer Roll Up: August 2022

Another month rolls off the calendar with lots of exciting things happening at LimaCharlie. The team was on the ground at Blue Team Con which was a great experience. The most exciting thing this month would have to be the addition of Matt Bromerly to the team. Matt is joining LimaCharlie as a Lead Solutions Engineer/Developer Relations. He has deep experience and a passion for working with organizations to solve their cybersecurity challenges.

Best practices for containerizing .net applications

Containerization with Docker has become a major trend in web application development that many.NET developers have adopted. There are many compelling advantages for developers and DevOps engineers to containerize.NET applications, even when working with the older.NET Framework 4.x versions. However, if we don’t know how to use containers properly, we’ll experience little benefit from them.

Why the HR department is key to cybersecurity

In recent years there has been a growing trend for cybercriminals to target human resources departments in order to exploit the sensitive data they handle. Hackers can do a lot of damage, and make a lot of money, once they gain access to Social Security information, dates of birth, work history or employee and company bank account numbers.