It’s been over two years since offices around the world closed their doors, sending employees to work from home to ride out a series of pandemic lockdowns. Those two years saw a succession of commands to close, reopen, close again, and reopen again, during which office workers in many industries embraced remote work and the benefits of eliminating the commute and providing a better work-life balance.
Developed by MIT, Kerberos Authentication Protocol is the default authentication service for Microsoft Active Directory. It is named after the three-headed dog (Cerberus) found in Greek mythology, because the security protocol involves three major steps in the entire authentication process. Although Kerberos is a technology used by Microsoft Windows, by default, its implementations in other operating systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD and macOS, are also present.
A few weeks ago, a new version for Fastjson was released (1.2.83) which contains a fix for a security vulnerability that allegedly allows an attacker to execute code on a remote machine. According to several publications, this vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the “AutoTypeCheck” mechanism in Fastjson and achieve remote code execution. This Fastjson vulnerability only recently received a CVE identifier – CVE-2022-25845, and a high CVSS – 8.1.
Most cyber insurance policies include a form of value-added service meant to help policyholders avoid cyber incidents. These services create differentiation in the market for insurers and help the bottom line. In fact, a recent survey of cyber insurers found that risk engineering services are a bigger driver of profitability than underwriting accuracy. Yet, we know that the dynamic nature of cyber risk has insurers struggling to keep up and new approaches to evaluating that risk are needed.
“Software is eating the world.” That phrase entered the high-tech lexicon in 2011, courtesy of Marc Andreessen, co-founder of both Netscape and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. His thesis is proven time and again. If you substitute data for software, it amplifies the power of Andreessen’s observation. Consider the following statistics on how much data is created every day: Technology users alone generate more than 1.145 trillion MB of data every day!
An organization’s security protocols are vital to maintaining transparency, compliance with government regulations, and trust with customers. On April 28, 2022, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) released updated directions for compliance requirements for all India-based companies and organizations with Indian clients.
Every compliance audit will ask you to secure SSH, and every time a scanner checks the configuration or CSPM of your cloud account you’ll be warned for it. For example, if you don’t secure SSH on EC2, you’ll certainly get a critical alert stating that one of your Security Groups has its SSH port (22) open to the world. When this happens, you may think: Have I been pwned?
