The field of IT security has never been more complex or demanding. As organizations race to adopt digital technologies and modernize their infrastructures, they inadvertently create chaos that overwhelms security teams. This chaos is driven by three critical vectors: the rapid expansion of the attack surface, continual changes to existing assets, and the relentless emergence of new security threats.

Attack surface analysis is the process of mapping out an organization’s attack surfaces. These consist of the set of attack vectors that an attacker could use to target an organization. Organizations have both external and internal attack surfaces. An external attack surface includes all potential attack vectors that could be used to gain initial access to an organization’s environment from the public Internet.

An attack surface is the sum total of all the various ways that a cyber threat actor could attack an organization. This includes everything from software vulnerabilities, like SQL injection, to lost and stolen devices to social engineering attacks against the organization’s employees or third-party partners. An organization’s overall attack surface can further be divided into its external and internal attack surfaces.

An authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to gain PAN-OS administrator privileges and perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other authenticated privilege escalation vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-9474.

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress plugin Really Simple Security (formerly known as Really Simple SSL), affecting both its free and Pro versions.

IONIX today announced the release of our Cloud Exposure Validator, a tool designed to reduce cloud vulnerability management noise shifting focus to findings that represent the biggest threats. The Validator addresses the growing challenges organizations face in managing cloud security risks effectively. This blog post explains how.

Third-party vendors are essential for many business operations, from cloud providers to SaaS applications. However, they add to the ever-growing scope of an organization’s risk management. Third-party risk management (TPRM) is the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating the security risks posed by vendors, contractors, and service providers that have access to your organization’s data or systems.

Two Citrix vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069) can potentially lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Note: according to the vendor, privilege escalation to NetworkService Account access in Citrix Session Recording and limited remote code execution with privilege of a NetworkService Account access in Citrix Session Recording is possible when an attacker is an authenticated user in the same intranet.

According to security researcher nol_tech CVE-2024–50340 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS: 7.3) affecting Symfony applications when the PHP directive register_argc_argv is enabled. By appending ?+--env=dev to a URL, attackers can force the application into the dev environment, granting remote access to the Symfony profiler. This exposure can lead to the leaking of sensitive information and potentially executing arbitrary code.

Web applications are many organizations’ primary point of contact with their customers, but they’re also one of their greatest vulnerabilities. Most web applications contain at least one exploitable vulnerability, and the repercussions of a successful exploit can be devastating for an organization or its customers. In this article Web application security focuses on identifying, remediating, and defending web applications to reduce an organization’s vulnerability to attack.