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Following the Dec. 9, 2021, announcement of the Log4j vulnerability, CVE 2021-44228, CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ has provided customers with unrivaled protection and 24/7/365 vigilance in the face of heightened uncertainty. To OverWatch, Log4Shell is simply the latest vulnerability to exploit — a new access vector among a sea of many others.

This article explores how you can locate Insecure direct object references (IDORs) using Burp Suite. Primarily, there are two ways to test the IDOR flaw, manual and semi-automated. For automation, this article focuses on the Autorize Plugin in Burp Suite.

Cybersecurity incidents aren’t rare for businesses now. In fact, in the first 6 months of 2021, around 1767 data breach incidents rocked the business world and exposed more than 18 billion records. And one of the hardest-hit industry verticals from threatening cyber-attacks is the financial industry.

Another — though unlikely — vulnerability was discovered in Log4j’s latest versions: CVE-2021-44832. This is an Arbitrary Code Execution exploit using, yet again, the now infamous JNDI functionality. The vulnerability lets an attacker with control over the Log4j configuration set a malicious datasource for the JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity API) appender. The datasource refers to an attacker-controlled JNDI URI that will execute arbitrary code on the application using Log4j.

Digital risks are a big issue for today’s society. Digital risks can be anything from stealing sensitive information to exposing your own personal information to the public. This is why an understanding of the digital risk management process helps businesses to identify and protect themselves.

Bot traffic is a type of traffic that is generated by automated programs, or bots. These bots can be used to generate fake traffic for testing purposes or to engage in malicious activities. Malicious bot traffic is a huge problem for many website owners, and bot detection can be difficult. There are various types of bot traffic that you need to watch out for. In this guide, we will discuss their different types and how to combat them!

Domain hijacking is the act of domain name theft. It can happen to individuals or organisations and it’s increasing in frequency. The name may be hijacked by someone else who passes themselves off as you, tricks your domain registrar into transferring your domain to them, or hacks into your account (sometimes through phishing) and transfers it themselves.

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