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The Latest Cybersecurity News & Insights From Around The World
Breaking down the 'critical' OpenSSL vulnerability
On November 1st 2022, the OpenSSL team released an advisory detailing two high severity vulnerabilities — CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786. This was pre-announced as a critical bug, but later downgraded to high for the actual release. This could still be problematic though, OpenSSL is one of the predominant encryption libraries and is underpinning a significant portion of the internet’s TLS protected communications.
Vulnerability Management: The Beginner's Guide
As available software on the market increases, so do vulnerabilities. When a company's system is weak due to vulnerabilities in the software it uses, attackers take advantage of the situation to: This, in turn, causes the company to lose customers, reputation and money. To reduce threats, network personnel and system administrators are always on the front line, constantly patching the organization's software and operating systems. But to what end?
Understanding NPM Dependency Confusions - What You Need to Know
NPM Dependency Confusion Join us in this livestream as we learn about NPM Dependency Confusions and what it is. If you have ever been confused about the topic, then this video will explain it you, as well as give you some practical examples. Didn't catch the live stream? Ask all of your Snyk questions and we’ll do our very best to answer them in the comment section. Snyk helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure. Continuously find and fix vulnerabilities for npm, Maven, NuGet, RubyGems, PyPI and more.
Secure Python URL validation
Everything on the internet has a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that uniquely identifies it — allowing Internet users to gain access to files and other media. For instance, this article has a unique URL that helps search engine optimization (SEO) crawlers index it for users to find. The first definition of the URL syntax is in the 1994 Request for Comments (RFC) 1738. Since then, the structure of URLs has gone through many revisions to improve their security.
The New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities: How to Protect Your Business
The OpenSSL project has announced two security vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786. The good news is that these vulnerabilities are unlikely to facilitate remote code execution as originally anticipated, and only OpenSSL version 3.0.0 and later are impacted. The bad news, however, is that even though the remote control is unlikely, it’s still possible.
Pentesting as a Service for Web Applications
Penetration testing is an effective way to detect flaws in your application before they turn into a serious threat, helping you better understand the applications attack surface. But in the always-on economy there comes a problem - traditional pen testing delivery takes weeks to set up and the results are point in time, which leaves critical application vulnerabilities exposed longer than it should - given the average time for a threat actor to weaponize a new vulnerability is only 7 days.
Cloud security fundamentals part 4: Align and automate with policy as code
Security policies are still awaiting digital transformation. A key phrase in today’s cloud-driven world, “digital transformation” generally refers to the ongoing work of digitizing formerly paper-based processes. “Paper,” however, is not literal — many processes don’t use paper, but still flow as if they were. Uploading a document to Google Drive, in other words, doesn’t amount to digital transformation.
CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 - High-severity OpenSSL Vulnerabilities Finally Published
On October 25th, The OpenSSL team announced that OpenSSL 3.0.7 will contain a fix for a critical severity vulnerability that affects OpenSSL 3.x. The full details about the vulnerability were held in an embargo until November 1st. Due to the rarity of an OpenSSL critical-severity issue and the overwhelming popularity of OpenSSL, social media was flooded with messages about this issue, expecting a “Log4Shell”-level event.
Stranger Danger: Your JavaScript Attack Surface Just Got Bigger
Building JavaScript applications today means that we take a step further from writing code. We use open-source dependencies, create a Dockerfile to deploy containers to the cloud, and orchestrate this infrastructure with Kubernetes. Welcome - you're a cloud native application developer! As developers, our responsibility has broadened, and more software means more software security concerns for us to address.