Starting with Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22528.1000 the OS supports an account lockout policy enabled by default to block brute force attacks. The lockout policy was set to limit the number of failed sign-in attempts to 10, for 10 minutes. “Win11 builds now have a DEFAULT account lockout policy to mitigate RDP and other brute force password vectors. This technique is very commonly used in Human Operated Ransomware and other attacks – this control will make brute forcing much harder which is awesome.” announced David Weston, Microsoft vice...
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The popular open-source Linux distribution, Kali Linux, specialized for penetration testing, ethical hacking and security auditing, can now be used by Linode customers. Getting Kali Linux on Linode The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform provider, recently acquired by Akamai, offers two ways to get Kali: A bare-install version in the form of an official Kali distribution (without a GUI and tools) that can be deployed on any Linode compute instance and used via a command line interface A Kali Linux Marketplace app (with an XFCE user interface, a full suite of tools, and...
Cross-site scripting is one of the most common and popular web attacks. XSS is a command injection of the client side, it can result in any action that can be performed by the user. Mostly XSS is used for session hijacking where the attacker using javascript makes the victim transmit session cookies to an attacker-controlled server and from there the attacker can perform “session riding”. However, XSS can also result in a complete application takeover. Consider a scenario in which you inject javascript and it gets stored. The admin...
What is XSS? Cross-Site Scripting in short XSS refers to the penetration of website security. A simple XSS vulnerability can act as a sitewide logger. To be honest, it does more damage to the user browsing the site than the web server itself. So yes, it is quite dangerous. Some people may confuse XSS with CSS, which is a very different thing. Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is used in the design functionality of a webpage. Simple JavaScript like this can cause a massive hole in security as an...
Fixing indirect vulnerabilities is one of those complex, tedious and, quite frankly, boring tasks that no one really wants to touch. No one except for Debricked, it seems. Sure, there are lots of ways to do it manually, but can it be done automatically with minimal risk of breaking changes? The Debricked team decided to find out. A forest full of fragile trees So, where do you even start? Firstly, there needs to be a way to fix the vulnerability, which, for indirect dependencies, is no walk in the park....
Businesses say that they take the security of customer data seriously but, when presented with a vulnerability, are often more concerned about their own reputation than the security of their customers. Handle disclosure correctly and you can do both: protect your customers and protect your reputation. Do it wrong and you damage both. By far the most painful part of vulnerability research is responsible disclosure. If we find something bad in a smart thing, it would be fairly irresponsible to publish a method to do bad things without giving...
CyberSecurity Myths Debunked We work online. We live online. As our fast-paced lives get exponentially dependent on digital services, the urgency to protect our information from being misused is crucial. In 2021, Microsoft went down in flames of embarrassment, as it sustained the biggest hack of that year, over 30,000 US businesses were affected by a sweeping attack on the Microsoft Exchange email servers, one of the largest email servers in the world. The hackers were able to exploit four different zero-day vulnerabilities that allowed them to gain unauthorized access to emails from small...
Adware, Trojans, and Ransomware Oh My! If you use a computer, read the newspaper, or watch the news, you will know about computer viruses or other malware. These are those malicious programs that once they infect your machine will start causing havoc on your computer. What many people do not know is that there are many different types of infections that are categorized in the general category of Malware. Malware – Malware is programming or files that are developed for the purpose of doing harm. Thus, malware includes computer viruses,...
Over 24 billion usernames and passwords are up for grabs on cyber-criminal marketplaces and the amount of breached credentials is still rising as hackers take advantage of weak and re-used passwords. Analysis by cybersecurity researchers at Digital Shadows found that there’s been a 65% increase in usernames and passwords sold, traded or dumped in cyber-criminal forums and underground marketplaces. Of the usernames and passwords available across hundreds of underground marketplaces, 6.7 billion were unique – up by a third when compared with previous analysis in 2020 – indicating that many usernames and passwords...
Putting a lock on digital data should be a norm if it isn’t already YOU NEVER KNOW when one of your files might reach someone it wasn’t intended to reach—perhaps through an email forward, a USB stick left behind on a desk, or maybe even an unauthorized user accessing your computer. Should that happen, password protection is all that stands between your data and the people whom you don’t want to see it. It’s an extra layer of security you can add to your most sensitive files without too much...
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