Security Research

The Five Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques and How to Counter Them

5 Emerging Vectors of Attack and Recommendations for Mitigating the Risks

| | Blog, Cyber Threats, encryption, Network Security, rsa, Security Research
DNS manipulation, domain fronting, targeted cloud individual attacks, HTTPS and encryption, and the exploitation of hardware features are among the emerging challenges adversaries can exploit according to cybersecurity experts at SANS ...
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Navigation Apps: Leading the Way? Or Following You?

Navigation Apps: Leading the Way? Or Following You?

| | android, Blog, CSRF, css, Denial of Service, exposed database, Garmin, Go 520, GPS device, navigation apps, remediation, Security Research, Software Exposure, Technical Blog, TomTom, unencrypted HTTTP, Vulnerabilities
In the United States alone, 84% of adults are using navigation applications, according to a recent Gallup poll. Whether they’re downloading it in an app store or the navigation capability is already ...
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via wehatetowaste.com, original photo credit: Living Green Magazine

Rothman’s Data Security Reset, What To Target And Protect

| | Data Security, Information Security, Security Innovation, Security Research
via wehatetowaste.com, original photo credit: Living Green Magazine via the inimitable Mike Rothman, comes this tour de force research effort targeting of all things - Data Security. In which, the Securosis organization ...
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Browser Cookie Jar: The Pilferage

Browser Cookie Jar: The Pilferage

| | Brilliant, Information Security, Security Research
via Cory Doctorow, comes this fascinating stoy of academicians exercising superlative research and detection skills in the effort to understand - in excrutiatingly intense detail - the true nature of cookie policies, ...
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Foreshadow Attack

The Foreshadow Attack: Intel On The Ropes

| | Accountability, Hardware Flaws, Hardware Security, Information Security, Security Research, speculative execution
Is Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC) Down and Out, or Just Down? As always you be the judge... Permalink ...
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via the White Paper mentioned herein.

Alejandro Hernandez’s Exposing Security Weakness in Stock Trading Tech

| | Application Security, Information Security, Must Read, Security Research, security testing
via the White Paper mentioned herein. Superlative security research is still coming out of the IOActive game-changing environment (this has been going on for years now - how do they do it...) ...
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The Next Battleground

| | Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Competence, Cyberwar, Electronic Warfare, Power Generation, Security Research
via Rob Knake, writing at the Council on Foreign Relations' online outlet: Foreign Affairs and in the Snapshot section, comes this astute examination of the co-called cyberwarfare space's soft underbelly - power ...
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via the Security Mindset of Robert M. Lee and Illustration talents of Jeff Hass at Little Bobby Comics

Robert M. Lee and Jeff Hass’ Little Bobby Comics – ‘Different Hats’

| | Little Bobby Comics, Sarcasm, satire, Security Humor, Security Research
via the Security Mindset of Robert M. Lee and Illustration talents of Jeff Hass at Little Bobby Comics Permalink ...
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Q2 Appthority Pulse Report Finds Chat Apps Most Popular, Risky & Blacklisted Apps

| | app risks, Appthority, blacklist, Data Privacy, Data Security, enterprise data loss, malicious, mobile risk, Mobile Security, Mobile Security Insights, Mobile Security Tips, mobile threat report, Mobile Threat Risk Score, Pulse Report, research, Security Research, sensitive data, threat report, top app list, URL reputation
Today Appthority released our Q2 Enterprise Mobile Security Pulse Report. The report looks at three areas of interest to enterprise mobility and security teams: 1) the most common iOS and Android apps ...
Mobile Threat Blog Posts | Appthority

Appthority Discovers Thousands of Apps with Firebase Vulnerability Exposing Sensitive Data

| | data leakage, database, developers, enterprise security, Firebase, HospitalGown, mobile app risk, Mobile Security Insights, Mobile Security Tips, Mobile Threat Research, Security Research, vulnerability
Appthority has discovered a significant mobile data vulnerability related to Google Firebase which has resulted in the exposure of a wide range and large amounts of sensitive data through thousands of mobile ...
Mobile Threat Blog Posts | Appthority