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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. Kill chain Attack technique Deception defense Initial Access Uses stolen/purchased credentials to access internet-facing applications like IdPs, VPNs, RDP, and VDI.

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CVE-2023-46747: Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP

Tenable

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in F5’s BIG-IP could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute system commands. Analysis CVE-2023-46747 is a critical severity authentication bypass vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution (RCE).

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SpecTrust raises millions to fight cybercrime with its no-code platform

TechCrunch

SpecTrust aims to “fix the economics of fighting fraud” with a no-code platform that it says cuts 90% of a business’ risk infrastructure spend that responds to threats in “minutes instead of months.” . “In Don’t hate on low-code and no-code. Today, it’s more like five and seven milliseconds,” he said. “

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Maximize Your Vulnerability Scan Value with Authenticated Scanning

Tenable

Start doing authenticated scanning. Performing authenticated scans of your environment offers essential benefits and is a practice widely recognized as valuable. The scan configurations we observe in Tenable’s SaaS products are telling: our customers run unauthenticated scans 20 times more than authenticated ones.

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CVE-2024-24919: Check Point Security Gateway Information Disclosure Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

During this monitoring, Check Point noticed “a small number of login attempts” that were utilizing local accounts with password-only authentication enabled. Password-only authentication is not recommended as brute-force attacks could allow attackers to compromise accounts with weak passwords. Hotfix Version Download Link R81.20

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Mediastack Review – Be Always Up-To-Date With a Real-Time News API

The Crazy Programmer

The best part is many people are now turning to the internet as an essential source of current information. Complete documentation is provided with the code examples for Python, PHP, Go, jQuery, and Ruby. You may specify types of news, authentic sources (that includes omitting sources), countries, languages, and your keywords.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

Hackers take advantage of out-of-date systems, software, and known security issues. This shows that many modern cyber security challenges are network-agnostic, which means the most popular cyber attack methods typically don’t focus on the network technology the company uses to access the internet.

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