Tuesday July 10th patch Tuesday #7 of 2018

53 vulnerabilities in today’s Patch Tuesday There is a Dashboard set up by Morphus Labs 3 publicly disclosed and 17 critical. It is always important to keep up on your patching regimen, as today’s vulnerabilities become more and more dangerous in the future. But one has to assess the current and older vulnerabilities with what … Read more

100% Cybersecurity is Impossible

Do you want to use the Internet? Computers? Tablets? Cellphones? There is no device created that is 100% secure with no risk. So now what? Risk management – is what we are supposed to do, where the risk of using something is lower than the value of using it. For example: using a computer for … Read more

Why Is It Cybersecurity Pros Make It Complicated?

We say things like: DO NOT CLICK ON Phishing emails!! But then Equifax creates www.experianidentityservice.co.uk ???  or creditexpert.co.uk/login/login Bsides in London earlier this year had a presentation by Meadow Ellis (@notameadow). Meadow makes a good point, as we as Cybersecurity professionals ask users to be careful what you click, and then  somebody in the company … Read more

SAML Attacks can break down Single Sign-On(SSO)

Area41 Defconswitzerland had an interesting video about attacking Single Sign-on technology SAML – Security Assertion Markup Language  (basic tutorial on SAML) There are a few ways an attack can happen, while the initial connections are made (and all certificate info is exchanged or other info needed. Or after the initial connection was made and now the … Read more