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Fighting Fire With Fire: Why Ethical Hackers Are Your Best Allies Against Cybercrime

Fighting Fire With Fire: Why Ethical Hackers Are Your Best Allies Against Cybercrime

Sep 16, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Cybercriminals continue to become sophisticated and greedy as they always seem to find new ways to steal sensitive data for personal and financial gain. According to data compiled by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, it was found that there were 1,003,924 phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2025, which makes phishing one of the biggest security threats to individuals and organisations. What's more, financial and online payment sectors have become the most frequent target of hackers, making up 30 percent of all attacks worldwide.
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Simulating Multi-Agent Workflows to Find Hidden API Vulnerabilities

Sep 12, 2025 By Kristopher Sandoval In Speedscale
API gateways are often viewed as the centralized entry point for client HTTP requests in a distributed system. They act as intermediaries between clients and backend services, managing API request routing, load balancing, rate limiting, access control, and traffic shaping across multiple backend services. This API management is vital for many services and products, but many organizations can put too much stock in it.
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Understanding Pentesting Services and Their Role in Cybersecurity

Understanding Pentesting Services and Their Role in Cybersecurity

Sep 9, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's threat landscape, organizations face a constant barrage of cyberattacks targeting web applications, cloud environments, and internal networks. Security tools, monitoring systems, and compliance audits provide a first line of defense, but they often fail to capture the perspective of a determined attacker. That's where penetration testing comes in. By simulating real-world adversarial techniques, pentesting uncovers weaknesses that traditional security reviews may overlook.
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Critical Microsoft Vulnerability Disclosed: What You Need to Know

Aug 29, 2025 By Ivanti In Ivanti
A Microsoft vulnerability with a 7.2 CVSS score has been disclosed, requiring specific steps for exploitation. Proof of concept code is available, which gives attackers an advantage. This vulnerability affects only Windows Server 2025, limiting its impact. Users are advised to apply OS updates for Windows Server 2025 this month to mitigate risks.
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The Vulnerability Sitting in Front of Government Websites

The Vulnerability Sitting in Front of Government Websites

Aug 26, 2025 By Daniel Mercer In OpsMatters
In early August, in a sublet apartment on the eighth floor of a high-rise in central Tel Aviv, Aviv Yahav, a vulnerability researcher, opened a debugger and watched a memory address filled with zeros where it should have held a cryptographic secret. The affected system was a Fortinet FortiWeb appliance, a web application firewall deployed by thousands of organizations across the public and private sectors. The missing bytes were the secret used to derive session keys for authenticated user sessions.
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SharePoint Vulnerabilities and Security Updates

Aug 19, 2025 By Ivanti In Ivanti
SharePoint Vulnerabilities and Security Updates SharePoint is currently facing vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited, leading to guidance from Microsoft and CISA. An attack chain known as Tool Shell is taking advantage of CVEs, revealing new security risks. On-prem software poses significant threats as attackers can decrypt it. Mitigation involves applying updates and improving threat detection. Additionally, Exchange Server has a security update addressing five vulnerabilities, and users must switch from EWS to Microsoft Graph by October 2026.
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New Feature - Vulnerable System Drivers Monitoring

Aug 5, 2025 By Babu Sundaram In eG Innovations
Vulnerable system drivers continue to be a vector exploited by attackers to compromise systems. In eG Enterprise version 7.5 we added a number of periodic security checks to assist administrators proactively identify weaknesses, including vulnerable system drivers monitoring.This new capability is supported for a Windows OS, when using a VM agent for inside view monitoring and / or when monitoring an Azure Virtual Desktop session host.
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Tutorial: How to Remediate Vulnerabilities with Puppet Enterprise Advanced Patching

Aug 4, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
The rate at which vulnerabilities are being exploited is on the rise. The VulnCheck company, which specializes in vulnerability intelligence, found that in Q1 2025, 28.3% of vulnerabilities were exploited within 1 day of CVE disclosure. Keeping your systems up to date is more important than ever. The reality is that many security teams are running scans and then exporting to giant spreadsheets, which are “tossed over the wall” to the Operations team with little context.
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