Web Application Security: Methods and Best Practices |
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Garrett Gross May 23, 2016 |
Web-based business services require trusted mechanisms by which money, sensitive information, or both can change hands. We know these as web applications; hackers know them as opportunities. To protect them, we must focus on web application security.How complicated is web application security? You can get a sense by surfing to OWASP — the Open Web Application Security Project, which… Read more
Tags: web application scanning, web application attacks, web application security
Infy Malware – Almost 10 years of Espionage; One Family of Malware |
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Patrick Bedwell May 19, 2016 |
BackgroundAs we all know, nothing on the internet never goes away. Ever. Exhibit A: Infy malware, identified by our friends at Palo Alto Networks’ threat research center as having been around since 2007 or earlier. PAN’s team has documented 40+ variants of a previously unpublished malware family, which it christened ‘Infy’.Malware, which is a broadly… Read more
Tags: malware, otx, trojan, spearphishing, infy
The Community of Extra-ordinary Aliens |
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Javvad Malik May 17, 2016 |
Historically, when people talked about communities, they referred to the tight-knit neighborhoods people lived in, and groups people belonged to, where the members had shared values and interests. But like much of the English language, its meaning has changed with the unstoppable rise of the Internet.As well as being physical places where people live, work, and congregate, the word … Read more
Tags: forums
File Integrity Monitoring with Microsoft Group Policy and AlienVault USM |
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Scott Mace May 16, 2016 |
AlienVault provides basic file integrity monitoring out of the box with our HIDS agent. Sometimes a more robust and detailed audit trail is required, and with a little configuration up front, AlienVault USM can provide rich monitoring and reporting capability for your sensitive files.These instructions assume you have a working AlienVault USM setup and the HIDS agent deployed to… Read more
Tags: usm, fim, microsoft group policy
New features in OTX enhance collaboration and sharing of threat intelligence |
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Russ Spitler May 11, 2016 |
Today we have released two major new features in Open Threat Exchange (OTX). For those of you who have not yet signed up – OTX is an open community that allows you to get updates related to the latest threats as well as collaborate with other security professionals to research and report activity you observe in your environments. AlienVault USM… Read more
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