Author: Ernest Haberli Jr.

In this digital era, where everything has become online, the risks of cyberattacks have also increased. With the advancement in technology, cybercriminals are constantly refining and updating their techniques and procedures. They find sophisticated ways to attack that are even difficult to detect. Organizations, businesses, and individuals alike are facing cyber threats, and their online safety is at risk. You need to take steps to protect your online privacy, devices, identity, and sensitive information. It’s important to safeguard your internet-connected devices to protect yourself from cyber-attacks. For this purpose, you need to learn about the common vectors of cyberattacks and how to mitigate them. In this article, you’ll get an overview of some of the most common vectors of cyberattacks seen today. But before proceeding further, let’s first understand what a cyber…

System Center Operation Manager or OpsMgr in short SCOM, a tool plays a key role in maintaining the health of the whole Windows infrastructure of an organization. IT teams use this tool to monitor the health & performance, send configurations, apply OS & app patches, and run the scripts on SCOM agents to keep the health of infra. To make use of SCOM services, all the workstations and servers should be connected and reporting to the SCOM servers. SCOM can manage the domain workstations and domain servers using the default Kerberos protocol over the network ports 5723 & 5724. But, how SCOM will manage the workgroup computers and the machines which are in a domain that doesn’t trust Ops Manager? This is why SCOM needs digital certificates to manage untrusted SCOM clients. SCOM…

Cybersecurity threats are increasing daily; businesses are increasingly moving their operations online, and hackers are enhancing their methods to break into the most secure security operations. Considering this, businesses require extremely sophisticated methods of detection and response to guard against cyber-attacks and protect crucial systems. SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) security tools are among today’s most effective cybersecurity solutions. Automatization and orchestration are the core of SOAR capabilities, allowing SOC teams to simplify their most demanding tasks to develop more effective strategies and improve efficiency in response to any threat that may be facing their businesses. This blog helps you understand what is SOAR– Security Orchestration Automation and Response is and the best SOAR solutions available in the market that can help increase your business efficiency.  Let’s get started! Disclaimer: The list presented…

On Aug 17th, tech giant Apple rolled out security updates for their iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms to fix two new out-of-bound vulnerabilities in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Apple didn’t disclose the technical details about the flaws to avoid the exploitation of the vulnerabilities. Let’s explore what Apple has shared about the vulnerabilities. Two Out-of-Bound Vulnerabilities in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Flaws being tracked as CVE-2022-32893 and CVE-2022-32894 are out-of-bound vulnerabilities in WebKit and kernel of Apple platforms: iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. CVE-2022-32893: It is an out-of-bound write issue in WebKit that allows attackers to carry out arbitrary code execution with maliciously crafted web content. CVE-2022-32894: It is an out-of-bound issue in Kennel that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges using a malicious or vulnerable application. Apple Devices Vulnerable to these two…

Apache officially issued the risk for Apache CouchDB privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2022-24706 with critical severity. This vulnerability can allow attackers to execute code on a targeted client or server without being authenticated if not patched properly. Since this vulnerability allows attackers to access an improperly secured installation to gain admin privileges without authentication, there is a need to mitigate the risk. This article will discuss how to fix CVE-2022-24706, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Apache CouchDB. About Apache CouchDB Apache CouchDB allows you to access data where required. The Couch Replication Protocol is applied in different projects and products spanning every imaginable computing environment. It ranges from globally distributed server clusters and mobile phones to web browsers. This protocol enables data to flow seamlessly between server clusters to web browsers and mobile phones, enabling…

Authentication plays a vital role in the security of a web application. When you provide login credentials to authenticate and prove your identity, the application assigns specific privileges to you, depending on the identity established by applied credentials. When a hacker breaks into an application or a system being a valid user, he can access all privileges assigned by the administrator to that user. It can compromise users’ sensitive data and pose severe risks to them. Cybercriminals use authentication bypass vulnerability to perform this operation. In this article, we will discuss authentication bypass and how to prevent it. Let’s get started. What Is Authentication Bypass Vulnerability? Applications and software require credentials to access the system, such as email, username, and password. Authentication bypass is a vulnerable point where criminals gain access to…