When I joined nCircle as a security researcher in 2006, ASPL 117 had just been released. I missed the ASPL-100 release celebration, which included custom sweatshirts, but there was still one unclaimed shirt in the office and I brought it home, my first piece of company swag. That shirt still hangs in my closet all […]… Read More
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Over the past few years, I’ve used Star Wars Day as a way to talk about two of my favourite things – Star Wars and cybersecurity. I wrote about scammers in 2020 and IoT in 2021, and I really thought I’d write about IoT again this year. After all, there’s no shortage of IoT blunders […]… Read More
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In the past, I’ve written about digital privacy and how much data we leak through our day to day interactions. I think this is an important topic to consider and really focus on and it is an element of cybersecurity at both the enterprise and personal level that isn’t discussed enough. One of the reasons […]… Read More
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We all know that it is a question of when you will be compromised and not if you will be compromised. It is unavoidable. The goal of CIS Control 17 is to ensure that you are set up for success when that inevitable breach occurs. If an organization is neither equipped nor prepared for that […]… Read More
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Within VERT, we are rapidly approaching the release of our 1000th ASPL package. For those unfamiliar with the term “ASPL Package”, we are fast approaching the 1000th time that we delivered vulnerability content to customers. There’s an entire blog post planned around that in a few weeks as it is quite the milestone and accomplishment […]… Read More
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Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s April 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-996 on Wednesday, April 13th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2022-24521 While not previously publicly disclosed, Microsoft is reporting that they have seen active exploitation of this vulnerability in the wild. The vulnerability can […]… Read More
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Last week, I attended the NotSoSecure Advanced Web Hacking training. While there were plenty of interesting topics taught, one that caught my attention was Out-of-Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration using DNS. Back in 2018, NotSoSecure published an Out of Band Exploitation (OOB) CheatSheet. In that document, they cover methods by which you can exfiltrate data. One […]… Read More
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