Phishing is a top concern for businesses as ransomware by phishing attacks increase. Learn what a phishing attack is, common types of phishing, and how to spot phishing emails. Share this article with your employees to bring greater awareness to this issue.

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Using public WiFi can leave you and your employees open to man-in-the-middle cyber attacks. With the increase of remote work, organizations must teach their employees how to stay safe on open WiFi networks. Get our tips on how to protect against hackers while on open WiFi networks.

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Smishing and vishing are types of phishing attacks that use text messaging (SMS) and voice calls to manipulate victims. These types of attacks increasingly target individuals and companies at an alarming rate. Find out how to spot a smishing text or vishing voicemail in this article.

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What is penetration testing and which security testing is right for your business model? VerSprite's Director of Sales sat down with VerSprite's Lead Pentester to ask these questions in an on-demand Q&A webinar.

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PASTA threat modeling is a leading threat model methodology that allows you to realize an attacker's motivations, perform risk analysis, and prioritize risks based on their business impact. This article breaks down all seven stages of the process.

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In this article, VerSprite's Offensive Security Leader compares the differences between popular security tests - vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and red teaming, to help you understand which will best help you move your security maturity forward.

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VerSprite's security researchers explain common security vulnerabilities found in programming languages including: Python, JavaScript, PhP, Java, C, C++, and Swift. Plus, get advice for choosing which programing language is best for your application.

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VerSprite’s Offensive Security team (OffSec) has an extensive history of security testing gaming and fintech organizations. We were hired to push the limits of ZEBEDEE’s application, studying each vulnerability in an in-depth whitebox penetration test. Find out how their developers studied our pentesters in real-time and used it to further fortify their app in our case study.

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In This Report: Gain insight into 2022 cyberthreat trends affecting businesses, organizations, and world governments. Understand the intersection of how cyberwarfare and geopolitics fuel threat campaigns associated with insider threat, misinformation, data harvesting, attacks on critical infrastructure and remote work attack surfaces, IoT proliferation, and more. Review evidence-based predictions on which threats will continue to …

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Exotic Lily specializes in breaching a company and then selling the access to the highest bidder. These threat actors shifted their focus from IT, Healthcare, and cybersecurity companies to a broader spectrum of companies.

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In the next series of articles, we conduct extensive research on Linux operating system. We do a deep dive into its architecture, strengths, vulnerabilities, and optimal ways to mitigate threats to the system

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Each year, VerSprite's dedicated team of cybersecurity experts monitors new threats, hacker activities, and developments in the geopolitical and cyber world to evaluate and analyze the risks and help organizations to better prepare and protect their assets from digital threats.

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In this section, we explore how these boundaries and privileges are shaped and even how they can change. We analyze User Mode and Kernel Mode, what the modes were developed for, and how the two are related.

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AltorCloud works with single and multi-cloud operations. After the initial setup and configuration, the platform continues to perform real-time monitoring and provides step-by-step instructions to fix issues that it identifies.

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As we discussed in the previous parts, the Linux Kernel is a collection of code written entirely in C. This is important to keep in mind while we are dealing with the attack floats because the vulnerabilities found in the Linux Kernel can be found in any executable file written using the C programming language.

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Open-source information is available through major search engines, but not limited to the websites, databases, and files which Google indexes, Yahoo, Bing, or others. Most information found on “deep web” and “dark web” is considered open source.

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We already know that the entire Linux operating system is written in C. And not just the operating system, but many binaries that run on it are written in C. Although there are multiple reasons for this, the main reason is that C is a very fast and powerful language.

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To summarize again briefly, syscall is an instruction that lowers the privilege level of the currently running application to 0 and allows the program to be performed in higher privilege using the required registers. In this section, we look at the Syscall instruction at the assembly level and try to analyze it in detail.

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IoT devices have embedded their way into our daily lives. From appliances, smart home systems, trackers, and doorbells to CPAP machines. We look at the security risks these IOT devices can bring into your life and how you can protect yourself from the risks.

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This research series examined the Linux OS in detail and discussed everything from its architecture to the drivers and even the exploits. Today, we conclude the comprehensive research of Linux with an overview of its main elements.

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Penetration Testing, frequent misrepresentation of its results, and the effect on the security infrastructure. The feasibility of exploitation should be the main focus of penetration testing, and it is at the core of VerSprite’s testing methodology: solving for the probability variable in a risk analysis of realistic attack patterns.

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Our team does extensive work with the retail industry. To give back, we host a living attack tree, free to download. These resources are updated yearly with the most modern and impactful threats, attack surfaces, attack scenarios, and exploitable vulnerabilities our team sees.

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Second half of the 20th century saw the dawn of the information age. Now, at the beginning of 21st century, and especially with the proliferation of IoT devices and social media usage, we are seeing the dawn of misinformation.

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Security is a process. It takes time to build a strong security posture and commitment to optimize and manage it. Security governance is implemented as a means by which organizations can control the security management and direct their approach.

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With the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, we are here to shed some light on the cyberattacks going on between Russia and Ukraine, how it is shaping the geopolitical landscapes, and the cybersecurity impact the war is having on organizations and businesses around the world.

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Integrated into the cybersecurity procedures, A Red Team engagement becomes an ultimate tool in protecting your organization’s assets, developing an effective threat model, and giving your stakeholders a peace of mind to focus on scaling the business.

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The OTM is a 7-stage process, inspired by the application threat modeling methodology, PASTA, that is applied at an organizational level. Much like application threat models, the intent is to have risks proven by various important contexts – business impact, likelihood, and the effectiveness of native countermeasures (or controls) that help reduce inherent risk levels.

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A SOC is the company’s guide and armor in the world of cyber security. In the ever-evolving cyber landscape, a well-functioning SOC ensures organization’s continuity and scaling. A security operations center functions are not limited to just cyber threat intelligence analysis and prevention.

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2022 is becoming the year that is drastically changing the cybersecurity landscape. We are witnessing sweeping layoffs and budget cuts. But will it save organizations money and help get through the tough economic times, or can it only become detrimental to organizations?

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