Tag: Vulnerabilities
Latest Blogs About "Vulnerabilities"
9 total posts.
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Meltdown & Spectre: How to Secure Your SaaS Environment From Unknown Threats
February 22, 2018
As a SaaS provider, securing your environment from known threats is one thing, but how about the unknown? That’s a different story altogether, and ...
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Meltdown & Spectre: What You Need to Know
January 24, 2018
This post discusses the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, provides some proactive actions that can be taken to mitigate them, and also discusses ...
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The RNC Data Exposure: Learnings and Actions to Take
June 23, 2017
Recently, headlines were hyping the largest ever exposure of voter information, involving some 9.5 billion data points related to 198 million U.S. ...
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Vulnerable vs. Exploitable: Why These are Different & Why it Matters
June 13, 2017
Pop quiz: What’s the difference between vulnerable and exploitable? As we’ve written before, a vulnerability is a weakness in a software system. ...
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Vulnerabilities and Exploits: What You Need to Know
December 12, 2016
Exploits feed on vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities, in turn, pave the way for exploits. These closely related security concepts are often confused, ...
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What’s on the Box!? An In-depth Look At OS Package Management
March 29, 2016
Recently, I had the opportunity to help build out our vulnerability detection feature here at Threat Stack. I stepped into this project as I had many ...
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Introducing Vulnerability Management at the Workload Layer
February 23, 2016
You know that feeling you sometimes get after you’ve left the house for the day and suddenly fear you didn’t lock the door? You have two options: ...
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The Linux “Grinch” Vulnerability: Separating Fact From FUD
December 18, 2014
Recently, a security firm reported what they claimed to be a flaw with a major impact on organizations running Linux. (And apparently since all the ...
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CVE-2014-6271 And You: A Tale Of Nagios And The Bash Vulnerability
September 25, 2014
The internet is yet again feeling the aftereffects of another “net shattering” vulnerability: a bug in the shell ‘/bin/bash’ that widely ...