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In Basic Web Application Attacks (BWAA), we are largely focusing on attacks that directly target an organization’s most exposed infrastructure, such as Web servers. These incidents leverage one or the other of two entry points, the Use of stolen credentials or Exploiting a vulnerability. Attacks within this pattern are split between two areas. The means […]
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Patterns are essentially clusters of similar incidents. You can see there are eight patterns in this year’s Verizon report. Basic Web Application Attacks These attacks are against a Web application, and after initial compromise, they do not have a large number of additional Actions. It is the “get in, get the data and get out”
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Assets are the things that you try to preserve. You can also find what was hacked via an exploit, and who was socially engineered by an attacker. This should help you understand what is being targeted and how to prioritize what type of coverage your infrastructure needs. Check out the specific types of servers on
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Do most breaches still occur through web applications? Let see how the security incident or breach played out last year. Actions that lead up to the breaches are stratified in Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Report by the type of action and vector where the action was used to hack a system.
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I came across many cases of bad practices involving outsourced development teams recently. They vary from lack of skills to outright fraud. Damages ranged from a few thousand dollars wasted on misunderstood business requirements to millions of dollars siphoned through fake organizations. . The geography of “bad” developers often includes India, Eastern Europe and increasingly
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