Tech stack uniformity has become a systemic vulnerability
In the past few years the cyber-security world has observed more threats that affect operations at a global scale, including the Log4J vulnerability of 2022, the MoveIt vulnerability of 2023, and the…
The Day the Digital World Froze: Lessons from a Global Tech Crisis
The Windows outage caused by bugs in a CrowdStrike update has brought a lot of attention to the security world, with concerns about how a cybersecurity company could accidentally cause a disruption…
The Role of Law Enforcement in Remediating Ransomware Attacks
In many cases in the past, fear of negative press and customer loss kept victims of ransomware attacks from making the attacks they suffered public. The main reason that trend has changed, and that…
What is Cross-Site Scripting and How to Prevent it?
This week, Blackwired would like touch on one of the oldest and yet most common and most dangerous purely technical vulnerabilities a business will face: Cross-Site Scripting, or XSS. XSS has to do…
When Spear Phishing met Mass Phishing: Attackers Starting to use Spear Phishing Tactics in Bulk Phishing Campaigns
Analysts typically distinguish between large scale, low effort generic social engineering attacks, bulk phishing, and highly calibrated, high effort social engineering targeting a much smaller…
Why Firewalls Are Not Enough in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape
Perimeter devices such as firewalls are currently in the cybersecurity limelight, due to the discovery of vulnerabilities that could be exploited to penetrate them. A recently discovered…
Why GenAI fails at full SOC automation
The increasing prevalence of generative AI in the tech community has given certain individuals in the security community hopes of cutting down on the need for professionals to work long, overnight…