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Supply Chain Flaws Found in Python Package Repository

eSecurity Planet

Administrators overseeing the Python Package Index (PyPI) in recent days found themselves responding to vulnerabilities found in the repository of open source software, the latest security problems to hit the Python community. As I’ve mentioned several times before, some supply chains have critical vulnerabilities.

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Neural Fuzzing: A Faster Way to Test Software Security

eSecurity Planet

Software vulnerabilities are a grave threat to the security of computer systems. They often go undetected for years until it is too late and the consequences are irreversible. However, this can take months or even years of work due to the scale of modern software projects. One way of handling all this is with fuzzing.

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How to Perform a Vulnerability Scan in 10 Steps

eSecurity Planet

Vulnerability scans play a vital role in identifying weaknesses within systems and networks, reducing risks, and bolstering an organization’s security defenses. Determine the scanning process’s exact targets, such as exposing known vulnerabilities, analyzing patch management efficacy, or identifying configuration flaws.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? One night I found the light in the crawl space beneath the cottage was on and off and on again. So he queued up some hash MAC addresses and wrote a simple script.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? One night I found the light in the crawl space beneath the cottage was on and off and on again. So he queued up some hash MAC addresses and wrote a simple script.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

For some people, crypto means cryptography. We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. In a moment we’ll meet someone who is actively researching those flaws. For others, it means cryptocurrency. So what if you accidentally forget the password?

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Weekly podcast: A recap of the top stories of 2017 and a look ahead to 2018

IT Governance

As it’s the first one, let’s have a brief recap of some of last year’s biggest stories, and then look ahead to what we can expect from the next 12 months. Back in December 2016, Yahoo admitted that more than 1 billion customers’ records had been compromised by an unauthorised third party in 2013. Happy new year. Let’s start with Yahoo.