APRICOT 2019
Apricot 2019 February 18-28, 2019 Daejeon, South Korea
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at January 25, 2019. CN increased 1% from 43% to 44% and US stayed at 12% from last week.
Case Analysis It is a common practice to protect an account with a password. However, the account will be compromised if the password is disclosed. Now many mobile phones or apps support two-step verification. When detecting a login to your account from another phone, the mechanism requires the other form of authentication, for example, a […]
Container Security Protection – Image Security Image Security Images are the basis of containers. Therefore, their security speaks a lot for that of the entire container ecosystem. Container images are a series of images stacked layer by layer. They are distributed and updated through image repositories. The following sections describe how to secure images from […]
Data breaches in 2018 compromised personal information of millions of people around the world, most notably from large corporations such as Facebook, Marriott, T-Mobile and Quora. Seemingly every week there is a new breach reported, and consumers have taken notice. In the past year, the average number of overall daily searches for keywords such […]
Overview On January 15, 2019, local time, Oracle released its own security advisory and third-party security advisories for its January 2019 Critical Patch Update (CPU) which fix 284 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels across the product families. For details about affected products and available patches, see the appendix.
1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, ThinkPHP 5.0-5.0.23 was found to have a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. The NSFOCUS Falcon Team carried out tests and found that ThinkPHP 5.0-5.0.23, 5.1.0-5.1.31, and 5.2.* were also prone to this vulnerability, which could be triggered in both Linux and Windows systems.
Help Net Security – In a new report, NSFOCUS introduced the IP Chain-Gang concept, in which each chain-gang is controlled by a single threat actor or a group of related threat actors and exhibit similar behavior among the various attacks conducted by the same gang. Researchers analyzed attack types, volume, size of events, gang activities, […]
RFID Journal – Planning and oversight have the most significant impact when securing a smart city utilizing Internet of Things and RFID technologies. Recently, I participated in several tenders for smart-city projects around the world. I also partook in CEO roundtable discussions at Telecom Exchange LA, including one about what Los Angeles would look like […]
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at January 18, 2019. CN dropped from 51% to 43% and US increased from 9% to 12% from last week. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: From the diagram […]