Thom explains credential stuffing. Thom from our technical team gives an explanation of what credential stuffing is. Video transcript: When professionals mention credential stuffing attacks, what they are usually referring to is the process of brute-forcing username-password pairs into applications in order to get a valid login. For an attacker, this process can be automated …
Thom explains Zero Trust Networks Who should you be trusting? JUMPSEC cyber security expert Thom explains what is meant by the term “Zero Trust Network” in this edition of JUMPSEC’s Jargon Buster Series – helping you navigate Cyber Security Terminology. “On typical networks, all users who are able to access the network – either by …
Zero Trust is simply a concept, a model which states that you really should not be trusting anyone or any device just because they reside on your network or within your perimeter. All networks should be considered untrusted and hostile, regardless of whether we are talking about a local network in a secure building or …
With the recent state of the pandemic and constrained lockdown, businesses will be looking to move or will have just moved most, if not all their entire workforce to working from home. Here are some key areas we think businesses need to consider when setting up users to work from home, and what to look …
Thom explains File Inclusion Vulnerability Learn more about this type of vulnerability in the latest edition of JUMPSEC’s Jargon Buster series. Cyber security expert Thom explains what is meant by the term “File Inclusion Vulnerability”. “A file inclusion vulnerability occurs when a web page contains references to a file and allows the reference to point …
Nikoo explains how Red Teaming differs from a Penetration Test Red Teaming and Pen testing share some similarities – learn the difference in the latest edition of JUMPSEC’s Jargon Buster series – helping you to navigate Cyber Security terminology. “There are a number of ways that a red teaming exercise differentiates from a pen test. …
Thom explains the difference between a Vulnerability Assessment & a Penetration Test JUMPSEC cyber security expert Thom sheds some light on Vulnerability Assessments, Penetrations Tests and the differences between them. “Vulnerability assessments typically rely on vulnerability scanning tools to identify technical vulnerabilities making use of pre-configured test cases and signatures. A penetration test takes a …
Thom tells us about Anomaly Detection In this week’s episode of our cyber security Jargon Buster series, Thom explains what an Anomaly Detection is. “Anomaly detection is a technique used to identify unusual patterns that do not conform to expected behaviour, called outliers. You know you users and your network. And your users and your …
Ray answers: What is PASS the HASH? In this week’s edition of JUMPSEC’s Cyber Security Jargon Buster, Ray explains what PASS the HASH means. “To understand what PASS the HASH is, you first must understand what is a HASH. So generally speaking, for every input, such as a password, there’s one unique output, a HASH, …
Ray explains what Buffer Overflow means News broke this week describing how hackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in Facebook owned messaging platform ‘WhatsApp’ and target a select number of users, cited to most likely include lawyers, journalists, activists and human rights defenders. It was reported that a “buffer overflow” vulnerability was found in …