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What Is Privilege Escalation? Types, Examples, and Prevention
What is privilege escalation? Learn how attackers exploit it, ways to prevent such attacks, and strengthen your defenses from unauthorized access.
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What’s a Zero-Day Vulnerability? Prevent Exploits and Attacks
Learn what a zero-day vulnerability is, how these exploits work, and the best strategies to prevent attacks. Stay ahead of threats and protect your systems.
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SQL Injection Prevention: 6 Strategies
Protect your database with effective SQL injection prevention strategies. Secure your systems and stop attackers from exploiting vulnerabilities today.
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CMMC Level 2 Requirements: A Guide to Achieving Compliance
This guide explains CMMC Level 2 requirements and how to achieve compliance. Help your business meet essential cybersecurity standards.
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Secrets Scanning: How It Works and Why It’s Important
Discover how secrets scanning protects sensitive data beyond source code, including documentation, developer tools, and artifacts.
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API Key Security Best Practices: Secure Sensitive Data
Learn essential API key security best practices to protect sensitive data, prevent unauthorized access, and secure your applications.
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Understanding the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation
Explore the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation, who needs to comply, and its requirements. Learn how to ensure compliance with this essential framework.
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CMMC Compliance Requirements: A Complete Guide
Learn what CMMC compliance requirements are and when they’re required. Get an overview of CMMC and how Legit Security can help you achieve certification.
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What Is CI/CD Security? Risks and Best Practices
Learn essential CI/CD security practices to protect your pipeline from vulnerabilities and ensure safe and efficient development and deployment processes.
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7 Best AI Cybersecurity Tools for Your Company
AI cybersecurity tools can strengthen your security strategy and save time. Here’s a curated list of the best AI tools to protect your business.
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PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaires: Choosing the Right Type
PCI DSS is essential for protecting cardholder data. Here’s a guide to help you understand PCI DSS self-assessment and if it’s the right compliance path for you.
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Types of Security Audits: Overview and Best Practices
Discover what a cybersecurity audit is and explore the types of security audits to ensure compliance, protect your systems, and mitigate potential risks.
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NIST AI Risk Management Framework Explained
Explore the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and learn how it helps organizations manage AI risks. Discover its core components and implementation steps.
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Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Protection 101
Discover why software supply chain vulnerability protection is important and how to effectively safeguard your business.
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How to Strengthen and Improve Your Company's Security Posture
Maintaining security posture is key to protecting organizations against cyberattacks. Here’s how to improve your security posture and keep your business safe.
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How to Mitigate the Risk of GitHub Actions
How to Mitigate the Risk of GitHub Actions. Get highlights of our research into the security of GitHub Actions, and our advice on mitigating the risk.
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The Risks Lurking in Publicly Exposed GenAI Development Services
The Risks Lurking in Publicly Exposed GenAI Development Services. Get our research team's analysis of the security of GenAI development services.
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ESG Survey Report Finds AI, Secrets, and Misconfigurations Plague AppSec Teams
ESG Survey Report Finds AI, Secrets, and Misconfigurations Plague AppSec Teams. Find out how your peers are managing application security challenges.
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Security Challenges Introduced by Modern Software Development
Security Challenges Introduced by Modern Software Development. Understand how modern software development is changing security threats.
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Don’t Protect Your Software Supply Chain, Defend the Entire Software Factory
Don't Protect Your Software Supply Chain, Defend the Entire Software Factory. Find out why a too-narrow definition of "supply chain" may be hindering software security efforts.
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Securing the Gateway: Why Protecting Build Systems Is Crucial in Modern Software Development
Securing the Gateway: Why Protecting Build Systems Is Crucial in Modern Software Development. Understand why securing build systems is as important as securing production systems.
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New Survey Finds a Paradox of Confidence in Software Supply Chain Security
New Survey Finds a Paradox of Confidence in Software Supply Chain Security. Get results of and analysis on ESG's new survey on supply chain security.
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Verizon 2024 DBIR: Key Takeaways
Verizon 2024 DBIR Key Takeaways. Get key data points and takeaways from the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
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Dependency Confusion Vulnerability Found in an Archived Apache Project
Dependency Confusion Vulnerability Found in an Archived Apache Project. Get details on the Legit research team's discovery of a dependency confusion vulnerability in an archived Apache project.
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Securing the Software Supply Chain: Risk Management Tips
Securing the Software Supply Chain: Risk Management Tips. Securing the software supply chain can seem daunting, but with the right strategy, you can optimize your software supply chain risk management practices.
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How to Get the Most From Your Secrets Scanning
How to Get the Most From Your Secrets Scanning. Secret scanning is essential for unlocking next-level software supply chain security. Get tips & best practices for optimal secret scanning to secure your code.
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Microsoft Under Attack by Russian Cyberattackers
Microsoft Under Attack by Russian Cyberattackers. Understand how these attackers are operating and what their tactics mean for security strategies.
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Emerging Risks with Embedded LLM in Applications
Learn how the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT and Google's Bard can create security risks in your applications.
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Supply Chain Attacks Overflow: PyPI Suspended New Registrations
On May 20th, PyPI (the official Python Package manager) announced they are temporarily suspending new users and new project registration.
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The Business Risks and Costs of Source Code Leaks and Prevention Tips
Protect your business from the serious consequences of code leaks by taking proactive measures to enhance your cybersecurity posture.
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Sophisticated 3CX Software Supply Chain Attack Affects Millions of Users
3CX, an international VoIP IPBX software, experienced software supply chain attack. We detail what occurred, and how it can be prevented.
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Top 8 Cloud Application Security Challenges and Issues
Discover top cloud security threats and learn effective techniques to keep your cloud applications secure year-round.
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Exposing Secrets Via SDLC Tools: The Artifactory Case
Our team investigated how sensitive information can get exposed via SDLC tools that may be used as part of your development pipeline.
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How to Continuously Detect Vulnerable Jenkins Plugins to Avoid a Software Supply Chain Attack
See how attackers used compromised Jenkins plugins to attack the software supply chain and how to continuously detect vulnerable Jenkins plugins at scale.
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Software Supply Chain Attack Leads to Trojanized Comm100 Installer
On the 29th of September, it was revealed that the installer for the widely used Comm100 Live Chat application included malicious trojan malware. The installer was compromised using a supply chain attack on the Comm100 development pipeline.
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Software Artifacts Best Practices to Prevent Getting Hacked
Malicious actors are poisoning your artifacts to compromise your software supply chain. Learn how to protect your software artifacts and secure servers.
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New Software Supply Chain Attack Installs Trojans on Adobe's Magento E-Commerce Platform
A popular vendor of Magento-Wordpress plug-ins/integrations with 200,000 downloads, has been hacked. This attack is a reminder that malicious 3rd party plug-ins for popular platforms, in this case FishPig integrations for Magento e-commerce platforms, can open the door to critical vulnerabilities.
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Google & Apache Found Vulnerable to GitHub Environment Injection
Learn how Legit Security discovered a vulnerable GitHub actions workflow that affected Google, Apache and potentially many more. Get details on the vulnerability and what you can do to mitigate it.
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How Was LastPass Compromised?? Software Supply Chain Attack Tips
LastPass data breach: unauthorized access compromised developer accounts and proprietary source code. Learn about the LastPass security incident details and how to protect your business.
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Breaking News: How a Massive Malware Attack Almost Occurred on GitHub
Earlier today, Stephan Lacy published a Twitter post about a massive attack on GitHub. Even though later it was understood that none of the original GitHub repositories was infected, the attack attempt is a huge deal.
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Vulnerable GitHub Actions Workflows Part 2: Actions That Open the Door to CI/CD Pipeline Attacks
We examine a bug we’ve found in a popular third-party GitHub action and how it could lead to your SDLC pipeline being attacked. Read more to improve GitHub security and secure your software supply chain.
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Latest GitHub OAuth Tokens Attack Explained and How to Protect Yourself
This GitHub OAuth access token attack was announced by GitHub Security and is a compromise of OAuth access tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI integrations.
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A Cautionary Tale: The Untold Story of the GitLab CVE Backdoor (CVE-2022-1162)
On April 1st, GitLab announced Critical Security Release CVE-2022-1162, disclosing a very bizarre vulnerability and illustrating some important lessons in securing a software supply chain.
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Vulnerable GitHub Actions Workflows Part 1: Privilege Escalation Inside Your CI/CD Pipeline
Learn how Legit Security discovered a vulnerable GitHub actions workflow. Get details on the vulnerability and and what you can do to mitigate it.
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Detecting Secrets in Your Source Code
What are secrets in source code, why they must be protected, and how to keep them safe.
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