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The NPR of cybersecurity news is CyberWire Daily and a more true crimes type of podcast there is the very popular DarkNet Diaries

OWASP Top Ten

The following is reposted from OWASP.org

The Open Web Application Security Project

The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.

Globally recognized by developers as the first step towards more secure coding.

Companies should adopt this document and start the process of ensuring that their web applications minimize these risks. Using the OWASP Top 10 is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces more secure code.

Top 10 Web Application Security Risks

1. Injection. Injection flaws, such as SQL, NoSQL, OS, and LDAP injection, occur when untrusted data is sent to an interpreter as part of a command or query. The attacker’s hostile data can trick the interpreter into executing unintended commands or accessing data without proper authorization.
2. Broken Authentication. Application functions related to authentication and session management are often implemented incorrectly, allowing attackers to compromise passwords, keys, or session tokens, or to exploit other implementation flaws to assume other users’ identities temporarily or permanently.
3. Sensitive Data Exposure. Many web applications and APIs do not properly protect sensitive data, such as financial, healthcare, and PII. Attackers may steal or modify such weakly protected data to conduct credit card fraud, identity theft, or other crimes. Sensitive data may be compromised without extra protection, such as encryption at rest or in transit, and requires special precautions when exchanged with the browser.
4. XML External Entities (XXE). Many older or poorly configured XML processors evaluate external entity references within XML documents. External entities can be used to disclose internal files using the file URI handler, internal file shares, internal port scanning, remote code execution, and denial of service attacks.
5. Broken Access Control. Restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do are often not properly enforced. Attackers can exploit these flaws to access unauthorized functionality and/or data, such as access other users’ accounts, view sensitive files, modify other users’ data, change access rights, etc.
6. Security Misconfiguration. Security misconfiguration is the most commonly seen issue. This is commonly a result of insecure default configurations, incomplete or ad hoc configurations, open cloud storage, misconfigured HTTP headers, and verbose error messages containing sensitive information. Not only must all operating systems, frameworks, libraries, and applications be securely configured, but they must be patched/upgraded in a timely fashion.
7. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). XSS flaws occur whenever an application includes untrusted data in a new web page without proper validation or escaping, or updates an existing web page with user-supplied data using a browser API that can create HTML or JavaScript. XSS allows attackers to execute scripts in the victim’s browser which can hijack user sessions, deface web sites, or redirect the user to malicious sites.
8. Insecure Deserialization. Insecure deserialization often leads to remote code execution. Even if deserialization flaws do not result in remote code execution, they can be used to perform attacks, including replay attacks, injection attacks, and privilege escalation attacks.
9. Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities. Components, such as libraries, frameworks, and other software modules, run with the same privileges as the application. If a vulnerable component is exploited, such an attack can facilitate serious data loss or server takeover. Applications and APIs using components with known vulnerabilities may undermine application defenses and enable various attacks and impacts.
10. Insufficient Logging & Monitoring. Insufficient logging and monitoring, coupled with missing or ineffective integration with incident response, allows attackers to further attack systems, maintain persistence, pivot to more systems, and tamper, extract, or destroy data. Most breach studies show time to detect a breach is over 200 days, typically detected by external parties rather than internal processes or monitoring.

Stop Talking…

Unless you’re ready to start doing and fiiinnnallllyyyy stop talking then don’t bother me.

Besides, some of yall are only good at running your mouth…and it shows.

#motivation #inspiration #benefits #toobusybitches #bestoftheday #beastmodewhileyoureinbitchmode #crossfit #life #determination #fitness #RedRocksYaayyyYaaayyyy #gymtime #STFU

Southern Style

A little ribeye, southern style green beans, house cured bacon and some glorious fresh made au jus. And with my infamous extra large blue sharpie in the background…

Prep to WIN.

‪#‎winning‬ #120 ‪#‎paleotogo‬ ‪#‎FullEffort‬ ‪#‎2016CrossFitGames‬ ‪#‎dontbemad‬‪#‎doyoueveneatbro‬

Tomorrow is never promised…

Tomorrow is never promised, make it happen today.

#dedication #makeyourmove #hustle #crossfit #inspiration

Do You Even Eat Bro?

DoYouEvenEatBro.com

Come and get it!

Perfect or not — always be true to yourself.

Perfect or not — always be true to yourself. When you’re true to yourself everything just seems to fall into place, or as I like to say, “luck is when hard work and preparation meet opportunity.”

Whatever you do, don’t get comfortable. Stay on your grind. It’s Monday, let’s roll…

‪#‎goodmorning‬ ‪#‎motivation‬ ‪#‎inspiration‬ ‪#‎thoughtoftheday‬ ‪#‎success‬ ‪#‎plan‬‪#‎crossfit‬ ‪#‎separateyourself‬ ‪#‎determination‬ ‪#‎enlighten‬ ‪#‎encourage‬‪#‎introspection‬ ‪#‎lifestyle‬ ‪#‎paleotogo‬
‪#‎weightlifting‬

A General Attitude…

My general attitude toward each day. Refuse to be average.

‪#‎alwaysquotable‬ ‪#‎life‬ ‪#‎loveitorCHANGEIT‬ ‪#‎walkthetalk‬‪#‎smarternotalwaysharder‬ ‪#‎paleotogo‬ ‪#‎gamechanger‬ ‪#‎allergictoaverage‬‪#‎leadbyexample‬ #‎hashtag‬

Celebrate Rebellion In Style…

That’s what Thomas Jefferson would be celebrating today. Unlike so many Americans, he would not be celebrating the American empire, with its “unitary executive,” swarms of tax-collecting bureaucrats, its militarization of society, protectionism, economic fascism, suspension of habeas corpus, domestic spying, etc., etc. The Hamiltonian republic that we now live under, which is celebrated by the liberal/left and neocons alike, is the opposite of Jefferson’s dream of an “empire of liberty.”

Just in case it’s unclear…

Just in case it’s unclear…