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8 Tips to Improve IT Security for SMEs
News / Posted August 08, 2019
When we think of cyber-attacks our minds often flash to larger corporations and massive data leaks for millions of customers, but these are just the ones we see reported in the news. In fact the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Report found that 43% of breaches involved small business victims.
Cyber-attacks are on the rise and for most SMEs trying to get your head around them and protect your business can be a daunting and difficult task. We have complied a list of 8 steps to help prevent breaches including practical advice on what to do should a breach occur.
read moreNew feature announcement: Subdomain takeover audit
Product Research Security Alerts / Posted June 18, 2019
AppCheck has released a new detection module available to all customers to scan for subdomain takeover vulnerabilities.
Read moreSAP Hybris Commerce CVE-2018-2505 Vulnerability Discovered
News Research Security Alerts / Posted March 18, 2019
The AppCheck research team identified a security flaw (CVE-2018-2505) within SAP Hybris affecting many large online retailers. The security flaw was due to an insecure JavaScript library that allows malicious JavaScript to be injected into a user’s session with the affected Hybris application.
Read moreAdvisory: Remote Code Execution Traccar Server <=4.0 (AC-2018-10-8-1)
Research Security Alerts / Posted December 04, 2018
Our security team discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the GPS vehicle tracking system Traccar (version <= 4.0). This allows an attacker to compromise the server’s host via a self-registered user account.
Read moreAppCheck Discovers Vulnerability in Auth0 Library (CVE-2017-17068)
Research Security Alerts / Posted December 13, 2017
AppCheck discovered a security flaw within the auth0.js JavaScript library that could be exploited by a malicious website to read sensitive access tokens cross-domain.
Read moreDetecting and Exploiting the PHPMailer RCE
Research Security Alerts / Posted January 04, 2017
On the 25th of December 2016, a security researcher disclosed a critical security flaw within a popular PHP library used to send emails. The PHPMailer library is used by more than 9 million websites worldwide and is bundled with popular open source PHP content management systems such as WordPress. At worst the flaw could be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code on the affected system. This would allow the remote attacker to take complete control of the application and launch further attacks against the system and internal network. PHPMailer versions below 5.2.20 are affected along with a number of other libraries that include the vulnerable code; such as SwiftMail and the Zend Framework.
Read moreHunting HTML 5 PostMessage Vulnerabilities
News Product Research / Posted August 10, 2016
AppCheck partnered with Sec-1 Ltd to undertake a research project investigating the security challenges posed by next generation web applications. The project included an investigation of Cross-Origin communication mechanisms provided via HTML5 including postMessage and CORS.
One of the key findings from the research shows that vulnerabilities introduced through an insecure postMessage implementation are frequently missed by security scanners and consultants performing manual review.
Read moreCritical: Remote Command Execution in WordPress Form Manager Plugin (CVE-2015-7806)
Research Security Alerts / Posted October 23, 2015
On the 9th October researchers at AppCheck NG discovered a critical Remote Command Execution (RCE) in the popular WordPress plugin Form Manager which allows an attacker with an unprivileged account (including a self-registered account) to execute arbitrary commands on the host. The vulnerability was reported and fixed on the 12th October.
Read moreDetecting Delayed Execution Vulnerabilities
News Product Research / Posted October 08, 2015
AppCheck Sentinel is an external monitoring system designed to detect Out-of-Band events such as DNS Lookups and HTTP requests. Its’ function in Web Application scanning is to aid the detection of vulnerabilities that cannot be identified through the use of conventional scanning techniques.
Read moreAdobe Fixes HTML5 PostMessage Security Flaw
News Research / Posted July 31, 2015
AppCheck has identified a significant security flaw affecting a common JavaScript component provided as part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. The flaw affected many high profile applications including several banking sites and well known .com organisations, and has now been fixed by the vendor.
Read moreCritical Security Flaw Patched in Magento Blog Extension (CVE-2015-3428)
Research Security Alerts / Posted May 27, 2015
The aheadWorks Blog extension for Magento prior to version 1.3.10 is vulnerable to a critical SQL Injection security flaw. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take complete control of the affected Magento server and database.
With almost 80,000 downloads at the time of writing, the affected component is the most popular blog component available via Magento Connect.
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