New CISA Hardening Guidance Provides Valuable Insights for Network Security Engineers
December 11, 2024Recent guidance from CISA and the FBI highlights best practices to monitor and harden network infrastructure. The guidance, published in response to high-profile attacks on telecom infrastructure, is applicable to a wider audience. This blog unpacks important points and explains how Tenable products can help with compliance scans.
Volt Typhoon: What State and Local Government Officials Need to Know
November 19, 2024Increased activity from the state-sponsored threat group Volt Typhoon raises concerns about the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure. Here’s how you can identify potential exposures and attack paths.
The Dark Side of Domain-Specific Languages: Uncovering New Attack Techniques in OPA and Terraform
November 18, 2024Check out our deep dive into both new and known techniques for abusing infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code tools. You’ll also learn how to defend against them in this blog post which expands on the attack techniques presented at our fwd:cloudsec Europe 2024 talk “Who Watches the Watchmen? Stealing Credentials from Policy-as-Code Engines (and beyond).”
Who’s Afraid of a Toxic Cloud Trilogy?
November 14, 2024The Tenable Cloud Risk Report 2024 reveals that nearly four in 10 organizations have workloads that are publicly exposed, contain a critical vulnerability and have excessive permissions. Here’s what to watch for in your organization.
CVE-2024-8260: SMB Force-Authentication Vulnerability in OPA Could Lead to Credential Leakage
October 22, 2024Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to leak the NTLM credentials of the OPA server's local user account to a remote server, potentially allowing the attacker to relay the authentication or crack the password. The vulnerability affected both the OPA CLI (Community and Enterprise editions) and the OPA Go SDK.
The Data-Factor: Why Integrating DSPM Is Key to Your CNAPP Strategy
August 28, 2024DSPM solutions provide a comprehensive, up-to-date view into cloud-based data and risk. An integrated CNAPP and DSPM solution elevates this analysis to expose toxic combinations and security gaps across cloud environments.
SSRFing the Web with the Help of Copilot Studio
August 20, 2024Tenable Research discovered a critical information-disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft’s Copilot Studio via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to potentially sensitive information regarding service internals with potential cross-tenant impact.
Compromising Microsoft's AI Healthcare Chatbot Service
August 13, 2024Tenable Research discovered multiple privilege-escalation issues in the Azure Health Bot Service via a server-side request forgery (SSRF), which allowed researchers access to cross-tenant resources.
Detecting Risky Third-party Drivers on Windows Assets
August 7, 2024Kernel-mode drivers are critical yet risky components of the Windows operating system. Learn about their functionality, the dangers they pose, and how Tenable's new plugins can help identify and mitigate vulnerabilities using community-driven resources like LOLDrivers.
Never Trust User Inputs -- And AI Isn't an Exception: A Security-First Approach
August 6, 2024As AI transforms industries, security remains critical. Discover the importance of a security-first approach in AI development, the risks of open-source tools, and how Tenable's solutions can help protect your systems.
EPSS Shows Strong Performance in Predicting Exploits, Says Study from Cyentia and FIRST
July 30, 2024Tenable sponsored research from Cyentia and FIRST, which finds that while vulnerability exploitation is highly variable, EPSS is getting stronger in its ability to predict exploitation.
ConfusedFunction: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Functions
July 24, 2024Organizations that have used Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Functions – a serverless execution environment – could be impacted by a privilege escalation vulnerability discovered by Tenable and dubbed as “ConfusedFunction.” Read on to learn all about the vulnerability and what your organization needs to do to protect itself.
