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Securing The Enterprise Perimeter

Credit to Author: Prasanna Tapkire| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:10:38 -0700

Today’s cybercriminals run their operations like a business, and to be successful they constantly invest in the latest tools in order to circumvent security and breach the networks of their targeted victims. As a result, today’s security landscape is highly dynamic and constantly evolving.

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Apache Struts 2 exploit allows ransomware on servers

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:43:00 -0700

Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability patched last month in the Apache Struts web development framework to install ransomware on servers.

The SANS Internet Storm Center issued an alert Thursday, saying an attack campaign is compromising Windows servers through a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-5638.

The flaw is located in the Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 and allows attackers to execute system commands with the privileges of the user running the web server process.

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