A Deep Dive into Ethically Hacking OAuth 2.0 & OIDC
If you are from an IT company, your tech infrastructure is most likely to have OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) as its core components. Together, these protocols allow a secure and seamless user authentication across applications. OAuth 2.0 is deployed to enable users to access third-party applications without needing to enter passwords, while OIDC […]
Cybersecurity Budget Trends 2025: Where Enterprises are Spending and Why?
2024 was the year of grave cyberattacks. It was a year when phishing attacks surged by 4,151%, thanks to AI-generated content and deep-fakes, which helped attackers craft convincing emails and messages. Not to mention the financial toll of these attacks— the average total cost of data breaches in 2024 was estimated at $4.88 million. It’s […]
A Year After Google and Yahoo’s New Policy Update: Have We Really Made Progress?
Back in 2024, Google and Yahoo changed the course of email communication. The two giants released a set of regulations that made it compulsory for bulk senders to authenticate their outgoing emails with three key protocols—SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance). It’s not like these […]
SSO Pen Tests’ Major Vulnerabilities
These days, more and more companies use single sign-on or SSO to manage access to their services and applications. This way, they delegate the authentication or authorization process to a trusted third party, allowing users to sign in to different services with the same access data. It’s true that SSO rescues users from the hassle […]
DMARC Failure: What is it and Why Should You Care
So, you have finally set up DMARC to protect your domain from phishing and spoofing attacks and improve deliverability. Does that mean your job is done, and you don’t have to worry about anything anymore? Well, in theory, it should all work just fine, but that’s not always the case! When you implement DMARC, one […]
When Should We Slow Down or Pause the Patching Process?
Patching is often regarded as one of the standard cybersecurity hygiene measures. Every second article or video talks about applying patches and updates quickly and regularly to keep the systems protected. However, lately, cybersecurity experts have been preaching that patching should not be regarded as an automatic reaction. They are, in fact, saying that there […]
Common Lateral Movement Techniques for Ethical Hacking
ReliaQuest’s Annual Threat Report for 2024 revealed that once attackers infiltrate a network, they can achieve lateral movement in as little as 27 minutes, with an average time of 48 minutes. This surely sounds scary, but what if a company itself simulates attacks using lateral movement techniques to identify exploitable, unprotected gateways and vulnerabilities? The […]
DKIM 2048 or 1024: Which One Should You Use?
Do your emails actually reach their audience or simply end up in their spam folders, or even worse, don’t reach them at all? Yes, this is very much a possibility! This happens for many reasons, and one of them is that the receiving servers do not consider your emails safe enough to be let in. […]
How Does DMARC Help Mitigate the Risk of Spear Phishing?
One email protocol that you can trust to do it all— from authenticating your emails to preventing cyber crooks from impersonating your domain—is DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance). Let’s face it: Cyberattacks are pretty rampant these days, and it is not uncommon for hackers to send emails that look very familiar (almost indistinguishable) […]
ESPs and SPF Implementation: Here’s What You Should Know About It
You might assume that ESPs know it all; after all, they are managing your entire email infrastructure. But that’s not always the case. While these service providers excel when it comes to sending and delivering emails efficiently, they don’t always prioritize security and authentication. When it comes to protecting those emails, they are not always […]
