Ryan Barnett
Minneapolis
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The next terrorist attack: Al Qaeda's maritime history and ambitions
Terrorism is not a new form of political dissent in asymmetric warfare. The tactics used by terrorist organisations have evolved as a continually viable form of violent coercion since the first century AD.(2) The tactics employed have since been continually advanced and adapted to exploit gaps in security. The militant Islamist organisation, al Qaeda, discovered and exploited such a gap in security on 11 September 2001.
Beware the Unpatchable: Corona Mirai Botnet Spreads via Zero-Day
The exploit of this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute remote code on a target system. Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard Copyedited by Maria Vlasak The Akamai Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) has observed a botnet campaign that is abusing several previously exploited vulnerabilities, as well as a zero-day vulnerability discovered by the SIRT.
Akamai’s Perspective on August’s Patch Tuesday 2024
The TCP/IP stack in Windows is a core component of the operating system's networking functionality. It handles the transport of data across networks using the TCP/IP protocol suite, which is the foundation of communication over the internet and most local networks. In the Windows operating system, the TCP/IP stack is implemented in tcpip.sys driver. This kernel module is responsible for handling network protocols, including TCP over transport layers such as IPv4 and IPv6.
Git-Syncing into Trouble: Exploring Command Injection Flaws in Kubernetes
This design flaw can cause either data exfiltration of any file in the pod (including service account tokens) or command execution with the git_sync user privileges. To exploit the flaw, all an attacker needs to do is apply a YAML file on the cluster, which is a low-privilege operation.
Akamai’s Perspective on June’s Patch Tuesday 2024
It’s a lean one this month, probably because everyone is busy celebrating Pride. Let’s ALLY with each other against the big bad security vulnerabilities. As we do every month, the Akamai Security Intelligence Group set out to look at the more intriguing vulnerabilities that were patched.
2024: Old CVEs, New Targets — Active Exploitation of ThinkPHP | Akamai
Akamai researchers have discovered a new campaign that targets ThinkPHP applications that are vulnerable to CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082. Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard Akamai researchers have discovered a new campaign that targets ThinkPHP applications that are vulnerable to CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082. The campaign appears to be orchestrated by a Chinese-speaking cyberthreat group.
It’s Getting Hot in Here: EMEA SOTI
The finance sector is more affected by DDoS attacks in EMEA than in any other region. Akamai researchers have released another State of the Internet (SOTI) report, and this time it’s zeroed in on the unique cyber challenges that affect the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. The report deep dives into the volatile cyber landscape in the region, focusing on distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and their devastating effects on the victims. It’s stellar work.
The Race to Patch: Attackers Leverage Sample Exploit Code in Wordpress Plugin
Editorial and additional commentary by Tricia Howard Executive summary The Akamai Security Intelligence Group (SIG) has been analyzing attack attempt activity following the announcement of a critical vulnerability in a WordPress custom fields plug-in affecting more than 2 million sites. Exploiting this vulnerability could lead to a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, in which malicious code is injected into a victim site and pushed to its visitors.
Revenue Rocket Consulting Group leads successful M&A transaction for HTW
BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA, USA, January 12, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Revenue Rocket Consulting Group, an M&A Advisory firm focused exclusively on IT Services and Technology-Enabled businesses, was the lead advisor for HTW, Inc, CMIT's largest franchisee, to HKW, a leading middle-market private equity firm focused on growth companies. HKW also acquired CMIT Solutions, LLC, a leading IT-managed service provider franchisor serving multi-location accounts nationwide.
Security Boulevard
A web application firewall (WAF) is most often used by organizations for external security controls to detect and block individual attack attempts against target web application assets.
How freelancers respond to an uncertain economy: A longitudinal report on seven years of IPSE FCI data
Research 6 Oct 2020 Inna Yordanova Ryan Barnett IPSE’s Confidence Index Longitudinal Report uses the quarterly Confidence Index to examine the day rates, earnings, capacity utilisation and confidence of the freelance sector since 2014. It shows that freelancers’ fortunes closely track economic and political fluctuations in these years.
Tax-deductible expenses
If you are self-employed, you are running a micro-business. Businesses incur costs: you pay for things which are vital to the running of that business. In the case of freelancers, these can be different to a typical business. Therefore, the government allows for certain costs which can be deducted from your tax contribution. These must be important to the running of your business and preferably only for use in your working life.
Budget 2020 - everything freelancers need to know
Homepage IPSE News Blog Budget 2020 – everything freelancers need to know 11 Mar 2020 Alasdair Hutchison Ryan Barnett Today was the new Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget, and the first one in nearly 18 months. The expected rollout of IR35 is of course the main thing to consider, however with coronavirus and several other key policy changes, we have had a look at the main positives and negatives for the self-employed.
A new Chancellor and what it means for IR35 and the self-employed
Homepage IPSE News Blog A new Chancellor and what it means for IR35 and the self-employed 14 Feb 2020 Ryan Barnett Yesterday’s reshuffle was briefed as a quiet tinkering, bringing in more women and replacing some established figures with new blood. It wasn’t to be. Rishi Sunak has now been made Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The self-employed’s 5 million votes are key to this election
Homepage IPSE News Blog The self-employed’s 5 million votes are key to this election 02 Dec 2019 Ryan Barnett With the opinion polls tightening, the UK’s 5 million self-employed voters could be crucial in deciding the outcome in dozens of constituencies up and down the country. IPSE has analysed of all the seats in this upcoming election to see exactly where the self-employed will play a crucial role.
Security Boulevard
During its research into Credential Abuse attack campaigns, Akamai’s threat research team conducted an analysis of web logins to gain insights into how widespread the adoption of API-based logins is and whether or not this trend also affects attackers and attack campaigns. It will come as no surprise that API-based logins are highly targeted by credential abuse attackers for a variety of reason.
Security Boulevard
This is the first in a four part blog post series: Application Programming Interfaces (API) are a software design approach which enables software and system developers to integrate with other systems based on a defined set of communication methods. APIs serve as software building blocks and allow for software reuse – essentially allowing fast development of new systems based on existing capabilities.
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