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In 77 per cent of the cases, web app vulnerabilities and configuration flaws allowed the red teamers to crack a company&#8217;s defenses; in one case, it took <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ptsecurity.com\/ww-en\/analytics\/external-pentests-results-2020\/\">as little as 30 minutes<\/a> to pwn the target.<\/p>\n<p>These were not exactly obscure, easily overlooked flaws, either. About 60 per cent of the web application holes used were deemed critical \u2013 think remote code execution \u2013 and should been patched as soon as possible, while mindful of the need for testing and deployment planning. Another 11 per cent were deemed high-risk vulnerabilities, again bugs that would ideally be addressed ASAP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2020\/07\/17\/ba747.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"British Airways Boeing 747-400\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec\">Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5&#8243; floppy disks<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/08\/10\/boeing_747_floppy_drive_updates_walkthrough\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The second most common method of break-in was weak login credentials. In those cases, brute-forcing passwords for database management and remote access software worked pretty well. Brute forcing is easy to block yet time and time again it&#8217;s forgotten about by admins.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, in most of the cases, an attacker did not need to do much, beyond gaining an initial foothold, to command full internal network access: in 68 per cent of the trials, the infiltrators only needed to take one or two steps to have the entire organization at their fingertips. Network compartmentalization, and access controls limiting who can see what, may have helped minimize intruders&#8217; reach.<\/p>\n<p>While point-and-pray automated hacking tools \u2013 scanners, frameworks, toolkits of exploits, and the like \u2013 are easy enough to find and use against targets, you don&#8217;t always need something that fancy. Positive noted that in seven of its 28 tests, the red team was able to break into web applications using a simple timing attack with the Autodiscover service in Microsoft Exchange Client Access Server.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few success stories to be found. Positive said that in two of its 28 tests last year, the red teamers failed completely to break into the target company&#8217;s network. The average test time, both for the successful and unsuccessful tests, was around four days (including the aforementioned 30 minute speed run.)<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that performing what some assume is the minimum of effort \u2013 timely patching, login monitoring, and network segmentation with access limit policies, for instance \u2013 can be rather effective at keeping at least opportunistic crooks out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To secure the network perimeter, the first step is to follow basic information security rules,&#8221; said Kilyusheva. &#8220;Web applications are the most vulnerable component on the network perimeter. Companies should perform security analyses regularly.&#8221; \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/08\/13\/pentest_networks_fail\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three little words: Patches, passwords, policies The continued inability of organizations to patch security vulnerabilities in a timely manner, combined with guessable passwords and the spread of automated hacking tools, is making it pretty easy for miscreants, professionals, and thrill-seekers to break into corporate networks.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>You weren&#039;t hacked because you lacked space-age network defenses. 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