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  • Cookie Jar
    Keep Your Cookies in the Cookie Jar: HttpOnly and Secure Flags
    How can cookies be used against you? And how do you keep that from happening? Raxis’ Matt Dunn explains.
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  • Scottie in 2004 on Navarre Beach in the wake of the Hurricane Ivan
    Hurricane Ida: Limiting the Damage
    Lead penetration tester Scottie Cole is a Gulf Coast resident and former first responder. Read his tips for avoiding hackers and scams that can be as costly as a natural disaster.
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  • PRTG Network Monitor Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2021-29643)
    PRTG Network Monitor Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2021-29643)
    Raxis lead penetration tester Matt Dunn uncovers a new vulnerability in the PRTG Network Monitor (CVE-2021-29643). Read more here.
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  • Screaming person with smartphone
    Don’t Take the Smishbait
    Unwanted text messages are annoying, but some also hide malicious links. Here are some ways to avoid being “smished.”
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  • JavaScript Execution to Display User's Cookie in an Alert Box
    ManageEngine Applications Manager Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2021-31813)
    Raxis’ Matt Dunn has discovered another ManangeEngine cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, this time in the Applications Manager product (CVE-2021-31813).
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  • Two people at laptops sending data at each other
    Why Mutual Assured Destruction is an Incomplete Cyber Defense Strategy
    Is the threat of full-scale retaliation enough to prevent large-scale cyberattacks? Raxis’ Bonnie Smyre explains why this Cold War strategy is not effective.
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