#securityAudit

2026-01-30

Thiết kế hệ thống phát hiện ý định API giúp kiểm tra OpenAPI 15MB trên trình duyệt mà không cần Regex hay LLMs. Phần mềm phân tích mô tả, cấu trúc đầu ra và mối liên kết dữ liệu để xác định endpoint tiềm ẩn rủi ro thay vì dựa vào tên gọi. Giải pháp xử lý hiệu năng bằng đánh giá lười biếng, giảm tải trình duyệt. Bạn đã từng gặp tình huống này khi kiểm toán API? #OpenAPI #SecurityAudit #API #BảoMật

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2026-01-28

Surfshark clears an independent infrastructure security audit by SecuRing.

No critical vulnerabilities found.
Real-world attack simulations used.
Minor SSL/TLS issue fixed with no user impact.

Thoughts on independent audits for VPN trust?

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#InfoSec #CyberSecurity #VPN #SecurityAudit

Surfshark Clears Independent Security Audit, Infrastructure Meets Top Protection Standards
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2026-01-28

VPN provider Surfshark has completed a comprehensive infrastructure security audit by SecuRing, revealing two medium‑severity issues but no critical flaws. 🔒

The audit found a TLS configuration gap (allowing legacy ciphers) and a URL parsing flaw that could enable malicious redirects. Surfshark fixed both by tightening TLS settings and adjusting URI handling. 🛡️

👉 Full details:
cyberinsider.com/surfshark-inf

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2026-01-14

www.ditig.com/lynis-cheat-... - Lynis cheat sheet This cheat sheet provides security teams and sysadmins with a quick-reference guide to Lynis commands, audit options, and configuration details. #securityaudit #systemsecurity #linux #macOS #unix #cheatsheet #securitytesting #cheat-sheet

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What Is a Supply Chain Attack? Lessons from Recent Incidents

924 words, 5 minutes read time.

I’ve been in computer programming with a vested interest in Cybersecurity long enough to know that your most dangerous threats rarely come through the obvious channels. It’s not always a hacker pounding at your firewall or a phishing email landing in an inbox. Sometimes, the breach comes quietly through the vendors, service providers, and software updates you rely on every day. That’s the harsh reality of supply chain attacks. These incidents exploit trust, infiltrating organizations by targeting upstream partners or seemingly benign components. They’re not theoretical—they’re real, costly, and increasingly sophisticated. In this article, I’m going to break down what supply chain attacks are, examine lessons from high-profile incidents, and share actionable insights for SOC analysts, CISOs, and anyone responsible for protecting enterprise assets.

Understanding Supply Chain Attacks: How Trusted Vendors Can Be Threat Vectors

A supply chain attack occurs when a threat actor compromises an organization through a third party, whether that’s a software vendor, cloud provider, managed service provider, or even a hardware supplier. The key distinction from conventional attacks is that the adversary leverages trust relationships. Your defenses often treat trusted partners as safe zones, which makes these attacks particularly insidious. The infamous SolarWinds breach in 2020 is a perfect example. Hackers injected malicious code into an update of the Orion platform, and thousands of organizations unknowingly installed the compromised software. From the perspective of a SOC analyst, it’s a nightmare scenario: alerts may look normal, endpoints behave according to expectation, and yet an attacker has already bypassed perimeter defenses. Supply chain compromises come in many forms: software updates carrying hidden malware, tampered firmware or hardware, and cloud or SaaS services used as stepping stones for broader attacks. The lesson here is brutal but simple: every external dependency is a potential attack vector, and assuming trust without verification is a vulnerability in itself.

Lessons from Real-World Supply Chain Attacks

History has provided some of the most instructive lessons in this area, and the pain was often widespread. The NotPetya attack in 2017 masqueraded as a routine software update for a Ukrainian accounting package but quickly spread globally, leaving a trail of destruction across multiple sectors. It was not a random incident—it was a strategic strike exploiting the implicit trust organizations placed in a single provider. Then came Kaseya in 2021, where attackers leveraged a managed service provider to distribute ransomware to hundreds of businesses in a single stroke. The compromise of one MSP cascaded through client systems, illustrating that upstream vulnerabilities can multiply downstream consequences exponentially. Even smaller incidents, such as a compromised open-source library or a misconfigured cloud service, can serve as a launchpad for attackers. What these incidents have in common is efficiency, stealth, and scale. Attackers increasingly prefer the supply chain route because it requires fewer direct compromises while yielding enormous operational impact. For anyone working in a SOC, these cases underscore the need to monitor not just your environment but the upstream components that support it, as blind trust can be fatal.

Mitigating Supply Chain Risk: Visibility, Zero Trust, and Preparedness

Mitigating supply chain risk requires a proactive, multifaceted approach. The first step is visibility—knowing exactly what software, services, and hardware your organization depends on. You cannot defend what you cannot see. Mapping these dependencies allows you to understand which systems are critical and which could serve as entry points for attackers. Second, you need to enforce Zero Trust principles. Even trusted vendors should have segmented access and stringent authentication. Multi-factor authentication, network segmentation, and least-privilege policies reduce the potential blast radius if a compromise occurs. Threat hunting also becomes crucial, as anomalies from trusted sources are often the first signs of a breach. Beyond technical controls, preparation is equally important. Tabletop exercises, updated incident response plans, and comprehensive logging equip teams to react swiftly when compromise is detected. For CISOs, it also means communicating supply chain risk clearly to executives and boards. Stakeholders must understand that absolute prevention is impossible, and resilience—rapid detection, containment, and recovery—is the only realistic safeguard.

The Strategic Imperative: Assume Breach and Build Resilience

The reality of supply chain attacks is unavoidable: organizations are connected in complex webs, and attackers exploit these dependencies with increasing sophistication. The lessons are clear: maintain visibility over your entire ecosystem, enforce Zero Trust rigorously, hunt for subtle anomalies, and prepare incident response plans that include upstream components. These attacks are not hypothetical scenarios—they are the evolving face of cybersecurity threats, capable of causing widespread disruption. Supply chain security is not a checkbox or a one-time audit; it is a mindset that prioritizes vigilance, resilience, and strategic thinking. By assuming breach, questioning trust, and actively monitoring both internal and upstream environments, security teams can turn potential vulnerabilities into manageable risks. The stakes are high, but so are the rewards for those who approach supply chain security with discipline, foresight, and a relentless commitment to defense.

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2025-12-15

Cure53 audit confirms NordVPN’s security posture is continuously tested.
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• No critical vulns across apps or infrastructure
• High-severity findings fixed and re-verified
• Annual independent audits since 2018

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2025-10-23

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