F5 Labs

A look at multi-cloud security strategies, including the emerging practices of omni-cloud, Functions as a Service, Containers as a Service, cloud security posture management, and data sovereignty.

Creating an encrypted HTTPS website depends on a lot more than simply throwing a digital certificate at it and hoping for the best. In fact, Transport Layer Security (TLS) and HTTPS misconfigurations are now so commonplace that in the 2021 OWASP Top 10, Cryptographic Failures now comes in second place....

DNS is better known, but some recent high-profile outages are a reminder that Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) failures can take sites down too.

Managing hardened systems without exposing them to unwanted attack vectors is difficult. Jump boxes are one way to do it—learn why and how.

South Africa’s cyberattack landscape saw targeting of Scryba, PHP, and CVE-2017-9841 web vulnerabilities.

A detailed look at an 840-Gbps DDoS attack on a financial services provider and a deeper dive into attacking nodes.

Existing fraud tricks are finding new use in buy now, pay later payment systems.

Stopping ransomware takes work—F5 looks at the defense techniques of user account management, network segmentation, and data backup.

The title of this report is not a typo. “The State of the State of Application Exploits in Security Incidents” is a meta-analysis of several prominent industry reports, each of which covers the state of application security.

Mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) allows two parties to authenticate each other during the initial connection of an SSL/TLS handshake.

Examining three breach and compliance failure cases under the New York Department of Financial Services’ 23 NYCRR Part 500 cybersecurity regulation.

A detailed examination of application risk and cybersecurity attack chains, broken down by sector.

From spoofing device fingerprints to hijacking authenticated sessions, attackers use a range of techniques to bypass multifactor authentication.

MITRE ATT&CK, a framework that uniquely describes cyberattacks from the attacker’s perspective, is quickly being adopted by organizations worldwide as a tool for analyzing threats and improving security defenses.

A review of 2018-2020 cyberattacks at brokerages, investment funds, payment processors, and financial services organizations as well as API security incidents and open banking.

A look at cybersecurity incidents at banks, credit unions, insurance companies, government-sponsored financial institutions, and stock exchanges.

The 2021 version of F5’s continuing analysis of the application security threat landscape explores ransomware, payment card theft, and account takeover.

A behind-the-scenes peek into the hidden world of human click farms.

Denial-of-service attacks are increasing and becoming more complex. We look at how attackers are attempting to bring down services around the world.

Latin America’s cyberattack landscape saw continued focus on port 5900 and the targeting of common web vulnerabilities.