Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Stealthy, ...

Attackers often use web shells to mimic legitimate files and compromise web servers. These best practices will lower your risk. One tool that bad guys use to go after your web servers is a web shell.

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet/TechRepublic special feature, offers a detailed look at how to build risk management policies to protect your critical digital assets. Read now In a blog post ...

Security personnel at Microsoft are seeing a big increase in the use of Web shells, the light-weight programs that hackers install so they can burrow further into compromised websites. The average ...

Microsoft says that the number of monthly web shell attacks has almost doubled since last year, with an average of 140,000 such malicious tools being found on compromised servers every month. Web ...

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) have issued a joint report warning of threat actors increasingly exploiting vulnerable web servers to deploy web ...

Web shells, a common type of post-exploitation tool that provides easy-to-use interface through which to issue commands to a compromised server, have become increasingly popular as attackers become ...

US officials talk about all the methods the Chinese government and its agents have been using to target US companies and universities to steal intellectual property. Read now The US National Security ...

Fresh proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits are circulating in the wild for a widely targeted Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server flaw. The new attack vectors could enable a malicious ...