Decrypted: The UK Cyber Briefing

ShinyHunters walks round the PeopleSoft firewall fix with one character

Decrypted: The UK Cyber Briefing

Show Notes

Google's Mandiant says ShinyHunters is bypassing firewall rules protecting Oracle PeopleSoft by URL-encoding a single character. A UK university was hit in June. We cover the design lesson, a Salesforce agent flaw, a Microsoft token failure and the ICO's change on Wednesday.

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