We bet you thought you’d be allowed to sit there, breathe, and savour the few moments of peace you’d earned after a painful week in cyber security.
Obviously, you were horribly wrong, and you need to wake up now – we’re back, it’s all on fire, and Bambi (who seems to appear in our blog posts suspiciously often) is not your pet.
Over the last week, we’ve all been harassed by the rumours of supposed active and in-the-wild exploitation of Oracle EBS, with each and every vendor confidently declaring, of course, that their root cause was the correct root cause:
- Maybe an Nday(?)
- Maybe a password reset flaw(?)
- Maybe a zero-day(?)
- Maybe credential reuse(?)
- Maybe password respraying(?)
While we enjoy our industry’s creative writing hijinx, we would like to say one thing: just shut up.
Random conjecture is objectively not helpful and actually becomes detrimental in a time of…