CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

However, there is a difference between the Mirai malware and the new malware variants using Go, including differences in the language in which it is written and the malware architectures. Example 1: main_infectFunctionGponFiber function, exploits CVE-2020-8958. Example 2: Function exploiting vulnerability CVE-2020-10173.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Using a WordPress flaw (File-Manager plugin–CVE-2020-25213) to leverage Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) and attack companies’ Domain Controllers. Recently, a critical vulnerability called Zerologon – CVE-2020-1472 – has become a trending subject around the globe. w4fz5uck5) September 8, 2020. Figure 2: PoC – CVE-2020-25213.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Prepare a quantum-safe architecture now. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. Start by examining all your crypto-dependent applications.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

“The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices. . “The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices. To nominate, please visit:?

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In 2020, attacks against Windows RDP grew by an incredible 768% ! Strong multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a fantastic step forward with features like device posture assessments and access control. After this in-line authentication, the secure RDP connection is established, and the end user is ready to go.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Thu, 11/12/2020 - 06:03. We will focus the remainder of this blog post on secure enclaves, which have been commercially available for a number of years. Fortunately, vendors have responded quickly with patches, firmware updates, and key reissuance to address these architectural flaws. The Promise of Confidential Computing.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. Later we looked at What???s s New in the latest Java version. These are usually stored in databases.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

Driven significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, remote work hasn’t been the ephemeral experiment some may have seen it as before: A recent survey by Upwork estimated that over 36 million Americans will be working remotely by 2025. As we all know by now, today’s work environment has shifted to being largely remote.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

In this blog, we will detail the usage of MSR to disable the hardware prefetcher in the cryptomining malwares. MSR registers in processor architecture are used to toggle certain CPU features and computer performance monitoring. By manipulating the MSR registers, hardware prefetchers can be disabled. Figure 5: /etc/hosts modification.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This blog is the second in a series focused on M&A cybersecurity, following Jacob Bolotin’s post on Managing Cybersecurity Risk in M&A. Around 2020, Button and his team began taking stock of how it does things. Related Blogs. Demonstrating Trust and Transparency in Mergers and Acquisitions . Has it been patched?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2021

This is the eighth entry in the blog series on using Java Cryptography securely. The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. Later we looked at What???s s New in the latest Java version. These are usually stored in databases.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Key Components and Functions in a Zero Trust Architecture. Fri, 12/18/2020 - 06:43. Zero Trust architectural principles. In one of my previous blog posts, Zero Trust 2.0: These architectural principles include: Comprehensive identity management. Core Zero Trust architecture components.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 1, 2021

Between August 2020 and February 2021, “the agencies”, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had all published final or preliminary (beta) guidance for Zero Trust (ZT) that is applicable to all sizes of organisations. Tilt the advantage to the business.

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Herjavec Group

APRIL 26, 2021

Before 2020, the general enterprise attitude toward Identity Governance was “we have time to figure it out.” It’s a planning process of defining roles and endpoints, tactically rolling out tools and processes, and building the architecture to maintain and improve moving forward. Authenticate their identity. Identity Governance.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2022

On average as of 2020, large enterprises use 288 SaaS applications , and small businesses use more than 100. Traditional frameworks assume that the company controls the endpoint, network access or the authentication method. The post Grip Security Blog 2022-10-18 17:55:04 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 19, 2021

This blog is part of an ongoing blog series for Duo’s Universal Prompt Project. The project is a major re-architecture and redesign of the Duo multi-factor authentication experience. Even today, according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Report , 37% of credential theft breaches use stolen or weak credentials.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

At the WWDC 2020, Apple made a big deal of several new macOS and iOS features that were, in fact, big deals. The major new security features that would debut in macOS 11 were: Pointer Authentication Codes (PAC) , hardware-enforced Call Flow Integrity (CFI), implemented by Apple’s homegrown 64 bit ARM processor, the M1.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2017, we started a blog series talking about how to securely implement a crypto-system in java. Generic to entire Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA). Looking at what we discussed in How to Get Started Using Java Cryptography Securely post, the central theme of Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) [11] ??defining algorithms.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7). CVE-2021-33882 – Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CVSS 8.2). For a brief overview please see our summary blog here. Figure 2: System Architecture. Braun on January 11, 2021. Table of Contents. Background. Figure 1: B.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The number of publicly disclosed cybersecurity incidents affecting K-12 school systems rose by 18% in 2020 over the previous year, according to The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2020 Year in Review report by the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center and the K12 Security Information Exchange. What’s the Current Threat Landscape?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. According to the Software Engineering Institute, software architecture or coding flaws are responsible for up to 90% of security problems. Authentication and password management. Use Multi-Factor Authentication for highly sensitive or high-value transactional accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

200 it will consider the authentication to be successful and will attempt the exploitation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) configuration vulnerability.” “This vulnerability, part of a set of security vulnerabilities affecting Lilin DVRs, was discovered in 2020 and was assigned a CVSS v3.1 200 or HTTP/1.0 score of 10.0

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In fact, according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report , 80% of security breaches involve compromised passwords. Here we are in 2020, and cybersecurity attacks have increasingly made headlines. Duo Push Authentication Duo Push allowed Panurgy’s employees to sign in simply and easily.

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SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

The BOLA vulnerability could have been abused by hackers to understand the course preferences of users, as well as to bias a user’s course choices, Checkmarx reserachers said in a blog post. In the Coursera example, there was no mechanism in place to verify user IDs, which would enable potential attackers to enumerate user authentication.”.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Behavioral analysis of authentication events in support of UEBA detections can be incredibly effective, but that assumes identity data is available in the event stream. This blog is a summary of the SOCwise Conversation on January 25th 2020. Identify places where you have more chances to detect their presence (i.e.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

Analyzing data from more than 200 billion daily transactions last year, the 2022 report found that: Phishing attacks rose 29% in 2021 compared to 2020, driven by multiple trends: COVID-19 and work-from-home: Consumers engaged in more activities online, giving attackers new ways to take advantage.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 19, 2018

The current thinking by PCI SSC indicates that the next major update of the PCI DSS standard will not be before 2020. However, as you might expect, the system architecture and security design needs to be very secure and validated. Beginning on 1st January 2019, organisations will be validated against PCI DSS 3.2.1

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2021

Modern architectures and applications place additional demands on access management tools. This blog will introduce access management evaluation criteria guidelines and discuss what features you should look for and what vendors to consider for your next employee access management solution. Thu, 01/07/2021 - 17:10.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

To add insult to injury, REvil (aka Sodonokibi) appeared to return in April with new payloads and a fresh leak blog featuring a mixture of recent and old victims. This allows the malware to run on different combinations of operating systems and architectures. Ransoms were 36 percent higher in 2021 than in 2020 at an average of $6.1

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

This blog post provides a high-level explanation of how to implement security boundaries in an on-prem AD and Azure environment to protect your critical assets based on the principle of tiered administration, including how BloodHound Enterprise can help you in the process. Old and new Microsoft recommendations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

According to Gartner, by 2020, more than 25% of identified enterprise attacks will involve IoT , though IoT is expected to account for only 10% of IT security budgets. In the next 2 years, almost half (43%) of IoT devices will use digital certificates for authentication. Put simply, trust is critical to the IoT.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2021

GraphQL was our opportunity to rethink mobile app data-fetching from the perspective of product designers and developers,” wrote Facebook’s Lee Byron in a blog post. “It Therefore, APIs really should always be encrypted and should always have authentication, authorization and audit trails.”. But things are far from ideal.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

In 2017, yet another new version was detected in the wild with a number of major modifications compared to the previous main variant: Rebranded RM loader (called RM3 ) Used exotic PE file format exclusively designed for this banking malware Modular architecture Network communication reworked New modules.

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