eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Although beyond the scope of the network, effective network security relies upon the effective authentication of the user elsewhere in the security stack. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) : In today’s ransomware-riddled environment, two-factor authentication should also be considered a minimum requirement for all forms of remote access.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Next, the IT team sets up access controls and data encryption methods, followed by network security configuration and cloud activities monitoring. Data encryption : Ensure that your data is safe in transit and at rest to prevent unauthorized access. To protect data, it uses encryption, access controls, monitoring, and audits.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

First, it leverages a solution called Dynamic Data Defense Engine to build in zero trust access policies at the individual file level, encrypting each one and building in a number of ways that employees can authenticate their device or identity before accessing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 15, 2021

The good news is that security is no longer being ignored during the manufacturing of the devices. Digital identification would fulfill a critical element of attaining a zero trust architecture, especially important for industrial technology edge devices. Encryption Key Management. To hear more, tune into the podcast.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Known as content disarm and reconstruction (CDR) solutions, these tools clean and rebuild files to match a “known good” manufacturer specification that automatically removes potential threats. Are the SolarWinds Hackers Back?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The proliferation of connected devices offers enormous business benefit, across industries as diverse as manufacturing, healthcare and automotive. PKI is widely used for authentication and digital signing, and increasingly for the IoT to help create a root of trust that can be implanted at the time a device is manufactured.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Such attacks typically entail business, manufacturing, ecologic, or economic disciplines that drop beyond the standard bounds of a fraud. Bots and fraudsters will locate the weak points in your architecture. . Verify that there are no software injection, encryption, and authentication attacks. Encryption treats.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Because IoT devices typically have limited CPU and storage capabilities, many devices transmit data in the clear and with limited authentication capabilities to a central collection unit where it can be collected, stored, analyzed and securely transmitted for additional use.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. As if that were not enough, many IoT devices have unalterable main passwords set by manufacturers. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Many organizations have opted to converge their IT and OT environments, which can yield many benefits such as efficiency and more elegant architecture; at the same time, these decisions are not without risk. These often use proprietary network protocols and lack basic security controls like authentication or encryption.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

The supply chain, already stretched to a breaking point, suffered additional misfortunes across multiple industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to technology and utilities. However, in a clear bid for the supply chain jugular, threat actors also zeroed in on manufacturing, technology, utilities (including oil), and agriculture.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

Important entities” include manufacturing, food, waste management, and postal services. From secure reference architecture implementation to supporting organizational changes, execute fix-it programs efficiently. Essential entities ” span sectors such as energy, healthcare, transport, and water.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Multi-factor authentication : Protects stolen credentials against use by requiring more than a simple username and password combination for access to resources. Passwordless authentication : Eliminates passwords in favor of other types of authentication such as passkeys, SSO, biometrics, or email access.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

Plaintext communication with the cloud Not only is gaining access trivial, but the feeder’s communication with the cloud, including the authentication process, is in cleartext. It is critical that manufacturers use dynamic and unique credentials for each device.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Introduction This guide deals with threat modelling and early stages of development so that security issues and controls are identified before committing to manufacturing. Use AES encryption. The CoP includes the following recommendations for manufacturers: No default passwords. Encrypt in transit. Validate input.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Zero Trust Key Concepts Zero trust, as a set of design ideas and principles for a security architecture allows for numerous interpretations about how to approach an efficient and safe implementation. Common challenges involve restricted availability of authentication methods and difficulty in gaining visibility of non-managed devices.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Communication with the server can take place either over raw TCP sockets encrypted with RC4, or via HTTPS. We confirmed several victims in the manufacturing, home network service, media and construction sectors. The ransomware supports two encryption modes: one generated dynamically and one using a hardcoded key. We Are Back ?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Advanced support is available for attended or unattended shared devices, COPE (corporate-owned, personally-enabled) architecture, and BYO (bring-your-own) policies. Improved visibility and security, and the multi-tenant architecture supports complex deployments at scale. Key Differentiators. Matrix42 Secure UEM.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Broadcom also offers a location hub microcontroller and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems for embedded IoT security for organizations handling product manufacturing. The resultant synergy has been optimal visibility into ICS networks through an adaptive edge monitoring architecture alongside Cisco’s existing security stack.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most remarkable findings In early 2023, we discovered an ongoing attack targeting government entities in the APAC region by compromising a specific type of a secure USB drive, which provides hardware encryption. These variants go beyond Ligolo’s standard functionality and attempt to emulate VPN solutions from Cisco and Palo Alto.

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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). An architecture diagram below helps demonstrates the system layout and design when a pump is present in the docking station. Figure 2: System Architecture.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Major research efforts on how to detect these IEDs and detonate them harmlessly, or to infiltrate and disrupt bomb manufacturing, were referred by the idiom “Left of Boom.” Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) as soon and as efficiently as possible.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. 14 ) performs a first check on CPU architecture and a second one on the number of processors. Technical Analysis. Figure 14: Content of “run” script file.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Enter Mystic Stealer, a fresh stealer lurking in the cyber sphere, noted for its data theft capabilities, obfuscation, and an encrypted binary protocol to enable it to stay under the radar and evade defenses. Example Mystic Stealer constant obfuscation technique Encrypted binary custom protocol. Polymorphic string obfuscation.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Financial institutions, healthcare, public sector and government agencies, manufacturing, and energy companies are all embracing digital business trends. User authentication with a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) approach is vulnerable to human errors and numerous types of cyber attacks. We will explore these pillars more in depth.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Whether it be routers, IoT devices or SCADA systems, they are very varied in architecture, use case, and purpose. Non-x86 processor architecture. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Introduction. Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Whether it be routers, IoT devices or SCADA systems, they are very varied in architecture, use case, and purpose. Non-x86 processor architecture. Extracting firmware can sometimes be difficult due to custom firmware layouts and encryption. Introduction. Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. It seemed that once you authenticated through the local network, the app maintain that access, even if you are halfway across the world.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

And so, I think it makes, well obviously it makes sense for message brokers , but it's kind of VM architecture like Java does so, you know, there's your application and there's some VM and then there's the OS below that There are some mistakes you can't make an Erlang. Which means, unless the Java system itself has a bug. that way.

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