Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Disk level encryption is no longer permitted for protection unless it is a form of removeable media (e.g., If using just passwords for authentication, service providers must change customer passwords every 90 days.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Next, it would encrypt files on the victim’s system and deny access until they sent a $189 payment to a post office box in Panama. For example, a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany became infected with ransomware that managed to encrypt its systems. Bait CDs were then distributed at the World Health Organization’s AIDS conference.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

To prevent the attack techniques noted in this blog post, disable the “Allow connection fallback to NTLM” client push installation setting, which is enabled by default in SCCM. This post also frequently refers to NTLM authentication and relaying. I’ll be referring to NetNTLMv2 authentication as NTLM throughout this post.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When Patching Goes Wrong Now that I've finished talking about how patching should be autonomous, let's talk about the problems with that starting with an issue I raised in this tweet from yesterday: In the first of my IoT blog series yesterday, I lamented how one of my smart plugs was unexplainably inaccessible. HA has a Let's Encrypt add-on.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

This is the first of a series of consultant-written blogs around PCI DSS. GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., Many organizations have multiple IAM schemes that they forget about when it comes to a robust compliance framework such as PCI DSS. PCI DSS v4.0

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

The threat used valid accounts against remote services: Cloud-based applications utilizing federated authentication protocols. The VPN was protected by two-factor authentication (2FA) by sending an SMS with a one-time password (OTP) to the user account’s primary or alternate phone number. Account discovery (T1087).

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Cisco Security

MARCH 27, 2021

Shrink the DNS attack surface with Auth-DoH. In this analogy, the invisibility superpower is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. My inspiration: Loki , the Marvel superhero.)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem. Further data, including IoCs and Yara rules, decide in the report published on the Yoroi blog. Technical Analysis. Web-Inject.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to Cloudflare—which has published an excellent explanation of what it saw—Facebook’s trouble started when its Autonomous System issued a BGP update withdrawing routes to its own DNS servers. Without DNS servers, the address facebook.com stopped working. And then there’s the influencers. ” part of our story.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. If you are only interested in using the Raspberry Pi as a Wi-Fi client, you can stop here, and unmount everything like we did in our secure Kali Pi blog post. hcd usr/lib/firmware/brcm/BCM-0bb4-0306.hcd

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

From industry tips and best practices to the latest Malwarebytes product releases and how-tos, our Business newsletter is chock-full of the best of our business blog. DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Imagine a shift away from logging into a “network” to having security seamlessly built into the network, and multi-factor authentication and authorization continuously performed at the application level on the fly — without users typing passwords. The vision being set forth by OMB is ambitious — but vital.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. SCA detected 289 alerts including Suspected Port Abuse, Internal Port Scanner, New Unusual DNS Resolver,and Protocol Violation (Geographic).

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

APRIL 16, 2024

In the SSH protocol, ECDSA may be used to authenticate users. The SSH protocol first creates a secure tunnel to the server, in a similar manner to connecting to a HTTPS server, authenticating the server by checking the server key fingerprint against the cached fingerprint.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2022

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) originally designed the ACME protocol for its own Let’s Encrypt certificate service. On September 15, 2021, the DNS records for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org You can read all about the key points of how ACME works in this blog. Today the protocol has become a standard ( RFC 8555 ).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “Based on the analysis of the available data, the entire network of Lord & Taylor and 83 Saks Fifth Avenue locations have been compromised,” the firm wrote in a blog post examining the breach. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access. Evolving threats. Errors to avoid.

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

Complex attacks almost invariably feature several phases, such as reconnaissance, initial access to the infrastructure, gaining access to target systems and/or privileges, and the actual malicious acts (data theft, destruction or encryption, etc.). are you the person who enters, checks nothing and encrypts the first random machines? $1k?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. " Instead of keeping DNS for most consumers at their ISP, the DoH providers now seize a Web usage goldmine.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 12, 2022

The CA will issue challenges (DNS or HTTPS) requiring the agent to take an action that demonstrates control over said domain(s). Back in 2015, when Let’s Encrypt was was just emerging as a certificate-authority force, Josh Aas, the ISRG's executive director said that "Encryption should be the default for the web.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

This new integration supports Umbrella proxy, cloud firewall, IP, and DNS logs. They include various items like DKIM key inspections, DNS Resource Records and more. HashiCorp Vault is an identity-based secrets and encryption management system. A blog on the integration is also available here. Read more here.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Much of what I'm going to cover in the remainder of this blog post will focus on the site at uidai.gov.in We are rapidly approaching a "secure by default" web and the green padlock is becoming the norm ( about two thirds of all browser traffic is now encrypted ). rather than on the various subdomains.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

Some of those early NGFW implementations took shortcuts to improve performance by simply treating all UDP/53 traffic as DNS and TCP/23 as Telnet, but eventually everyone invested in good enough DPI to get beyond those obvious pitfalls.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In this blog about the design, deployment and automation of the Black Hat network, we have the following sections: Designing the Black Hat Network, by Evan Basta. I also observed an AP spoofing and broadcast de-authentication attack. From our experiences at Black Hat USA 2022, we had encrypted frames enabled, blunting the attack.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

Enabling two-factor authentication is perhaps the most important step toward resisting such tactics (attackers have intercepted SMS codes, so use other methods, if possible). More broadly: Enable two-factor authentication everywhere. Use encrypted chat for sensitive discussions. Lock down domain registrar and DNS settings.

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