BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Have you given much thought to how secure your smartphone is? But what happens if you think your mobile has been breached? How would you know? In this blog, we’ll look at how you can minimise the impact of your personal mobile being compromised. What do you do? What’s app?

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 9, 2021

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: RDP brute force attacks explained The 3 biggest threats reaching for your antivirus software’s off switch Zoom and gloom? NSA issues advice for securing wireless devices What is Tor ? Amazon will pay you $10 for your palm prints. Should you be worried? Should you be worried?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2018

New research shows that Web sites can run a simple script in the background that collects precise location data on people who have a Google Home or Chromecast device installed anywhere on their local network. Google in the coming weeks is expected to fix a location privacy leak in two of its most popular consumer products.

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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. This brought up the question, “ If it is not on my local network how do I connect to it to unlock it? We mentioned that we can leave it somewhere as a drop box.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

The healthcare industry has been leveraging IoT devices for years, steadily increasing its use in facilities and patient care. The use of IoT devices and digitalization has been further accelerated by the pandemic, where the need for telemedicine and remote care became a necessity. The risks of IoMT devices in healthcare organizations.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

Even the government has been pushing to drive adoption of HTTPS for all sites, for example in this post by the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK : all websites should use HTTPS, even if they don't include private content, sign-in pages, or credit card details. Is it needed? Does it do any good? What's it actually protecting?

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DNS Wireless Risk Banking 277

Centraleyes

JANUARY 4, 2024

Ignorance can be costly when safeguarding your cloud or hybrid networks. Today’s security teams face the challenge of monitoring the well-being and performance of a diverse array of on-premises and cloud applications, software, IoT devices, and remote networks. What is a Vulnerability Assessment?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

How is IoT changing the financial sector? Security challenges are looming. The susceptibility of fintech devices and networks to malfunctioning is a big concern. In June 2018, Visa payment systems crashed throughout Europe , preventing millions of customers from using POS devices to pay for goods. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Machine Identities are Essential for Securing Smart Manufacturing. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) puts networked sensors and intelligent devices directly on the manufacturing floor to collect data, drive artificial intelligence and do predictive analytics. brooke.crothers. Mon, 02/28/2022 - 11:55. Quality control.

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Google Security

MAY 11, 2022

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. This blog will deep dive into the method of phishing and how it has evolved today.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Patch management is a crucial aspect for IoT devices, smart objects are surrounding us and represent a privileged target for hackers. An attacker needs to share on the same wireless network as the Sony TV in order to trigger the vulnerability. ” reads the blog post published by Fortinet. ” reads the blog post.

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2019

Since our last week’s post, security firm Cloudflare has detailed how they developed and deployed a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule to detect those attackers. For details on how to fix or mitigate this vulnerability, please refer to our original post. Cisco RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router versions prior to 1.0.3.45

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Attendees of any large events should remain vigilant by implementing these security tips to help protect their information on site. Before you swipe your card or connect your wireless device, make sure you perform a brief investigation. How to prevent credit card theft. Keep your PIN hidden.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It allows organizations to identify potential security gaps including access points that threat actors can leverage to gain entry into corporate networks and then prioritize these vulnerabilities for remediation. Picture it this way (pun intended)- if a network-enabled security camera always acts like a security camera, that’s expected.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

APRIL 21, 2023

A few years ago, the choices were limited to NUC or a Raspberry PI type of device. Each had their pros and cons when looking to balance concealment and a device’s power (CPU, memory and storage). The Dual NICs allows for placing the device in line with a device on the network. X NAC bypasses (2004).

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NopSec

JULY 18, 2017

CIS 20 Security Controls represent one of the reference frameworks of the most critical controls an organization can implement to establish a well balanced security program to safeguard confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. With that in mind, in this blog post we’re covering 13 out of the 20 controls.

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Kali Linux

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This blog post will be a brief overview of how to get started using the web interface, setting up a trigger as well as installing additional packages found in Kali Linux. The Kali community has been hard at work (as always!), If you have a Raspberry Pi Zero W, we highly recommend giving this image a try.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it explicitly clear to many of us just how important connectivity is in our daily lives. As such, the demand for a network that can handle more users, with more devices, has never been greater. As such, the demand for a network that can handle more users, with more devices, has never been greater.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The company produces inexpensive smart home products and wireless cameras. . The leak was reported to Wyze on December 26th at around 10:00 AM and the company immediately secured the database and launched an investigation. We are still looking into this event to figure out why and how this happened.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Overall, we continue to think the security industry is still ripe for commoditization, especially from the cloud providers who have the capacity to simply offer features as a default. The biggest security specific omission for us was the lack of discussion on quantum computing and the impact it will have on the industry.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Deployed with more than 30 exploits, it has the potential of targeting millions of routers and IoT devices. It is yet unclear which threat actor is behind the malware and number of infected devices. Key Takeaways: BotenaGo has more than 30 different exploit functions to attack a target. Background. BotenaGo execution output.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Hope isn’t considered a best security practice. The nonprofit GDI Foundation has tracked close to 175,000 examples of misconfigured software and services on the cloud this year. As more and more organizations are moving to the cloud, the number of leaky servers is increasing. Q: Why have there been so many leaky servers recently?

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 20, 2016

After 5 months of testing our rolling distribution (and its supporting infrastructure), we’re confident in its reliability - giving our users the best of all worlds - the stability of Debian, together with the latest versions of the many outstanding penetration testing tools created and shared by the information security community.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2021

Plus, it's definitely added to our lives in terms of the things it enables us to do; see them in part 5 of my IoT unravelled blog series. The light sits on your desk and plugs into mains power and connects wirelessly to your network. You also want to be able to change the colour because hey, that's kinda cool.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

So, peeling back that next layer, the whole IoT space isn't just about devices that get their own IP address on your network and talk over TCP (or UDP). IoT and IP Addresses So, what happens when you start filling your home with IoT things? Let's drill into all that and then go deeper into custom firmware and soldering too.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I’m your host Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about gamifying something that is already a game, and packaging it for people who want to view it as an e-port. What if DEF CON CTFs were televised? What if you could see their screens and have interviews with the players in the moment? It was an interesting idea.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. For a brief overview please see our summary blog here. What Security Research has Already Been Performed?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) provides a high security, high availability network in one of the most demanding environments in the world – the Black Hat event. We also provide integrated security, visibility and automation: a SOC (Security Operations Center) inside the NOC, with Grifter and Bart as the leaders.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat USA NOC (Network Operations Center) blog, you will find: Adapt and Overcome. Port Security, by Ryan MacLennan, Ian Redden and Paul Fiddler. I am proud of the Cisco Meraki and Secure team members and our NOC partners. Building the Hacker Summer Camp network, by Evan Basta. Full stop.

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat Asia NOC blog, you will find: . To accomplish this undertaking in a few weeks’ time, after the conference had a green light with the new COVID protocols, Cisco Meraki and Cisco Secure leadership gave their full support to send the necessary hardware, software licenses and staff to Singapore.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 29, 2021

Part of our Administrator's Guide to Passwordless blog series See the video at the blog post. If you’re considering passwordless authentication for your organization today, you’ve probably been thinking for a while about a holistic authentication strategy. Detect anomalous user behavior and flag it for remediation.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Similar initiatives were undertaken in Australia, India and Japan, all with the intent to roll these devices out within a relatively short amount of time. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

In part one of our Black Hat USA 2022 NOC blog, we discussed building the network with Meraki: Adapt and Overcome. Port Security, by Ryan MacLennan, Ian Redden and Paul Fiddler. We had an incredible staff of 20 Cisco engineers to build and secure the network. Building the Hacker Summer Camp network, by Evan Basta.

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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. Below are our fellow NOC partners providing hardware, to build and secure the network, for our joint customer: Black Hat. AP Placement Planning, by Sandro Fasser.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This includes a new Small Business Computer Security Basics guide, which shares computer security basics to help companies protect their files and devices, train employees to think twice before sharing the business’s account information, and keep their wireless network protected, as well as how to respond to a data breach.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

This is the story of how Kali came to be, and some of the challenges along the way. Yesterday is History: The Past How did we get to where we are today? Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. Wednesday 13th, March 2013, 10 years ago, Kali Linux v1.0 Time has flown.

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