Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2020

While many companies have deployed extra measures to secure employees’ remote access to corporate resources and apps, it is important to think of all the necessary security measures to be taken in protecting sensitive data. Encrypt all sensitive data. Discover and classify your data. Understand the risks related to data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

The origin and impact of insider risk To understand best how to combat them, it helps to know where insider threats originate and why. It’s hard to admit that someone from within the company could ‘not be who they say they are’, and it takes a group effort to get these types of programs off the ground. These cases are out there.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In part 1 of this series, I posited that the IoT landscape is an absolute mess but Home Assistant (HA) does an admirable job of tying it all together. In part 2 , I covered IP addresses and the importance of a decent network to run all this stuff on, followed by Zigbee and the role of low power, low bandwidth devices. Let's dive into it.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. With quantum computing looming in the not-so-distant future, the way that we think about encryption will need to evolve. However, the complex math behind creating encryption keys is no match for the power of quantum computers. What is quantum computing?

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Security Through Education

MAY 31, 2021

An investment in knowledge, pays the best interest” – Benjamin Franklin. However, the Innocent Lives Foundation highlighted an important point in one of their blog posts, “We teach our children fire safety, water safety, and car safety skills, yet our children are not fearful of fires, crossing the street, or swimming.”

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

You might open a web interface to access email or launch your favorite social media app to connect with friends. Using this list as a backdrop the following best practices are presented as a call to action to help organizations take a proactive approach at addressing API security risk. billion networked devices by 2023.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

In this blog, we cover the top-seven data security practices every workplace should implement to help protect valuable information and more. When someone entrusts data to an employer, it should do its best to protect that information. Why is Data Security Important in the Workplace? Financial security. Reputational protection.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

While fileless malware is nothing new, the way the encrypted shellcode containing the malicious payload is embedded into Windows event logs is. A man-on-the-side attack implies that the attacker is able to control the communication channel, allowing them to read the traffic and inject arbitrary messages into normal data exchange.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

APRIL 19, 2023

Features of LoRa include media access controls and the encryption transmissions. This article will look at using a public LoRa cloud service to simplify this method to the reader. However, it is also possible to host a private LoRaWAN server, which will provide the same service as a cloud service provider but remain anonymous in an IR event.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Pegasus is an advanced spyware that exploits vulnerable mobile apps to gain a foothold on iPhone and Android devices. Access text messages. Access encrypted chats from third-party apps. On the iPhone, Pegasus uses a zero-click attack against the iOS iMessage app to infect the device. What is Pegasus? Access photos.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Passwords are stored in an encrypted database to ensure protection and when a user is logged into the password manager, credentials can be retrieved so unique passwords don’t need to be remembered for each individual account. Don’t be afraid of social engineering attacks this Cybersecurity Awareness Month! But the mission never ends.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 26, 2021

From beefs between popstars and professional pundits, to an open channel to the best jobs in the industry. Equally, direct messages have been used by groups to take control over influencer accounts to promote messaging of their own. Lazarus Wants to Add You as a Friend. But guess what?

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Twitter is rolling out support for encrypted direct messages (DMs), the security feature will be initially available for the verified users. The latest version of Twitter apps (iOS, Android, Web) generates a couple of private and public keys for the device. ” reads the announcement published by Twitter.

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

As your business moves into the cloud, compliance regulations must be your top priority. An extremely important compliance regulation today is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). What is HIPAA? If you fall under HIPAA compliance and use Google G Suite, is G Suite HIPAA compliant? Are you migrating your data to the cloud?

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT have been tracking a threat group with a wide set of interests, from intellectual property (IP) from victims in the semiconductors industry through to passenger data from the airline industry. In their intrusions they regularly abuse cloud services from Google and Microsoft to achieve their goals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 27, 2021

This message gives consumers and organizations alike an opportunity to look back on the events that shaped privacy in 2020 with an eye towards the future. This message gives consumers and organizations alike an opportunity to look back on the events that shaped privacy in 2020 with an eye towards the future. Thu, 01/28/2021 - 06:42.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

With Zoom becoming one of the most prevalent tools for businesses to connect via video conferencing, attackers seized the opportunity to target users with a malicious phishing scam … with the goal of stealing victims’ Microsoft Teams account credentials,” Lauryn Cash, product marketing manager at Armorblox, wrote in a blog post.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

A 2022 analysis of several billion document attachments, website links, and email messages, by cybersecurity firm SlashNext, reflects a 60% increase in phishing-borne attacks that focus on the exploitation of user credentials via their mobile devices. The eight most common forms of phishing-based cyberattacks.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021. UK Smarties Cities Cybersecurity Warning. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published its Smart Cities (connected places) guidance for UK local authorities.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

This blog post was originally created by Jeremy Rasmussan, Chief Technology Officer at Abacode. Read the original blog here. . This gives them an encrypted tunnel by which to establish RDP connections with a remote command and control (C&C) server – and the firewall won’t stop them. Once is a fluke. Twice a pattern.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

How often have you ignored unusual system slowdowns or unexpected pop-up messages. Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. Related: Companies must bear a broad security burden. What is Malware . Many ‘pop-up’ ads start appearing randomly.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

The “network” qualifier refers to how we insert those controls into the traffic path and what kind of messages they inspect. Read Me First. As a network and workload security strategy leader, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the good old network firewall. Insert Your Firewall Here.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

Just like the myriad expanding galaxies seen in the latest images from the James Webb space telescope, the cybersecurity landscape consists of a growing number of security technology vendors, each with the goal of addressing the continually evolving threats faced by customers today. Happy integrating! New Cisco Secure Endpoint Integrations.

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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. Building the Hacker Summer Camp network, by Evan Basta. The Cisco Stack’s Potential in Action, by Paul Fidler. Port Security, by Ryan MacLennan, Ian Redden and Paul Fiddler.

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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. The NOC partners are selected by Black Hat, with Arista, Cisco, Corelight, Lumen, NetWitness and Palo Alto Networks delivering from Las Vegas this year.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

My views on certificate authority shenanigans spinning yarns on EV are well known after having done many talks on the topic and written many blog posts, most recently in August 2019 after both Chrome and Firefox announced they were killing it. Yeah, nah. Let's tear it apart bit by bit. Let's tear it apart bit by bit.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 23, 2023

Every single Data Privacy Day, companies, organizations, and privacy rights advocates make their best case for why everyday people should care about privacy. Every single Data Privacy Day, companies, organizations, and privacy rights advocates make their best case for why everyday people should care about privacy.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2019

Australia, and elsewhere -- argue that the pervasive use of civilian encryption is hampering their ability to solve crimes and that they need the tech companies to make their systems susceptible to government eavesdropping. Sometimes their complaint is about communications systems, like voice or messaging apps.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? Would you use it? Would you help others? In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? Would you use it? Would you help others? In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

If you’re participating in a political campaign, the best publicly available starting point is the Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook from the Defending Digital Democracy project. Install security updates for your apps and the OS as soon as they come out. Install security updates for your apps and the OS as soon as they come out.

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