eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

Because these tests can use illegal hacker techniques, pentest services will sign a contract detailing their roles, goals, and responsibilities. To make sure the exercise is effective and doesn’t inadvertently cause harm, all parties to a pentest need to understand the type of testing to be done and the methods used.

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NetSpi Executives

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the adoption and use cases continue to grow, it is critical that organizations understand the unique threats that AI/ML brings along with it, along with identifying weak spots and building more resilient models. If you would like to learn more about our AI/ML Pentesting, check out our data sheet , or contact us for a demo.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speakers at last week’s MITRE ResilienCyCon conference had a surprisingly candid message for attendees: You will likely be breached at some point so focus on the controls and response capabilities your organization needs to survive a cyber attack. Patching Is Hard.

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Anton on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Back in my analyst days, we looked at it as a part of a security use case lifecycle process. For example, we focused on things like number and quality of alerts per SIEM use case, false/useless alert (“false positive”) numbers and ratios (to useful alerts), escalations to incident response, tuning, etc.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

We'll also touch upon a couple of high-profile attacks that will serve as cautionary tales. Phishing attacks, for instance, are extremely common: these are deceptive emails or messages designed to steal data. Ransomware is another significant threat, where attackers encrypt an organization's data and demand payment for its release.

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Anton on Security

AUGUST 31, 2022

So, how can people who think their SOC does not “release” anything because “we just use alerts spawned by rules from somebody else” learn from the SREs here? In fact, one SRE we talked to explained release engineering to us like this: “I want to get it out of my head and into the computer. BTW, did you know that the SRE book is?—?by

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2023

In fact, it’s generally more effective to use one of these comprehensive and peer-reviewed solutions in order to keep your pentests on track. Read on to learn more about how pentest frameworks are used, how they’re set up, and some of the top pentest frameworks that are available today.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 9, 2021

Security Awareness Training the foundation of a Cyberculture Life and work as we know it is changing as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, and cybercriminals are using this to their advantage. This is the case, especially when working from home. Employees are a vital part of the security strategy.

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SecureList

APRIL 12, 2023

While monitoring the actor’s activities, we noticed that in one particular case they were using a significantly modified piece of malware. Upon further investigation, we discovered that the actor behind this weaponized document had been using similar malicious Word documents since October 2018.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Initially I assumed this pause was caused by whatever auto-dialer software the spammer was using to initiate the call before their text-to-speech software starts talking about my car’s extended warranty. The use of human-like voices combined with auto-dialers, while a new occurrence, are not all that unusual in the world of spam calls.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets. A typical spear phishing attack follows a familiar pattern of emails with attachments. The aim is to establish a reputation and trust through personalization.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 22, 2021

AttackIQ Partner Academy will provide our global community of partner sales engineers and account executives with the skills they need to help cybersecurity practitioners build a threat-informed defense across the industry’s broadest range of use cases,” said Carl Wright, AttackIQ Chief Commercial Officer.

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Webroot

AUGUST 18, 2021

If you attended Black Hat this year, you couldn’t avoid the topic of supply chain attacks. Supply chain attacks are cyberattacks targeting an upstream vendor for the ultimate purpose of compromising one or more of its customers. We all depend on the supply chain being fully immunized,” he continued, “and it’s not there yet.”.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Using this information, last year I wrote a blog summing up the nine top of mind issues I believed will most impact CISOs as we headed into 2022. Many of them still ring true now and will continue to do so, but some new concerns have risen up the agenda. CISO in the firing line. Increasing demands from insurers.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 22, 2021

In other cases, private sector contracts require it. Surely it’s more important to know that a potential supplier has applied effective security controls to try to prevent a breach, rather than verify that it will receive a payout if it has one. Ultimate responsibility for data breaches rests with the board and the CEO.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. are obviously the main targets of the threat actors that use the Office 365 V4 phishing kit,” the blog post concluded. “As

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Multi-factor authentication is one of the best ways to thwart bad actors using stolen credentials — but it’s not foolproof. Year after year, the Verizon Data Breach Report highlights the fact that compromised credentials contribute to the majority of breaches — and MFA remains the strongest mechanism to deter the use of stolen passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

A penetration test , or pen test, is the simulation of a cyber attack. This critical IT security practice isn’t the same as a vulnerability assessment or vulnerability scanning, though, as pen testing involves an actual attack similar to what hackers would do in real-world conditions. Nmap Free Security Scanner.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Back in my analyst days, we looked at it as a part of a security use case lifecycle process. For example, we focused on things like number and quality of alerts per SIEM use case, false/useless alert (“false positive”) numbers and ratios (to useful alerts), escalations to incident response, tuning, etc.

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Zigrin Security

JULY 19, 2023

Web applications are often the first target for attackers due to the vast amount of sensitive information they contain. The goal is to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that attackers could exploit to gain unauthorized access, steal sensitive data, or disrupt operations.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2022

So, how can people who think their SOC does not “release” anything because “we just use alerts spawned by rules from somebody else” learn from the SREs here? In fact, one SRE we talked to explained release engineering to us like this: “I want to get it out of my head and into the computer. BTW, did you know that the SRE book is?—?by

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether it’s a ransomware attack, natural disaster, machine or human error, backups are critical to restoring lost, damaged, and inaccessible resources. In today’s digital ecosystem, organizations’ digital records and systems rely on operational continuity to make a difference in business success.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How effective are attackers with regard to RF in eavesdropping, DoS & DDoS, MitM, spoofing and malware propagation? Are there any interesting case studies? Are there any interesting case studies? Attackers can be highly effective in RF attacks, including: Eavesdropping: Vulnerable RF signals can be intercepted and decoded.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

Metasploit is notorious for being abused, yet modules are still being developed for it so that it continues to evolve. These tools are meant to simulate intrusions by motivated actors, and they have proven to be very good at this. Lately, we have seen targeted attacks by both state-sponsored threat actors and ransomware peddlers.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Mobile statistics Targeted attacks Gopuram backdoor deployed through 3CX supply-chain attack Earlier this year, a Trojanized version of the 3CXDesktopApp, a popular VoIP program, was used in a high-supply-chain attack. We believe that Gopuram is the main implant and the final payload in the attack chain.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By gaining a deeper understanding of application security, companies can take the necessary steps and actions to safeguard their valuable assets and reduce the risk of devastating data breaches. These tests typically use vulnerability scanners. How Does Application Security Work? Regularly test your site for vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In a couple of decades’ time, they’ve gone from pretending to be Nigerian princes to compromising the entire software supply chain , and every day brings news of a new attack technique or a clever variation on an old one. Incidents like those that rattled SolarWinds and Kaseya and their downstream customers changed the game.

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NopSec

APRIL 12, 2019

It eliminates “false-positives” that the scanner might encounter on certain host platforms: i.e. an Apache server which is fully patched but uses and older banner that triggers scanner findings. If initially unsuccessful, E3 continues looping on the steps above until it identifies a host it can login where domain administrator was logged in.

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McAfee

MAY 5, 2021

Bottom Line: McAfee stopped the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Carbanak and FIN7 threats in their tracks within the first 15% of the major steps of the attack chain (on average), delivering on a critical security operations center (SOC) strategy: Stop the attack as early as possible. . Engenuity’s ?ATT&CK

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

Analyzing an organization’s security posture through the prism of a potential intruder’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) provides actionable insights into the exploitable attack surface. Essentially, a pentest is a manual process that boils down to mimicking an attacker’s actions. BAS is the newest technique on the list.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 15, 2023

Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities. It is a critical part of an organization’s cybersecurity program. There are many different vulnerability management frameworks, but the vulnerability management lifecycle of most organizations today typically includes five phases.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Or as is often the case with security, what costs can we skip and still escape big penalties later? Unfortunately for those of us indulging in wishful thinking, the likelihood and costs of data breaches continue to increase. The Ponemon Institute estimates that data breach costs rose to an average cost of $4.24

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NopSec

AUGUST 9, 2022

Gartner’s definition [1] of pentesting says it “goes beyond vulnerability scanning to use multi-step and multi-vector attack scenarios that first find vulnerabilities and then attempt to exploit them to move deeper into the enterprise infrastructure.” This more closely simulates an actual cyber attack.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Fortunately, there are many pentesting services out there that can do the job for them across a range of budgets and needs. For those who favor the DIY approach, we also have articles on the best commercial and open source pentesting tools.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Network security is an umbrella term for all facets of your network’s cybersecurity posture, with an emphasis on developing and using policies, procedures, best practices and tools that safeguard every piece of your network’s overall infrastructure.

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NetSpi Executives

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Meet the Contributors This roundup includes contributions from NetSPI Partners and Thomas Adams, NetSPI’s Product Manager, Breach and Attack Simulation. Meet the Contributors This roundup includes contributions from NetSPI Partners and Thomas Adams, NetSPI’s Product Manager, Breach and Attack Simulation.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

Our threat intelligence analysts noticed clear overlap between the various cases in infrastructure and capabilities, and as a result we assess with moderate confidence that one group was carrying out the intrusions across multiple victims operating in Chinese interests. In open source this actor is referred to as Chimera by CyCraft.

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