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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. He was quoted as saying that he and his co-conspirators would steal the data and if Tesla refused to pay the ransom the company's secrets would be placed on the internet. review Active Directory password policy. Russian Pleads Guilty to Tesla Ransomware Plot.

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DEF CON 29: SEVillage Recap

Security Through Education

The SEVillage was established back in 2010 at DEF CON 18. In addition, he runs operations during penetration tests and exercises with clients, as well as managing client relationships. The targets provided us with answers to the flags that the teens would then search the internet for, collecting points along the way.

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At last – Thinking outside the SCIF

IT Security Guru

It is here when we add the fifth dimension in the form of OSINT, that we see the clear advantage of an extra layer of Intelligence which is derived from traversing and scraping the Internet open sources. These snippets may take the form of Data Leaks , P2P Communications , Metadata extractions , GPRS and EXIF image associated data.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

Longer history lesson Knoppix - Initial two weeks work Whoppix (White-Hat and knOPPIX) came about as the founder, @Muts, was doing an in-person air-gap network penetration test lasting for two weeks in 2004. A fresh start in March 2013. Things were not as stable as when it was first released. From time-to-time we have made slip ups.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

Hanslovan: A lot of even the publicly available penetration testing or attack simulation tools have these now built in natively. Hanslovan: This is using nothing more than built in features in the operating system within Office to load and run malicious payloads downloaded from the internet. They're typically hard to find.

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APT trends report Q3 2021

SecureList

The malicious payload was then used to upload additional malware, usually the Quarian backdoor that has been seen in use by Chinese-speaking actors since around 2010. Scanning the internet with available clues from our previous research, we are able to discover newly deployed hosts, in some cases even before they become active.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2 east coast.