CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2021

Depending on the criticality of the vendor, you may opt to have a backup vendor in place to ensure business continuity. The most damaging events are third-party data breaches resulting from poor security controls, like Target’s 2013 data breach. This is common practice for financial institutions.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

“Experience in backup, increase privileges, mikicatz, network. “I’ve been using this login since about 2013 on all the forums where I register, and I don’t always set a strong password. “The command requires Windows system administrators,” Truniger’s ads explained.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Ransomware Types. Version restores.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. Gmail’s password recovery function says the backup email address for devrian27@gmail.com is bo3 *@gmail.com. A different UK phone number in a more recent record for the wwwebuygold[.]com com , and portalsagepay[.]com.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2015

For 2014, the number of daily cyber attacks dropped to 3,043, nearly one-third less than the 4,200 attacks during the same timeframe in 2013, while the number of breaches dropped more than 50 percent for Black Friday and Cyber Monday year-over-year.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Dustin Moody, a mathematician and project lead at NIST, explains , "We wanted to ensure that we had a backup strategy in the event that someone discovers a breakthrough and an attack on lattices.".

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

Reeder, who previously served as Executive Chairman of Netrix’s Board of Directors, joins from Infrascale, a cloud-based data protection, backup and disaster recovery solution provider, where he has been CEO since 2019. Reeder as Chief Executive Officer of Netrix. Prior to Infrascale, Reeder served as President and CEO of the U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 18, 2022

The third, SPHINCS+, is somewhat larger and slower than the other two, but it is a valuable backup because it is based on a different mathematical approach than the other three NIST options. Reviewers remarked on the great efficiency of the first two algorithms, and based on this, CRYSTALS-Dilithium is recommended as the primary method.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2013, Yahoo was the target of what is still the largest breach of data in history, with over 3 billion accounts getting compromised. An attacker’s best options for direct access are utilizing backup options or installing a database management plugin. Brute force attacks are similar to privilege escalation in results.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2021

Since being active in 2013, Carbon Spider has targeted institutions in the Middle East, Europe, and eventually, the United States. Your computers and servers are encrypted, backups are deleted. According to Crowdstrike’s adversary profile on this group, it originated in the Russian Federation and/or Ukraine.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2013, the now infamous Edward Snowden pilfered documents from America’s NSA and gave them to journalists – and probably governments – in an effort, he claims, to expose the U.S. In February 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against four Chinese military-backed hackers in connection with carrying out the attack.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

” In April 2013, NeroWolfe wrote in a private message to another Verified forum user that he was selling a malware “loader” program that could bypass all of the security protections on Windows XP and Windows 7. . “I can provide my portfolio on request,” NeroWolfe wrote. “P.S. The code is written in C.”

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

implement offline storage and tape-based backup. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. review Active Directory password policy. All very sound advice.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Notable Ransomware Attacks CryptoLocker ushered in the modern ransomware age in 2013, and in 2017, the devastating WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks raised the threat’s profile significantly. Ransomware-proof backups: You can limit the damage caused by ransomware by maintaining an effective backup and disaster recovery plan.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Some of the more notable cybersecurity breaches you may remember are Equifax back in 2017, Adobe in 2013, and Zynga (the company that makes Words with Friends) in 2019. The company should also perform frequent backups of key data and shut off old servers and virtual machines that aren’t being used anymore.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules? Overview of the Ways to Back up Outlook Account Settings The legend has it that early versions of Outlook contained special functionality that enabled you to backup your account settings. Neither do we.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Since we are left only a month and a half till the Valentine’s Day it’s rather obvious to claim that password “iloveyou” is one of the nine passwords from 2013-2014. Backup your precious data with Spinbackup and be protected from any data loss due to hackers activity!

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With ransomware attacks reaching levels that have required government intervention , security and data backup vendors have responded with products designed to protect data from the crippling attacks. CVE-2013-1493. March 2013. CVE-2013-0431. February 2013. Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

CryptoLocker, in 2013, pioneered the use of strong encryption algorithms. Sopra Steria - One of the Largest Reported Ransoms Europe's major IT services firm Sopra Steria was breached in October 2020 by the Ryuk gang, with extensive backups preventing major disruption. Use immutable object storage for backups.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When American store Target found a Trojan designed to steal card details on its POS (point-of-sale) systems in 2013, no one expected that the route into its secure environment was its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) supplier, Fazio Mechanical Services.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We also checked for code overlaps with other malware samples and it turned out that the crond backdoor represents a modified version of a backdoor called Bew, which we have been detecting since 2013. It has also been known to use compromised remote desktop (RDP) connections for initial access.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

They’re easier to use – a simple finger press – but they cost around $30 each, still need to be enrolled, and let’s not forget that you need a second one as a backup in case you lose the other one. Most big web platforms turned 2FA on around 2013 and the only people using it a decade later seem to be corporates and expert users.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

Cambridge Analytica is a British political consulting firm started in 2013 that set out to use technology including data mining and analysis during electoral processes. Cambridge Analytica This was a story that made major news headlines with Cambridge Analytica accessing Facebook data to profile voters. What does this mean?

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2022

Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director of Malwarebytes Labs: “Up until around 2013, most malware infections were problems that could easily be solved ‘after the fact’. David Pier, Senior Sales Engineer at Malwarebytes: “Our file backup is not triggered on a time basis—it’s really driven by our activity monitoring feature.

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Kali Linux

MAY 31, 2021

Refreshed Bleeding-Edge Branch Kali’s Bleeding-Edge branch has been around since March 2013 , but we have recently completely restructured the backend. This is because it will not have the necessary variables. Kali-Tweaks is still in its infancy, so please be nice & patient with it.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

business cont plan (how long to restore backups? We do have backups? Also Read: Beyond the Backup: Defending Against Ransomware. Deleting backups , including shadow copies. Always store viable backups offline for adequate protection and prompt restoration. incident response plan (we have a plan and it’s tested, no?),

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

To ensure that your data is safe, get a backup for Office 365. Using Outdated Software – companies pay about $36 295 to return their data from hacker By “software” we mean using old versions of Office like Office 2007 / 2010 / 2013 and not checking for the system updates and patches in Office 365.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. It is quite easy to find online AWS buckets containing backups of email archives, the same data could be found on publicly-accessible rsync, FTP, SMB, and NAS drives.

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Pen Test Partners

APRIL 11, 2024

Cruise ships can and do blackout , and this often results in serious incidents: 2013 – Carnival Triumph (pre-SRtP) – an engine room fire resulted in a blackout with loss of steering and propulsion. There is no requirement to publicly report a blackout on a cruise vessel unless there is direct safety impact.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2022

Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director of Malwarebytes Labs: “Up until around 2013, most malware infections were problems that could easily be solved ‘after the fact’ For example, a bank credential stealing bot can infect a system, steal your credentials and commit fraud. How much space does it take?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

N-able – formerly SolarWinds MSP between 2013 and 2021 – has over two decades of experience in integrated monitoring and management tools for enterprise organizations. Other cybersecurity tools offered include DNS filtering, disk encryption , backups , and email security for Microsoft-oriented infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

encryption in transit Tools for remote management , global dashboards, and geo IP tracking Access to 24×7 DevOps team for technical support and remediating active threats Logical secure access including role-based access control, 2FA , and SSO Automate configuration backup and recovery for resilient policies and controls. ManageEngine.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

Rather than restoring from a backup the entire operating system, which gets you everything up until the moment of that last backup, then you still have to add in what’s missing. Not restore from a backup, because other parts of your system may be doing other things. When was the backup made? CODEN: Exactly.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Pretty much the entire population of South Africa had their data exposed when someone published a database backup to a publicly facing web server (it was accessible by anyone for up to 2 and a half years). Every single one of these incidents was an access control mistake. Back to another classic vulnerability - direct object references.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It also encrypts backup directories and most of the system folders typically associated with the website itself.” “Additionally, KeRanger appears to still be under active development and it seems the malware is also attempting to encrypt Time Machine backup files to prevent victims from recovering their back-up data.”

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

This type of ransomware reached its peak popularity in the years 2013-2018. Some of them don’t have a backup at all; others can back up data infrequently, like once a month or even less often. In fact, only 25% of home users have automatic weekly backups. Also, mobile ransomware infections increased by 33%.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The leaked FinFisher support questions database suggests physical access could be used to infect machines: A question related to Linux infection which was submitted to FinFisher support in 2013. The initial stage of the Installer is the following shell script: #!/bin/sh Close the current C2 server connection. Terminate all livestreams.

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