eSecurity Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud. authentication to gather endpoint information for reporting and enforcement. While Portnox Cloud is the current focus of Portnox, they also continue to offer on-premises Portnox Core.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Cryptolocker and exploit components.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Bolster your monitoring and email authentication capabilities. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Each module of the CommonMagic framework is used to perform a certain task, such as communicating with the C2 server, encrypting and decrypting C2 traffic, and executing plugins. Since 2017, there have been no traces of Groundbait and BugDrop operations. ” reads the new report published by Kaspersky.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

August 12 , 2023 Ford Auto’s TI Wi-Fi Vulnerability The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand and become a threat to connected businesses. Admins can either disconnect vulnerable PLCs from possible internet connections or upgrade to CODESYS V3 v3.5.19.0.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. The problem becomes – how do we make sure we’re securing these “driving data centers” against the risks and threats that lurk on the Internet? Device Security is Hard.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 29, 2021

River City Media (RCM) is a US-based email marketing company that made headlines in March 2017 after exposing 1.4 The leaked data contained no highly sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers or Social Security numbers. Who is River City Media, and what information was exposed in the breach?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Among the cybersecurity precautions to consider: Limiting devices with Internet access Installing Network Access Control (NAC) Limiting access to admin credentials and the control rights for each administrator Automated patches for operating systems Limits for older operating systems (i.e., Advanced Encryption. Risk Mitigation Steps.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

In an effort to meet compliance requirements – and with an eye towards cutting costs – the healthcare industry has turned its attention towards embracing digitally transformative technologies, including cloud, big data, Internet of Things and containers. respondents reported using these technologies with sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

TP-Link addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2017-7405 ) in its TP-Link Archer routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely take their control over LAN via a Telnet connection without authentication. ” explained IBM X-Force Red‘s Grzegorz Wypych (aka @horac341).

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

Over recent months, cyber-actors have demonstrated their continued willingness to conduct malicious cyber-activity against critical infrastructure (CI) by exploiting internet-accessible operational technology (OT) assets,” states the joint advisory published by the NSA/CISA, released on Thursday. interests or retaliate for perceived U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

The first campaign likely began in early 2014 and continued until mid-2017, while the second started in late 2018 and was still active in late 2019. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS. CISA and NCSC have identified two campaigns of activity for QSnatch malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

The hackers targeted unnamed companies in software development, e-commerce, and an internet service provider around the world, including Poland, Germany, Turkey, Korea, Japan, and India. The Windows version of MATA is composed of a loader used to load an encrypted next-stage payload and the orchestrator module (“lsass.exe”).

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. Postal Service , or their wireless phone provider and/or Internet Service Provider (ISP). Maybe this was once sound advice.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

CGI password logger This installs a fake version of the device admin login page, logging successful authentications and passing them to the legitimate login page. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Just a few days before Capital One’s disclosure, Equifax rather quietly agreed to pay up to $700 million to settle consumer claims and federal and state investigations into its 2017 data breach that compromised sensitive information of more than 145 million American consumers. This was the Perfect Storm.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017. 11 of 2017, Sensenich began observing signs of abnormal network behavior. 19 the network was taken offline for a full-fledged remediation.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

These credentials are used in a credential stuffing or password spraying attack against the victim’s remote services, such as webmail or other internet reachable mail services. The earliest and longest lasting intrusion by this threat we observed, was at a company in the semiconductors industry in Europe and started early Q4 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. In 2017, for instance, SMBs were under tremendous pressure to defend their networks against rapidly morphing ransomware attacks. There are so many more ways to subvert authentication. Talk more soon. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2018

billion , which is more than what was raised during the entirety of 2017. There are many steps that people can take to keep their wallets secure such as using multi-factor authentication, implementing a strong anti-virus solution and storing cryptocurrency of significant value on a physical device that isn’t connected to the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Authentication: Ensures that users or entities are verified and granted appropriate access based on their identity. Encryption: This protects sensitive data by converting it into a coded form that can only be accessed or decrypted with the appropriate key.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The closest was research published by Max Bazaliy for Black Hat Europe 2017. Once logged in, as the Apple Watch is not jailbroken, there should be no further issues using the authenticated session on the Apple Watch. So, it’s no surprise that these are even rarer than iOS jailbreaks. Why connect to a jailbroken device?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Deployment routes like endpoints , agentless, web, proxy chaining, and unified authentication. A part of the vendor’s Autonomous Security Engine (ASE) solution, Censornet Cloud Access Security Broker comes integrated with adaptive multi-factor authentication and email and web security. . Recognition for Broadcom. Censornet.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Cloud is one of the most rapidly growing computing technologies of modern times and global spending on cloud technologies is expected to reach $250 billion by 2017. As cloud services are often offered on a “pay as you go” type of service, it is also incredibly easy to scale up or down the services that you use if needed.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. TLS and HTTPS inherently create secured and encrypted sessions for communication.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2022

This is beneficial because 2G uses weak encryption between the tower and device that can be cracked in real time by an attacker to intercept calls or text messages. 2G was set up in 1991 and in 2017 some providers started closing down their 2G networks. What is 2G? Why should I not use 2G? Cell-site simulators. Who can disable 2G?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many different ways to safeguard your organization’s sensitive data from a breach, including encryption, data erasure, data masking, and data resiliency. Inadequate data encryption and security measures such as passwords and multi-factor authentication. Zero-trust Security Frameworks.

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Veracode Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In 2017, we started a blog series talking about how to securely implement a crypto-system in java. Encryption/Decryption. There are some exciting advances in Java Cryptography since version 8, and also in the cryptographic community at large since we last spoke about this in Encryption/Decryption. Symmetric Encryption.

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Encryption Authentication Architecture Engineering 82

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

Once inside a network, they move laterally to locate and encrypt mission-critical systems; a ransom demand for a decryption key follows. In the spring of 2017, the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware worms blasted around the globe, freezing up the Active Directory systems of thousands of companies. I’ll keep watch.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. Equifax data breach (2017). Summary: In 2017, an application vulnerability in one of their websites lead to the breach. and Vietnam.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. However, the operational imperatives in today’s world of internet-centric commerce often boil down to survival math, especially for SMBs. mayors attending the U.S. Talk more soon.

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Ransomware Internet Internet Hacking 196

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. with no internet. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. Bots and Botnets.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. Your recent white paper shows it’s still at as high a level as in 2017? But they were not at all surprising.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Hackers may use a keylogger to capture sensitive information, including payment details and login credentials of victims, or they may leverage a screen grabber to capture internet activity. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. The data is neither stolen nor manipulated.

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