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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy.

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How Secure Shell (SSH) Keys Work

Security Boulevard

It was originally published on February 5, 2019. ) . All enterprises rely on Secure Shell (SSH) keys to authenticate privileged users and establish trusted access to critical systems, including application servers, routers, firewalls, virtual machines, cloud instances, and many other devices and systems. Related blogs.

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Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

On that day, one of the web application firewalls (WAFs) installed in the XLabs SOC (security operations center) detected an abnormal pattern of network traffic that caught the eye of Mauricio. It was on Tuesday, October 16, 2019 at 5:00 p.m., This, however, is the most serious finding so far. Brasília time, 1:00 p.m.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. A privileged account provides access to sensitive systems and data bases and typically gets assigned to a system administrator or senior manager.

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Stealth Falcon’s undocumented backdoor uses Windows BITS to exfiltrate data

Security Affairs

In January of 2019, Reuters published a report into Project Raven, a campaign allegedly conducted by former NSA operatives and aiming at the same types of targets as Stealth Falcon. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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Malware Evolves to Present New Threats to Developers

Security Boulevard

Network control measures like firewalls, secure socket layer (SSL), and data loss prevention (DLP) tools sought to outmaneuver malicious code rather than directly combat it. In 2019 attacks on cloud services doubled , demonstrating a significant shift in the focus of APT groups. a trusted vendor.

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Vulnerability Management in the time of a Pandemic

NopSec

I include a sampla here: Vulnerabilities affecting VPN and NG firewalls such as Cisco and Palo Alto Networks, much like the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect SSL VPN Critical Pre-authentication vulnerability – CVE-2019-1579. The disclosure blog post can be found here.

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