Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Data Security: Airtight Backup If you don’t have a robust Data Loss Protection (DLP) plan, all your security strategy will fall apart. The core of all the DLP plan is having a ransomware-proof backup that will let you restore data in case you get hit. Backup your data at least three times a day; 3.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

In December 2020, the DoppelPaymer extortion gang exposed documents allegedly stolen from some of its databases in the United States. To detect attacks, scan all emails and conduct regular data backups. Configure firewalls to prevent rogue IP addresses from gaining access. Final Remarks.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

For example, if someone in your organization reuses their VPN password somewhere else, and there’s no multi-factor authentication setup, hackers could easily login to the VPN and have free rein over all of your organization’s information. link] — Shannon Vavra (@shanvav) June 24, 2020 So ACT today! million exposed RDP ports.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2022

Estimates on the amount of ransoms paid in 2020 run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Failing to plan is planning to fail, as they say, and the symptoms of failing to plan are: Not having having an incident response plan Not making backups Not testing that your backups work Not keeping backups beyond the reach of attackers.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

As part of the symposium, Doug Levin, K12 SIX national director, and president of EdTech Strategies and the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, revealed troubling findings from his newly published report, “ The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2020 Year in Review.”. We’re taking advantage of Google for Education’s unlimited backups.”.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

NCC Group and Fox-IT observed this threat actor during various incident response engagements performed between October 2019 until April 2020. The threat used valid accounts against remote services: Cloud-based applications utilizing federated authentication protocols. From this portal it was possible to launch the web-based VPN.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Firewalls may allow these packets through and cause server CPUs to become overwhelmed due to resources wasted analyzing and discarding these packets. In 2020 the U.S. This step aims to limit the attack surface by fixing security holes, migrating away from insecure protocols, and replacing weak authentication schemes.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources. Use web application firewall (WAF): WAF screens requests based on IP addresses or HTTP headers, identifies code injection attempts, and defines response quotas. Back up data: Establish comprehensive backups for speedy recovery in the event of a security incident or data loss.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

The DazzleSpy backdoor software had interesting features to foil detection, including end-to-end encryption to avoid firewall inspection as well as a feature that cut off communication if a TLS-inspection proxy was detected. Use web application firewalls to protect exposed web apps. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Experts say the best defense is a multi-pronged network security strategy that includes a firewall, anti-malware software, network monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), and data protection. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

billion in 2020. Backup and recovery should also be important components of an organization’s data protection planning. Does the company have a set of internal firewalls protecting its databases? How will the company authenticate and authorize access? FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks to a group in Washington, D.C.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

For it’s State of Cloud Security 2020 survey, Sophos commissioned the polling of some 3,500 IT managers across 26 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. It’s the same thing as buying a firewall and only adding any-to-any rules. This is true of the U.S. and other regions as well.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Also Read: Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors. Under security enhancements this could be adding cloud asset inventory, data loss prevention (DLP), firewalls , or VPC service controls.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Armis was acquired at a $1 billion price tag by Insight Partners in January 2020, joining Insight’s other cybersecurity subsidiaries like SentinelOne, Perimeter81, Mimecast, and Tenable. In addition to Cyber Vision, the Cisco IoT Threat Defense also includes firewalls , identity service engines (ISE), secure endpoints, and SOAR.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 21, 2020

Between backup cameras, video screens, GPS systems, and Wi-Fi networks, they have more electronics stacked in them than ever. Stay Smart Home/IoT Safe in 2020. Here are ten things you can do to stay smart home/IoT safe in 2020: Change the default username and password. Set up two-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

or face the risk of authenticated users (think of standard e-commerce customers) achieving total control of websites by exploiting Broken Access Control — the most severe of OWASP’s Top 10 risks. As of May 2023, an official CVE designation is still pending. Websites running Elementor Pro 3.11.6 Windows NT 10.0; wc-ajax=1”.

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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. SolarWinds.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

The truth is that solutions like single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) can spell disaster if initial access is all a malicious actor needs to traverse the network’s resources. Prevent Rely solely on offline backups Disallow unnecessary file sharing. Old way New way. Gateway Compromise.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is what you, a potential ransomware victim, need to know to protect your data and your business in 2020. Keep in mind that locally synchronized files such as Microsoft’s OneDrive or Google Drive/Backup and Sync files will generally be encrypted as well. Enabling multi-factor authentication. Renewability.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For a quick look back, check out the 2020 and 2021 reports. To combat this, AWS offers MFA Delete, an S3 bucket feature that requires multi-factor authentication for deletion. Separating your backup storage from the original data source helps avoid a single point of failure and speeds up remediation. Cloud threat insights 55.1%

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) 2TB of 2020-2021 data: credentials related to banking accounts and the most popular services. There is access to a network, admin-level access, direct connection to SSH servers, access to backups. Screenshot translation.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Multi-factor authentication : Protects stolen credentials against use by requiring more than a simple username and password combination for access to resources. Passwordless authentication : Eliminates passwords in favor of other types of authentication such as passkeys, SSO, biometrics, or email access. 50% cloud targets.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Already a leading SD-WAN pick, the HPE subsidiary boosted its market position with acquisitions of security vendor Cape Networks in 2018 and WAN specialist Silver Peak Systems in 2020. EdgeConnect Enterprise critically comes with firewall , segmentation , and application control capabilities. Features: Cato Edge SD-WAN and SASE.

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

The energy sector experienced a 74% increase in ICS vulnerabilities disclosed during the second half of 2020 compared to second half 2018. firewall rules, ACLs) in place to reduce the inherent risk. Implement strong authentication for all OT users. Are the backup and restore capabilities in place?

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

It's not a discussion we should be having in 2020, a time of unprecedented regulatory provisions designed to prevent precisely the sort of behaviour I'm going to describe in this post. He also wrote about the other betting operators implicated in the database backups and how there appeared to be a common thread across them.

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