Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

In fact, nearly one-third (28%) of data breaches in 2020 involved small businesses, according to the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) – 70% of which were perpetrated by external actors. Fiction: Strong passwords are enough. Fiction: Monitoring my edge firewall is the only monitoring needed.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The FBI is warning companies about the use of out-of-date Windows 7 systems, desktop sharing software TeamViewer, and weak account passwords. Set random passwords to generate 10-character alphanumeric passwords. If using personal passwords, utilize complex rotating passwords of varying lengths. Windows 10).

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2021

CISA found that the attacker(s) had access to the enterprise’s network for nearly a year, between March 2020 and February 2021. The attacker(s) authenticated to the VPN appliance through several user accounts that did not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled and were able to masquerade as legitimate teleworking employees.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. According to the advisory, the threat actors have been observed exploiting Zerologon ( CVE-2020-1472 ) in Microsoft’s Netlogon Remote Protocol in phishing attempts.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In the largest hack of the year , a former AWS employee exploited a misconfigured Web Application Firewall (WAF) to steal the Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and other sensitive information of more than 100 million Capital One customers and credit card applicants. Key Actions to Take in 2020 .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

.” Unfortunately, most organizations often neglect the protection of RDP accesses and workers use easy-to-guess passwords and with no additional layers of authentication or protection. Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Don’t make passwords easy to guess. Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Update your software.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by threat actors since July 2020. “CISA has observed a notable increase in the use of LokiBot malware by malicious cyber actors since July 2020. Enforce multi-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2020

. “ we found that the InfiniteWP Client and WP Time Capsule plugins also contain logical issues in the code that allows you to login into an administrator account without a password.” The plugins are affected by logical issues that could allow attackers to log in as administrators without providing any password.

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall. Like a classic network-layer firewall, CrowdSec allows administrators to configure all sorts of OSI Middle Level (i.e., Levels 3 Network and Level 4 Transport) rules. CrowdSec released version 1.0

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Firewall Technology Artificial Intelligence Risk 163

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As many as 80% of companies plan to have some form of a chatbot by 2020. The two main security processes for chatbots are authentication and authorization. For example, using a username and password, and then also answering a prompt with a unique response that has been sent to the user via email or phone.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2021

The 2020 Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity report found that 74% of IT security professionals are more concerned about a cyberattack on critical infrastructure than an enterprise data breach. The system was also only accessible using a shared TeamViewer password among the employees. Vaulting Shared Passwords.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

A nurse cares for a patient in the intensive care unit at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. The cryptographic key is within a hard-coded string value that is compared to the password. Further, many authentication protocols will simply request the hash itself, “making it no better than a password.”.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

In February 2020, UK security researchers discovered a vulnerability in free, open source, automation servers that would allow cybercriminals to amplify a Distributed Denial of Service attack by 100. The February 2020 incident was the straw that finally broke the camel's back. FBI warning addresses DDoS amplification attacks.

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SC Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

CISA assigned CVE-2020-1938 to the flaw, which stems from the use of Apache JServ (AJP). flaw, which is caused by improper authentication. Further, the Redis server operates on a remote host but is not protected by password authentication. The Redis component also holds the third 9.8

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

NSCS @cse_cst @CISAgov @FBI [link] — @U.S.CyberCommand (@US_CYBERCOM) August 3, 2020. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Enforce a strong password policy and implement regular password changes. the extension matches the file header).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

HappyValentines @CISAgov @DHS @US_CYBERCOM — USCYBERCOM Malware Alert (@CNMF_VirusAlert) February 14, 2020. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Enforce a strong password policy and implement regular password changes. the extension matches the file header).

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For starters, all of the computers used by plant employees were connected to the facility’s SCADA system and used the Windows 7 operating system, which reached its end of life in early 2020 and is no longer supported by Microsoft. Are you forcing password resets? Are you scanning the dark web for… passwords being exposed?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The e-skimmer was first spotted by experts with Visa’s Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) initiative in February 2020 while analyzing a command and control (C2) server employed in another campaign and that hosted an ImageID e-skimming kit. “The most compelling components of this kit are the unique loader and obfuscation method. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

no authentication and clear-text communication Incorrect HTTP requests cause out of range access in Zope XSS on the web interface Private SSH key Backdoor APIs Backdoor management access and RCE Pre-auth RCE with chrooted access. Also, there is no firewall by default.” log escape sequence injection xmppCnrSender.py

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Before early 2020, people had a somewhat different view of cybersecurity than they do today. Back then, much of the cybersecurity discussion might have been around strengthening passwords, updating anti-virus software, and maybe deploying the latest firewalls to protect the enterprise perimeter.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The majority of the vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain initial access to the target networks, they affect systems that are directly accessible from the Internet, such as firewalls and gateways. This may lead to exposure of keys or passwords. This may lead to exposure of keys or passwords.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

of cases in 2020. Expanded investigation Events search / Event deep dive While investigating phishing cases, you must check all recipients who received the same phishing email and who clicked the attachment URL, and whether the firewall allowed the HTTP URL request or not. This raises concerns regarding the legitimacy of the email.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How can a hospital protect an MRI machine with an unchangeable password and still connect it to the network? Many of these critical devices require obsolete operating systems, have hard-coded passwords, or other equally dangerous security weaknesses. Also read: Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors for 2022.

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Risk Healthcare IoT Firewall 131

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. Configure firewalls to prevent rogue IP addresses from gaining access. For added account protection, use strong passwords and activate multi-factor authentication. Final Remarks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In February, Radware researchers reported that attackers were abusing the CVE-2020-2100 flaw in 12,000+ internet-facing Jenkins servers to mount reflective DDoS attacks. Change the default username and passwords for all network devices, especially IoT devices.

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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!

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Network Security: Firewall A firewall is your first line of defense or your computer network gatekeepers. Contrary to antivirus software, which requires a very small effort to set up, firewalls usually require special knowledge. A firewall detects all possible exploits in your network and shields them.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. Bayview252) November 23, 2020 But what if that device was the LIFX light bulb from earlier on and the patch was designed to fix a serious security vulnerability?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attack vectors There are two main IoT infection routes: brute-forcing weak passwords and exploiting vulnerabilities in network services. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Unfortunately, users tend to leave these passwords unchanged. Our advantages: 1.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its #StopRansomware guide to account for the fact that ransomware actors have accelerated their tactics and techniques since the original guide was released in September of 2020. For example, if a new firewall rule is created that allows open traffic (0.0.0.0/0),

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

“ Attackers can easily obtain default passwords and identify internet-connected target systems. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.” link] #threatintel — Bad Packets Report (@bad_packets) January 10, 2020. 06 and older. ” continues SonicWall.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

In the DZone Edge Computing and IoT report published in 2020, developers were asked to rank the top 15 most pressing technical challenges of IoT. Source: DZone’s Edge Computing and IoT, 2020 . Default passwords are bad, and you should be using strong, unique passwords. The Technical Challenge of IoT Security.

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Internet Internet IoT Software 137

SecureList

JULY 19, 2023

The connection to the remote SMB server sends the user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash in a negotiation message, which the threat actor can use to either: Relay for authentication against other systems that support NTLMv2 authentication. Perform offline cracking to extract the password.

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Firmware Internet Internet Government 88

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Key takeaways: TeamTNT is using new, open source tools to steal usernames and passwords from infected machines. TeamTNT has been one of the most active threat groups since mid 2020. Its developer describes the Lazagne tool as an application that can be used to retrieve multiple passwords stored on a local machine. Background.

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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. Ranking member Senate Chuck Grassley described the problem in these terms: “Earlier this year, FBI Director Chris Wray compared the challenges of fighting ransomware to those we faced after 9/11. ” Senator Chuck Grassley.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What authentication methods does the provider support? The fourth biggest threat to public cloud security identified in CloudPassage’s report is unauthorized access (and growing – 53 percent, up from 42 percent in 2020). What are the results of the provider’s most recent penetration tests? Train your staff.

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