Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cisco Security was honored to be a sponsor of the 24th Black Hat USA 2021 Conference – the internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the security community with the latest cutting-edge research, developments and training. Compromised Credentials: THE Most Observed Initial Access Vector . We’d love to hear what you think.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

On July 3, the REvil ransomware affiliate program began using a zero-day security hole ( CVE-2021-30116 ) to deploy ransomware to hundreds of IT management companies running Kaseya’s remote management software — known as the Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA). The Kaseya customer support and billing portal.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, January 2021. Adobe asked users to unin stall the software before it blocked all Flash content from 12 January 2021. . The Top Cybersecurity Certifications in 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Nearly all CMS platforms, whether traditional or headless, offer some level of built-in security to authenticate users who are allowed to view, add, remove, or change content.

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BH Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The 2021 SANS Security Awareness Report offers an interesting look back over the past year. Report author Lance Spitzner of SANS blogged : “The more that managing human risk becomes a dedicated, prioritised effort, the more effective organizations will become at managing their human risk.” Have you signed up to our monthly newsletter?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

million in 2021, according to IBM. Second, the design of security solutions struggled to scale up properly or adapt to the technological changes in the industry, especially in disaggregated compute networks. This approach allows for compromised software to be identified during the authentication process. million to $4.24

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

million IP cameras exposed to the internet, signifying an eightfold increase since April 2021. While the default security settings have improved over the review period, some popular brands either offer default passwords or no authentication, meaning anyone can spy on the spies. Surge in internet-facing cameras.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 7, 2021

AbdelKarim Mardini, Group Product Manager for Chrome, and Guemmy Kim, Director of Account Security and Safety, wrote in a blog pos t: 2SV has been core to Google’s own security practices and today we make it seamless for our users with a Google prompt, which requires a simple tap on your mobile device to prove it’s really you trying to sign in.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. Since September 2022, Moobot botnet was spotted targeting vulnerable D-Link routers. ” continues the report.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I discussed how The White House Executive Order issued on May 12, 2021 laid out new, rigorous government cyber security standards for federal agencies. Cyber Packs: How They're Key to Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity. Tue, 05/17/2022 - 05:36. It’s not always that easy, however. Cloud Security. Government.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

.” According to the Indonesian security blog Cyberthreat.id , Saputra admitted being the administrator of 16Shop , but told the publication he handed the project off to others by early 2020. A LinkedIn profile for Rizky says he is a backend Web developer in Bandung who earned a bachelor’s degree in information technology in 2020.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have a lot of thoughts on passkeys – some of which we’ve shared in other posts in this passkey blog series – and today we’re going to explore how passkeys stack up against passwords from the perspective of cloud platforms. That’s why many tech companies are turning to passkeys as a more secure and convenient replacement.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

” Only 4 percent of respondents to an FCC poll said their organization received a new J-1 visa in 2021, and 46 percent said their bureaus were understaffed because of a lack of visas. MFA can be challenging to implement for some organizations from a technology or cost perspective or due to user pushback.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 24, 2021

A few weeks ago we blogged about a vulnerability in home routers that was weaponized by the Mirai botnet just two days after disclosure. In total they identified more than a dozen vulnerabilities, but one of them (CVE-2021-35395) has already been found to be actively exploited in in the wild. Same botnet, same operator?

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure. In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Cloud usage has increased, we’ve seen VPN’s crop up everywhere, and the shiny hotness that is MFA (multi factor authentication). I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Enabling multi-factor authentication makes you 99% less likely to get hacked. Enable MFA! Which is where the Terminator got it all wrong.

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Herjavec Group

APRIL 29, 2022

The Colonial Pipeline Incident from early 2021 showed us how vulnerable our critical infrastructure truly is. The alert also indicated a rise in ransomware attacks with growing technological sophistication from threat actors. Use multi-factor authentication (MFA). If you use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), secure and monitor it.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

In 2017, New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) passed cybersecurity regulation 23 NYCRR 500, requiring all financial services companies to implement multi-factor authentication (MFA). During the NYDFS cybersecurity investigation from January 2020 to July 2021, they found that more than 18.3

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

In the fall of 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a change. And one of the few security technologies that is specifically called out by the FTC is multi-factor authentication (MFA). Multi-factor authentication helps security teams control access to sensitive data. What is the FTC’s Safeguards Rule?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2022

The Thales Access Management Index 2021 report illustrates a highly fragmented landscape at the enterprise level. A third (33%) of respondents said they use three or more authentication access management tools. Machine identities validate the authenticity of non-human entities connected to corporate networks. UTM Medium.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The malicious module was most likely compiled between late 2020 and April 2021. The assembly default “LegalCopyright” field shows “2020” as a date, and the most recent Owowa sample we could find was detected in April 2021 in our telemetry. It is designed to decode (XOR) and execute an embedded shellcode.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity hit record highs in 2021, and isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon. And with technology playing a huge part in simplifying and enabling integration activities between two distinct organizations, it is these very systems that attackers are looking to exploit.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your applications and services, especially for admin access to platforms and backend systems. Ransomware? I think you may have heard of it, isn’t the news full of it?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2022

When Einstein was asked what a war will look like in the future, he couldn’t have predicted the importance of digital technology for modern societies. This shift to digital technology has created a new class of digital risks that are constantly evolving and strike faster and often with more severity than traditional risks.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

REvil (aka Sodinokibi) first appeared in May 2020 and has been responsible for numerous high-profile ransomware attacks, including arguably the biggest ransomware attack of all time—a supply-chain attack on Kaseya VSA in July 2021 that is thought to have affected over 1,000 businesses. New gangs emerge. Disable hyperlinks in received emails.

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Webroot

MAY 12, 2021

“What Bitcoin was to 2011, NFTs are to 2021.”. Since cryptocurrencies were, are and will continue to be impactful technologies, surely NFTs are a topic worth exploring. NFTs use the same blockchain ledger technology to verify uniqueness that cryptocurrencies rely on to prove ownership. Could one ask the same of the Mona Lisa?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. 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.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2021, losses to romance scams involving cryptocurrency were reported at $139 million ​​. Verify and Validate : Encourage employees to verify the identities of individuals they interact with online and to use reverse image searches to check the authenticity of profile pictures.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

now you are in my @home_assistant setup also :) Thanks @troyhunt pic.twitter.com/4d4Qxnlazl — Jón Ólafs (@jonolafs) March 3, 2021 Awesome! pic.twitter.com/iHxgFeg9GN — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 10, 2021 That's not including all the queries against the freely downloadable data either so really, I have no idea how much it's used.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Microsoft, for instance, just released the 2021 Digital Defense Report pointing a finger at Russia as making up 58% of all nation-state cyberattack incidents observed by the corporation. According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In some cases, they find vulnerable third parties that provide ways into larger targets, which is how hackers infiltrated the Red Cross in 2021. Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. Mitigating IABs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2022

On May 12, 2021, the White House released an Executive Order (E.O.) The mandate further emphasizes the importance of ZTA as a way of balancing agencies’ ongoing migration to cloud technology with their duty to help to defend the federal government against digital incidents. Why Public Agencies Are Struggling to Implement Zero Trust.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

230 apps were leaking all four 0Auth authentication credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts to perform critical/sensitive actions. The Twitter API provides direct access to a Twitter account and OAuth tokens are used by the Twitter API for authentication. Twitter API. Brooke Crothers. Threat Intelligence.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 30, 2022

These new risks have created a dangerous security gap—new technology is introducing new risks and a larger attack surface. They serve to identify and authenticate the various connected devices to the organization’s network. Code signing processes verify a software component is valid and authenticates the identity of the developer.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2022

The majority (88%) of IT decision makers are exploring Kubernetes and containers, according to 2021 data from New Relic. However, as with any technology, new security concerns are emerging. Authenticate your K8s clusters with machine identities. API authentication. Tue, 07/19/2022 - 18:10. API authorization.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021. million, according to IBM and the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2021. Defense-in-depth is the concept of building layers of different technology solutions to secure your IT infrastructure. Data breach costs rose from $3.86

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

were deprecated in Mar 2021 with IETF RFC 8996. The ever-evolving hacker landscape also means new cyberattacks will continue to emerge for any businesses that are not moving forward with secure technologies like TLS 1.2 Today, the baseline TLS version used by most enterprises and businesses is 1.2. mandate the use of TLS 1.2

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