eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Table of Contents Toggle Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches 5 Key Cybersecurity Management Lessons to Learn Bottom Line: Learn Healthcare’s Lessons Before Suffering Pain Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches Large breaches affected over 88 million individuals in the USA in 2023, a 60% increase from 2022. Ascension lost $2.66

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Healthcare Cybersecurity Ransomware Backups 123

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Potential threats: Conduct risk assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration testing to evaluate potential threats and weaknesses. Sample zero trust navigation dashboard from Cloudflare Implement the 3-2-1 Backup Rule When applying the 3-2-1 backup rule, make sure you have three copies of your data: one primary and two backups.

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Backups Encryption Data breaches Risk 134

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices.

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Cybersecurity DDOS Penetration Testing Ransomware 121

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

Solarwinds Network Configuration Manager Solarwinds’ Network Configuration Manager provides a package of solutions for network compliance, network automation, network configuration backup, and vulnerability assessment. For more information on Vulnerability Scanning Options see: What is Vulnerability Scanning & How Does It Work?

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Penetration Testing Marketing Social Engineering Engineering 97

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Malwarebytes regards LockBit as one of the five most serious cyberthreats facing businesses in 2023. In February 2023 it asked Royal Mail for $80 million. The negotiation began on January 12, 2023, and like any Internet chat, the conversation takes place between two avatars who may or may not be who they say they are.

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Ransomware Backups Penetration Testing Internet 98

eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

Testing must be performed to verify that resources have been installed, configured, integrated, and secured without error or gap in security. Active Vulnerability Detection Vulnerability scans and penetration testing will be performed [quarterly] and after significant changes to resources to test for unknown vulnerabilities.

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Penetration Testing Risk Firmware Software 109

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Regardless of the implemented architecture, all organizations should implement the following additional DNS server protections: Backup DNS server information or implement disaster recovery solutions as one would for any other critical data: Use automation to avoid human error. Relatively high frequency backups (daily or at least weekly).

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DNS DDOS Firewall Architecture 113

eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

The open source security tool, Nmap, originally focused on port scanning, but a robust community continues to add features and capabilities to make Nmap a formidable penetration testing tool. This article will delve into the power of Nmap, how attackers use Nmap, and alternative penetration testing (pentesting) tools.

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Penetration Testing Firewall Software Malware 52

Penetration Testing

JUNE 10, 2024

A newly released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has heightened concerns about a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-29849) in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM), a web-based management tool for Veeam Backup & Replication.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

It is a great question, particularly when you consider that $167 Billion was spent on Cybersecurity in 2019 and this is predicted to increase to $248 Billion by 2023 [Source: Forbes ]. The Cyber-attack resulted in a large volume of data to be encrypted including database servers and backup data. 4securitas.com ).

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Cisco’s report which predicts 30 billion devices by 2023 of which 45% will be mobile won’t shock them. They know that by 2025 an estimated 70% of the workforce will be working remotely at least 5-days per week and by 2030 90% of the world’s population (7.5 billion) is expected online.

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CISO Mobile Technology Risk 130

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Web application scanners test your websites and web-facing apps for vulnerabilities. These tests typically use vulnerability scanners. Penetration testing is a similar approach, but typically involves teams of security pros attempting to simulate a cyber attack to identify weaknesses that could be exploited by hackers.

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Mobile Computers and Electronics Risk DDOS 98

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 7, 2024

Test & Refine Your Strategy To guarantee that your cloud security plan is effective, review and improve it regularly. Conduct vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and simulated security incidents. Make sure your backup and rollback protocols are in place.

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Architecture DDOS Encryption Data breaches 104

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

She’ll also be presenting again at RSAC 2023 in April. So basically, we deliver custom penetration tests. JANUSZKIEWICZ: Absolutely, in many different ways, of course, but one of the ways I was describing was through extracting the certificate, which we call actually a backup private key. And secure Academy.

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Software Phishing Passwords Authentication 40

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2023

External Assessments and Penetration Testing: Regularly engage with third-party security experts to conduct external assessments and penetration testing. Regular Backups: Regularly backup PII and other essential data. This provides an outside perspective on vulnerabilities that internal teams might overlook.

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Mobile Penetration Testing Backups Data breaches 98

Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

In April 2023, Bleeping Computer and other tech outlets like TechRadar began circulating reports of cybercriminals successfully hacking WordPress websites. As of May 2023, an official CVE designation is still pending. CVSS score (High), giving WordPress administrators and cybersecurity teams much to fret over. cdn.statisticline[.]com/scripts/sway.js

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Malware DNS Software Penetration Testing 98

Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

Issues can be used in various ways; for instance, I have seen them used as a way to track individual tasks, IT help tickets, and even findings and security issues discovered in past penetration test reports.? The latter is where users put text, tables, attachments, and so on.

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Authentication Passwords Penetration Testing Social Engineering 52

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

On February 19, 2024 penetration testing of two of my servers took place, at 06:39 UTC I found an error on the site 502 Bad Gateway, restarted nginx - nothing changed, restarted mysql - nothing changed, restarted PHP - the site worked. Below is the entire message published by the gang: "What happened.

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Government Hacking Cryptocurrency Penetration Testing 143