Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ransomware gangs also got stealthier in 2023, with ThreatLabz observing an increase in encryption-less extortion attacks. The absence of encryption allows attackers to eliminate development cycles and decryption support and quietly exfiltrate data before making ransom demands.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By requiring users to provide a hardware security key in addition to their password, Apple is able to greatly reduce the risk of unauthorized access to their accounts. Hardware security keys provide one of the highest levels of security for MFA setups.".

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services.

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Hackology

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With its decentralized and private peer-to-peer architecture , Utopia ensures that your data transmission and storage are free from any central server involvement. With Utopia, you can send encrypted messages, transfer files, create group chats and channels, and even have a private discussion with the help of an AI assistant called ChatGPT.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Dealing with the massive architecture of client-server networks requires effective security measures. The policy says: Use encryption for passwords. The password policy must ensure that user account passwords are sufficiently unique, strong, and reset promptly.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2024

When reading the title of this blog, you might be wondering to yourself why RADIUS is being highlighted as a subject — especially amidst all of the advancements of modern authentication we see taking place recently. First, let's level-set on what we are talking about. Does the Duo Authentication Proxy support EAP or PEAP?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

Multi-cloud consumption raises concerns about the operational complexity of successfully managing both encryption and the corresponding keys across multiple providers, each with their own consoles and APIs,” the Thales report states. 509 certificates and other encrypted credentials) in a multi-cloud ecosystem. Visibility. Intelligence.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this blog, we will summarize the key findings of the report and offer actionable recommendations to mitigate these threats. Some of the key findings of the report are: Ransomware still gets top of the podium, accounting for 34% of EU threats. Ransomware attacks are expected to continue to rise in frequency and sophistication.

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McAfee

AUGUST 11, 2021

As outlined in Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028), Section 3: Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity, CISA has been tasked with developing a Federal cloud-security strategy to aid agencies in the adoption of a Zero Trust Architecture to meet the EO Requirements. Data Centric Enterprise.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

We’ve taken a leadership position in introducing a well-developed methodology, named GreenPEG , to move forward in a sustainable, measurable, and accountable manner. VITEC has integrated eco-friendly requirements into their design control process and architecture. Embracing energy-efficient design principles.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organizations admitted that on average, only about half (49%) of the data stored in the cloud is secured with encryption and only one-third (32%) believe protecting data in the cloud is their responsibility. Both cloud providers and enterprises are accountable and responsible for maintaining security. Encrypting data in the cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. If the authentication process isn’t secure enough, hackers could gain access to the user’s account and, from there, get their hands on the vehicle.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi. In this blog post, we will analyze Woody Rat’s distribution methods, capabilities as well as communication protocol. Data encryption with HTTP requests. For encryption and decryption the malware uses BCryptEncrypt and BCryptDecrypt respectively.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, it’s widely believed that today threat actors are even saving encrypted content so they can break it later using quantum computers. Rather, over time the difficulty and time required to break encrypted files and communications will continue to decrease, and the risk of using pre-quantum algorithms will keep increasing.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

An organization’s users must have trust in both the domain and the fidelity of its architecture. Attack Technique Format This blog covers multiple Kerberos abuse based attack techniques, detection guidance and remediation of a compromised domain. We will mention any related blogs, tools, or variations of the attack performance.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2021

As our CEO Sam King remarked, “It gets really specific about the types of security controls they want organizations to adhere to and government agencies to take into account when they’re looking to do business with software vendors in particular.”. Section 4 enhances software supply chain security. Sections 5 and 6. What do you think?

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Agencies and their suppliers will need to amend their security strategies to account for these new requirements. Items like encryption, multi-factor, vulnerability management and coordinated incident response have been part of security frameworks for years — there are few surprises.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In a blog released Wednesday, Palo Alto’s Unit 42 researchers, said the attackers gained initial access via a misconfigured kubelet that allowed anonymous access. The researchers dubbed the new malware “Hildegard,” the user name of the tmate account that the malware used.

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Veracode Security

JUNE 22, 2021

As our CEO Sam King remarked, “It gets really specific about the types of security controls they want organizations to adhere to and government agencies to take into account when they’re looking to do business with software vendors in particular.” King agrees, calling the pilot program a great way to increase transparency and accountability.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

The sharp increase in demand put a focus on security shortcomings in Zoom’s architecture – “Zoombombing” became a thing – that the company was quick to address. A little more than a week later, cybersecurity firm Armorblox outlined an account takeover attack that leveraged malicious phishing and social engineering.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2022

In this blog, we will share complete technical analysis of the attack chain, the C2 infrastructure, threat attribution, and data exfiltration. We have not added the analysis of these samples in this blog, but they were all configured with the same C2 server, which we have included in the IOCs section. Threat attribution.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

This is the first of a series of consultant-written blogs around PCI DSS. Entrust, DigiCert) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service)) accounts (E.g.: Entrust, DigiCert) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service)) accounts (E.g.: GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g.,

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2022

With the proper validation, you can authenticate a user (human or machine) and authorize them to access privileged services, accounts, and applications. Private encryption keys (PGP protocols). Keeping track of secrets – be they human or machine identities – across today’s complex architecture is only possible with the right solutions.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2023

These modules are custom designed to carry out malicious activities, such as injecting harmful code into remote processes, circumventing User Account Control via COM Elevation Moniker, and evading detection by Sandboxes through clever techniques like system reboots and parent process checks. Read on to learn more about this alarming threat.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 25, 2023

zero trust strongly focuses on data protection, allowing you to encrypt, monitor, and control data flows rigorously. Compliance and Accountability: In an era of stringent regulations like GDPR and HIPAA , accountability is critical. These gateways connect and protect network segments.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

A few months after last year’s blog post came out, we stumbled across a new multi-platform ransomware family, which targeted both Linux and Windows. Later, we encountered a version of BlackBasta that targeted ESXi environments, and the most recent version that we found supported the x64 architecture. We named it RedAlert/N13V.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog post was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi. In this blog post, we will analyze Woody Rat's distribution methods, capabilities as well as communication protocol. Data encryption with HTTP requests. For encryption and decryption the malware uses BCryptEncrypt and BCryptDecrypt respectively. Architecture.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The ASVS lists 14 controls: Architecture, design, and threat modeling. Additionally, the ASVS notes it can be applied to the following use cases: Security architecture guide. Apply secure design principles in application architectures. Encrypt sensitive traffic over public networks. Authentication. Session management.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

This blog post was originally created by Jeremy Rasmussan, Chief Technology Officer at Abacode. Read the original blog here. . This gives them an encrypted tunnel by which to establish RDP connections with a remote command and control (C&C) server – and the firewall won’t stop them. Once is a fluke. Twice a pattern.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Malicious threat actors can exploit vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in components of the Kubernetes architecture, such as the control plane, worker nodes, or containerized applications. They could use the misconfiguration not only to run the cryptomining malware but also to steal data, the researchers wrote in a blog post.

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Webroot

MARCH 15, 2021

On the other hand, IPv6 is based on 128-bit encryption. Well, it did exist , but was never officially adopted because it used the same 32-bit architecture as its predecessor. Device manufacturers, too, should look to account for accelerated IPv6 adoption when it comes to securing their products. This allows for a whopping 3.4

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Then, earlier this year, Box had to change the way they handled publicly shared accounts and folders because search engines found these directories and some had confidential data in them. On both occasions Uber left its encryption keys on GitHub, which in part led to the breach. Hope isn’t considered a best security practice.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. According to the Software Engineering Institute, software architecture or coding flaws are responsible for up to 90% of security problems. OWASP recommends the following methods: Implement monitoring to identify attacks against multiple user accounts, utilizing the same password.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

In our previous blogs we have discussed the many challenges that organizations face as they are seeking to embrace the Zero Trust security model. The system needs to also take into account user trends and shifting requirements, rather than looking solely at least privilege access. Encryption Key Management. Encryption.

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NopSec

MARCH 29, 2023

The attacks range from phishing campaigns scamming prominent crypto personalities of their NFT (Non-fungible tokens) stashes to attackers exploiting crypto protocols and encryption algorithms to extract tokens out of various crypto ecosystems. A transaction in the blockchain can include multiple transfers of value between different accounts.

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