SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2021

The audit proves what we've heard from many security leaders during our SecureWorld Remote Sessions : the pandemic and work from home have greatly increased the cyber attack surface and attack attempts. NASA cyber threats: insiders, third-parties, nation-states. Did you even have the visibility to track them?

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2022

” The alert provides tactical actions for MSPs and customers, including: Identify and disable accounts that are no longer in use. . ” The alert provides tactical actions for MSPs and customers, including: Identify and disable accounts that are no longer in use. Deprecate obsolete accounts and infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

"Heavily armored and weaponized nation-state threats are difficult to stop compared to lesser threats of opportunistic eCrime or more immature threats," says Ken Dunham, Cyber Threat Director at Qualys Threat Research Unit. "A

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In an era marked by cyber threats , and unforeseen system and application downtime, many healthcare providers still rely on siloed products to protect their physical, virtual, and cloud-based applications that generate the most important clinical and patient data.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

The Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape The contemporary threat and regulatory landscape have pressed organizations to fortify their cyber-crisis management capabilities. In recent years, a surge in cyber-attacks targeting critical infrastructure has been observed globally.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A few suggestions for companies to consider: Deploy a Zero Trust architecture to reduce the attack surface and continually add security applications, devices, and capabilities to prevent intruders from accessing their network resources.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2022

What further compounds an already complex architectural and security landscape is the fact that critical infrastructure industries in various countries tend to be either partially or fully government controlled; with many providing “essential services” such as Healthcare, Water, Power, Emergency Services and Food production.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Cyber threats come from all directions, and a new approach is needed. Data Protection: With the proliferation of cyber threats, safeguarding your most critical asset – data – is paramount. Compliance and Accountability: In an era of stringent regulations like GDPR and HIPAA , accountability is critical.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

API security is quite different from other standard cyber threats due to its constantly changing nature, shortcomings of shift-left tactics, and the challenge of low-and-slow attacks. Microservices Architecture has Created a Security Blind Spot. The API Security Landscape is a Complex one. Microservices communicate over APIs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Dealing with the massive architecture of client-server networks requires effective security measures. Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Account Policies -> Password Policy. This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Guidelines for creating a password policy.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Alexandra Heckler is Chief Information Security Officer at Collins Aerospace, where she leads a diverse team of cyber strategy and defense experts to protect against cyber threats and ensure regulatory compliance. Director, Industry Solutions Americas Solutions Architecture & Customer Success. Collins Aerospace.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Healthcare firms can do complicated analyses, store and retrieve data rapidly, and produce insightful insights thanks to a well-designed data warehouse architecture. .” To guarantee accuracy and consistency across many data sources, thorough consideration of data integration, transformation, and standardization is necessary.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 17, 2021

Now mix in architectural changes that support cloud productivity suites like Microsoft 365 and Google’s G-Suite to accelerate your business to cloud-based email security services. Remote work has magnified the threats users and businesses face online daily. ATOs have targeted organizations that adopt cloud productivity suites.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

According to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence announcement , Volt Typhoon gains initial access to targeted organizations through internet-facing security devices, specifically Fortinet FortiGuard firewalls. China's cyber threat landscape presents a distinct challenge. Here is a CNBC report on the warning from Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 25, 2021

Zero trust architecture is an emerging technology in cybersecurity that offers an alternative to the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security. Instead of focusing only on your perimeter to defend against attacks from the outside, zero trust assumes that threats are ubiquitous and pervasive.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cyber risk is the third critical corporate risk in 2021, as per the latest Allianz Risk Barometer. Cyber risk management. Risk management is the method of identifying vulnerabilities to a company's data resources and architecture and implementing strategies to reduce that risk to tolerable levels. Risk assessment.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Cybersecurity vulnerability can be defined as a weakness in an information system that provides an exploit opportunity for existing cyber threats. Architectural vulnerabilities. That’s why not only do they account for multiple cyber incidents but also the majority of modern cyberattacks rely on this type of vulnerability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

There are, at minimum, two schemes that need to be reviewed, but consider if you have more from this potential, and probably incomplete, list: Cloud service master account management AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Architecture (OCA), Name Service Registrars (E.g., PCI DSS v4.0

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Cyber threats can come from anywhere – they don’t just originate from “outside” corporate perimeters. Insiders can also pose a threat, unknowingly or purposefully. Adopting zero-trust security principles for network access is imperative to reduce risk of data exposure and breaches.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 21, 2024

[RELATED: Congress Demands Cyber Forensics on Ship After Deadly Bridge Strike ] So let's review some background. In light of an evolving array of cybersecurity threats, there has been effort since 1997, per GAO (Government Accountability Office) reports, to enhance cybersecurity of the critical infrastructure in the United States of America.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

All of this makes it more difficult for organizations to protect themselves from new and emerging cyber threats. Kimberly "KJ" Haywood, Principal Advisor at Nomad Cyber Concepts and Adjunct Cybersecurity Professor at Collin College, had this to say: "Inflation is hitting organizations harder than ever. SIEM, SOAR)?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

Despite the level of sophistication of the threat, the rootkit appears to be a work in progress, experts pointed out that it is continually evolving.” ” Scranos implements a modular architecture, with many components in the early stage of development. ” reads the report published by Bitdefender.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

However, the multitude of cyber threats, along with a massive cost to address cyber-crimes, would be enough to scare you from quitting. . Bot traffic to mobile applications account for a huge chunk of all bot traffic worldwide. Bots and fraudsters will locate the weak points in your architecture. . Source . .

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JANUARY 25, 2024

Select AI models considering security and functionality trade-offs: Balance model architecture, configuration, training data, algorithms, and hyperparameters. Regularly reassess decisions based on evolving AI security research and threats. Evaluate model complexity, appropriateness for use case, and adaptability.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks soared in the third quarter, giving organizations yet another cyber threat to worry about. based organizations were the primary targets, accounting for 42.13% of all DDoS attacks, up more than three percentage points from the second quarter. 18, saw a whopping 8,825 attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2023

Gain valuable insights into the evolving threat landscape and learn how organizations can fortify their defenses against this emerging Latin American cyber threat. BypassUAC Module: Utilizes COM Elevation Moniker to bypass User Account Control and execute the Krita Loader with administrative privileges.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

Executive Summary In this report we shared some insight that emerged during our exploratory research, and proof of concept, on the application of Large Language Models to malware automation, investigating how a potential new kind of autonomous threats would look like in the near future.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Now, old monolith apps are being broken into microservices developed in elastic and flexible service-mesh architecture. Protecting APIs against modern cyber threats requires going beyond the traditional solutions. API has emerged as a major actor vector with many companies reporting API-related security breaches.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In the October 2021 Threat Report , McAfee Enterprise ATR provides a global view of the top threats, especially those ransomware attacks that affected most countries and sectors in Q2 2021, especially in the Public Sector (Government). Let’s review the high severity campaigns and threat profiles added to MVISION Insights recently.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Atlantic Council : In December 2018, a bill was introduced into the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, that moved to consolidate the Russian government's control of internet architecture within Russia to ensure the internet could be isolated in the event of a security incident.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

In the past weeks, a new strange campaign emerged in the cyber threat Italian landscape, it has been tracked as “ Operation Pistacchietto. ”. It has been baptized “ Operation Pistacchietto ” from a username extracted from a Github account used to serve some part of the malware. Introduction. MS Windows Samples. it/svc/wup.php?pc=pdf_%computername%

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 3, 2024

This allowed the threat actor to access and exfiltrate data hosted on the Snowflake platform across multiple customer accounts. Demo accounts are not connected to Snowflake's production or corporate systems. It did not contain sensitive data. and Impacted organizations should reset and rotate Snowflake credentials.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 4, 2024

Given the dynamic nature of both an organization’s architecture and the evolving cyber threat landscape, routine vulnerability assessments are crucial, allowing for adjustments to security practices and policies as needed How Often Should You Perform a Vulnerability Analysis?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A look back at the cybersecurity landscape in 2023 rings all-too familiar: cyber threats rapidly evolved and scaled up , just as they have, year-to-year, for the past 20 years. The “trust but verify” approach is no longer viable in a landscape where threats can originate from anywhere.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Division D: Energy: Title 1: Subtitle B: Cybersecurity.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For all discovered issues Prioritize segmentation of all potentially impacted system from enterprise resources to reduce the blast radius Continuous Threat Hunting activity for all devices connected to and from the impacted Ivanti products Monitoring of Identity management services and authentication anomalies.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Gone are the days where defending your enterprise from cyber threats and knowing how to properly respond to an incident was on your IT department’s shoulders alone. End users should be trained not to use easy to decrypt passwords and/or the same password for multiple accounts. Mitigate Vulnerability Risk.

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