Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating the SOC 2 Audit Welcome to SOC 2 compliance , a crucial certification for safeguarding data security and trustworthiness in today’s digital landscape. This comprehensive guide, presented by Centraleyes, will walk you through the intricacies of SOC 2 certification, from understanding the audit process to achieving compliance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

This is why it is essential to your device performance to make sure any endpoints include flexible, secure, default-settings and, in particular, optional mechanisms like password complexity, password expiration, and account lock-out, which forces users to modify the default credentials when setting up the device.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Dirk-jan found that the “Write Account Restrictions” property set in Active Directory includes the ability to write to the “ms-DS-AllowedToActOnBehalfOfOtherIdentity” property, which allows you to perform the RBCD attack. You can authenticate with a username/password combo, a service principal certificate or secret, a JWT, or refresh token.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts. Because many parties might be interested in targeting these regions, it is not easy to attribute the threat.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Malicious bots can be used to carry out a range of cyber threats like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, so bot protection is an increasingly important defense for web-facing assets. Comprehensive protection: DataDome protects against all types of bots, including credential stuffing, web scraping, and account takeover attacks.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. Scammers abused legitimate survey services by creating polls in the name of various organization to profit from victims’ personal, including sensitive, data.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Here we had a situation where an attacker could easily control moving parts within a car from a remote location.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. You might think that this kind of information would be useless for an attack on a company because this personal info is not actually related to the company and contains no data that could actually compromise the company or the account owner.

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Spinone

JULY 16, 2019

Phishing is taking over G Suite accounts In a nutshell, phishing is a technique used to steal your data such as credentials or credit card information. Tens of thousands of dollars are paid out regularly by organizations desperate to regain access to their data. Mostly, it is designed to steal your business data or damage it.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The site asks you for some personal information when you create the account which it then stores in a database. Who now owns that data? This is an important question because it drives the way organisations then treat that data. Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation. The cat site? That is all.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The audit itself is conducted by an official auditor, often from the “Big-4” (the 4 largest accounting firms in the US) but the preparation isn’t required to be. In an era where data breaches and cybersecurity threats loom, a systematic and organized approach to SOC 2 preparation is necessary. Automation.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. ” SEPTEMBER.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

BlueNoroff developed an elaborate phishing campaign that targeted startups and distributed malware for stealing all crypto in the account tied to the device. It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If the PowerShell is not present, the malware generates a hidden file with MZ-PE loader with a randomized name located in % APPDATA % directory. If administrative rights are present, its ether executes a PowerShell script that creates two task scheduler entries with GUID-like names and with different triggers.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But while consenting adults can and increasingly do agree to share passwords, locations, and devices with their romantic partners, another statistic deserves scrutiny: 41 percent of the people who admitted to monitoring their partners said they did so without permission. 17 percent monitored a spouse's/significant other's finances.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

Maryland Takes the Lead in Privacy Legislation with Comprehensive MODPA The Maryland legislature enacted two comprehensive privacy bills to limit how big tech platforms can acquire and utilize customers’ and children’s data. Maryland has taken one of the strictest positions among U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

"Stealers" are a kind of malware designed to run on an endpoint post-compromise, while their primary features center on the theft of user data. Together with our colleagues at InQuest, we present a deep dive technical analysis of the malware. Stealers also bridge the realms of criminal and nation-state focus.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 14, 2024

It is worth noting that if a merchant has suffered a breach that resulted in account data compromise, they may be asked by their acquiring bank (the financial institution that initiates and maintains the relationships with merchants that accept payment cards) to fill a higher validation level. No need for an external audit.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The loader starts its activities by loading an encrypted payload from another file that should be present in the same directory. The loaded data are then decoded using XOR, where the XOR key is generated using an unusual technique. The malware uses a static seed to generate a 256-byte XOR_KEY block using shuffle and add operations.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Vamosi: How do we know who’s on the other end of a connection, who it is that is logging into a computer or an account online? A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Laws such as CCPA and GDPR, not to mention vertical market regulations, make it clear how important this issue is to regulators, who take into account the security tools in use and their settings during investigations. The corporation is responsible for data loss from its employees, no matter how it occurs.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

You know, I did a job once where we had a customer and involved compromises at different servers right in and, you know, we literally had a whole team just to do data collection. And it took us a month to collect that data, like a month like meanwhile, there's an ABD group running around the network causing havoc.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Best of all, there is no incremental cost based on the volume of data collected. Radio frequency (RF) network and device data collected by Bastille Networks are available in SecureX threat response as an integrated source. Monitor activity across all SaaS accounts in a single console. Read more about MISP here.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

The implant allows attackers to browse and modify device files, get passwords and credentials stored in the keychain, retrieve geo-location information, as well as execute additional modules, further extending their control over the compromised devices. These attacks are occasionally motivated by activist factors or financial gain.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Andreeson Horowitz Battery Ventures Data Collective Venture Capital (DCVC) Foundation Capital Gula Tech Adventures Index Ventures Lytical Ventures RRE Venture Softbank Sorenson Ventures. When accepting VC funding, entrepreneurs are giving up some level of control over the present or future of their company. Business Data.

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