Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Spotting and Stopping Persistent Invaders Nation state affiliated threat actors such as FIN6 , NICKEL , and Emissary Panda targeted critical Active Directory assets, notably the (Windows NT Directory Services) NTDS.dit file, the KRBTGT service account, and Active Directory certificates. Rubeus , Mimikatz , etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2022

Better visibility for InfoSec teams. In this integrated solution, CyberArk provides Privileged Access Management (PAM) for interactive human-user accounts including key management, session isolation and audit, while Venafi provides Machine Identity Protection for automated machine-to-machine connections.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Equally, direct messages have been used by groups to take control over influencer accounts to promote messaging of their own. We live in a world where we are governed by rules, territories, and jurisdictions; to hold a threat actor accountable, we would need digital evidence. Who Can Regulate? Who Can Regulate? Prevention.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Legitimate websites will always be encrypted with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that begins with “https:” and a padlock icon. An SSL certificate verifies an organization’s identity and ensures an encrypted connection between the website and the server. Shop on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certified Sites Only. Use Your Credit Card.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. Katie Moussouris | @k8em0.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Zero Trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets, user accounts, microservices, or data based solely on their location. Under a Zero Trust policy, every user and transaction must be validated before access to an enterprise resource is granted, even for a legitimate operation like encryption. . Improve Your SOC.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, hardcoded credentials such as API keys, encryption keys, and database passwords can be discovered by grepping for keywords such as “key”, “secret”, “password”, or a regex search for hex or base64 strings. Register for a free CORE account here. You should see a class declaration that declares a new class named Account.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Attempts to run malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 118,099 users. At the end of last year, the number of users attacked by malware designed to steal money from bank accounts gradually decreased, a trend that continued in Q1 2021. Financial threats.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

” This one, as far as infosec stories go, had me leaning and muttering like never before. But fortunately these days many people make use of 2 factor authentication to protect against account takeover attacks where the adversary knows the password. nZNQcqsEYki", Oh wow!

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. For a variety of reasons, I will no longer be sharing these updates on Twitter. ” SEPTEMBER.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. I mean if you can’t handle the details, then what do you think working in infosec is all about? available wherever books are sold.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. I mean if you can’t handle the details, then what do you think working in infosec is all about? available wherever books are sold.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Vamosi: For this episode I also want to weigh in on a very controversial topic within infosec today. That’s also why you occasionally hear about depricated encryption schemes. And you’re right.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leaked data includes names, e-mails, mobile numbers, encrypted passwords, user wallet details, order details, bank details, KYC details (PAN number, passport numbers) and deposit history. The leaked data contains Name, Email, Mobile, bank account numbers, PAN Number, Wallets Details etc. Trading in #cryptocurrency ?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. Vamosi: Within InfoSec there's an informal use of AppSec as well. This can be from your personal checking account or business account. Maintaining OpSec is everyone's responsibility.

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Errata Security

MAY 19, 2020

If there's one thing that the entire cybersecurity industry is agreed about (other than hating the term cybersecurity, preferring "infosec" instead) is that you need this vulnerability disclosure program. It asserts that encryption algorithms should be public instead of secret, that the only secret should be the password/key.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Too many businesses cannot continue their activities until they recover the data encrypted by ransomware. Subject to the malware class and timeframes for decryption set by the attackers, too many victims end up transferring funds to the hacker’s accounts. Your own systems may fail to process the encryption key.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

As any infosec manager will tell you, no matter how secure your infrastructure, anyone with the right credentials can walk through the front door. They also can use stolen personal information for identity theft, opening fraudulent accounts. Using data encryption, each node verifies its part of the user credentials when needed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 16, 2023

Companies lockdown sensitive data internally with access controls, encryption, data classification and data loss prevention (DLP) platforms. Similarly, Coinbase’s improper API validation process enabled users to make unlimited cryptocurrency trades between accounts without being detected.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Think of all the accounts you have with different providers. Your password for each of your accounts needs to be difficult to guess and unpredictable. The best way to prevent unauthorized access to your accounts is to protect and manage them. Passwords have become a common way to access and manage our digital lives.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. But as I've written before, there's a lot more to HTTPS than simply redirecting all the traffic ).

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Cisco Security

APRIL 19, 2021

Clearly, infosec professionals are in hot demand. With a free account, individuals can gain limited access to a variety of course topics, including ethical hacking and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. Things improved in 2020 when (ISC)2 learned that 700,000 professionals had joined the industry. Even so, 3.12

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SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

In a field where every contractor releases an annual infosec report, BakerHostetler’s is unique. For example, contrary to common rhetoric, which often portrays paying ransom as a risky proposition inviting criminals to take the money and run, firm clients who paid ransoms received an encryption key 98 percent of the time.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2021

Maintained by infosec teams. The resource owner can directly register with the client’s service without replugging their personal information for the new account. The resource owner who initiated and consented to the client registration process via a third-party account can now access the client application.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Further evolution of cyberthreats as a response to infosec tools and measures. For example, a popular tactic in spyware attacks is now to send phishing e-mails from compromised corporate mail accounts of a partner organization of the intended victim. Threats to OT. P stands for perseverance.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

Attempts to run malware for stealing money from online bank accounts were stopped on the computers of 100,829 unique users. In Q2 2022, Kaspersky solutions blocked the launch of malware designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 100,829 unique users. Web Anti-Virus recognized 273,033,368 unique URLs as malicious.

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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

Attempted infections by malware designed to steal money via online access to bank accounts were logged on the devices of 79,315 users. During the reporting period, Kaspersky solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more malicious programs designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 79,315 users. Threat geography.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? Bee: Can you tell me what the password was?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? Bee: Can you tell me what the password was?

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Hacking Mobile Software Technology 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Bee: I have to put in 16 letters and digits to get into my FreshDirect account. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? Bee: Can you tell me what the password was?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

He also talks about the future generation of hacking, what motivates young people today to think outside the box in a world where infosec is increasingly becoming vocational and expected. Vamosi: There’s also a list of words commonly used in infosec that are being challenged. Vamosi: Hackers. And it's, no it's this short video.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. Cigent + Cisco Duo brings multi-factor authentication and encryption for data at rest and in transit. Encrypt files everywhere. Read more here.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I’m Robert Vamosi, and in this episode we’re talking about ways in which bad actors can manipulate legitimate tools to gain persistence on a site so they can steal data or encrypt it for ransom. A lot of infosec’s knowledge is either tribal -- passed on from one person to another - or can be found in books.

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