The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Cybersecurity Training and Phishing Testing: The easiest part of a system to hack is the human being. The only way to prevent this part of your defense is through training and testing. AdviserCyber will work with a firm’s compliance team to ensure compliance is met and improve overall security of an adviser firm.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Security teams are strongly recommended to perform a forensic triage to detect and reverse all unauthorized changes. 0Auth API Misconfigurations Expose User Accounts to Takeover Type of attack: No active attacks are underway, but researchers found (and fixed) common 0Auth implementation errors that exposed millions of customer accounts.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 7, 2021

The new virtual world driven by the COVID-19 pandemic has given bad actors the perfect opportunity to access consumer accounts by leveraging AI and bots to commit fraud like never before. Secure and manage AI to prevent malfunctions. Deploy strong authentication to stop large-scale spearphishing attacks.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

Malicious hackers claim to have hacked into the network system of the Foxconn Baja factory in Mexico on June 11. After a severe ransomware assault has hit them, they devote the necessary time and money to strengthening their cyber security defenses. using the LockBit 2.0 Final Remarks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2019

Researchers at Proofpoint reported that crooks are abusing free code repositories on GitHub to host phishing websites and bypass security defenses. The drawback in using public GitHub accounts it that security researchers have major visibility into the threat actors’ activity and on the changes to their phishing pages.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals know this, which is why phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents and why 54% of companies say their data breaches were caused by “negligent employees. ”. The reason many employees use the same passwords across all work accounts is simple – they can keep track of them all.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You might assume the majority of these attacks are aimed at eCommerce sites because they accept and store credit card information, but actually, the eCommerce sector accounts for only one percent of compromised websites. As a result, most don’t think they need website security. The truth is, there’s no such thing as “too small to hack.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

“From the details you offered, issue may probably caused by your computer security defense system as it seems not recognized our rarely used driver & detected it as malicious or a virus,” Saicoo’s support team wrote in an email. “When driver installed, this message will vanish out of sight. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

That investment requires shifting attitudes from general awareness of security, which most workers already have, to genuinely caring about it and seeing themselves as a true part of their company’s security defenses. Security programs must shoulder accountability for setting employees in different roles up for success.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

.” The security researchers tested WormGPT to see how it would perform in BEC attacks. In one experiment, they asked WormGPT “to generate an email intended to pressure an unsuspecting account manager into paying a fraudulent invoice.” ” “The results were unsettling,” Kelley wrote.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) identified CVE-2024-21410 as a “Known Exploited Vulnerability” and set a March 7, 2024 deadline for implementing patches or mitigations. Read our guide on privilege escalation attacks next to learn about the detection and prevention strategies for your privileged accounts and data.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Attackers Can Steal Your Credentials In one of the worst-case XSS scenarios, a threat actor can steal credentials once the user inputs them into a web page they don’t realize has been hacked. If the account is a high-privilege account, this is even more dangerous.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Problem: Three flaws discovered by the Kubernetes security community carry CVSS severity scores of 7.6 If account credentials are hacked, adding multi-factor authentication can prevent unwanted access. CVE-2022-4886 (Path Sanitization Bypass): This 8.8-level

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Due to an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Exim’s SMTP service, Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability CVE-2023-42115 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute code in the context of the service account. Attackers might get full access to Confluence instances by creating illegal administrator accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

To prevent a DNS attack , organizations need to secure their DNS processes for both local and remote users. After all, with most processes now touching the internet, a secure DNS solution can block threats beyond DNS processes and help secure email, endpoints, remote users, and more.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

Track : Exploitation and Ethical Hacking. Breaking the Isolation: Cross-Account AWS Vulnerabilities. Multiple AWS services were found to be vulnerable to a new cross-account vulnerability class. James Coote | Senior Consultant, F-Secure Consulting. Alfie Champion | Senior Consultant, F-Secure Consulting.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

But GandCrab far eclipsed the success of competing ransomware affiliate programs largely because its authors worked assiduously to update the malware so that it could evade antivirus and other security defenses. in threads asking for urgent help obtaining access to hacked businesses in South Korea. HEAVY METALL.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Like many other password managers, Dashlane makes it easy for users to create new passwords and store existing ones in a secure vault. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Automate Updates: Automate updates where possible to receive crucial security patches without manual intervention. Create Strong, Unique Passwords Creating strong, one-of-a-kind passwords acts as a strong defense to keep your accounts safe. Regularly Monitor Accounts Account monitoring is a critical practice.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud security not only facilitates compliance with these requirements but also establishes a systematic framework for overseeing and auditing data access and usage. Cyber Threat Mitigations There are many cyber threats that can compromise millions of data, ranging from hacking and phishing to malware attacks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Many individual and small company forays on the web are through WordPress on shared hosting accounts, and it’s not uncommon for a shared hosting account to hold multiple WordPress sites as needs and business grow. We’ll also discuss how to host securely, keeping all your sites from falling due to a single plugin vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. Dashlane Password Manager provides companies with everything they need to onboard new employees, manage permissions and monitor security issues all from one place.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

While IaaS gives complete control and accountability, PaaS strikes a compromise between control and simplicity, and SaaS provides a more hands-off approach with the provider handling the majority of security duties. Network security measures are taken care of by the PaaS provider, though users should implement secure coding practices.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As flexibility and resilience are key goals of a multi-cloud strategy, multi-cloud security must also be adaptable, protecting data and applications across multiple cloud providers, accounts, different geographic availability zones, and even on-premises data centers. Here is a step-by-step approach for making multi-cloud security work.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This model is exemplified by the recent hack of Bluefield University in Virginia , where the AvosLocker ransomware gang hijacked the school’s emergency broadcast system to send students and staff SMS texts and email alerts that their personal data had been stolen. DDoS attacks in that case are not necessary.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cam4’s Misconfiguration & Data Breach (2020) Cam4 holds the record for the greatest data breach of all time , with 10 billion compromised accounts. Following the hack, LastPass increased security safeguards on its AWS S3 storage, including improved logging, alerting, and tighter IAM controls.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2023

These scans list potential vulnerabilities without exploring the issue further by using hacking techniques to verify if the vulnerability can be exploited to extract data, disrupt operations, or enable future attacks. However, this type of testing is more of a vulnerability scan instead of a penetration test.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 28, 2024 Internet Exposed 3D-Printers Hacked to Broadcast Vulnerability Exposure Type of vulnerability: Missing valid credential check in printer service APIs. The problem: Although leap years occur every four years, sometimes programmers use 365 days for a year and fail to account for the extra day.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Have hope that through the hard work and brilliant minds behind these security defenses that 2022 will not be a repeat of such high level attacks. Learn more about what security leaders have to say about the upcoming year below: Neil Jones, cybersecurity evangelist, Egnyte. Steve Moore, chief security strategist, Exabeam.

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