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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Pen Test

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. It has significantly impacted various industries, from telecommunications and healthcare to transportation and entertainment. Why is RF Pentesting Necessary?

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. Outsourcing U.S. companies may trust U.S.

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Lyceum APT made the headlines with attacks in Middle East

Security Affairs

reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. Security experts at Dragos Inc. ” reads the report published by SecureWork.

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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078).

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Guarding Against Solorigate TTPs

eSecurity Planet

The attacker can then define an admin account, setting the home directory to the root of C: drive. With user account credentials, attackers had a suite of email, documents, and data at their fingertips. Create a system of accountability by segregating roles for authorizing, approving, and monitoring code signatures.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

The Global State of Information Security Survey 2017 suggests that companies should look into deploying threat detection tools and processes (including monitoring and analyzing security intelligence information), conducting vulnerability and threat assessments, penetration tests and security information, and event management (SIEM) tools.

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The Importance of a Proactive Cyber Defense Solution To Protect Your Critical Data

Security Affairs

On the basis that they are a Cybersecurity company, the most plausible explanation is that a legitimate user account or an automated source code commit user (non-human user, system or application user) account was compromised. Potential user account compromise.