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What do Cyber Threat Actors do with your information?

Zigrin Security

In this article, we will explore the motivations of the hackers, which threat actors target which data, how to protect yourself or your organization against these threat actors, and most importantly what these threat actors do with your data. There are some other ways to make money from data described further in the article.

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Why Human Input Is Still Vital to Cybersecurity Tech

SecureWorld News

It was once the case that cybersecurity technology consisted of little more than a firewall and antivirus software. In this article, we take a look at the role of humans in cybersecurity to see whether we are still vital to the cause or whether it can now be left to software and machines. There are tasks such as penetration testing.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

This article will explore the nature of MSSPs and how they can help businesses, nonprofits, governments, and other organizations have better security with less effort. Even the largest organizations with the most robust internal security teams will engage with MSSPs for specialty projects, penetration tests, and other specific needs.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

Using an encrypted payload is quite a common way to evade Antivirus, since the encrypted payload changes depending on the used key. Such a key sees the following value: “ VelvetSweatshop” ( a nice old article on that ). And why the attacker used an encrypted payload if the victim cannot open it? But what is the key?

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Earning Trust In Public Cloud Services

SiteLock

This article reviews the above as well as some other security concerns. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. Public cloud Infrastructure should be secured. Who is to ensure it? How to control cloud service providers?

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Adaptive protection against invisible threats

SecureList

In this article, we look at what those gaps are and how to fill them. Detecting an exploit or trojan that explicitly runs on a device is not a problem for an antivirus solution. It does not store itself on the hard disk, therefore tracking it with an ordinary antivirus solution is not easy. Legitimate software can hide risks.

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Nmap Ultimate Guide: Pentest Product Review and Analysis

eSecurity Planet

The open source security tool, Nmap, originally focused on port scanning, but a robust community continues to add features and capabilities to make Nmap a formidable penetration testing tool. This article will delve into the power of Nmap, how attackers use Nmap, and alternative penetration testing (pentesting) tools.