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How Hackers Use Reconnaissance – and How to Protect Against It

eSecurity Planet

The attackers do not engage and instead collect data indirectly, using techniques such as physical observation around buildings, eavesdropping on conversations, finding papers with logins/passwords, Google dorks, open source intelligence (OSINT), advanced Shodan searches, WHOIS data, and packet sniffing. What Data Do Hackers Collect?

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What do Cyber Threat Actors do with your information?

Zigrin Security

For a detailed threat actor description do not forget to check out our blog article about selecting between black-box, white-box, and grey-box penetration tests and also you would know which pentest you need against a specific threat actor. Avoid using easily guessable passwords such as your name, birthdate, or “password123.”

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10 ways attackers gain access to networks

Malwarebytes

These may be obtained by phishing, social engineering, insider threats, or carelessly handed data. Imagine if all of them had never taken place because the initial point of entry, a phished password, had been protected with MFA. Use of vendor-supplied default configurations or default usernames and passwords. Valid accounts.

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Common Techniques Hackers Use to Penetrate Systems and How to Protect Your Organization

ForAllSecure

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Password Attacks Password attacks involve guessing or cracking passwords to gain access to systems.

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Three Ways to Protect Unfixable Security Risks

eSecurity Planet

How can a hospital protect an MRI machine with an unchangeable password and still connect it to the network? Many of these critical devices require obsolete operating systems, have hard-coded passwords, or other equally dangerous security weaknesses. 57% of ICS sites do not run automatically updating antivirus protection.

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Calling Home, Get Your Callbacks Through RBI

Security Boulevard

Antivirus Inspection Not all RBI products will prioritize this time factor. For example, Cloudflare Zero Trust blocks uploads and downloads of encrypted, password-protected files or files larger than 15MB by default because it cannot scan those files. This can be due to encryption or even size. pdf files, etc.,

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation.