Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

US CISA and NSA released new guidance that provides recommendations on how to harden Kubernetes deployments and minimize the risk of hack. Use firewalls to limit unneeded network connectivity and encryption to protect confidentiality. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LockBit 2.0). ” states the guidance. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 16, 2022

With cloud and mobile computing becoming the norm, identity-based and strong authentication are the crucial steps in advancing trust in the digital world. Humans, machines, and APIs should all be authenticated using this method based on their identities, purposes, and usage context. Advance Trust with Awareness and Culture.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Microservices Architecture has Created a Security Blind Spot. When you have multiple services communicating with each other through APIs, then your entire system becomes exposed when any one service gets hacked. Tools like two-factor authentication, rate limiting, and DDoS protection can go a long way in securing APIs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

The cybersecurity firm added that the threat actors show an in-depth knowledge of telecommunication network architectures. GTPDOOR also supports authentication and encryption mechanisms. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, backdoor)

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Servers are encrypted with “ locked” file extensions on files. You look for your cold replica in your DR site, but like your production servers, it has also been encrypted by ransomware. Your backups, the backup server, and all the backup storage — all encrypted by ransomware. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2020

Intel CSME is responsible for initial authentication of Intel-based systems by loading and verifying all other firmware for modern platforms.” “For instance, Intel CSME interacts with CPU microcode to authenticate UEFI BIOS firmware using BootGuard. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2019-0090). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

API hacking escapades. Over the past couple of years, good-guy researchers and malicious hackers alike have steadily scaled up their hacking activities to flush them out. Over the past couple of years, good-guy researchers and malicious hackers alike have steadily scaled up their hacking activities to flush them out.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

First, it leverages a solution called Dynamic Data Defense Engine to build in zero trust access policies at the individual file level, encrypting each one and building in a number of ways that employees can authenticate their device or identity before accessing.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. The second stage installs itself and loads the third stage using an encrypted, hardcoded path. The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

After DarkSide actors gained access to the victim’s network, they deployed ransomware to encrypt victim data and—as a secondary form of extortion—exfiltrated the data before threatening to publish it to further pressure victims into paying the ransom demand. Using multi-factor authentication. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Dating back to SolarWinds — the fallout to which started a few months before his administration — and continuing through the Microsoft Exchange hacking and the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, the Biden administration has been beset with wall to wall cybersecurity crises. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz).

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, confirmed that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month. Reset 2-factor authentication for Okta superadmins. What happened in the Okta source code breach? Identify Okta accounts where MFA was disabled.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

“ Federal agencies are requested to implement a Zero Trust Architecture, implement multi-factor authentication, and adopt encryption for data at rest and in transit. SecurityAffairs – hacking, executive order). ” states the order. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Bots and fraudsters will locate the weak points in your architecture. . Verify that there are no software injection, encryption, and authentication attacks. Encryption treats. SSL encrypts personal data like credit card numbers and credentials and safeguards it while it moves across the internet. Source . .

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

This will not only help better test the architectures that need to be prioritized, but it will provide all sides with a clear understanding of what is being tested and how it will be tested. Additionally, tests can be internal or external and with or without authentication. They can take more than a month to complete.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. The Linux malware is the well-known “ Shellbot ”, it is a crimetool belonging to the arsenal of a threat actor tracked as the “Outlaw Hacking Group. ”. Introduction. Technical Analysis.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

In response, criminal and state-backed hacking groups stepped up their own exploitation of the technology as well. That said, other factors such as the “elite” network and data access the VPN often provides, as well as technical weaknesses around passwords and the authentication process, also played a part.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We conducted an analysis of the IoT threat landscape for 2023, as well as the products and services offered on the dark web related to hacking connected devices. Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. per day, or $1350 per month. BTC to recover the data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Other interesting implant, and also documented by WordFence , concerns a piece of code added in the compromised systems, and which essentially sent the user’s credentials to a Telegram channel managed by the criminal when an user authentication is made in the WordPress panel. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zerologon). DOMAIN_NAME 192.168.x.xPerforming

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

Last Friday, July 2, in a matter of a few minutes, a Russian hacking collective, known as REvil, distributed leading-edge ransomware to thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) across the planet — and succeeded in locking out critical systems in at least 1,500 of them. Related: The targeting of supply chains.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Data Protection Users must employ encryption for data in transit and at rest. Users are required to ensure encryption of sensitive data within applications and during transmission. Providers handle the encryption of data within the application, with users typically overseeing access to their data. What Is IaaS Security?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

They can dictate access controls, require multi-factor authentication, and implement encryption and data loss prevention measures. SASE is an architectural framework that merges wide-area networking (WAN) capabilities with security functions, all delivered as a cloud-based service.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“The bad actors of the world will likely use the information acquired in the hack to attempt to learn more about the victims,” said Hauk. Regardless that the data is being transmitted over a secure channel, data security must start at the source – meaning the data should be… encrypted all the time, even in use.”.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2021

As microservice architectures and API-centric applications become mainstream, developers often need to exchange credentials and other secrets programmatically. The researcher discovered a pair of basic authentication credentials used to access Cloudinary. To put this into context, let’s look at an instance of hardcoded credentials.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

In response, criminal and state-backed hacking groups have stepped up their own exploitation of the technology as well. Since most organizations still treat a host connecting from VPNs as a trusted source, it allows them the kind of broad network access that can be used to facilitate lateral movement, infect corporate hosts or encrypt data.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Technology: Technology is the foundation for an IAM program delivery within a layered security architecture. RELATED: Death of the VPN: A Security Eulogy ] VPNs have notably higher operating costs and lower scalability when using device-based architecture. Processes enable Identity to power people-centric security.

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SecureList

MAY 17, 2021

Bizarro has x64 modules and is able to trick users into entering two-factor authentication codes in fake pop-ups. While writing this article, we saw hacked WordPress, Amazon and Azure servers used for storing archives. The MSI installer has two embedded links – which one is chosen depends on the victim’s processor architecture.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The initial disclosure involved two CVEs (CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2023-21887) allowing a remote attacker to perform authentication bypass and remote command injection exploits. How It Works The attackers were observed exploiting two vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 (an authentication-bypass vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.2)

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Limited Control & Visibility Insufficient visibility into the cloud architecture causes delays in threat responses, increasing the risk of data breaches. Failure to enforce security regulations and implement appropriate encryption may result in accidental data exposure.

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Risk DDOS Data breaches Encryption 116

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2024

The Oldsmar water treatment plant hacking is an excellent example of this fact, as a city of 15,000 people would have drank caustic water without realizing it. For example, ransomware could permanently encrypt Internet of Things (IoT) traffic lights, making them unusable. Zero-trust architecture. Irreversible damage.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Get Free Dashlane Access Dashlane advantages: security, UX, and SSO Compared to other leading password managers like LastPass and OneLogin, Dashlane has a unique advantage: it’s never been hacked. This software uses patented security architecture with 256-bit encryption, plus built-in two factor authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

DNS communicates in plain text and, without modification, DNS assumes that all information it receives is accurate, authentic, and authoritative. To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results.

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