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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

Not long ago, it was revealed that T-Mobile had been breached by bad actors who convinced employees to switch their SIM cards to let them bypass two-factor identification — reminding us how effective social engineering can still be. So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS?

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Discovery of Simps Botnet Leads To Ties to Keksec Group

Security Affairs

The script downloaded several next stage payloads for several *nix architectures from the open directory named “Simps” in the same C2 URL from where the shell script was downloaded (see Figure 1). The Simps payload was delivered by exploiting multiple Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in vulnerable IOT devices. see Figure 4 and 5).

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Best Enterprise Vulnerability Scanning Vendors

eSecurity Planet

These complex multi-location entities often deploy local networks, virtual computing environments, cloud infrastructure, and a variety of devices that classify into the internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) categories. Some even deploy applications, web servers, and containers.

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7 Best Attack Surface Management Software for 2024

eSecurity Planet

per year Tenable Tenable One, an exposure management platform Identifies assets using DNS records, IP addresses, and ASN, and provides over 180 metadata fields Tenable Attack Surface Management, Add-on for Splunk ISO/IEC 27001/27002 $5,290 – $15,076.50 Pricing is dependent on the quantity of Internet-facing assets.

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Best Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Tools

eSecurity Planet

“Since the barrier-to-entry for threat actors is now lower than ever with easily accessible DDoS-for-hire services and IP stressers, compromised IoT devices can and will drive this growth,” said Charles Choe, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Akamai. Protects websites, networks, DNS and individual IPs. Cloudflare.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

The internet of things (IoT), operations technology (OT), and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) also now connect to networks. Other hackers might use a spoofed domain name system (DNS) or IP addresses to redirect users from legitimate connections (to websites, servers, etc.) DNS security (IP address redirection, etc.),

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Top Microsegmentation Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

The basic idea is to segment off parts of the network, especially the most sensitive parts, and wall them off with stricter policies and tie them into a zero-trust architecture. Microsegmentation should address servers and laptops, IoT, mobile, and legacy devices. Best Microsegmentation Tools. DH2i Differentiators. Unisys Stealth.

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