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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

Cryptographic inventories need finalizing and quantum safe encryption needs to be adopted for sensitive communications and data. Consumers will begin to see their favorite applications touting “quantum-secure encryption.” CISOs will have to get quantum resilient encryption on their cyber roadmap.

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U.S. Security Agencies Release Network Security, Vulnerability Guidance

eSecurity Planet

Privilege and other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Malware Protection Engine, Internet Explorer and more (27 in all). Purdue network architecture. Network Architecture and Design. Network Architecture and Design. Limit and encrypt VPNs.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on content management systems (CMS) — and how to secure them

The Last Watchdog

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Cybersecurity Research Topics for Beginners: Exploring the Fundamentals

CyberSecurity Insiders

Cryptography: Dive into the world of cryptography, studying symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, and cryptographic algorithms. Explore topics like key management, secure communication protocols, and encryption in different contexts.

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REvil ransomware attack against MSPs and its clients around the world

SecureList

Some of the victims have reportedly been compromised through a popular MSP software which led to encryption of their customers. The total number of encrypted businesses could run into thousands. Focusing your defense strategy on detecting lateral movements and data exfiltration to the internet. agent.cer (encrypted agent.exe).

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Using the LockBit builder to generate targeted ransomware

SecureList

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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It’s Too Late for Threat Intelligence Vendors to Ignore IPv6

Webroot

Drafted by the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF) in 1998, it became an Internet Standard in 2017. IP addresses, those numbers assigned to every internet-connected device, or node, were designed to contain 32 bits. On the other hand, IPv6 is based on 128-bit encryption. IPv6 has been a long time coming.