The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: To detect deep fakes, organizations can use digital watermarking, AI-driven detection tools, and media provenance tracking. Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? Erin: In your opinion, what are the most common cybersecurity mistakes that companies make?

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SecureList

JANUARY 23, 2023

The most common attack scenarios here are: attacks on employees (social engineering), attacks on IT infrastructure (DDoS), as well as attacks on critical infrastructure. This gives SOC a goal: to enhance the SOC team, architecture, and operations for better performance.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture, Cerberus Sentinel. By that I mean, freezing your credit, being vigilant about checking your credit card and bank statements, using password managers with pass phrases versus passwords, and being cautious about what you share on social media. Otavio Freire, CTO, SafeGuard Cyber.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Although there’s not yet a “standard” zero-trust model, the industry has steadily moved toward embracing the concept of zero-trust architecture. The post Today’s cyberattack tactics highlight why companies need continuous security checks appeared first on SC Media. Alex Heid, chief research and development officer, SecurityScorecard.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 5, 2022

If social networks are not your thing, you can also keep in touch via: Email: Newsletter RSS: kali.org/rss.xml Press Pack We have also taken the time to create a Press Pack (aka Press kit) for Kali. Media Enquiries And on the subject, we do have a page for Press and Media enquiries. " VERSION_ID="2022.4"

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The targets included government and military agencies, defense contractors, political parties and consultancies, logistics companies, energy firms, universities, law firms and media companies. The US Department of Justice has also indicted four alleged members of APT40 for illicit computer network activities.

Mobile 139

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

The sharp increase in demand put a focus on security shortcomings in Zoom’s architecture – “Zoombombing” became a thing – that the company was quick to address. A little more than a week later, cybersecurity firm Armorblox outlined an account takeover attack that leveraged malicious phishing and social engineering.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

His expertise is in social engineering, technology, security algorithms and business. David Poe is the vice president of data architecture and shared solutions for United Way Worldwide. Viswanathan is also the co-host of ELEVATEINTEL, a podcast series at the nexus of technology, social and defense.

Computers and Electronics 126

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McAfee

MAY 27, 2021

May 2021 has been an extraordinary month in the cybersecurity world, with the DoD releasing its DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture (DoDZTRA), the Colonial Pipeline being hit with a ransomware attack, and the White House releasing its Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO). I suspect the $4.4M

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

We confirmed several victims in the manufacturing, home network service, media and construction sectors. By hiding the truth and not communicating with us, what happened will be published on social media and yet in news websites. The Trojan may also use social engineering to convince victims to download a smartphone app.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Disinformation is going to be incredibly effective now that social networks have scaled back or completely removed their moderation and verification efforts. Social media will become even more of a cesspool of AI and human-created garbage.” This will include synthetic written, spoken, and potentially even image or video content.

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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. As with on-premises systems, attackers can exploit users via malicious email attachments or social media links.

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Risk DDOS Data breaches Encryption 127

Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

They can do that by leveraging security awareness training to augment their familiarity with phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving faster adoption of cloud, hybrid and microservices architectures, but protecting machine identities for these projects are often an afterthought.”.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Implement strong network segmentation, zero trust architecture, least privilege access controls, and VPNs to strictly limit lateral movement. Provide cybersecurity awareness training to all personnel, enabling them to identify social engineering attacks and risky behavior. Have notification procedures and press releases ready.

Ransomware 52

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The smallest organizations can perform this through a visual inspection and a review of the media access control (MAC) addresses connected to the network. Hyperscale Architecture: Organizations can plan and prepare hyperscale architecture that combines security, storage, compute, and virtualization layers into a modular resource.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. Dennis Fischer: A lot of that is just a function of the way the media has used the word hacker over the last two or three decades -- the way that people read these stories or see TV reports that are about some hacker who hacked a Tesla. We don't handle that.

Software 52

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. Dennis Fischer: A lot of that is just a function of the way the media has used the word hacker over the last two or three decades -- the way that people read these stories or see TV reports that are about some hacker who hacked a Tesla. We don't handle that.

Software 52

Software IoT Manufacturing Hacking 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. Dennis Fischer: A lot of that is just a function of the way the media has used the word hacker over the last two or three decades -- the way that people read these stories or see TV reports that are about some hacker who hacked a Tesla. We don't handle that.

Software 52

Software IoT Manufacturing Hacking 52

Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

This was at a time when CD-R were at their peak, giving you 650-700 MB and USB media was not yet on the scene. However, because BackTrack was getting to be known, it had grown legs, started appearing in the media, it was becoming ingrained in pop culture, they wanted to keep the momentum going. This helps make the system more robust.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The malware architects removed a distinctive string that previously served as a telltale compromise marker within the loader, and introduced a string hashing algorithm derived from omniORB, an open-source Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) implementation.

Government 118

Government Malware VPN Manufacturing 118

Architect Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Investigative journalists at Bellingcat employ these techniques by scouring public social media photos to help determine the precise locations of missile launchers in Ukraine , terrorist executions in Libya , and bombings in Syria. This is an area of great interest to the U.S.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

BlackEnergy APT attacks in Ukraine are a prominent example from the last decade, known for destructive actions against media companies, compromising industrial control systems and engaging in cyber-espionage. They advertise on dark web platforms and employ various techniques, including malware, phishing, and other social engineering methods.

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