Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2021

The first few entries talked about architectural details , Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generators , encryption/decryption , and message digests. Password being such a central piece of any authentication-based system, every developer would be involved with it at some point in his or her career. Later we looked at What???s

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 25, 2024

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: New Go loader pushes Rhadamanthys stealer Canada revisits decision to ban Flipper Zero Patch Ivanti Standalone Sentry and Ivanti Neurons for ITSM now 19 million plaintext passwords exposed by incorrectly configured Firebase instances Apex Legends Global Series plagued by hackers Tax scammer goes after small business (..)

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

More than a third (39%) used the microservice architecture. Mitigation: do not store files containing sensitive data, such as passwords or backups, in web application publish directories. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) The popularity of the cloud and microservice architectures is on the rise. Disable unused components.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The third-party cloud storage service is currently shared by both GoTo and its affiliate, the password manager service LastPass. ” However, LastPass maintains that its “customer passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

Government experts discovered sensitive information, including personal data, technical information, classified details, and passwords, in approximately half of the Federal Administration’s files (5,182). ” reads the report. ” continues the report. ” continues the report.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 23, 2024

Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – Ding Wang, Yunkai Zou, Zijian Zhang, Kedong Xiu – Password Guessing Using Random Forest appeared first on Security Boulevard. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

The NSA’s 58-page Network Infrastructure Security Guidance (PDF) is more of a catalog of network security best practices, based on principles of zero trust and segmentation , following up on brief January guidance (PDF) on segmentation that discussed the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (image below).

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 4, 2021

Deploying a Zero Trust architecture for the workforce provides a series of benefits, including improving the end-user experience by allowing access to some applications or resources that traditionally require VPN access and streamlining authentication through multi-factor authentication (MFA). The Move to Passwordless.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Use of known/fixed/default passwords and credentials. Learn the must-have features in a modern network security architecture. | They are so broad in their “badness,” however, that any organization should take notice and ensure they are not doing them. The two bad practices are: Use of unsupported (or end-of-life) software.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. This article explores network security architecture components, goals, best practices, frameworks, implementation, and benefits as well as where you can learn more about network security architecture.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2022

Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) servers. The advisory also provides some technical details of the threat actors and their tools: "The APT actors' tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices. OMRON Sysmac NEX PLCs.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2021

When planning an organization’s security architecture, there has commonly been a focus on traditional approaches like managing firewalls and ensuring systems are patched. One such area of planning is the issue of password hygiene and account. One such area of planning is the issue of password hygiene and account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

Password Security: Investigate different password security techniques, such as password hashing algorithms, two-factor authentication (2FA), and biometric authentication. Explore IoT security architectures, protocols, and solutions for securing interconnected devices.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The malware impersonates a Visual Studio update and was designed to support Intel and Arm architectures. Researchers from Bitdefender discovered a new macOS backdoor, dubbed RustDoor, which appears to be linked to ransomware operations Black Basta and Alphv/BlackCat. RustDoor is written in Rust language and supports multiple features.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2023

This vulnerability, discovered by Google research scientist Daniel Moghimi , threatens to expose encryption keys, passwords, private messages, and more from billions of Intel CPUs produced over the years. This architecture relies on a technique known as the "gather" instruction to speed up memory access and processing.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

While security teams layer essential preventative measures, resilience measures also need to be implemented in an architecture to reduce the impact of ransomware attacks on your backups. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture. Figure 2: Resilient VLAN architecture. How could this have been prevented? Does this add latency?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

In order to compromise a target system, the samples require special conditions on it, such as the use of specific arguments and targeted services already being installed (with weak passwords). For MySQL and Postgres services, the malware scans for open ports 3306 and 5432, then pings the host’s database with a certain username and password.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

One of the modules analyzed by the experts, named GetMicInfo, implements an algorithm that allows operators to gather database passwords by decrypting them from Windows registry values. . ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” continues the analysis. persistent loader unpacks and loads the next stage of the main module.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

However, their integration raises new challenges around security, privacy and the reliability of underlying systems that a business utilises, which, in turn, requires the support of strong cybersecurity architecture. Untapped potential. So how can organisations carry out a digital transformation while ensuring sensitive data is protected?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

RapperBot has limited DDoS capabilities, it was designed to target ARM, MIPS, SPARC, and x86 architectures. “Unlike the majority of Mirai variants, which natively brute force Telnet servers using default or weak passwords, RapperBot exclusively scans and attempts to brute force SSH servers configured to accept password authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

“The system calls on companies and entities in the energy and water sectors to immediately exchange passwords from the Internet to the control systems, reduce Internet connectivity and ensure that the most up-to-date version of controllers is installed.” ” reads the alert issued by the Israeli government.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Generating and maintaining static signatures for variations on IoT malware is tedious, as the assembly code often changes across variants and architectures and text strings are subject to modification. In order to work, it needs a valid IDA license and, consequently, valid Hex-Rays licenses for each CPU architecture you may want to decompile.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Access controls are the nexus of security and the expanding perimeter, and zero trust is the architecture that encompasses it. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture. The network security perimeter is dynamically created and policy-based, and must be guarded by secure and highly managed access controls.

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InfoWorld on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Also on InfoWorld: Why you should use a microservice architecture ]. This profile might include your username, password, profile picture, email address, physical address, and other contact information. A simple example of data at rest is your user profile in a SaaS application.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The main reasons to rewrite malware in Rust is to have lower AV detection rates, compared to malware written in most common languages, and to target multiple architectures. ” Upon executing the malware, the Rust binary prompts an error requiring a password to be passed as an argument.

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Ransomware Encryption Healthcare Education 125

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The botnet leverages a robust architecture based on a combination of third-party services, P2P, and Command & Control servers. This architecture was implemented to make the botnet resilient to takedowns by law enforcement and security firms with the support of the vendors of the infected devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The campaign was uncovered by CrowdStrike by investigating a series of security incidents in multiple countries, the security firm added that the threat actors show an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications network architectures. The implant was used by LightBasin to steal passwords to access other systems and deploy additional implants.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It includes integration of Glyptodon Enterprise into Keeper Security’s zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption architecture, resulting in a highly-secure, agentless remote access platform, without the need of a virtual private network (VPN). “In

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In this case, students needed to learn about the evolution of operating system architecture. This type of content makes it more difficult for students to grasp the purpose of an operating system versus libraries, software development kits, and applications – concepts that are fundamental to system architecture and its security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The binary analyzed by the researchers is compiled for all major architectures used by SOHO operating systems. The malware passively monitors network packets for “credential markers,” including usernames, passwords, and authentication tokens. The bash script also downloads and executes Cuttlefish.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

“The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices. . “The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices.

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SecureList

MAY 23, 2022

This report includes an analysis of the ISaGRAF framework, its architecture, the IXL and SNCP protocols that are used to program and control ISaGRAF-based devices and to communicate with them. A remote attacker could easily implement a password brute force attack in ISaGRAF Runtime.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2018

But fuel it I did and I spent a big whack of the week doing things I hope to talk about next week (namely some major architectural changes to HIBP services), as well as preparing both the Pemiblanc credential stuffing list for HIBP and then pushing out Pwned Passwords V3.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.” Aerial Direct confirmed that no passwords or financial information accessed by hackers. ” reads the data breach notification published by the company.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By requiring users to provide a hardware security key in addition to their password, Apple is able to greatly reduce the risk of unauthorized access to their accounts. This feature provides users with an additional level of protection against hackers and other online threats.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 27, 2024

Dark web monitoring scans employees’ saved passwords or PAM vaults for passwords that have been exposed on the dark web, immediately alerting users and administrators to any actions required to protect the organisation.

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