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The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise.

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What Is Penetration Testing? Complete Guide & Steps

eSecurity Planet

Gray box pentest In gray box tests, also known as translucent tests, the organization gives some information to the pentesters but does not provide full disclosure of the architecture. The information provided to pentesters is usually an employer’s access credentials or knowledge of internal networks or applications.

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The Surge of Double Extortion Ransomware Attacks

Pen Test

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.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

SecureList

It determined that the injection point was situated within the connection between two Egyptian telecommunication providers. They advertise on dark web platforms and employ various techniques, including malware, phishing, and other social engineering methods.

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Iranian Threat Actors: Preliminary Analysis

Security Affairs

For example by using: user credential leaks, social engineering toolkits, targeted phishing, and so on and so forth or is more on there to be discovered ? The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors.” MuddyWater. Cleaver TTP.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

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. Daniel Lieber is the president of Innovative Ideas Unlimited, with 25 years of experience in advanced computing security.