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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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

[no description provided] For Threat Model Thursday, I want to use current events here in Seattle as a prism through which we can look at technology architecture review. Let's transition from the housing crisis here in Seattle to the architecture crisis that we face in technology. Seattle has a housing and homelessness crisis.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 12, 2021

Unfortunately, most organizations are unaware that these documents can compromise sensitive information like authors names, details on the information system and architecture. It can be effectively used to find weak links in an organization: employees who are running outdated software.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

” Or said another way, “architecture matters”. Gartner provides several statistics to help us understand the reason: · Gartner surveys in 2020 showed 80% of enterprises using IaaS are multi-cloud · In 2024, 60% of IT spending on application software will be directed at Cloud technologies. · Ask the critical questions.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We conclude that machine-learning model security requires assurance of provenance along the entire technical pipeline, including the data, model architecture, compiler, and hardware specification.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2025

The YOBB project was inspired by Month of Bugs (MOB), an iconic cybersecurity initiative where security researchers would publish one major vulnerability found in major software providers every day of the month. MOB projects played a huge role in improving the gravity at which security and responsible disclosure are taken in these companies.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 18, 2024

Developers can now take advantage of NVIDIA NIM packages to deploy enterprise generative AI, said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

In his excellent blog post on " Who Pays? ," Steve Bellovin discusses how "achieving a significant improvement in a product's security generally requires a new architecture and a lot of changed code. We can demand that vendors pay, even many years after the software has shipped. Compatability is harder.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, and Chandler Carruth, Jen Engel, Andy Qin, Core Developers Error-prone interactions between software and memory 1 are widely understood to create safety issues in software. It is estimated that about 70% of severe vulnerabilities 2 in memory-unsafe codebases are due to memory safety bugs.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 10, 2021

For example, a photo agency that makes stock photos available on its website with copyright watermarks can markpaint them in such a way that anyone using common editing software to remove a watermark will fail; the copyright mark will be markpainted right back. One application is tamper-resistant marks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

The experts used a diagnostic software to analyze the vehicle architecture, scan the Electronic Control Unit (ECU), identify its version, and test diagnostic functions. The research combined hardware interfaces and software to communicate with the vehicle via Diagnostic Over Internet Protocol (DoIP).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2025

The most interesting characteristic of the Triada Trojan is its modular architecture, which gives it theoretically a wide range of abilities. The Triada Trojan makes use of the Zygote parent process to implement its code in the context of all software on the device, this means that the threat is able to run in each application.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In this latest campaign, our investigation also uncovered prebuilt Hiatus binaries that target new architectures such as Arm, Intel 80386, and x86-64 and previously targeted architectures such as MIPS, MIPS64, and i386. reads the report published by Black Lotus Labs. The feds urge to report any signs of compromise to the FBI or IC3.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Whether it’s package hijacking, dependency confusing, typosquatting, continuous integration and continuous delivery ( CI/CD ) compromises, or basic web exploitation of outdated dependencies , there are many software supply chain attacks adversaries can perform to take down their victims, hold them to ransom , and exfiltrate critical data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

“An authentication bypass in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to bypass the authentication otherwise required by the PAN-OS management web interface and invoke certain PHP scripts. reads the report published by Assetnote.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

Operators behind the Amadey Bot malware use the SmokeLoader to distribute a new variant via software cracks and keygen sites. ASEC researchers recently discovered that Amadey malware is being distributed by SmokeLoader which is hidden in software cracks and serial generation programs available on multiple sites.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2025

Check Point researchers discovered a new version of the Banshee macOS infostealer which is distributed through phishing websites and fake GitHub repositories, often masqueraded as popular software. In August 2024, Russian crooks advertised a macOS malware called BANSHEE Stealer that can target both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

. “Typically, the mentioned archives contain a file with the extension “ pdf”, as well as an executable file classified as DarkTortilla, which is a cryptor/loader type software tool, the purpose of which is to decrypt and launch (including by injection) the Dark Crystal RAT (DCRAT) remote control software tool.”

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Limitations of traditional security measures While organizations typically rely on email filters, firewalls, and antivirus software, these solutions often fall short against AI-powered phishing attacks. Zero Trust Architecture: Adopt a Zero Trust approach that verifies every access request, regardless of its origin.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key elements in protecting against AI-driven threats include timely software updates, network security improvements and strong password policies. Security teams should collaborate closely with IT and software engineering teams to identify where and how public key cryptography is being used.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2025

SCALR uses a security data lake architecture to minimize SIEM costs, maximizing the user’s ability to store security events, and accelerate search and hunting capabilities. Philadelphia, Pa., Security Risk Advisors SCALR XDR is both a platform, built on Microsoft Azure and a 247 monitoring service with Microsoft Sentinel.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ConnectWise , which offers a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link. build and the then-canary 22.9

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 30, 2025

On the other side is a whiteboard with a software architecture diagram Image by Midjourney: Today in one of our classes, a student compared starting to threat model to cleaning, home of a hoarder, boxes and books and stacks of paper to the cielings, hard to see evocative analogy, conversation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

“ An authentication bypass in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to bypass the authentication otherwise required by the PAN-OS management web interface and invoke certain PHP scripts. reads the advisory published by Palo Alto Networks.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Supply chain attacks will intensify through poisoned APIs and unchecked software dependencies. Tipirneni Ratan Tipirneni , CEO, Tigera To maximize GenAI’s value, enterprises will customize models using proprietary data and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures tailored to their specific needs.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. MIPS is both the most common CPU architecture and least hardened on average. Within our 15 year data set, there have been no positive trends from any one vendor.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Knowledge of cloud systems architecture and how it interacts with various devices is invaluable. They install technologies like firewalls and intrusion detection, keep software up to date, enforce security standards, and choose protocols and best practices. Security Engineer Security engineers build secure systems.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Ransomware targeting critical services highlights the need for secure software lifecycles and vendor verification. With adversaries destroying backups to increase extortion payouts, recovery will grow harder and slower, emphasizing the need for stronger security controls and architecture.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows that’s seen active exploitation for at least two months now.

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Hacker's King

MAY 15, 2025

As with any other field, accuracy, time, and synchronization are of the essence in architecture and design. The architecture world is slowly adapting to new changes, and one notable tool is the qoruv.com Architect App. Cloud Storage Is Safe Every architectural firm has security as its utmost concern.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 19, 2023

Here are a few takeaways: A converged ecosystem Cloud migration and rapid software development were both on a rising curve when Covid 19 hit and the global economy suddenly shut down in 2020. the architecture must come first, and then they can decide which product choices they would prefer.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Visit Cycognito Pricing Through its SaaS architecture, CyCognito provides tiered pricing for security testing, intelligence, and premium support. It creates a comprehensive picture of your attack surface, including assets that typical security solutions can’t see. Pricing is dependent on the quantity of Internet-facing assets.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Experts warn that organizations must act decisively to protect against this growing threat by implementing Zero Trust architectures, patching vulnerabilities, and strengthening identity security. Patching and vulnerability management Apply timely security updates to operating systems, software, and firmware.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2025

To mitigate this risk, we propose Guillotine, a hypervisor architecture for sandboxing powerful AI modelsmodels that, by accident or malice, can generate existential threats to humanity. The post Regulating AI Behavior with a Hypervisor appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2025

It is based on a microkernel architecture, designed for high availability, scalability, and modularity. “A vulnerability in confederation implementation for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in Cisco IOS XR Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.”

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Autodesk AutoCAD, a widely used CAD software across engineering, architecture, and manufacturing industries, has been found to contain 40 zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2025

” Rule files are configuration files that guide AI Agent behavior in code generation and modification, defining coding standards, project architecture, and best practices.

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