Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Threat actors can be present on a victim network long before they lock down a system, alerting the victim to the ransomware attack. The Joint report provides the following recommendations to the organizations: Making an offline backup of your data. Using multi-factor authentication. Updating OS and software.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2023

At least 30 percent of these web apps—over 3,000 assets—have at least one exploitable or high risk vulnerability. High-profile data breaches frequently make headlines, so the risks associated with PII exposure are well-publicized. Regular Backups: Regularly backup PII and other essential data.

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Google Security

MAY 11, 2022

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. As phishing adoption has grown, multi-factor authentication has become a particular focus for attackers.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

From data breaches to sophisticated cyberattacks, enterprises are continuously at risk from a vast spectrum of potential cyber threats from malicious actors. This is where developing a hyper-specific Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) framework becomes essential. This is where risk assessment tools and frameworks come into play.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The most common algorithms are those patented by RSA Data Security: This algorithm, also called asymmetric key cryptography, provides a pair of keys (a public and private key) associated with an entity that authenticates the identity of the key itself. Hash encryption is used to ensure integrity and authentication. The hash function.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) urges organizations to improve cybersecurity due to the risk of imminent destructive cyberattacks from Russia-linked APT groups. While the tension between Ukraine and Russia is rising, the risks of cyber attacks against European and US entities is increasing.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Understanding the risks, advantages, and best practices connected with IaaS security is becoming increasingly important as enterprises shift their infrastructure to the cloud. This danger emphasizes the significance of having strong authentication mechanisms and upgrading access controls on a regular basis.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For many of these hospitals and rural clinics, insufficient security measures dramatically escalate the risk of an attack. A solid cybersecurity posture is only as strong as its policies, backups and disaster plans. Taking a thoughtful, risk-based security approach is one of the easiest ways to combat budget restraints.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Supply chain challenges have always been present, but they’re growing increasingly common and severe. That level of security would help maintain the benefits of remote monitoring and tracking without introducing more risks. Train Employees. Studies show that regular education leads to a ninefold reduction in phishing vulnerability.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Apple has long been criticized, with good reason, over its iCloud service not providing E2EE (where the user has the decryption keys); for years, when enabled, for a good chunk of data iPhone syncs to iCloud, Apple held the decryption keys for some stored data, which included: Message backups. Device backups. Safari Bookmarks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On the other hand, some threat types are not prevalent and pose significantly less risk. To allow lateral movements within your network, attackers invoke malware or trojans with tunnels and backdoors to keep them present and undetected. Other best practices : Maintain backups! Once inside, they can even cover their tracks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Black Friday and Cyber Monday, both hailed as the epitome of shopping extravagance, are also synonymous with a heightened risk of cyberattacks on retail platforms. Incorporate personal security best practices, such as two-factor authentication and encryption, in all your online interactions. Governments: Look to global benchmarks.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Local Security Authority Server Service (LSASS) handles the authentication of users within a domain. LSASS is critical in servicing the Kerberos Distribution Center (KDC) and the Keberos authentication protocol by generating tokens for requested resources. Typically, this occurs from primary to backup domain controllers.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 28, 2023

After that, I might pay a visit to the backup email address and try to stop you from regaining access that way. Google’s response to assist Workspace administrators was presenting challenges to users when performing sensitive actions in unusual ways not seen before.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals Risk Level. What is Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)?” A password is one “factor” or step for authenticating or proving your identity as the owner of an account, and while password-based authentication alone is a good start, you should opt for an additional layer of protection where available.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Once you’ve done so, think about the risk and impact to you if they were compromised. Your next steps are to mitigate the risks you’ve just noted. Keeping your phone’s software up to date reduces the risk of compromise. To save space in your cloud backups, print photos that give you joy and delete ones that don’t.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Backup and encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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NopSec

JUNE 30, 2023

Researchers also discovered that ArcServe UDP backup software is prone to an RCE vulnerability. It’s not a pre-auth vuln, but it does enable admin authentication bypass, so it’s apples-to-apples from the attackers perspective. Researchers have found that the software is prone to a pre-authentication RCE vulnerability.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Among these ever-present threats is phishing, which is a deceptively simple yet effective method cybercriminals use to compromise both business and personal accounts. Lack of Contact Details: An official email should always provide authentic contact details. Remember that it’s always better to be cautious than in a bad position.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

For businesses still using the broken SHA-1, they were facing serious risks , including: Increased possibility of a collision or man-in-the-middle attack. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. The presence of wildcard SSL certificates. Website being restricted by common web browsers.

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Google Security

AUGUST 10, 2023

The relative risks between sandboxed processes and the browser process are why the browser process is only allowed to parse trustworthy inputs and specific IPC messages. These services both use asymmetric cryptography to authenticate their data, and the public key used to verify data sent by these services is shipped in Chrome.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 23, 2022

Attacking OT systems presents a major threat not only to business disruption, but also to national economy and security. This is certainly an option for organizations with well-defined backup and remediation processes. Francois Lasnier | VP, Authentication and Access Management Products. NEW Cooperative refused to pay the $5.9

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By gaining a deeper understanding of application security, companies can take the necessary steps and actions to safeguard their valuable assets and reduce the risk of devastating data breaches. The security measures that AppSec requires depends on the type of application and risks involved. How Does Application Security Work?

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk a potentially uninsurable area due to falling profitability.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JANUARY 25, 2024

It acknowledges the potential risks and security challenges these systems present. It underlines the necessity of understanding and managing the security risks associated with AI systems. Consider AI-specific risks in user interaction design, applying default secure settings and least privilege principles.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind, and use multifactor authentication.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

8x” If the running_one flag is set to true in the configuration and the mutex is already present in the operating system, the process will exit. See below the evidence found on one host of remote service creation by PsExec with authentication completed from multiple infected hosts.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

No-cost and low-cost controls, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and routine out-of-band backups would have eliminated a majority of losses experienced.". Earlier this year, Spencer Fane cyber attorney Shawn Tuma presented on the SecureWorld Remote Sessions. Impact of a cyber attack and the need for insurance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

They provide unrivaled visibility into all of these risks, with dedicated KPIs, the capacity to evaluate live traffic statistics, as well as real-time attack findings and alerts for all interested parties. . It could be a practical cause, including a present being sent. . . You can choose how much risk you’re prepared to take.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

As enterprise IT environments have expanded to include mobile and IoT devices and cloud and edge technology, new types of tests have emerged to address new risks, but the same general principles and techniques apply. Additionally, tests can be internal or external and with or without authentication. This presents several challenges.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Here are 10 fantastic quotes on cloud security for your next presentation, team meeting or research project. #1 Pivoting to cloud: "I do think that cloud adoption is a pivotal part of our journey, but cloud carries some significant risks. And that's just good, regular backups of data. Top 10 quotes about cloud security.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

With that in mind, educational districts – and organizations in other industry sectors for that matter – could learn a thing or two from the presenters who already went through an attack scenario. Looking back, Sensenich identified some key policy and incident response gaps that likely exposed the district to unnecessary risk.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Enterprises and organizations are not the only ones at risk when it comes to cyber-attacks, and that’s a mentality we need to emphasize. They don’t care if you’re a 16-year-old on TikTok, a small local mom-and-pop shop, or a multi-million-dollar enterprise, if you’re online, you’re at risk of being targeted. Hackers don’t discriminate.

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Google Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This blog post outlines recent improvements around how users interact with the lockscreen on Android devices and more generally with authentication. In particular, we focus on two categories of authentication that present both immense potential as well as potentially immense risk if not designed well: biometrics and environmental modalities.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2018

It has been said that data is more at risk when it is “in flight” or moving. When we think about the “hops” our data may make across the Internet from our on-premise datacenter to the public cloud, there could be dozens of potential points of vulnerability across the data path where our data could be at risk.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Browser isolation is a security concept in which a user’s web traffic is isolated in a virtual machine, hosted web browser, or some other manner to prevent malicious activities from reaching the end user; thereby lowering the general risk of web browsing. Cobalt Strike has a native capability to specify a proxy and credentials if known.

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