Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Thankfully, nearly all malware depends on DNS at some point in their kill chain, making the protocol a critical vector for shutting down these threats. Some of the common forms these DNS-based attacks can take include: DNS spoofing: A malicious actor alters DNS records to redirect traffic to a fake website or server.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Exploring the Risks: Unveiling 9 Potential Techniques Hackers Employ to Exploit Public Wi-Fi and Compromise Your Sensitive Data We’ve all used public Wi-Fi: it’s convenient, saves our data, and speeds up browsing. Avoid entering any data if you see a warning message about a site’s authenticity.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, News Risk Level Google and Yahoo are requiring DMARC beginning February 2024. To get started: ❯ Have a DMARC Policy for your DNS. So what does that mean for your organization, and how do you implement it? to avoid ever reaching a spam rate of 0.3% Yahoo will start enforcing a 0.3%

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Forbes Global 2000 companies are failing to adopt key domain security measures, exposing them to significant security risks, according to CSC’s Domain Security Report 2022. The data follows Akamai research from August , which discovered increased malicious domain activity and phishing toolkit reuse based on DNS data.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. ” SAY WHAT? 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

The DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication standard enables email servers to check incoming emails to verify the sender and detect email message alterations. A successful DKIM check also verifies ownership of the email by matching the organization in the “from” fields of the email with the DNS associated with the organization.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, News Risk Level Google and Yahoo are requiring DMARC beginning February 2024. If you maintain your own mail servers, validate that each IP address has a corresponding PTR record in your DNS (also known as forward and reverse DNS or a hostname). Yahoo will start enforcing a 0.3%

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standard for email authentication is adopted by all U.S. DMARC addresses weaknesses in other email authentication standards to check for misleading “From” fields in emails and to improve tracking of potential spoofing campaigns. How Does DMARC Work?

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability." The three vulnerabilities that have been fixed (CVE-2023-42114, CVE-2023-42115, and CVE-2023-42116) are all related to Secure Password Authentication (SPA)/New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM), and EXTERNAL authentication.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Back in 2008, the late, great security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a serious security flaw in a ubiquitous Internet technology: the domain name system, or DNS. Vendors worldwide were able to take steps that largely mitigated the risk of attack before any details of the flaw became publicly known. . Log4j Disclosure Chaos.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

When organizations implement Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance ( DMARC ), they expect to tighten email security and protect against spoofing and other spam email attacks. DMARC provides widely established standards for email authentication and is adopted by all U.S. What is DKIM? What is SPF?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 13, 2022

For example: IMPACT : An SSH server which supports password authentication is susceptible to brute-forcing attacks. REPRODUCTION : Use the `ssh` command in verbose mode (`ssh -v`) to determine supported authentication methods. REMEDIATION : Disable unneeded authentication methods. The second story comes from machine detections.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2022

The domain name system (DNS) is basically a directory of addresses for the internet. Your browser uses DNS to find the IP for a specific service. For example, when you enter esecurityplanet.com, the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers, but it’s also used when you send an email. DNS spoofing or poisoning.

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SC Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

Cisco’s Customer Experience organization reports that 44% of support cases are resolved in a day or less and 75% successfully reduce the risk of downtime. Hundreds of millions of protected endpoints and users, billions of DNS requests, and millions of authentications mean Cisco sees more threats and vulnerabilities than most anyone else.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. DMARC is a protocol used to authenticate emails and prevent phishing attacks by verifying the sender’s domain.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

From hardware or software issues and hidden backdoor programs to vulnerable process controls, weak passwords, and other human errors, many problems can put your transactions at risk and leave the door open to cybercriminals. HTTPS and DNS), data link (e.g., It ensures integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

First, there’s a tool called the Rapid Cyber Risk Scorecard. NormShield, the Vienna, VA-based, cybersecurity firm that supplies this service, recently ran scores for all of the 26 declared presidential candidates — and found the average cyber risk score to be B+. Thousands local elections remain at high risk.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2022

22 of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without requiring user credentials. 14 of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication. 4 of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication. Oracle Java SE.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2024

This differentiation in putting IT front and center can create business risk and a security threat as leading-edge use of IT naturally offers up an enticing playing field for criminals and more opportunity for employees to make mistakes. Gone are the days that defined IT as a necessary evil performing back-office functions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

” Once the mobile app has discovered the IP address of the lights, it authenticates with them, receives an authentication token and retrieves information about the device. Experts found a flaw in the authentication process, it only authenticates the lights to the app and not visa- versa. .

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) can add a vital layer of protection, and carefully inspect email addresses and links before taking any action. Combine antivirus tools with DNS protection, endpoint monitoring, and user training for comprehensive protection.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

contaminated attachments, links to counterfeit websites, or instructions for performing activities that could pose a security risk) is commonly included in the message. Email Authentication and Security Methods Organizations can combat spear phishing through email authentication protocols and security strategies.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Using misconfigured multi-factor authentication (MFA) and an unpatched Windows vulnerability, Russian state-sponsored hackers were able to breach a non-governmental organization (NGO) and escalate privileges, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI revealed last week.

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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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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Additionally, they are required to have a formalised risk assessment in place to substantiate and validate their customised approach to the chosen requirements. Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. This is to reduce and prevent the risk of skimming attacks.

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SecureList

JUNE 5, 2023

It is known to use the technique of querying DNS servers to obtain the base64-encoded URL in order to receive the next stage of another malware family currently distributed by Satacom. To do so, it performs a DNS request to don-dns[.]com com (a decrypted HEX string) through Google DNS (8.8.8.8, com don-dns[.]com

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

DNS elevation of privilege vulnerability. It exists due to an application that does not properly impose security restrictions in Windows DNS. Microsoft says that exploitation is “less likely”, perhaps because it requires initial authentication and can only be exploited locally.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Filling in the username and password causes the page to reload, this time with a request for a two-factor authentication (2FA) code—allowing us to remind you once again that while code-based 2FA is a solid defence against all kinds of password attacks, it is no defence against phishing. Don't take things at face value.

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Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Members of specific teams are typically assigned security responsibilities in the company’s security policies and procedures, which communicate expectations such as: DevOps or IT teams patch systems according to risk-based, agreed-upon timelines. Addressing security risks upfront will minimize the chances of a disruption to their project.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The panel will tackle topics and questions, including: The potential risks quantum computing poses to current cryptographic methods. When will these risks come to fruition, and who are the main threat actors? Director of Information Security, State of Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology; and Toby Zimmerer, Sr.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Risk Level. Part 3: Creating a DMARC Record DMARC (dee-mark) stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance” and is the final step to securing your email. Step 1: for domains that send email Gather your list of domains where you have created SPF and/or DKIM records and head to your DNS provider.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

The most critical vulnerabilities to prioritize for patching affect the Exchange server, DNS server, Sharepoint server and Windows Kernel, said Bharat Jogi, senior manager, vulnerability and threat research at Qualys. A local, authenticated attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to run processes with elevated permissions.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Malwarebytes DNS filtering blocks malicious websites used for phishing attacks, as well as websites used to spread or control malware. Some forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) can be phished just as easily as a password. Not good at all. How to avoid phishing attacks Block known bad websites. Don't take things at face value.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

Here's some evidence for those who consider the risk far-fetched. In addition to the risks outlined by CISA, these add-ons don't sift out dubious advertisements on search engines that are increasingly common. It's also imperative to verify website authenticity before interacting with its content.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2021

Missing authentication/authorization. This vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization or authentication limitations. Attackers step in to take advantage where weak authentication or privilege limitations exist. Preventing these types of security risks can be tricky. How to Prevent DNS Attacks.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The vulnerability Context Security discovered meant exposing the Wi-Fi credentials of the network the device was attached to, which is significant because it demonstrates that IoT vulnerabilities can put other devices on the network at risk as well. Are these examples actually risks in IoT?

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