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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Breaking Authentication Attackers can get unauthorized access to the IaaS environment by exploiting weak authentication systems or weaknesses in the authentication process. This danger emphasizes the significance of having strong authentication mechanisms and upgrading access controls on a regular basis.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – September 4, 2023 – Attackers Hit Network Devices and More

eSecurity Planet

Consider adopting network security measures like intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) to identify and prevent harmful traffic from reaching your RocketMQ server. It is suspected that the Akira ransomware organization used an undisclosed weakness in Cisco VPN software to evade authentication.

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VulnRecap 1/29/24 – Apple, Apache & VMware Under Attack

eSecurity Planet

Detection of backdoors installed by this attack may be present in log files, but unless an organization keeps extensive log files, there may be no way to rule out compromise. However, the flaw does not bypass two-factor authentication (2FA), so implementation of MFA can provide initial remediation.

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Quantum Computing Threats: A How-to Guide for Preparing Your Company’s Cybersecurity Defenses

CyberSecurity Insiders

However, its growth also presents significant challenges to cybersecurity, as it has the potential to render traditional cryptographic algorithms obsolete. The following sections detail the most vulnerable systems and provide recommendations on how to upgrade security defenses to withstand these emerging threats.

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RSAC insights: Introducing ‘CWPP’ and ‘CSPM,’ new frameworks to secure cloud infrastructure

The Last Watchdog

“Even if your application is not patched, we are actually blocking the threats, and giving the security practitioners time to actually apply the necessary patches to their system.”. Cloud Security Posture Management, or CSPM, is another new security framework that has come along and is meant to work in parallel with CWPP.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – August 14, 2023 – Old or New, Vulnerabilities Need Management

eSecurity Planet

August 7 , 2023 Microsoft Visual Studio Code Flaw Can Lead to Unauthorized Access Cycode researchers discovered that malicious extensions running in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) can allow attackers to retrieve authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and macOS credentials managers.

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6 Takeaways From the Changes in OWASP’s Top 10 Vulnerability Ranking

CyberSecurity Insiders

In September this year, the update happened as the nonprofit Open Web Application Security Project refreshed the content of the OWASP Top 10 2021 website. Presented below is a rundown of the most important points and inferences from the update made in the OWASP Top 10. As the name suggests, it is seventh on the list.