SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2023

The concept of a Security Data Lake, a type of Data Lake explicitly designed for information security, has not received much attention yet. It can potentially bring a company's security to the next level. Information security data analysis and reporting.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Unit42 researchers were able to recover the script from the Windows Event Log (WEL). The script identifies any mounted drives on the target system by using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) , then iterates through the identified drives to prepare data exfiltration via HTTP POST events using the object’s.UploadFile method.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Exposed Technical Issues & Other Consequences The initial information exposes the critical importance of using MFA to protect remote access systems and testing backup systems for disaster recovery. million patient’s information caused by a third party tracker installed on the Kaiser patient portal.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Confirmation of a security event: The criteria and method for confirming and validating the occurrence of a security event.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2021

million customers in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and at no time was the quality or reliability of our drinking water in jeopardy,” WSSC Water Police and Homeland Security Director David McDonough said in a statement. The company uses air-gapped networks and was able to restore encrypted files from backups.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2021

This is particularly important for high-risk vendors who process sensitive data, intellectual property or other sensitive information. This means due diligence is required to determine the overall suitability of third-parties for their given task and increasingly, whether they can keep information secure.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Data Security & Threat Detection Framework The data security and threat detection framework serves as the foundation for data protection plans, protecting intellectual property, customer data, and employee information. Confirm that the vendor uses industry-standard security technologies and processes.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While a lot of this information may be redundant to a more seasoned information security personnel, even the best of us rely on Google and blog posts to get information. These posts are designed to be a one-stop shop, bringing a lot of that information together. Window Security Events: Event ID 4657 ?—?A

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2019

The total size is uncertain, but the researcher downloaded a sample of about a terabyte in size, including 750 gigabytes of compressed email backups.” UpGuard reported its discovery to Attunity on May 16, and the company quickly secured the buckets. Of those, one contained a large collection of internal business documents.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Italy was also marginally affected by the attack and the case was dealt with by the Computer Crime Operations Centre of the Postal Police (CNAIPIC ) [link] , which promptly issued an alert [link] on the very day of the event, recommending some useful actions also to prevent further possible propagation. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

check that backups and restore mechanisms are working;? keep up to date with the latest threat and mitigation information.?. The good news is that the UK cybersecurity agency is not aware of any current specific threats to UK organisations linked to the events in Ukraine. implement an effective incident response plan;?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“Moreover, all 95 AWS S3 bucket names that were hacked and belonged to Dolly.com, including backups, were attached within the post. Insufficient payment According to the attackers’ version of events, Dolly.com did pay the ransom, but it was not enough to satisfy them.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

All our businesses are implementing our Crisis Management Protocol to resume “business as usual” post haste, inclusive of our Manual Backup Program if needed.” “Please bear with us as we navigate our way and hopefully we will minimize this event. ” reads the notice.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

An incident is an event that affects our scope of responsibility, and a response is how we deal with the incident. For IT managers, the scope might expand to encompass physical IT systems and events such as a flooded data center, a lost executive laptop, or squirrels chewing on network cables. Incident Response Execution.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

But along with the advantages, such as saved time and resources, delegating non-core tasks creates new challenges in terms of information security. This is enough time for the information security department to detect the incident and respond to the attackers’ actions.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements. What is Data-Centric Audit and Protection?

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

The eight areas are: Application Control Patch Applications Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings User Application Hardening Restrict Administrative Privileges Patch Operating Systems Multi Factor Authentication Daily Backups Each area comes with guidance to improve maturity of the area. Watch this space — there’s more to come!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In its State of Container and Kubernetes Security Fall 2020 survey, StackRox found that 90% of respondents had suffered a security incident in their Kubernetes deployments in the last year. Why it needs to be secured. Why it needs to be secured. How to secure it. Why it needs to be secured. How to secure it.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

At a May 25 online event hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology, Dustin Moody, a mathematician at NIST who is leading the project, said he now sees “light at the end of the tunnel” for the project and that NIST plans to announce which algorithms will be standardized by the end of 2021. .”

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BH Consulting

JUNE 20, 2023

Consequently, the need to know and understand information security at this level is an increasing requirement for privacy professionals. The idea of this series is to present some of the key concepts and frameworks in information security and highlight areas of intersection with privacy and data protection.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

Information security leaders at these two districts shared their war stories last week at the K-12 Cybersecurity Leadership Symposium, hosted by the K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX) – the first-ever ISAC specifically created with local school districts in mind. The latter struck on the evening of Sept.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The malware has also the ability to clear Windows Event Logs, delete backups, kill processes, and change users’ passwords. The experts discovered two identical.NET samples named msdskint.exe that were used to wipe the files, drives, and MBR on the infected devices, making them unusable.

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McAfee

JANUARY 7, 2021

For those who are not familiar with it, the ISO 27701 is the industry leading certification for information security & privacy management. And reaching the ISO 27701 enshrines all of these values. Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, etc. 1] Schellman, December 2020.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Since 2007 the InfoSec industry has been talking about TheBigOne™—the event that would change cyber threats from annoyances to existential concerns. As a security person I sometimes have to admire their creativity. They called it Cyber Pearl Harbor. This doesn’t mean it can’t still happen.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

We are still working to evaluate the nature and scope of the event and don’t have any additional information to share at this time.”. “However we have a backup and it’s safe from scum! The incident also impacted the company’s developer tools and email systems, but business and commercial activities were not affected.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Disaster recovery : Implements redundancy and data backups to improve resilience from inevitable device failures, cybersecurity attacks, or natural disasters. IT security policies : Establish benchmarks, goals, and standards that can be used for measuring successful implementation of security controls.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 18, 2020

Here is Carnival Corporation's ransomware and cyber incident statement, in full: On August 15, 2020, Carnival Corporation and Carnival plc (together, the "Company," "we," "us," or "our") detected a ransomware attack that accessed and encrypted a portion of one brand’s information technology systems.

Cyber Insurance 81

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

CASBs can detect and remediate confidential information being shared across Malware/ Ransomware detection and protection against threats – Generic malware and especially Ransomware are huge concerns for organizations today and these concerns now extend to cloud resources such as cloud storage.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

” Security news site Bleeping Computer reported on the T-Systems Ryuk ransomware attack on Dec. ‘LIKE A COMPANY BATTLING A COUNTRY’ Christianson said several factors stopped the painful Ryuk ransomware attack from morphing into a company-ending event. In our Dec. “The bottom line is at 2 a.m.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The primary job of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is to exercise continuous diligence in reducing risk, within the risk appetite and risk tolerance of the organization, so that the likelihood of a boom is low, and the corresponding magnitude of harm is limited. In fact, do everything in cybersecurity continuously.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

And, the system must be intuitive and convenient, so executives remain within its workflows and processes without straying to other systems and creating security gaps. Jon Clemenson, director of information security, TokenEx. And for those that fell victim, many experienced multiple ransomware events.

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Spinone

MARCH 25, 2019

Keeping your Windows, Android, and IOS devices secure and free of malware helps to ensure that Google Drive data is securely accessed from the device and that the malware threat to Google Drive data is minimized. The basics apply here such as running antivirus, anti-malware, and other basic security measures like local firewalls, etc.

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Backups Accountability Authentication Passwords 67

SC Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

With electric power, for instance, “you have assets that are unmanned in the field… that are pretty much operating 24-7,” said Tobias Whitney, vice president, energy security solutions, at ?Fortress Fortress Information Security. You have to have the backups – and that’s where it really gets challenging,” said Cusimano.

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SecureList

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2023, ransomware attacks consolidated their hold on the top of the ranking of information security threats to industrial enterprises. However, they can learn to mitigate the impact more effectively (for example, through better securing the most confidential data, and with proper backup and incident response plans).

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SC Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

AWS cloud servers are also used by many businesses to store backup data in the event their business is hit by a cyberattack or other disaster. However, they also take precautions precisely to avoid the potential for one datacenter to become a single point of failure. But it wouldn’t break the internet, or anything even close to it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

The ransomware uses this technique to stop a predefined list of services, delete shadow volumes and backups, clear the following Windows event logs, and disable the Windows firewall.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

That attack was 140 percent larger than a 1 Tbps attack in 2020 and larger than any similar event ever detected on the Azure public cloud, they said. Ransomware attacks can be avoided by simply following best practices around information security, backups , and updates, but DDoS can occur despite doing everything correctly,” Rosen said.

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