Hacker's King

MAY 20, 2023

Exploiting earlier generated tokens: Strengthening Backup Measures Some systems allow users to generate backup codes or recovery tokens during the 2FA setup process. Service providers can implement measures like CAPTCHA and rate-limiting to detect and block brute-force attempts. You may also like: Is Every Hacker Is Same?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IaaS security refers to the procedures, technologies, and safeguards put in place by IaaS providers to protect their computer infrastructure. Physical Security Measures At their data centers, IaaS companies apply stringent physical security measures such as access restrictions, surveillance, and environmental controls.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 10, 2020

When we say IT we mean any technology (hardware, software, or service) that supports the operations of your organization. Building security and fobs; Video surveillance equipment; Conference room systems (e.g., Items like: Storage and email servers; Modems, routers, patch panels, and switches; Devices (e.g., and most importantly…) 6.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The only thing that might have alerted my wife to this unintentional surveillance—but never did—was my initial in a small circle at the top right corner of her phone, when she used the Google Play app. But this kind of abusive misuse of legitimate technology is common enough that it has a name: Tech-enabled abuse.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Instead of encrypting the hard drives of individual victims, and demanding payments of a few hundred dollars, a skilled team collaborated to break into an organization’s network; surveil the network layout; and then embed the malware. The SamSam group were pioneers,” Shier says.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a moment I’ll share a couple of travel stories from a well-known hacker, one who took creepy surveillance technology and flipped it around. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. Not everything works out the way you think so I prefer to keep everything with me as much as possible.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Implement Security Controls Following NIST’s cloud security model, develop policies, methods, and technology for protecting cloud assets, such as access control, encryption, and network security. Document the findings: Keep track of the discovered assets, their classification, and the rationale for priority.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Discrete batch-mode data transfers ( e.g. sending backup or archival tapes to a safe store, or updating secret keys in distributed hardware security modules), routine/regular/frequent transfers ( e.g. strings of network packets), sporadic/exceptional/one-off transfers ( e.g. subject access requests for personal information) or whatever.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? They discuss how software and IoT companies can avoid becoming the next Black Mirror episode and share resources that can help survivors (and those who want to help them) deal with the technology issues that can be associated with technologically facilitated abuse.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 11, 2021

According to the Small & Medium Business Trend Report from Salesforce, “digital forward SMBs”—or SMBs that have invested in technology, including the cloud, to drive customer interaction and growth—were better equipped to handle the pandemic. Yet, many have yet to embrace the Cloud —particularly those in the SMB sector.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

The Cyber-attack resulted in a large volume of data to be encrypted including database servers and backup data. is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage Networks, Systems, and Information Technology infrastructure and security. For more information on this breach see: Symrise Cyber Attack.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Once a system is infected, ransomware attacks usually come in 3 stages: Surveillance: The hackers scan their target for more information on the system they are attacking. To apply more pressure, the attacker might also encrypt backup files to render them inaccessible. This means the files can’t be restored without the attacker’s help.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is it the hospital, which should have had a power backup? So I'm an activist, security researcher or even whistleblower, we recently came across some stuff where there were leaks of personally identifiable information or some sort of previously unknown surveillance of people or employees. Who is responsible? on society.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset. This command wipes all the files and registry keys created by the backdoor, as well as restores the MBR and the EFI Windows Boot Manager (provided they were infected) from backups. Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

And while safety is a big concern, I don't know if it's necessarily been in the cyberspace or the technology space yet and a lot of these systems will I do set them up and do decent controls is possible to potentially breach them and go after them. They werne’t talking to each other about emerging technological problems.

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