eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

Greg Fitzerald, co-founder of Sevco Security , disclosed to eSecurity Planet that their recent State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface research found “11% of all IT assets are missing endpoint protection.” Some of this 11% includes the common and recurring problem of overlooked legacy endpoints such as laptops, desktops, and mobile devices.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 31, 2023

October might be the spookiest time of the year, but for cybersecurity practitioners in the trenches, vulnerabilities can cause quite a scare year-round. It’s time to go back to the basics, and revisit the most common vulnerabilities across attack surfaces according to NetSPI’s 2023 Offensive Security Vision Report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

In April, the operators of the infamous Emotet botnet started testing new attack techniques in response to Microsoft’s move to disable Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default. ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Using this information, last year I wrote a blog summing up the nine top of mind issues I believed will most impact CISOs as we headed into 2022. For more practical advice on this topic, I also wrote a blog on some of the challenges and opportunities within the cyber liability insurance market back in June which you can read here.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 25, 2024

Once an abbreviation that few knew the meaning of, VRM is now a basic component of responsible business processes. Centraleyes stands out for its real-time risk management capabilities, making it a top choice for organizations seeking enhanced cybersecurity, efficient risk mitigation , and resilient business operations.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We count on the digital world which consists of many millions of machines and machines are basically software (1). A new category was created — Machine Identity Management. We invented the technology and created the category Gartner now calls machine identity management. Footnotes: (1) Machines are basically software.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Coalition, a cyber insurance company, recently released a report detailing the categories of cyber attacks as well as the cause behind the attacks for the first half of 2020. In a blog post outlining the report, authors listed four things that organizations must takeaway when reading the report. Nothing and no one is 100% secure.

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Anton on Security

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog is basically an alpha version for a future blog on how we are evolving and improving the shared responsibility model shortcomings with our shared fate model , but this one only has the challenges, and not the solutions. perhaps the most fundamental concept?—?in in cloud security.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. With Pulse Wizard, users can easily and automatically extract IoCs from sources in different formats.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We also continue to see escalating examples of such attacks with the potential to disrupt human lives, with this being only the latest in a growing string of real world examples that highlight the importance of securing not only remote access but critical systems that fall outside of traditional IT categories (e.g. servers, PCs, tablets).

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

ADAM: Basically when I got to West Point, there's a club day where you can pick clubs that you want to be a part of. ROBERT: Back in 2014, the US Cyber Command had an ambitious goal of integrating at least 6,000 cybersecurity experts into combat commands within the next two years. Host: Robert Vamosi. So what to do in your spare time.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

ADAM: Basically when I got to West Point, there's a club day where you can pick clubs that you want to be a part of. ROBERT: Back in 2014, the US Cyber Command had an ambitious goal of integrating at least 6,000 cybersecurity experts into combat commands within the next two years. Host: Robert Vamosi. So what to do in your spare time.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

This blog is basically an alpha version for a future blog on how we are evolving and improving the shared responsibility model shortcomings with our shared fate model , but this one only has the challenges, and not the solutions. A New Approach To Understand Cybersecurity”. perhaps the most fundamental concept?—?in

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

ADAM: Basically when I got to West Point, there's a club day where you can pick clubs that you want to be a part of. ROBERT: Back in 2014, the US Cyber Command had an ambitious goal of integrating at least 6,000 cybersecurity experts into combat commands within the next two years. Host: Robert Vamosi. So what to do in your spare time.

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NopSec

MARCH 25, 2019

In this blog post, we summarize the first part of that webinar, without going into the three specific applications and the challenges. We will cover those in Part 2 of this blog series, so stay tuned for next week’s post. For more details, that entire webinar is now available on demand here.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The risks are real, and the impact of cybersecurity events continues to grow. A cyber catastrophe may seem inevitable, but there are basic practices and actionable steps any healthcare organization can take to begin reducing the clear and present risk of being impacted by a cybersecurity event. Evaluate data inventory.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

Basically, the attacker employs two different decoding functions: one is a customized BASE32_decode function and another is a more customized letter replacement cipher when the domain name only has lower cases plus [0_-.]. Distribution of Victims by Industry Category. Their distribution by category is shown in Figure 1.

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NopSec

JULY 26, 2022

So far in this series, we have laid out the fundamentals of cybersecurity and described the need to be systematic in analyzing your organization’s needs and capabilities. We’re now moving from some of the definitions and theoretical understandings of cybersecurity preparedness to the practical applications of cybersecurity readiness.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These headlines basically state, “Horses are slower than cars” or “The time for the car is now.” However, headlines about passwordless typically read like this: “Company X Wants to Eliminate the Password” or “The Time for Passwordless Authentication Is Now.” The problem with these articles is that the pitch of passwordless is the easy part.

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McAfee

APRIL 20, 2020

The cyber threat landscape is evolving at an astronomical rate; we are living in the age where the four key pillars of cybersecurity – Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability and Assurance of Information systems are no longer considered a nice to have but are a metric for business resilience and operational existence of businesses across the globe.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

Just like the myriad expanding galaxies seen in the latest images from the James Webb space telescope, the cybersecurity landscape consists of a growing number of security technology vendors, each with the goal of addressing the continually evolving threats faced by customers today. AT&T Cybersecurity. Happy integrating!

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

If ransomware is purchased without support, once it is detected by cybersecurity solutions, the buyer would need to figure out on their own how to repackage it, or find a service that does sample repackaging – something that it still easily detected by security solutions. There are two different types of offers – with and without support.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Vamosi: This is John Hammond, and from an early age, like me, began to demonstrate some of the basic skills necessary to become a hacker. Hammond: I tend to explain Capture the Flag is sort of gamified cybersecurity education. So they want to tackle that category. How do I know which type I’m signing up for?

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Vamosi: This is John Hammond, and from an early age, like me, began to demonstrate some of the basic skills necessary to become a hacker. Hammond: I tend to explain Capture the Flag is sort of gamified cybersecurity education. So they want to tackle that category. How do I know which type I’m signing up for?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

It was humorous to see the number of Windows update files that were downloaded at this premier cybersecurity conference. Other examples of clear text disclosure were observed via basic authentication which simply used base64 to encode the credentials transmitted over clear text. Or, is from a briefing or a demo in the Business Hall?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: That's Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the US Department of Homeland Security. In the United States only one of them, I think, UC San Diego, requires undergrad students in computer science to take a cybersecurity course. Bitcoin, which is about $550.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

Vamosi: That's Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the US Department of Homeland Security. In the United States only one of them, I think, UC San Diego, requires undergrad students in computer science to take a cybersecurity course. Bitcoin, which is about $550.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2022

In March, Proofpoint published a blog post about a new spear-phishing campaign related to the war in Ukraine, tentatively attributed to the Russian-speaking actor UNC1151 (aka TA445 and Ghostwriter). After the initial infection, a Visual Basic script was delivered to the victim. Russian-speaking activity. Chinese-speaking activity.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making all other security concerns seem minuscule and trifling by comparison. Amazon also penned a blog post that more emphatically stated their objections to the Bloomberg piece. Yesterday was one of those times. Government.

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