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GUEST ESSAY: How stealth, persistence allowed Wipro attacker to plunder supply chain

The Last Watchdog

One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover. Borrowing tools It would not surprise me if this attacker, once inside Wipro’s network, used tactics and techniques that have come into everyday use in advanced persistent threat (APT) types of hacks.

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A Russian cyber vigilante is patching outdated MikroTik routers exposed online

Security Affairs

Alexey is a Russian-speaking cyber vigilante that decided to fix the MikroTik routers and he claims to be e system administrator. Alexey described his activity on a Russian blogging platform, he explained he hacked into the routers to change settings and prevent further compromise.

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Brazil expert discovers Oracle flaw that allows massive DDoS attacks

Security Affairs

On that day, one of the web application firewalls (WAFs) installed in the XLabs SOC (security operations center) detected an abnormal pattern of network traffic that caught the eye of Mauricio. The Brazilian version of the post is available on the author’s blog. This, however, is the most serious finding so far.

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Managed or Unmanaged Device? Duo’s Device Trust Has You Covered

Duo's Security Blog

The lightweight application collects device health information such as Operating System (OS) version , firewall status, disk encryption status, presence of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents and password status. Administrators can set access policies based on device health.

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More Cloud Means More Multi-Tenant Environments

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To ensure a secure multi-tenant environment for consolidation, you need a solution that: adequately isolates security for specific tenants or customers; authorizes access to the data itself without allowing even systems administrators or privileged users to see the data; and. achieves performance without compromising security.

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Logjam’s Effect On HTTPS Encryption

SiteLock

SiteLock customers using the TrueShield web application firewall (WAF) are protected by default. Administrators are urged to configure their servers to deny the use of vulnerable Diffie-Helman key exchange algorithms. Researchers provided a guide for system administrators, and the SSL Server Test can verify configuration results.

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SANS Critical Controls 14 and 15: Network Audit Logging and Controlled Access

NopSec

This week we come back with our blog series on SANS 20 Critical Controls and focus on Audit Logs and Controlled Access. Audit Logs for firewall, network devices, servers and hosts are most of the time the only way to determine whether or not the host has been compromised and the only way to control the activity of the system administrator.