Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Top ten vulnerabilities that threaten your API, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. Today, let’s go through each of these vulnerabilities to understand how they happen, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. API #2: Broken User Authentication.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

What Happens If You Open a Spam Email on Your Phone IdentityIQ Spam emails only become dangerous depending on how you handle them. So, while opening a spam email won’t necessarily cause harm, what you do next is crucial. This blog will discuss what you can do if you accidentally open a spam email on your smartphone.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 11, 2023

People seem to have a blasé attitude towards their online safety, probably because they do not believe anything will happen to them. Prevent Loss and Theft There are unscrupulous people in the big wide world that love nothing more than causing disruption to others’ lives. After all, there are more than 1.1

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

An investigation by McAfee researchers into a case of a suspected malware infection uncovered a cyber attack that had been sitting in the victim organization’s network for years stealing data. Access Through Compromised Web Server. We strongly believe that is exactly what we observe here as well.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The bad news is there isn’t an easy way to get visibility into the entire signing process and set up notifications that can be configured to alert administrators when there are divergences from patterns or malicious activity, let alone the ability to block them. Q: What does Secure Software Pipeline Verifier do to help alleviate the problem?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2023

This scenario provides a prime opportunity to watch (and learn) from hackers, in order to stop them in their tracks. That’s essentially the hackers’ mechanism for exploring the target environment, advancing the attack, stealing data and potentially encrypting it to hold the target for ransom. So how do we do it?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media. So it’s their golden hour.”

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Securing applications is not the easiest thing to do. An application has many components: server-side logic, client-side logic, data storage, data transportation, API, and more. And by studying these common vulnerability types and why they happen, you can learn to prevent them and secure your application.

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Do you know that 1.25 This blog sheds light on the intricacies of family identity theft protection. We explore how such theft occurs, who’s most at risk in your family, and have actionable family plans to help fortify your security. However, their clean credit files make them ideal targets for identity thieves.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore what CaaS is and how it has impacted the contemporary threat landscape. Some common examples of Cybercrime-as-a-Service offerings include: Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS): Cybercriminals offer ransomware packages that other individuals or groups can use to infect and encrypt their targets' data.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2022

Securing applications is not the easiest thing to do. An application has many components: server-side logic, client-side logic, data storage, data transportation, API, and more. And by studying these common vulnerability types, why they happen, and how to spot them, you can learn to prevent them and secure your application.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

customers of Callaway, the American sports equipment maker best known for its golf equipment and accessories, had their personal data compromised in an early-August data breach. Please see below for information on how we responded. What Happened: Recently, we identified unusual system activity on or around August 1, 2023.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. The amount of abandoned accounts due to death can only ever go up, and nobody is really paying attention if someone accesses them illicitly. ” Preventing identity theft.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Security'>Data Security</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Breach'>Data Breach</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Information In fact, at the start of 2020, the amount of data in the world was estimated to be 44 zettabytes. is created?every

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

In this type of setup, affiliates work alongside the REvil developers, using a variety of methods to compromise networks and distribute the ransomware. We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. Figure 1-DNS activity surrounding REvil/Sodinokibi.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Winning the ongoing battle against cybercrime and criminals starts with understanding the nature of the threats and how to combat them. How high is your business’ cyber threat intelligence ? Cyber threat intelligence (IQ) is having knowledge and awareness of what threatens your data integrity. Incident response reports.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 17, 2021

Its blog, payments collection site, and its CDN have gone offline. But it turns out that if your IT systems don’t work you can’t do things like, “operate your business”, so it ends up hurting almost as much as an OT attack anyway. And external cloud assets were compromised more than on-prem assets.

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NetSpi Technical

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I wanted to explore how this functionality could be leveraged for Red Team Operations and am slowly researching it in my spare time. As these are pointing at localhost, it is very likely this is being used as a way to prevent outbound internet access. Here I present a quick overview of this functionality and some ways it may be used.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Most Common SSH Vulnerabilities & How to Avoid Them. When they become vulnerable bad guys can take advantage of that to do bad stuff. . Also, remember how users can use keys rather than a password to login? Also, remember how users can use keys rather than a password to login? Alexa Cardenas. Very useful right?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It’s important to get the basics right, and you also want to be able to set parental controls, leaving little room for your child end up in online destinations you don’t want them going. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The top ten vulnerabilities that threaten your API, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. Today, let’s go through each of these vulnerabilities to understand how they happen, how to identify them, and how to prevent them. Let’s look at an example!

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

But even as companies race to increase cybersecurity spending and awareness, data breaches have actually become much more (not less) likely. To be able to finally tackle the real work implementing proper threat protection, it’s crucial to know exactly what happened. In truth, we may never know.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

Most enterprises are equipped to deal with human IAM in the cloud, but not as many know how to secure machine identities (SSH keys, X.509 Most enterprises are equipped to deal with human IAM in the cloud, but not as many know how to secure machine identities (SSH keys, X.509 What happens to these keys and certificates?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

She’s found that one of the best ways to attract new customers and keep them coming back is by creating a feature-rich, user-friendly website that visitors love to use. To top it off, the message prevented customers from accessing the pages on her site, so no one could place an order. How could this have happened?

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 8, 2023

There’s an old saying — an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Coupled with the fact a new attack happens every 39 seconds , the need for more preventative, proactive tactics should be quite clear — it’s past time businesses progress from cybersecurity to cyber resilience. trillion by 2025.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This blog is part of our SOCwise series where we’ll be digging into all things related to SecOps from a practitioner’s point of view, helping us enable defenders to both build context and confidence in what they do. . And lastly, they’ll cover best practices, hardening prevention, and early detection. .

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Security breaches can hurt companies financially, negatively impact brand reputation, and result in data loss (both personal and company intellectual property) just to name a few of the impacts. In July 2020, we saw key high-profile Twitter accounts compromised. Security breaches are serious matters! .

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To recap, that is what the evidence suggests happened in the SolarWinds compromise discovered last December. Likely it would mean less of their data on the dark web, fewer important pieces of intellectual property leaked, ransomware attacks thwarted or less reputational damage to companies. Consider booby trapping your network.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 27, 2021

“Who can do what?” In this API Security 101 series, let’s discuss the security vulnerabilities that affect APIs, what causes these vulnerabilities, and how to prevent them in your own applications. is still the biggest issue facing APIs. Photo by Kara Eads on Unsplash. user/12358/posts?id=32. DELETE /api/v1.1/user/12358/posts?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some 20 years ago, the founders of Amazon and Google essentially set the course for how the internet would come to dominate the way we live. How public blockchains work A blockchain is nothing more than a distributed database that functions as a shared ledger between multiple parties. million views on YouTube.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. Many people are doing that just now, including myself regarding that "hack-proof" claim.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the biggest names in tech are promising to spend more than $30 billion to bolster cybersecurity capabilities, from securing the supply chain and expanding the adoption of the zero trust model to growing the talent pool , ramping up security awareness and revamping parts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No matter how airtight a university’s cybersecurity system is when operating in a vacuum, the best-laid plans begin to crumble as soon as third parties less concerned with maintaining that security get involved. Whitworth University compromised. Many found out what was happening from a third-party cybersecurity firm via Twitter.

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Identity IQ

MAY 2, 2023

But unfortunately, many people use weak or the same password, making it easy for hackers to crack them. This blog discusses why passwords matter, how password managers work, and what benefits they offer. This blog discusses why passwords matter, how password managers work, and what benefits they offer.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

This blog post describes methods that SpecterOps consultants have researched to successfully circumvent this technology during offensive assessments. Different vendors stream the content to the user differently, but it is sufficient to say they all do the same thing: sanitize and render client web traffic. Authored By: Lance B.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 18, 2024

Let’s delve into the fascinating dynamics of this delicate equilibrium, exploring how organizations can skillfully navigate the challenges and opportunities their third-party relationships present. Outsourcing certain functions can be more cost-effective than handling them in-house.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 16, 2022

The survey data reflects the input of more than 250 respondents, with 26% of respondents having doubled the number of APIs in use from a year ago, and 5% have more than tripled the count. Despite robust efforts to validate APIs before deploying them into production, nearly every company is finding security problems in their production APIs.

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