ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. Wylie wrote The PenTester BluePrint: Starting A Career As An Ethical Hacker. Often when I talk to people about pentesting, it’s the same problem. But what does the day to day look like for the average pentester? But that’s okay.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Think how Palo Alto reinvented firewalls, how Crowdstrike reinvented anti-virus, how eSentire created MDR, how SIEM and SOAR were created. Isolation and testing remained in effect, the offices were closed, and we all worked out of our living rooms. Gartner put its own spin on the “Continuous” nature of the program.

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Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

proved to be one of the most popular in recent history of my new blog. None, except during a pentest and you do want to detect that. This also reminds us that if “low false positives” becomes the central criteria for detection content development, the defender ultimately loses. My post “Why is Threat Detection Hard?”

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Becoming self-aware and improving our nonverbal communication can be a valuable tool in gaining trust from others. Nonverbal communication plays a vital role in how we communicate (whether we are aware of it or not). The same is true about nonverbal communication. Our nonverbals can add validity to our words or do the opposite.

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NetSpi Executives

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

With the rapid adoption of ChatGPT, the rise of new job titles like “Prompt Engineer,” and nearly every workforce researching how the technology could be applied to their industry — AI entered the scene as a force to be reckoned with. These are just a few headlines showing how AI took center stage in 2023. Read our show recap here.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

You can read more about the property in Dirk-jan’s fantastic blog post. You can read more about the property in Dirk-jan’s fantastic blog post. This edge is also the product of a new feature in BloodHound FOSS called post-processing, which you can read about further down in this blog post. Introducing BloodHound 4.2?—?The

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Pen Test

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

TLDR; Upgrade Confluence to a patched version and employ the open-source security scanner n0s1 to proactively address potential secret leaks. Why do I need a secret scanner? It is a widely recognized best practice for Product Security Engineers to conduct scans of the software codebase in search of potential inadvertent secret leaks.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Read on to learn the importance of these social engineering prevention tips, and how you can keep your business and customer data more secure. Read on to learn the importance of these social engineering prevention tips, and how you can keep your business and customer data more secure. But the mission never ends.

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Hackology

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Vulnerability prioritization becomes a critical step here, enabling teams to focus their efforts on the most critical threats first, ensuring optimal use of resources. In an era of escalating cyber threats, enhancing network security is paramount.

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NopSec

AUGUST 30, 2022

In prior blogs, we’ve spelled out how an organization finds its vulnerabilities and how security teams consider threat intelligence to determine overall risk. Prioritization across teams then becomes your biggest hurdle. Once the danger is understood, the next step, of course, is to contain it. End of story.

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NopSec

AUGUST 23, 2022

In this blog, we’ll add to our cybersecurity considerations the concept of threats and threat intelligence. That’s how risk is assessed. The tools to be used need to be capable of helping teams quantify that risk so they know how to prioritize potential remediations. So far, we’ve looked at assets and their vulnerabilities.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In this model, there was no real update mechanism, just a bunch of pentesting tools living in the /pentest/ directory, that you could use as part of assessments. So many in-fact its not worth reviewing them here, just look at the early Kali blog posts shortly after the launch and you will see a ton of examples.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in their techniques, targeting individuals and businesses alike. In today’s digital age, the threat of data breaches is a constant concern. The consequences of a cyberattack can be devastating, leading to financial loss, reputational damage, and even legal issues.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 25, 2013

What is the difference between pentesting and other security activities? Reports in the news make it clear that the sophistication of cyber-attackers continues to evolve. So why do so many companies rely on an annual penetration test as the only safeguard against a cyber-attack? When does penetration testing apply?

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

Maybe it’s just been a little while since your last one and you are curious how this one will go, what the Red Team will find, how your Blue Team will handle it, and what the longer tail takeaways post-engagement will be like. How can I prepare for this? How Much Do I Tell My Team when Engaging Red Team Testing?

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SecureList

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As the fast-growing technology evolves, it has become a matter of policy making and regulation. As the fast-growing technology evolves, it has become a matter of policy making and regulation. The same survey states that 79% of respondents across all job titles are exposed to generative AI either at work or at home.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

This is the story of how Kali came to be, and some of the challenges along the way. Yesterday is History: The Past How did we get to where we are today? With Whoppix growing in popularity, it was becoming harder to develop for. Editors note: We cannot say for certain, but the image file size may have become an issue.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 14, 2024

How does PCI DSS work? This is also a good time to determine your merchant level (see below) and appropriate RoC or SAQ (whose meaning will become clear below). Larger more complex companies will usually have an internal IT infrastructure or compliance department to coordinate the PCI compliance process.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. Top Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter. Binni Shah | @binitamshah. Brian Krebs | @briankrebs.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

See the video below to observe how, briefly, the myaccount.microsoft.com page loads fully into the browser window before the redirect to the MFA prompt domain occurs. To understand the vulnerability, there are a few things to understand about the Entra ID authentication flow.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 21, 2021

While manual pentesting services offload the work of conducting security in-house, any test suites generated as a part of the service becomes the consulting organization's proprietary information. Regression testing. Vulnerability analysis rarely ends with a single assessment. Manual Penetration Testing. Protocol Fuzzing.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 19, 2021

By getting creative and looking out for the latest malware and builder leaks they can be just as devastating to their victims and, in this blog, we will track the criminal career of one such actor as they evolve from homemade ransomware to utilizing major ransomware through the use of publicly leaked builders. The Rich Get Richer.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 26, 2021

2020 was the kickoff of our first annual Human Hacking Conference (HHC) , and unless you’ve been living under a rock (or you don’t follow us on social media ), you’ve heard us discussing our flagship event ever since. We were excited to be hosting our second annual event, The Human Hacking Conference — Year Beta!

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

At the moment, and after the Emotet takedown, QakBot becoming one the most prominent and observed threats allowing criminals to gain a foothold on internal networks. In the next workflow, we can learn how the QakBot infection chain works. Figure 1 shows two email templates distributing QakBot in Portugal in early May 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The process flow diagram below shown how the malware works. Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Muncy is the name dubbed by SI-LAB that analyzed this threat. If you do not expect any orders, then ignores that.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Because it's an absolutely terrible idea, which brings me to the catalyst for this blog post: We don't allow users to pick passwords so that we don't store any of your sensitive information. But how relevant is this criticism when the passwords are system-generated? So the root cause is credential reuse. Absolute genius!

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