Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I discussed how The White House Executive Order issued on May 12, 2021 laid out new, rigorous government cyber security standards for federal agencies. Up and running in days. Cyber Packs: How They're Key to Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity. Tue, 05/17/2022 - 05:36. Cloud Security. Cyber Pack Medium.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nation-state cyber threat groups and ransomware attackers are moving in to exploit a critical flaw found in the seemingly ubiquitous Apache Log4j open-source logging tool, as attacks spread just days after the vulnerability that could affect hundreds of millions of devices was made public late last week. Expanding Log4j Attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2022

On May 12, 2021, the White House released an Executive Order (E.O.) For instance, it commands each agency head to “develop a plan to implement Zero Trust Architecture” with 60 days of the Order’s release. They do this by creating access policies based on their documented identities and their assigned attributes. cybersecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

NetSPI, a top penetration testing and vulnerability management company, recently announced a $410 million funding round, a huge amount in a year in which $100+ million rounds have become a rarity. KKR previously invested $90 million in NetSPI in May 2021, so NetSPI has demonstrated considerable traction since then.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

The latter group may have assumed that the machine identity management tools used for on-premise infrastructure didn’t apply to them, given that the high volume of Kubernetes workloads being deployed on faster release cycles are consuming way more TLS certificates. And, most important perhaps, it can scale easily. Want to read more?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

The software giant earlier this month issued an emergency update in Windows after researchers at cybersecurity vendor Sangfor published a blog about a security flaw dubbed “PrintNightmare.” With the SeriousSAM flaw – CVE-2021-36934 – the SAM feature in Windows is designed to hold user accounts, credentials and domain information.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2021

In our previous blog on this topic, we looked into how a virtual network infrastructure, combined with the use of an unprecedented volume of data, and the introduction of the IoT on 5G networks, all posed a significant challenge to mobile operators in their desire to create secure 5G. As of January 2021, there were 4.66

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SecureList

DECEMBER 21, 2023

CVE-2023-23376 was discovered as a zero-day in the wild by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). The same attack method was previously described in the Exodus Intelligence blog post dedicated to the exploitation of CVE-2021-36955/CVE-2021-36963/CVE-2021-38633.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Contributed by Todd Musselman , Senior Vice President, Identity and Access Management. While identity management and IT security have been rising as a priority amongst government, enterprises, and individuals alike, the increase in sophistication and frequency of cybercrime shows us there’s still work to be done.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We need to work with many different teammates on campus — risk management, legal, compliance and institutional review boards, to name a few — to effectively manage cybersecurity risk across our communities. In a recent Duo blog post, we gave an overview of cyber liability insurance.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

And its data leak blog is prepopulated with new ransomware victims and old REvil victims. 2021 was the ransomware gang’s last year of activity. In July, REvil attacked Kaseya , the company behind Kaseya VSA, a popular remote monitoring and management software. The sites the nodes point to looked nothing like REvil’s.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

” His statement couldn’t be truer and as I chaired the European Security Forum 2021 in London this week, I was amazed at how the theme of unlearning what we know glued together (figuratively speaking) all the other speakers’ presentations. In the last 12 months, we’ve seen some particularly high profile ransomware attacks on law firms.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

First, a Quick Overview on Retail and Cybersecurity Retail has two main types of workers — people with boots on the ground in a store who have to connect to a device that may be managed, unmanaged or shared, and people who work for the corporate or online side of the business. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million to $4.24 million to $4.24

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55. In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Cars are getting smarter and more connected every day. Use case 2: Automobiles.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The simple worms of the earlier era paved the way for threats more familiar to modern-day users, including: Adware. However, this arrangement left other responsibilities ill-defined, including endpoint protection, application-level controls, and identity and access management. In October 2021 the popular UA-parser.js

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, according to Spiceworks , ‘due to budget constraints, about 30% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) discontinued their cyber insurance contracts in 2021’. In this day and age, MFA should be looked at as a cost of doing business — not an optional extra.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2021

REvil’s first shutdown was in July 2021, after the gang successfully pulled off a supply chain attack against Managed Service Provider Kaseya. The Tor payment and negotiation sites suddenly turned back on as well, with the timers for all prior victims reset to the day the infrastructure went offline. Shutdown number 1.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

With so many alerts coming in to security operations centres and incident management systems, AI can help security teams from being overworked and potentially missing vital signals that something’s wrong. He gave the example of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in 2021. It can help to see it as a change management project.

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 1, 2021

This blog has been set up to help me share the insights I’ve gained and experiences I’ve had with all of you…Every month I will post some advice and recommendations for my fellow Infosec Execs – from current events to forecasted trends, and enterprise security best practices. Think long and hard….

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 1, 2021

Every month I publish a blog of insights and advice for Infosec Execs – from current events, to forecasted trends, and enterprise security best practices. We encouraged enterprises to take an integrated approach to cybersecurity by prioritizing three areas: Identity-Focused Digital Transformation Driven by Context.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 16, 2021

Yet 2021 has been dominated by headlines heralding successful cyber attacks against Colonial Pipeline, JBS Meat packing, Microsoft, and others. Identity access management. The phrase refers to a project management maxim that states any job can be done “ fast, cheap, or good?—?pick What is going on? pick two ”.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 5, 2022

By Dan Conrad, Security team lead at One Identity . I personally use a password manager that will store and inject passwords.? Sadly, the days of reading your username and password over the phone are not quite behind us yet. The post One Identity Guest Blog – The password checklist appeared first on IT Security Guru.

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

In 2021, we observed a trend among certain threat actors for deploying a backdoor within IIS after exploiting one of the ProxyLogon-type vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. You can find more details, including appropriate mitigation steps, in our blog post. The attack surface in the third wave was extended to desktop systems.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

We registered 1,646 unique BEC attacks during February of 2021 alone. A few days later, the company account department’s mailbox receives an e-mail from the vacationing employee requesting his pay to be deposited to a card in a different bank. More details about this incident can be found in the Twitter company blog.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A decade ago to the day, I published a tweet launching what would surely become yet another pet project that scratched an itch, was kinda useful to a few people but other than that, would shortly fade away into the same obscurity as all the other ones I'd launched over the previous couple of decades: It's alive! "Have

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

Passwords have become a common way to access and manage our digital lives. Your passwords also need to be managed and protected. With World Password Day around the corner, it’s important to take a moment and reflect on the importance of strengthening our digital hygiene beginning with our passwords. What is password integrity?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2023

While there are secret management and distribution solutions for the development cycle, these are no silver bullets. Managing this sensitive information while avoiding pitfalls has become extremely difficult due to the growing number of services in recent years. For most security leaders today, this is a real challenge.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. In a blog post published Mar. ” LAPSUS$ leader Oklaqq a.k.a.

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Cisco Security

MAY 21, 2021

“Two thirds of the CIOs in all the organizations have said that post-pandemic they will spend more on security investments, and projects that used to take years now take weeks or months”. – Chuck Robbins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco, RSAC 2021 keynote presentation. The Convergence Of Identity And Security.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Ten years later, KrebsOnSecurity has uncovered new clues about the real-life identity of Rescator. KrebsOnSecurity began revisiting the research into Rescator’s real-life identity in 2018, after the U.S. Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Chang’s.

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NopSec

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In previous blogs, we discussed Attack Surface Management (ASM) and explained how ASM is critical to your overall Vulnerability Management Program. In this blog, we will cover why Identity Access Management is critical to your VM Program. What is IAM?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

Users – forced to contend with an ever-expanding number of online accounts they must manage – tend to reuse the same passwords across multiple online services. Also read: Best Password Managers & Tools for 2022. See also Best Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions for 2022. Hackers Use Multiple IP Addresses.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg was left counting the personal cost of bad PR yesterday (about $6 billion , according to Bloomberg) on a day when his company couldn’t get out of the news headlines, for all the wrong reasons. hello literally everyone — Twitter (@Twitter) October 4, 2021. But then something even bigger happened.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

So it was good to see that in response to last May’s Executive Order 14028 , the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo Wednesday outlining a new strategy for moving the federal government toward a zero trust cybersecurity posture. Where the Federal government goes, other parts of the private sector follow.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

The following day, Microsoft reported that it had found destructive malware , dubbed WhisperGate, on the systems of government bodies and agencies that work closely with the Ukrainian government. One of the identified samples was compiled on December 28, 2021, suggesting that this destructive campaign had been planned for months.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

Thu, 05/06/2021 - 08:41. As World Password Day comes around again this May 6 th , how much has changed in the year since we last marked the occasion? In our previous blogs we have discussed the many challenges that organizations face as they are seeking to embrace the Zero Trust security model.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 5, 2022

I know I’m not alone with these frustrations and, with World Password Day on May 5, it would be nice to imagine a passwordless world where things remain protected while passwords become a burden of the past. To create a more secure and convenient future, authentication must become passwordless.

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