Notice Bored

MAY 10, 2022

I finally found the time today to complete and publish an information security policy template on threat intelligence. The policy supports the new control in ISO/IEC 27002:2022 clause 5.7: "Information relating to information security threats should be collected and analysed to produce threat intelligence."

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Notice Bored

MAY 10, 2022

The techniques for masking or redacting highly sensitive information from electronic and physical documents may appear quite straightforward. However, experience tells us the controls are error-prone and fragile: they generally fail-insecure, meaning that sensitive information is liable to be disclosed inappropriately.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The information risk and security implications of data networking, along with the ubiquity of data networks, makes this an obvious policy topic and naturally we offer a policy template. On the downside, the sheer volume and variety of information online can be overwhelming.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We are releasing this blog to warn users about this threat as the malicious ad has been online for almost one week. For this reason, Google's policy is that both display and landing page URLs should be within the same website. The threat actor is exploiting a loophole known as the tracking template.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 11, 2021

of the forthcoming new 2022 edition of ISO/IEC 27002 recommends having a topic-specific information security policy on "access control". Imagine if you were tasked to draft an access control policy, what would it cover? Clause 5.1 OK, fine, so what would that actually look like, in practice? What form would it take?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. docx” (“Manifest.docx”) that downloads and executes two templates: one is macro-enabled and the other is an html object that contains an Internet Explorer exploit. Remote templates. The second template is embedded in Document.xml.rels and is loaded into the document.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Yesterday I blogged about the "access control" topic-specific policy example in ISO/IEC 27002:2022. Today's subject is the "physical and environmental security" policy example. We have valuable intangible proprietary and personal information locked in our heads, trade secrets, innovative ideas and more.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 16, 2023

the Certificate Templates container, Certification Authorities container, theNTAuthCertificates object, the Enrollment Services Container, etc.) The ADCS LDAP Hierarchy ADCS stores information about CAs and Certificate Templates in LDAP. The ADCS LDAP Hierarchy ADCS stores information about CAs and Certificate Templates in LDAP.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The final topic-specific policy example from ISO/IEC 27002:2022 is another potential nightmare for the naïve and inexperienced policy author. Despite the context, the title of the standard's policy example ("secure development") doesn't explicitly refer to software or IT. Yes, even security policies get developed!

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I'm intrigued by the title of this topic-specific policy from the [draft] 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 27002 , being the only one of eleven example titles in the standard that explicitly states "information security". Hmmmm, yes there are some specifics but I'm not entirely convinced of a need for a distinct, unique policy.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is an interesting policy example to have been selected for inclusion in ISO/IEC 27002:2022 , spanning the divide between 'cybersecurity' and 'the business'. when I read the recommendation for a topic-specific policy on backup. when I read the recommendation for a topic-specific policy on backup. What's the purpose?

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Centraleyes

APRIL 8, 2024

consumers say they will cease spending with a company for several months following a security breach, and more than one-fifth (21%) say they will never return to a company after the breach. People want to do business with companies who care about securing their data. 66% of U.S. 66% of U.S.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The first batch of policy products was released for public consultation in June 2023. A Quick Overview of the Five DORA Pillars The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) establishes a transformative regulatory framework across five pillars to address Information and Communication Technology (ICT) risks in the EU financial sector.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unlike its predecessors like the GDPR , DORA deviates from the principle-based legislation, instead offering a comprehensive set of detailed requirements meticulously crafted to elevate the operational and security capacities of financial entities. Major incidents must be written in line with a standardized procedure and templates.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2023

In this blog post, we review a recent phishing attack that was targeting both mobile and Desktop users looking up to track their packages via the United States Postal Service website. Users are then asked to enter their full address again but also need to pay a small fee of 35 cents by submitting their credit card information.

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McAfee

APRIL 14, 2020

To leverage numerous capabilities offered by IaaS providers for faster adoption, many organizations overlook the cloud shared-responsibility model and assume that security is taken care of completely by the cloud provider. The scans support AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM and Terraform templates.? .

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Centraleyes

MARCH 12, 2024

What is a Security Audit? In cybersecurity, audit management involves assessing the effectiveness of security measures, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Assess the effectiveness of training programs to ensure employees are aware of and comply with security policies.

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 23, 2020

Oh no, it's more circumspect: the standard says "the organization shall determine the need for internal and external communications relevant to the information security management system". I appreciate his advice to consider comms as a two-way street: I will incorporate that into the template comms plan. in the preamble though.

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 14, 2021

"Information transfer" is another ambiguous, potentially misleading title for a policy, even if it includes "information security". One way flows or a mutual, bilateral or multilateral exchange of information. Legal transfer of information ownership, copyright etc. plus its reception and comprehension.

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Centraleyes

MAY 6, 2024

Artificial Intelligence in the Insurance Market Let’s talk about some futuristic AI use cases in the insurance market: AI in Life Insurance: Life insurance companies can aggregate medical records and other personal information to predict the probability of someone being diagnosed with a chronic disease.

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Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The notion that security is everyone’s responsibility in computer systems dates back to at least the early 1980s when it was included in a US Navy training manual and hearings in the US House of Representatives. Behind the pithy slogan is the idea that every person in the organization contributes to its security program.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2022

The most common vulnerabilities to look out for in Angular and React applications: template injection, XSSI, authentication bypass, and more. Securing applications is not the easiest thing to do. With all these components to secure, building a secure application can seem really daunting. Template injection.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Securing applications is not the easiest thing to do. With all these components to secure, building a secure application can seem really daunting. 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. Security misconfiguration.

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SecureList

APRIL 12, 2023

We have previously published information about the connections of each cluster of this group. In this blog, we’ll focus on an active cluster that we dubbed DeathNote because the malware responsible for downloading additional payloads is named Dn.dll or Dn64.dll. This process only proceeds if the length of the parameter is 38.

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McAfee

APRIL 9, 2020

Computing workloads are moving to cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as companies pursue benefits in scalability, cost, and even security. Hence, it is critical for organizations to implement policy controls for data stored in the cloud.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The campaign has been leveraged by Brazilian criminals’ gangue, who use customized phishing templates to spread the trojan maxtrilha according to the target country. After that, the malware creates persistence, disables Internet Explorer security settings to facilitate the download of the 2nd stage from the Internet.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 24, 2021

In conversations with our customers, it’s very clear that organisations need to establish a comprehensive view of their IT asset infrastructure because you can’t secure what you don’t know or can’t see. Visibility into security context is needed for prioritizing the overwhelming number of issues security teams need to address.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Security researchers are some of the unsung heroes within the cybersecurity field. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Privacy Policy Generator. Many sites have already have privacy policies as a page link in their website footer. The verbiage of these policies can vary, but oftentimes small businesses just do a web search to copy an existing privacy policy and call it a day. New Privacy menu item in the Settings dropdown.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments provide customers with choice and flexibility, they also potentially increase the organization’s surface area for security risks. Shifting Left gives organizations the ability to avoid common security-related issues.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 18, 2024

In the next section of this blog, we’ll examine the fundamental principles of effective risk management, providing a comprehensive third-party due diligence checklist to aid in recognizing, measuring, and mitigating the risks linked to external partnerships. Use a third-party risk assessment template to facilitate this task.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Council stated that the changes represent their determination to “continue to meet the security needs of the payment industry, promote security as a continuous process, add flexibility for different methodologies, and enhance validation methods”. In March 2022, the PCI Council released the long-anticipated v4.0.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

However, it’s obvious to security teams that the possible attack surface has grown as a result. On-demand, large-scale deployment of IT resources across a mix of public and private clouds means that security vulnerabilities or exploits can often go undetected. ESTABLISH SECURE IDENTITIES FOR EVERYTHING.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

However, it’s obvious to security teams that the possible attack surface has grown as a result. On-demand, large-scale deployment of IT resources across a mix of public and private clouds means that security vulnerabilities or exploits can often go undetected. ESTABLISH SECURE IDENTITIES FOR EVERYTHING.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I am security researcher and have discovered this 0 day in wordpress (wp-file-manager). According to the security researcher, “ I’ve sent a writeup and POC for the vulnerable plugin for the project author but didn’t get any response, and my private post was deleted. Hello @WordPress @ExploitDB @offsectraining. wx04fzx05uck5????????

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McAfee

APRIL 6, 2020

They are a template for you to build from. . In AWS, the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) makes information about a compute instance, its network, and storage available to software running on the instance. To improve the security of this service, AWS released IMDSv2 , which adds several new layers of protection. .

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JANUARY 18, 2021

Back then, major cyber and data security breaches were mentioned as prime candidates for mega fines approaching the 4% maximum. This era seemed to have finally arrived when, in 2019, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) signalled its intention to levy fines against British Airways plc (BA) and Marriott International, Inc.

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