The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It incorporates zero-trust technologies and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). Vendors must have a zero-trust concept that seeks verification all the time. However deploying VPNs on a wide-scale basis introduces performance and scalability issues. But it much further. The cyber threats landscape.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

They're totally free and they have a really cool anonymity API that ensures no useful information about the password being searched for is ever exposed. link] - @troyhunt think this one is an interesting read, maybe worthy of a blog post. This is why Zero Trust has become such a buzzword in recent years.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In March 2021, Microsoft released several updates to patch zero day vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange Server affecting versions 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 [2]. As Picus, we published a detailed blog post about the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by HAFNIUM to target Microsoft Exchange Servers. CVE-2021-27065.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Implement Zero Trust. Meeting industry security standards, mandated or not, will help you with the technical side of cybersecurity, but implementing zero-trust authentication protocols can help to reduce risks associated with human error. Wrapping up.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 1, 2021

Between August 2020 and February 2021, “the agencies”, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA) and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had all published final or preliminary (beta) guidance for Zero Trust (ZT) that is applicable to all sizes of organisations. SynergySix Guidance. [As

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

When Patching Goes Wrong Now that I've finished talking about how patching should be autonomous, let's talk about the problems with that starting with an issue I raised in this tweet from yesterday: In the first of my IoT blog series yesterday, I lamented how one of my smart plugs was unexplainably inaccessible. It's painful enough for me!

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

Defenses in 2020 The rapid shift to remote work this year propelled digital transformation, cloud adoption, and securing it all with zero trust principles. I’m tempted to say 2020 was the year of zero trust. However, a Google search turned up such proclamations for 2018, 2019, 2020, and even 2021. Well, it was.

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Kali Linux

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Much more could be written on the topic, and we plan a longer blog post dedicated to it. If you want our blog posts, and only that, in your inbox, sign up! The Raspberry Pi Zero W image now properly starts up into the command line interface instead of launching X. Oh, and we have created and are maintaining the Debian package !

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

His response: “Trust me when I say you have no idea.” A technician from the Guardian got a search capability working while I was there, and I spent some time with it. Question: when you’re given the capability to search through a database of NSA secrets, what’s the first thing you look for? Answer: your name.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Everything becomes clear(er) if I manually change the font in the browser dev tools to a serif version: The victim I was referring to in the opening of this blog post? Can you spot the subtle difference in the domain name compared to the search engine? Can you tell which one of these is the real Google blog site?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post. The malware uses SSH brute-force attacks to gain remote control of devices and some variants allow bad actors to scan and search for Docker containers, he wrote.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2023

Proactivity means challenging the norms Proactive security, defence in depth, zero trust – these are all practices that developers and organizations must embrace and practice continually. It’s about trust and errors. But much of what makes for secure borders comes from practices rooted in human factors.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The top three missing skills are cloud security (35 per cent), AI/machine learning (32 per cent), and zero trust implementation (29 per cent). What’s more, 92 per cent of cybersecurity professionals report skills gaps at their organisations. Ben Rothke has a well argued rebuttal of this questionable statistic that’s worth reading.

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Digital Shadows

JULY 5, 2021

Researchers initially attributed this attack to ransomware gang “REvil” (aka Sodinokibi), whose members claimed responsibility in a press release on their dark-web data-leak site, Happy Blog. Useful resources As we mentioned earlier, we will continue to update this blog to reflect the most up-to-date details pertaining to this campaign.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. It also encompasses the zero-trust-network-access (ZTNA) concept. Some teams choose to use tags, so they are able to rapidly search for items. This means data should be secure at all points regardless of where it is stored, processed, or where it is in transit.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2023

BloodHound Slack Discussion on ClickOnce Achieving arbitrary code execution within the context of an application seen and otherwise trusted by Microsoft SmartScreen or EDR products can decrease likelihood of prevention. Mage is a command line tool that comes part of the Windows SDK and for the purpose of this blog will be the one we cover.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 7, 2023

This blog post provides an in-depth analysis of this emerging malware campaign and its corresponding infection chain. One such measure that provides significant protection against malware threats like TOITOIN is the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. Read on to learn more about this alarming threat. Key Takeaways and Observations 1.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The security administrator should be able to build and enforce application access policies based on user group, location and device trust (whether the device is managed or unmanaged, certain security features enabled or disabled, etc.) from a simple, intuitive administrative dashboard. Learn more about Duo Single Sign-On.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

McAfee Enterprise provides regular publications on the strategies to defend against ransomware, such as this blog. You can also use MVISION EDR for more advanced threat hunting such as searching for specific MITRE techniques in all MVISION EDR alerts …. … Improve Zero Trust with Threat Intelligence.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2021, the main attack vector used by this threat actor was credential phishing attacks through emails, posing as Naver, the popular South Korean search engine and web portal. Some details about this campaign were published in this Korean blog, however they did not perform the threat attribution. Attribution to Lazarus APT.

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McAfee

APRIL 6, 2020

All it took was a quick Google search, and a few lines of code to add this to their application. . Enforce Zero-Trust. Use zero-trust as a methodology, where only specific resources are allowed to run and communicate with each other. appeared first on McAfee Blogs. Everything else is blocked. .

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NopSec

MAY 31, 2023

Finally, it wouldn’t be a worthy blog post if we didn’t include a nugget from patch Tuesday. The MapUrlToZone function is used to determine if the trust zone of a provided URL is local, intranet, or Internet. That’s a significant attack window for a low complexity, zero interaction, critical RCE vulnerability.

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McAfee

JANUARY 5, 2022

Then, set strings you can control (user-agent, twitter name, wifi SSID, …) to this $(jdni:ldap…) magic value and make it point to an IP:Port you control (or a third party service like Canarytoken if you trust them). Expert Rules on Endpoint Security (ENS) can pick-up dangerous patterns in memory as described in this blog. .

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade and Jérôme Segura. In this blog we will review this update and how it is meant to work. The “0” should have been a “1” because according to the documentation , if uUnique is not zero, you must create the file yourself. Department of Justice in their affidavit.

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Kali Linux

AUGUST 8, 2022

With the publishing of this blog post, we have the download links ready for immediate access , or you can update any existing installation. Please bear in mind, if you are looking for help, first search for your problem, ask questions, then wait for the community support from your peers. as a nice surprise for everyone to enjoy!

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Cross-device memory sharing is a historical custom, based on a blind, unfounded trust in hardware. Apple’s Protecting data at multiple layers article briefly describes SSV, but Howard Oakley has an even more detailed write-up on his blog , with illustrations; a must-read. macOS doesn’t trust the un-enhanced VERW.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

Avoiding the latest breed of phishing attacks requires heightened awareness from users, additional context, and a zero trust approach. The top 20 referring domains included search platforms, corporate forums and marketplaces, sharing sites, e-commerce tools, and others. Zero-day vulnerabilities and rapid exploits.

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Cisco Security

MAY 24, 2021

Why all the buzz around pursuing group-based policy management to achieve zero trust? Adopting zero-trust initiatives and best practices is all the rage. Simply put, applying “never trust; always verify” to anyone and any device attempting to access an enterprise network is a no-brainer nowadays. And rightly so.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 9, 2020

So, let's not talk about whether 5G is safe or not, let's instead talk about why opponents of the technology display every single spammy, scammy, hoaxy behaviour imaginable and then you can consider how much you should trust them. The profile pic, for one, is easily searched on Google images and returns a constant theme: Crop circles, eh?

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Converging Trends The simple act of rolling out MFA also has the additional benefit of setting up a foundation for good security hygiene and a zero trust architecture. Zero trust (ZT) brings in elements of device trust and least-privileged access. It’s just a good idea.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

About 10 malicious servers have been searching the internet for vulnerable systems, and while the search began slowing, it has now ramped up to more than 100 sites by morning, Recorded Future noted , citing information from threat intelligence vendor GreyNoise. Large Number of Linux Servers Vulnerable.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2024

This blog post details the ESC1 domain escalation requirements and explains how BloodHound incorporates the relevant components. Additionally, the Enterprise CA must meet the following requirements for a successful ESC1 attack: 7) The Enterprise CA is trusted for NT authentication. 8) The Enterprise CA’s certificate chain is trusted.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

As soon as they have a foothold on a system (also known as patient zero or index case), they check the permissions of the account on that system, and attempt to obtain a list of accounts with administrator privileges. With this valid admin account, a Cobalt Strike beacon is loaded into memory of patient zero.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Let’s explore some of these methods: Scenario 1 Basic injection attempts, such as zero-shot prompting, are typically direct and more apparent. Techniques such as fuzzy search can detect slight alterations or anomalies in user inputs, flagging them for review or blocking them outright. Image source: Greshake et al.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. For a brief overview please see our summary blog here. Everything is Trusted. Braun Infusomat Space Large Volume Pump along with the B. Per McAfee’s vulnerability disclosure policy, we reported our initial findings to B.

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Cisco Security

MAY 20, 2021

At our virtual Cisco Live event in March, we unveiled new capabilities that allow customers to transition to Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), XDR, and Zero Trust at their own pace through a platform-based approach. Be sure to check out all the Cisco security news from this week’s RSA Conference on our newsroom and blog pages.

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McAfee

JANUARY 5, 2022

In February 2021, the company Dbappsecurity discovered a sample in the wild that exploited a zero-day vulnerability on Windows 10 x64. While searching for additional findings we went through a public exploit published in March of 2021 by a researcher. Introduction. Existing Windows OS Mitigations. Figure 10 – win32kfull!xxxCreateWindowEx

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