Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 28, 2022

They were successful in compromising several cloud workloads and gaining access to sensitive data. Organizations continue to fail in tracking potential blast radiuses for human and non-human identities, which results in longer root cause analysis and wider impact in terms of data loss.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The past week has been a busy one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with 34 vulnerable Windows drivers and four Microsoft Exchange flaws heading a long list of security concerns. QNAP vulnerabilities and npm package supply chain attacks also made our list this week, plus a look at the new CVSS v4.0 The problem: The 9.1

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

As cited in TechJury , more than two out of three insider threats are caused by negligence. What starts as a careless, disgruntled, or simply ignorant employee maneuver can result in credential theft, data loss, and unforeseen damage. This requires a multi-point approach and combines user info with data info.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s a hard balancing act between protecting valuable data, increasing productivity, controlling costs – especially when technology often seems to be outpacing security measures. Now ITDMs can enable the storing and accessing of data and applications remotely, allowing for increased agility and flexibility in their organisation’s operations.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At the same time, the federal government is now adding another Microsoft flaw to its list of known vulnerabilities , giving federal agencies until Feb. 18 to patch a bug in all unpatched versions of Windows 10 and urging private and commercial organizations to remediate all flaws listed in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

Microsoft, as usual, led the pack in quantity for Patch Tuesday this March with fixes for nearly 59 vulnerabilities including two critical flaws. Patching teams may be busy with this anticipated work, but be sure to also address the off-schedule critical vulnerabilities that affect Fortinet, QNAP, Kubernetes, and WordPress plug-ins.

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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. Also read: Top 8 DDoS Protection Service Providers for 2022. Also read: Top IoT Security Solutions for 2022. Threats to Open Source, IoT. A Fast-Growing Attack Surface.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

. <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Corporate consultancy PwC’s recent poll of 1,600 CEOs worldwide found that cyber attacks are now considered the top hinderance to corporate performance, followed by the shortage of skilled workers and the inability to keep up with rapid tech advances. Yet, stolen personal data for more than 10.6 19 on a hacking forum.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Strategic Blind Spots Example: An organization adept at managing day-to-day operational risks may overlook broader strategic risks, like shifts in market dynamics or emerging technologies, potentially leaving it vulnerable to unforeseen disruptions. Prioritize top risks for further analysis, quantification, and risk mitigation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

While you may disagree, data breach studies show that employees and negligence are the most typical causes of security breaches, yet these prevalent issues are least discussed. According to another study by CybSafe, human errors have been responsible for over 90% of data breaches in 2020. Introduce Data Privacy Laws.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

At times, the quest to stay on top of web application security can seem futile. In this blog, we’ll look at the root causes of concern for today's CISO and share some practical strategies to deter cybercriminals. We are living in a software-defined world, and the vulnerability of web apps is a growing problem.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

SaaS applications transmit, store, and process large amounts of sensitive data?—?from 57% of reported financial losses for the largest web application incidents over the last 5 years were attributed to state-affiliated threat actors. Level 2: applications containing sensitive data, recommended for most apps. Data protection.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In this comprehensive guide, SiteLock reviews what malware is, what a website vulnerability is, how infections occur, how to remove malware infections, and finally, how to prevent them in the first place. Stealing sensitive customer data, like social security numbers or payment information. How do website vulnerabilities cause malware?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These are just a few visible signs that many different types of cyberattacks cause that your site might be experiencing. In this blog, we’ll discuss what cyberattacks are, the most common types of attacks your website is likely to face, and most importantly, how you can prevent them. What is a cyberattack?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

However, the truth is that businesses of all sizes hold valuable data in their hands, and cybercriminals work to create new sophisticated attack methods to acquire this information. Because many small business owners are often busy and strapped for time, cybersecurity might not be a top priority. Distributed denial of service.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Imagine if one in every 15 websites you visited was secretly taken over by cybercriminals trying to steal your credit card information or other personal data. In fact, nearly 15 percent of malware attacks targeted website visitors with the goal of exploiting them for sensitive data, website traffic, and other assets or resources.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

The hacktivists didn’t post any demands or host stolen data, but they did use malware that’s more commonly associated with cyber criminals. This blog focuses on ransomware activity in Q4 2022, based on primary and secondary source reporting. Key Trends and Developments In Q4 2022, we published 707 ransomware and data-extortion tippers.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 18, 2019

During this year’s RSA conference, VP and Chief Technology Officer Steve Grobman and Chief Data Scientist Dr. Celeste Fralick took the main stage to discuss how the industry needs to think about artificial intelligence, its power, and the possible ways it can be used against us. Take a look at our top 5 highlights.

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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. In a word – vulnerability remediation. That calls for a careful, well-considered vulnerability remediation process.

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

There are constantly new headlines, blog posts, statistics, and other information pointing to the fact that security breaches, malware, ransomware, data leak events, phishing and other security concerns are not going away. Data is driving business for most organizations who utilize technology to carry out normal business operations.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. ” Bax said he closely reviewed the massive trove of cryptocurrency theft data that Taylor Monahan and others have collected and linked together.

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Scary Beasts Security

MAY 19, 2017

This vulnerability is now a so-called 1-day, because I promptly reported it to upstream ImageMagick and provided a 1-line patch to resolve the issue, which landed here. The previous *bleed vulnerabilities have typically been out-of-bounds reads, but this one is the use of uninitialized memory. You can refer to it as CESA-2017-0002.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These potential incidents fall under four categories, brand protection, cyber threat, physical protection, and data leakage. This could include stealing personally identifiable information (PII), login credentials, financial data, as well as dropping malicious payloads on victim’s machines. com instead of google[.]com),

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McAfee

JUNE 21, 2021

Or, more importantly, what percentage of your company’s most sensitive data passes through employee home networks right now? Better productivity in exchange for deeper vulnerabilities—like man-in-the-middle attacks—wasn’t a choice many cybersecurity pros would make under normal circumstances.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

In this annual report, ThreatLabz offers deep insights on the current phishing threat landscape from a full year’s worth of phishing data from the world’s largest security cloud. The top 20 referring domains included search platforms, corporate forums and marketplaces, sharing sites, e-commerce tools, and others.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

All of these issues can create vulnerabilities in a sprawling attack surface that can be potentially exploited by cybercriminals. Under the guidance of Dan Meacham, VP of Global Security and Corporate Operations and CSO/CISO, the multi-billion dollar organization transitioned from on-premises data centers to the cloud in 2012.

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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. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 Can you prove otherwise?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 27, 2022

This blog covers AppSec cloud best practices and offers a basic framework on how to think about cloud AppSec. This dynamic is causing security to “shift left” with developers increasingly responsible for writing secure code and DevOps teams responsible for testing code with security tooling prior to code submission.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While SaaS is without a doubt the easiest and most accessible way for businesses to reap the benefits of the cloud, these services are delivered online—which can make it easier for data leaks to happen or threat actors to get a hold of sensitive data. Not only does SaaS sprawl waste money, but it has security risks as well.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Original post at [link] While organizations must still account for flashy vulnerability exploitations, denial-of-service campaigns, or movie-themed cyber-heists, phishing-based social engineering attacks remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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Spinone

JULY 8, 2020

As your business moves into the cloud, compliance regulations must be your top priority. Privacy rule – Defines how the privacy of PHI data should be maintained by health care providers and safeguards PHI information disclosure 2. Security rule – HIPAA PHI data should be secured at all times. What is HIPAA?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Environmental effects caused by pollution. Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. It will be hard for anyone off the street to come along and flash them with malicious code or otherwise exploit any existing vulnerabilities.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

The absence of encryption allows attackers to eliminate development cycles and decryption support and quietly exfiltrate data before making ransom demands. Clop ransomware’s zero day attack on the file transfer tool MOVEit was the largest data theft of 2023, impacting 83 million individuals and nearly 3,000 organizations.

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