The Last Watchdog

JULY 12, 2018

The discovery of sensitive U.S. military information for sale on the Dark Web for a nominal sum, in and of itself, is unfortunate and unremarkable. Department of Defense (DoD) generally handles unclassified documents such as these through the “Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network,” or NIPRNet.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Therefore, it is crucial to understand what hackers are planning to do with your data and take proactive measures to protect it. By understanding their motivations, we can better comprehend the risks and develop effective strategies to protect ourselves. Which threat actors would like to obtain which data?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

How to scan for PII leaks, credentials, and other sensitive data leaks using data flows. Last time, I talked about the perils of leaving secrets in open-sourced code and how to detect those secrets using regex and entropy analysis. Hardcoded secrets are an example of a sensitive data leak. Finding Data Leaks that Matter.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

But new information indicates the methods she deployed have been well understood for years. What follows is based on interviews with almost a dozen security experts, including one who is privy to details about the ongoing breach investigation.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After a long day, you ask your child or significant other how their day was. Or you’re a social engineer and need to extract vital information for an in-person adversary simulation. In all the above scenarios, elicitation can play a key role in obtaining information. What are some useful elicitation techniques?

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McAfee

AUGUST 11, 2021

Both define a Zero Trust telemetry architecture informed by security sensors to dynamically evaluate device and user trust and automatically change access permissions with changes in entity trust. Protecting data is central to Zero Trust, and the DoD’s architecture acknowledges this. Both NIST (800-207) and DoD (Version 1.0)

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down into three types: Adversarial inputs. which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. first post.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down into three types: Adversarial inputs. which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. first post.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 12, 2019

The volume of data that is classified as sensitive and may require security consideration has been increasing due to new and updated privacy regulations like PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and FedRAMP (to list a few). Encrypting data to meet compliance requirements and protect your business, further increases storage costs.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

What is the cyber-demic? Particularly by targeting vaccine production and distribution, COVID-19 trackers, videoconference applications, and other pandemic-related topics in their scams, criminals have upped the ante on what would have already been a record year; hence “cyber-demic.”. The scammers know how important data is.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In a sense, there is an uncertainty around how the security model can and should work. Time to settle in on just how quickly mission owners can classify a comprehensive and all-inclusive, acceptable definition of Zero Trust Architecture. What stands out to me is the data-centric approach to ZTA.

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McAfee

APRIL 14, 2020

1 This has caused enterprises to look for ways to enforce additional security controls on their cloud solutions beyond what a cloud service provider (SaaS or IaaS) offers natively. Drifts in configurations of SaaS applications like Jira Software Cloud can cause unintentional exposure of sensitive data. Key Customer Challenges.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human. Each one has their own methods and protecting against them requires a multi-layered approach. What Does the Opportunist Want? Who is the Impersonator?

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

CASB services are typically placed between the businesses who consume cloud services and providers who offer them, effectively protecting the gateway between a company’s on-premises IT infrastructure and the cloud service provider’s infrastructure. Unfortunately, it isn’t. The State of Security with Cloud Applications.

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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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McAfee

APRIL 6, 2020

Historically, default settings like public access to storage objects have left sensitive data out in the open, easy to steal by anyone crawling for these weaknesses. . AWS and others have no control over how you use their services. What they didn’t realize is that it set them up for a massive breach. . Success. .

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2020

MVISION Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) is a comprehensive device-to-cloud security platform for visibility and control across SaaS, PaaS, & IaaS platforms. The “ Build ” phase centers on what ends up inside the container images in terms of the components and layers that make up an application.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

zip, that is a DLL file with additional code on C2 and how the trojan gets details from the user’s computers. dll) was sent to the VirusTotal by SI-LAB, and 12 from 71 engines classified it as malware. The malware was named ‘Lampion’ as this is the name used as part of its internal name. That file invokes the second file, 0.zip,

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SecureList

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Even though in our routine work we tend to deal with ML-based protection technologies, this time we decided to step into the attackers’ shoes and chose the offensive tracks. What we did. We started off by submitting several clean (benign) web pages — such as Wikipedia’s — to check what probabilities the models would return.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

What is Azure Information Protection? Azure Information Protection (AIP) allows organizations to classify and protect documents by applying sensitivity labels. Sensitivity labels are metadata properties indicating the type of information a document contains. What is the need?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 27, 2021

This international effort recognizes how organizations might be using, collecting or sharing an individual’s personal information. It also considers how some businesses might not be taking the privacy of their corporate or customer data seriously. As noted in a recent post on our blog, “ CPRA Becomes the New Standard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Our joint objective is to empower the discovery and remediation of sensitive data. This partnership brings together two companies that share a common mission — to protect customer information in today’s data-driven world, regardless of where it’s stored. What formats do they appear in?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Sure, AI, ML and bots are making us question the role of humans as we enter a new decade for data protection and privacy, but how is the human element helping us blaze new trails when it comes to cybersecurity in the 2020s? It will be interesting to see how this theme plays out next week. A post digital transformation world.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

Even if an attacker has what are to it perfectly rational reasons for conducting such an attack, these reasons are often known only to them. The rest of the world, including the victims of the attack, must often engage in some degree of speculation to explain the events and devise ways to protect themselves accordingly.

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Google Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

In addition to monthly security updates to patch vulnerabilities reported to us through our Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) , we also proactively architect Android to protect against undiscovered vulnerabilities through hardening measures such as applying compiler-based mitigations and improving sandboxing. Stagefright ).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Laminar , the leader in public cloud data security, today announced the launch of Laminar Labs, the company’s cutting-edge research team designed to help organizations protect their most sensitive cloud data. If that shadow data includes sensitive information, it increases its value in the eyes of attackers.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

From a cyber-intelligence perspective, one of the biggest challenges is having information on the tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) an adversary is using and then keeping them up to date. McAfee customers are protected from the malware/tools described in this blog. Figure 2 BadPotato.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This article aims to successfully provide readers with general and in-depth overview of the Threat Intelligence Gathering process including live and relevant examples including in-depth overview of various Threat Intelligence Gathering tools and techniques.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In a recent blog I wrote for ISACA ransomware attacks have been on the rise , resulting in data extortion threats and IT system compromises. In a recent blog I wrote for ISACA ransomware attacks have been on the rise , resulting in data extortion threats and IT system compromises. Encrypting sensitive data.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s world, this is essential and new laws to regulate previously non-regulated sectors indicate how times are changing and laws are adapting to the new landscape. What is the Artificial Intelligence Act? The discussion, as reported in Euractiv , covered sensitive topics like the contentious issue of biometric recognition.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 13, 2022

How Do Encryption Algorithms Work? Plaintext is what the message looks like unaltered, but ciphertext scrambles the message to a point where it’s unreadable—unless you have the right authorization to decrypt the code back into plaintext. One advantage of this type of encryption is how efficiently large amounts of data can be sent.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. The first step is to know what sensitive data you have and where it is.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. The first step is to know what sensitive data you have and where it is.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2022

Since hybrid work models and digital business models are here to stay, IT and security teams will need to rethink how they can better protect data to prevent data breaches in the future. Our goal is to help chief information security officers (CISOs) and their teams place the right bets on cloud data security.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2021

What led to the inception of RaaS ? RaaS can have different delivery formats, such as source code that the buyer compiles themselves, pre-compiled binaries or an interactive interface where the buyer inputs information about the victims. What is the economics of such an attack from offender and victim’s point of view?

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