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Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns

Security Affairs

Second, every Exchange server contains a copy of the company address book, which provides a lot of information that is useful for social engineering attacks, including organizational structure, titles, contact info, and more. . “First, user mailboxes often contain critical and sensitive data.

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Everyday Threat Modeling

Daniel Miessler

If your VPN includes all DNS requests and traffic then you could be hiding significantly from your ISP. You will eventually be hacked via phishing, social engineering, poisoning a site you already frequent, or some other technique. Now, let’s look at who we’re defending against if you use a VPN. This is true.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

His 1994 book detailing cryptographic algorithms ( Applied Cryptography ) was just the beginning of his contributions to technical perspectives on system design, cybersecurity, privacy, and more. Excited to announce that @codingo_ and I are currently working on “The Bug Hunter’s Methodology” book. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tib3rius

ForAllSecure

No, I simply bought Shon Harris’s massive book CISSP- All-in-One Exam Guide -- and read through it -- not one, twice. And yeah, we check us out at whiteoaksecurity.com to various ranges of pen tests, like web apps, internals, red teams, social engineering, etc. I could cause the server to do DNS requests.

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