The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Cyber threats have steadily intensified each year since I began writing about privacy and cybersecurity for USA TODAY in 2004. These attacks sparked public realization that cyber threats can disrupt daily life, leading to anger against corporations, not just cybercriminals, if they failed to implement basic cybersecurity measures.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Within the vast ecosystem of cybersecurity solutions, many beginners and professionals alike choose to use open-source solutions, such as Metasploit , Nmap , and Wireshark , over premium products. BeEF , or Browser Exploitation Framework, makes classic tasks such as enumeration, phishing, or social engineering seamless.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

The tools also depend upon physical controls that should also be implemented against malicious physical access to destroy or compromise networking equipment such as routers, cables, switches, firewalls, and other networking appliances. need to be managed both at the application level as well as the network level.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Recent years presented a torrent of research showing how vulnerable RDP systems are for organizations not taking additional cybersecurity precautions. Because RDP server hosts can access and manage remote devices, including sensitive clients, the threat posed by RDP attacks can’t be overstated. What are RDP Attacks?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

To no one’s surprise, the study of cryptography and advancements in encryption are essential to developing cybersecurity. As seen below, cryptography is the methodology and applications for managing encryption schemes, and cryptanalysis is the methodology of testing and decrypting these messages. The Importance of Encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Are access restrictions in place and periodically assessed to efficiently manage user permissions? Are firewalls configured and maintained to prevent unwanted access and data breaches? Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager. Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

We have listed eight threats based on experience, including SOC… phishing, social engineering and stuff like that. How do you handle critical information password management, dealing with password multiple passwords? And we said, what are the key behaviors we want to measure?

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

We have listed eight threats based on experience, including SOC… phishing, social engineering and stuff like that. How do you handle critical information password management, dealing with password multiple passwords? And we said, what are the key behaviors we want to measure?

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