CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

Did you know that human error is the main culprit of 95% of data breaches ? They could expose your sensitive data and put you, your employees, clients, and customers at risk of identity theft and fraud. Given that the average cost of a data breach is $3.86 HTTPS and DNS), data link (e.g.,

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

billion to data breaches and cybercrime. In this article, we’ll discuss the importance of data security and protection. Email encryption Companies rely on email to distribute important information, but when that information is confidential and sensitive, you need an encryption tool to protect it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

When the Ashley Madison data breach occurred in 2015, it made headline news around the world. Not only do they control the access rights to the mailbox, they also control DNS and MX records therefore they control the routing of emails.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

CISA: hackers breached a state government organization Russia-linked Turla APT uses new TinyTurla-NG backdoor to spy on Polish NGOs US Gov dismantled the Moobot botnet controlled by Russia-linked APT28 A cyberattack halted operations at Varta production plants North Korea-linked actors breached the emails of a Presidential Office member Nation-state (..)

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is. Every time a customer types in your web address, their computer makes a request to a DNS server. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” “Our hope is to minimize harm to end users whose data.” Adobe, Last. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Diavol ransomware was compiled with Microsoft Visual C/C++ Compiler, it uses user-mode Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APCs) without symmetric encryption algorithm for encryption, which has worse performance compared to symmetric algorithms. Anchor DNS ), except for the username field. reads the analysis published by Fortinet.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens. ” reads the data breach notification published by Matrix.org. As a precaution, if you’re a matrix.org user you should change your password now.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

However, searching passive DNS records at DomainTools.com for thedomainsvault[.]com In January 2019, Houzz acknowledged that a data breach exposed account information on an undisclosed number of customers, including user IDs, one-way encrypted passwords, IP addresses, city and ZIP codes, as well as Facebook information.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

It can be time consuming to establish these protocols on an organization’s DNS servers, but doing so will provide two key benefits. Email security tools offer features that screen emails for malicious content using antivirus, anti-spam, DNS, attachment, and other analytics.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2022

Ransomware gangs are exploiting CVE-2022-26134 RCE in Atlassian Confluence servers HID Mercury Access Controller flaws could allow to unlock Doors Iran-linked Lyceum APT adds a new.NET DNS Backdoor to its arsenal PACMAN, a new attack technique against Apple M1 CPUs Threat actors exploit recently disclosed Atlassian Confluence flaw in cryptomining campaign (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The communications are not encrypted, however the WiFi password is sent encrypted during set up (albeit trivial to decrypt).” “As the communications are not encrypted, it is simple to Man-in-the-Middle the traffic and analyse the API.” SecurityAffairs – SDUSD , data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Netflow data. DNS controls. Encryption certificates. “Pastebin and other similar repositories are constantly being monitored and any data put out there will be preserved no matter how brief the posting is,” Holden said. -Cisco routers. Call recording services. Orvis wireless networks (public and private).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

. “On March 16th I have found an unprotected and thus publicly available Elasticsearch instance which appeared to be managed by a UK-based security company, according to the SSL certificate and reverse DNS records.” ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Next, it would encrypt files on the victim’s system and deny access until they sent a $189 payment to a post office box in Panama. For example, a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany became infected with ransomware that managed to encrypt its systems. Bait CDs were then distributed at the World Health Organization’s AIDS conference.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Encryption will regularly be used to protect the data from interception. In the broadest sense, defense in depth uses: Data security : protects data at rest and in transit such as encryption, database security, message security, etc. DNS security (IP address redirection, etc.),

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2022

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) originally designed the ACME protocol for its own Let’s Encrypt certificate service. On September 15, 2021, the DNS records for acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org Today the protocol has become a standard ( RFC 8555 ). ACME v2 is the current version of the protocol, published in March 2018.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

PoSeidon malware, discovered by Cisco researchers in 2015, installs a keylogger and searches the POS device’s memory for number sequences that match credit card data — then uploads that data to an exfiltration server. Errors to avoid. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Now and then, we get to hear news about data breaches and cyber attacks. However, since they do not encrypt your traffic and communications, your personal information can be easily accessed by an intruder. Also, all your data is passed through a secure encrypted tunnel, making it unreadable to the outside world.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It integrates data loss prevention functionality to minimize the risk of data breaches. Lets organizations encrypt messages and leverage the cloud to spool email if mail servers become unavailable. Integrated data loss prevention and email encryption. Barracuda’s key features. Identify and block 99.7%

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One example: too many are in the dark about website encryption — 61% of world politicians’ websites aren’t HTTPS-secured. Bad actors, whether politically motivated or not, grow increasingly sophisticated as our world becomes more rooted in technology. However, it appears lawmakers aren’t prepared for this reality.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. Media scrutiny eventually leads the consumer data broker, which has since been purchased by LexisNexis, to reveal another 128,000 people had information compromised. . million credit cards.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) shields cloud workloads from a range of threats like malware, ransomware, DDoS attacks, cloud misconfigurations, insider threats, and data breaches. Data is collected in near real time, which allows GuardDuty to detect threats quickly.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

DNS attacks : DNS cache poisoning, or hijacking, redirects a legitimate site’s DNS address and takes users to a malicious site when they attempt to navigate to that webpage. Human error plays a large role in the majority of all data breaches.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

However, the one alert you ignore may have resulted in a major data breach to the organization. Security investigators will use a multitude of data, threat intelligence, log files, DNS activity, and much more to identify the exact nature of the potential breach and determine the best response playbook to use.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. SSH or Secure Shell is an encrypted connection over Port 22. Why should I attempt to create my own SSL/TLS when I can integrate OpenSSL into my product. Just don’t.

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