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Security Affairs newsletter Round 377

Security Affairs

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. com, sscompany[.]net,

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 319

Security Affairs

Are the DDoS and the fire linked?

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Cyber Best Practices for Overseas Asset Security

SecureWorld News

If you are already familiar with the evolving cyber threat landscape in your home country, you’ll know that humans are often the most exploited attack vector for cybercrime, and how frequently small businesses are breached. So, how exactly are these challenges exacerbated when moving your operations beyond borders?

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How to Prevent DDoS Attacks: 5 Steps for DDoS Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks seek to cripple a corporate resource such as applications, web sites, servers, and routers, which can quickly lead to steep losses for victims. However, DDoS attackers sometimes even target the specific computers (or routers) of unwary people – often to harass video gamers, for example.

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Increasing Your Business’s Cyber Threat Intelligence

SiteLock

With that, 43 percent of cyberattacks target small businesses. Knowing where the most likely threats are really coming from is the first step to preventing them from harming your business. How real and prevalent are cyber threats? Websites experience an average of 60 attacks per day on average, according to SiteLock data.

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Cloudflare One SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare also stands out with ZTNA by default, IoT Isolation, and automated traffic controls and anti-DDoS capabilities. Small businesses with under 50 people, organizations with a small number of remote employees (manufacturing, hospitals, etc.),

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