CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security protocol that encrypts the connection between a web browser and a server. This only takes a few clicks, because an SSL certificate is a text file with encrypted data. HTTPS and DNS), data link (e.g., Use data encryption. Given that the average cost of a data breach is $3.86

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It is a team effort, where collaboration combines a robust backbone (Gigamon), firewall protection (Palo Alto Networks), segmented wireless network (Commscope Ruckus) and network full packet capture & forensics, with identity (RSA NetWitness). This was only possible because the device was supervised. The other half is Clarity for iOS.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Justification must be documented within the newly added Appendix E (Customized Approach Template). Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Disk level encryption is no longer permitted for protection unless it is a form of removeable media (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Researchers from TrendMicro have documented a recent evolution of the PurpleFox botnet, the experts discovered a new.NET backdoor, dubbed FoxSocket, that is highly associated with the PurpleFox operation. Researchers warn of a new evolution of the PurpleFox botnet, operators included exploits and leverage WebSockets for C2 communication.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 3, 2019

To understand the basis for these recommendations, read the documents mentioned at the end of the post. Attackers stole sensitive documents. Adversaries have routinely pursued sensitive campaign documents. Consider when to send attachments and when to share links to documents in cloud storage. campaigns from around 2016.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

Alongside Google’s crackdown attempts, the cybersecurity community has undertaken the task of identifying these malicious sponsored links, documenting them, and reporting them to Google in the hopes that it removes them. It generates encrypted traffic to multiple domains hosted on different IP addresses through different hosting companies.

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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. Traffic Malicious packets attempt to enter a network, requiring firewalls and other systems, like IDPS, to prevent them.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

25+ Years of Black Hat (and some DNS stats), by Alejo Calaoagan. Cisco is a Premium Partner of the Black Hat NOC , and is the Official Wired & Wireless Network Equipment, Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider of Black Hat. Meraki syslogs into NetWitness SIEM and Palo Alto Firewall.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Let's start by looking at this from a philosophical standpoint: But here’s the bigger philosophical question: the device still worked fine with the native app, should @TPLINKUK be held accountable for supporting non-documented use cases? Probably “no”, but in a perfect world they’d document local connections by other apps and not break that.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

The least common of SQL injection attacks, the out-of-band method relies on the database server to make DNS or HTTP requests delivering data to an attacker. . . . Raise Virtual or Physical Firewalls. We strongly recommend using a software or appliance-based web application firewall (WAF) to help filter out malicious data. .

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Brute-force attacks on services that use SSH, a more advanced protocol that encrypts traffic, can yield similar outcomes. User files were encrypted, with the device’s interface displaying a ransom note demanding payment of 0.03 DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2023

GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., If privilege escalation is possible from within an already-authenticated account, the mechanism by which that occurs must be thoroughly documented and monitored (logged) too. Akamai, CloudFront) Certificate providers (E.g., PCI DSS v4.0

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SecureList

APRIL 22, 2024

A connection like this created on domain controllers allows attackers to obtain the IP addresses of hosts on the internal network through DNS queries. 54112" Krong is a proxy that encrypts the data transmitted through it using the XOR function. It protects data with the current user’s password and a special encryption master key.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 The ManageEngine OpManager Plus includes a bundle of tools for bandwidth and traffic analysis (NetFlow Analyzer), networking performance monitoring (OpManager), and tools for firewalls , IP addresses, switch ports, and configuration policies. Auvik Features. Catchpoint Features.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

That could be by purging un-needed data, encryption, archiving, anonymizing data, basically doing something different,” Halota said. Does the company have to make DNS, firewall, or routing changes to make sure data can cleanly get from on-prem systems to the CSP? Some CSPs have dedicated links,” Vickers said.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Experts say the best defense is a multi-pronged network security strategy that includes a firewall, anti-malware software, network monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS), and data protection. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

To be a NOC partner, you must be willing to collaborate, share API (Automated Programming Interface) keys and documentation, and come together (even as market competitors) to secure the conference, for the good of the attendees. In addition to the SPAN, we requested that Palo Alto send NetFlow from their Firewalls to CTB.

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Fox IT

JANUARY 12, 2021

In one specific case, the adversary now armed with the valid account, was able to access a document stored in SharePoint Online, part of Microsoft Office 365. This specific document described how to access the internet facing company portal and the web-based VPN client into the company network. m5 = use compression level 5.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

The shellcode copies the encrypted payload into another buffer allocated by calling the VirtualAlloc API, and then decrypts this with an XOR based algorithm in a similar way to that described above. WastedLocker aims to encrypt the files of the infected host. This is described in more detail in the String encryption section.

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. securekalipi:wlan0 As the documentation states, anything that is not specified uses the default settings, so we simply skip putting anything in between the : that we want to skip. 192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:securekalipi:wlan0

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

GuardDuty collects data from a variety of sources, including AWS CloudTrail logs, VPC Flow Logs, DNS Logs, Amazon S3 Logs, Amazon EC2 Logs, and AWS Config. To protect data from unwanted access, exfiltration, or data leakage, a good CWP platform should include features such as encryption, data loss prevention (DLP), and access controls.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Amending firewall rules to allow sensitive, outgoing protocols. With user account credentials, attackers had a suite of email, documents, and data at their fingertips. Encryption. Mail DNS controls. These included: Avoiding any share indicators for each compromised host. Timestomping, wiping, and DLL-implant obfuscation.

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