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Threat Protection: The REvil Ransomware

Cisco Security

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. In it we talked about how REvil/Sodinokibi compromised far more endpoints than Ryuk, but had far less DNS communication. Figure 1-DNS activity surrounding REvil/Sodinokibi. Changing firewall rules.

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PurpleFox botnet variant uses WebSockets for more secure C2 communication

Security Affairs

.” The MSI package first removes registry keys associated with the old Purple Fox installations if any are present, then it replaces the components of the malware with new ones. ” continues the analysis.

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Spying on satellite internet comms with a $300 listening station

Security Affairs

This Windows local area network with all that internal LDAP traffic and SDP traffic will be broadcast over the satellite link, giving an eavesdropper perspective from behind the firewall.”. Pavel explained that attackers could also collect information even when the traffic is encrypted.

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Why Would Someone Hack My Website?

SiteLock

An SSL Certificate is used to establish a secure encrypted connection between a web browser and a web server. Joe can use a web application firewall (WAF ) to help protect his blog from bad bots and other malicious traffic. Joe could also present a CAPTCHA challenge to the visitors on his site.

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PCI v4 is coming. Are you ready?

Pen Test Partners

At present the scheme is running against v3.2.1. 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., In March 2022, the PCI Council released the long-anticipated v4.0.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 Clearly it was never TP-Link's intention for people to use their plugs in the fashion HA presently is and I'll talk more about why HA does this in the next section of this post. For some reason, the Shelly on my garage door is making a DNS request for api.shelly.cloud once every second!

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Ready to move to the cloud? Here’s what you need to do when vetting service providers

SC Magazine

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. That could be by purging un-needed data, encryption, archiving, anonymizing data, basically doing something different,” Halota said. For example, does the customer provide a firewall or does provider?