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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

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Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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VulnRecap 2/19/2024: News from Microsoft, Zoom, SolarWinds

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Changing passwords, secrets, and pre-shared keys. February 19, 2024 ExpressVPN Split Tunneling Disabled after Discovered Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: DNS traffic leak. The DNS traffic wasn’t traveling to the ExpressVPN servers like it was supposed to but instead to a third-party server. Enabling logging.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

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Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools.

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

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In order to verify the signature, the recipient’s email server will then use the sender’s publicly available key that is provided in DNS records for this domain. It provides an additional degree of security beyond just a login and password. Pose as coworkers , superiors, or business partners.