Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Watering Hole Attack: The Attack Vector Used In Targeting Florida Water Utilities! Do you know that no less than 1,000 end-user computers visited the site infected by the attackers during the 58-day window! But what are these attacks and how do they affect an organization? Well, this blog sums it all! Cyber criminals keep coming […]. The post A Complete Guide to Watering Hole Attacks appeared first on Kratikal Blogs.

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The REvil ransomware gang has fully returned and is once again attacking new victims and publishing stolen files on a data leak site. [.].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Security industry blogs, magazines, and websites frequently report that many security teams are frustrated by the limitations of their SIEM tool. Analysts find dealing with data collected from numerous hosts within an enterprise to be a daunting task. The time necessary to acquire security data, the rigidity around how the data can be analyzed, and the speed at which data can be processed make these tools less useful than they should be.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a new botnet called M?ris. The botnet is believed to have pummeled the company's web infrastructure with millions of HTTP requests, before hitting a peak of 21.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Cisco fixed multiple high-severity flaws in the IOS XR software that can allow attackers to trigger a DoS condition, elevate privileges, overwrite/read arbitrary files. Cisco released security updates to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the IOS XR software that can be exploited to conduct multiple malicious activities, such as rebooting devices and elevate privileges.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information such as chat messages and photos in Apple iCloud or Google Drive in a cryptographically secure manner.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Plus: A TrickBot hacker arrest, a Fortinet VPN password leak, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Technology has evolved in the past few decades, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that our world is more interconnected than ever before. The consumer electronics industry is booming, and while it is highly competitive, new products are continually being created to meet new customer expectations and demands. With more technology comes more data [.].

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

According to new documents, officers ask people they stop for their Facebook and Twitter account details, and then feed the data into Palantir.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Our thanks to DEFCON for publishing their outstanding DEFCON Conference Main Stage Videos on the groups' YouTube channel. Permalink. The post DEF CON 29 Main Stage -Dimitry ‘Op Nomad’ Snezhkov’s ‘Use Of Offensive Enclaves In Adversarial Operations’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Penetration Testing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

graphw00f – GraphQL Server Fingerprinting graphw00f is a Server Engine Fingerprinting utility for software security professionals looking to learn more about what technology is behind a given GraphQL endpoint. How does it work? graphw00f... The post graphw00f v1.1.13 releases: GraphQL Server Fingerprinting appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Our thanks to DEFCON for publishing their outstanding DEFCON Conference Main Stage Videos on the groups' YouTube channel. Permalink. The post DEF CON 29 Main Stage – Eugene Lim’s, Glenice Tan’s & Tan Kee Hock’s ‘Hacking Humans With AI As A Service’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech® ! Permalink. The post The Joy of Tech® ‘The Off-Facebook-tarian appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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