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OilRig APT group: the evolution of attack techniques over time

Security Affairs

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

The Global State of Information Security Survey 2017 suggests that companies should look into deploying threat detection tools and processes (including monitoring and analyzing security intelligence information), conducting vulnerability and threat assessments, penetration tests and security information, and event management (SIEM) tools.

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Guarding Against Solorigate TTPs

eSecurity Planet

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) offers the concept of a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to address this problem. Attackers can steal source code , detection tools, and penetration testing technologies built to fend off the best malicious threats in the world. Encryption.

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The Importance of a Proactive Cyber Defense Solution To Protect Your Critical Data

Security Affairs

As I write this article, news of a Florida water treatment plant being hacked with the perpetrators trying to poison the supply by dramatically increasing the sodium hydroxide levels in the water. This is what is referred to as a cyber Blind-Spot and is what makes them vulnerable to very specific exploits such as the SolarWinds hack.

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Approaching the Reverse Engineering of a RFID/NFC Vending Machine

Security Affairs

Security expert Pasquale Fiorillo demonstrates how to hack n RFID/NFC Vending Machine. The affected vendor did not answer to my responsible disclosure request, so I’m here to disclose this “hack” without revealing the name of the vendor itself. Now, I’m certain that the credit is encoded (and probably encrypted) in the blocks 8 and 9.

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Iran-linked APT34: Analyzing the webmask project

Security Affairs

The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I’ve also been encharged of testing uVote voting system from the Italian Minister of homeland security.

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