SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2023

CyCognito has released its semi-annual State of External Exposure Management Report , revealing a staggering number of vulnerable public cloud, mobile, and web applications exposing sensitive data, including unsecured APIs and personally identifiable information (PII). This minimizes the potential exposure of PII.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cloud security builds off of the same IT infrastructure and security stack principles of a local data center. However, a cloud vendor offering provides a pre-packaged solution that absorbs some operational and security responsibilities from the customer. Shared Security Model: Cloud Provider Responsibilities.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

Since then, attackers have been able to generate customized versions of the threat according to their needs. This opens up numerous possibilities for malicious actors to make their attacks more effective, since it is possible to configure network spread options and defense-killing functionality. Revisiting the LockBit 3.0

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, critical security risks and threats inherent in cloud environments come alongside the myriad benefits. This blog aims to dissect the nuances of cloud security risks , shedding light on the challenges commonly faced when securing digital assets in the cloud. Who’s Responsible for Security in the Cloud?

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Centraleyes

MARCH 12, 2024

What is a Security Audit? In cybersecurity, audit management involves assessing the effectiveness of security measures, identifying vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. At its core, an audit systematically examines an organization’s processes, controls, and practices.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2024

But fast forward to 2024, and Coveware data suggests that that trend has completely reversed—not only have the number of victims paying dropped but so have the dollar amounts of actual ransom payments. In other words, we’re seeing fewer and smaller ransomware payouts than ever before. Our prediction?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Why do these vulnerabilities pose such a major security risk? Hackers can write code to exploit that vulnerability and access your most critical data, stealing it and taking control of your systems. WannaCry affected thousands of systems quickly due to a security hole known as EternalBlue. What Are Zero Day Threats?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Privilege escalation is a method that threat actors use to increase their access to systems and data that they aren’t authorized to see. Then they move forward or upward, elevating their privileges so they can access more sensitive information.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The code and the data around it also included a few thousand names and email addresses belonging to Dropbox employees, current and past customers, sales leads, and vendors (for context, Dropbox has more than 700 million registered users).". Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

An ideal security stack provides continuous protection without gaps. IDS and IPS solutions help fill in the gaps between endpoint protection , firewalls , and other parts of the security stack. Even the smallest organizations know that they should implement firewalls and endpoint protection solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For a security technology that’s only a few years old, microsegmentation is catching on quickly. According to a new report from edge security vendor Byos, 88 percent of cybersecurity leaders believe microsegmentation is essential to achieving zero trust security, and 83 percent are currently leveraging microsegmentation in some form.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

But even as companies race to increase cybersecurity spending and awareness, data breaches have actually become much more (not less) likely. Even industry giants like Target and Equifax, who have robust security measures, still struggle to combat supply chain attacks. In truth, we may never know.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2021

SMBs see that, along with remote work, our pandemic has also brought troubling new holes to their security. For defense against these new vulnerabilities, nervous teams often purchase an endpoint protection solution. The service also runs command line versions of the AV software it tests with, rather than the GUI versions.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

Corporate employees frequently utilize the vast resources of the internet to address various business issues on a daily basis. However, conventional solutions such as antivirus, firewalls, and other detection and blocking tools can only offer a limited level of security. How does the browser Isolation system work?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. The agent gathers information and connects with a central server, which manages and analyzes vulnerability data. Tenable.io

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

Overview Security vulnerabilities enable attackers to compromise a resource or data. Vulnerabilities occur through product defects, misconfigurations, or gaps in security and IT systems. Unplanned vulnerabilities consist of zero-day vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security mistakes.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

In short, products in this category aim to catalogue and help manage an organization’s exposed assets. At its core, Attack Surface Management is asset discovery and management for exposed assets. The Buffer breach occurred because a MongoHQ engineer reused a password that was exposed in an Adobe breach.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It comes as no surprise that financial services, insurance, and healthcare were popular targets, given their proximity to sensitive, easily-monetizable data. A little more surprising, however, is the similarities between breaches across industries and organizations.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved. As the world we live in has become much more digital in nature, information and data volumes are increasing exponentially.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We make IT, security, or any business decision by weighing the risks and the rewards. Or as is often the case with security, what costs can we skip and still escape big penalties later? Unfortunately for those of us indulging in wishful thinking, the likelihood and costs of data breaches continue to increase.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

With each passing year, cybersecurity threats grow more prevalent, advanced, and ominous for your business. IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. million The average overall cost of a data breach amounted to $3.92

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 16, 2024

The dispute between Ray’s developers and security researchers highlights hidden assumptions and teaches lessons for AI security, internet-exposed assets, and vulnerability scanning through an understanding of ShadowRay. The tool boasts a customer list that includes DoorDash, LinkedIn, Netflix, OpenAI, Uber, and many others.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. To be truly useful, the report must be more than a simple list.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs. Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Since then, much has been learned about the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) deployed and what steps organizations are taking to harden their network and application security. Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials noted “this could be an extremely serious breach of security.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Whether you’re operating a global enterprise network or a small family business, your network’s security needs to be optimized with tools, teams, and processes to protect customer data and valuable business assets. Also read: What is Network Security?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2022

With two high-profile breaches this year, Okta, a leader in identity and access management (IAM) , made the kind of headlines that security vendors would rather avoid. of Okta’s customers and the attacker could, at most, reset customer passwords. Also read: MFA Advantages and Weaknesses.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Organizations have a variety of options for cloud deployments, each with its own set of capabilities and security challenges. The responsibility for protecting these cloud resources is shared, with the cloud provider responsible for infrastructure security and customers responsible for access, application security, and data management.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We saw during the pandemic that digital transformation of all kinds can happen faster than we ever thought possible. As trends go, it has more longevity than most. Meanwhile, bad actors may contribute data to large language models (LLMs) too. First, the modus operandi was to encrypt and hold data for ransom.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2023

Lying In Wait Hackers can continue to steal data month over month, not only taking the time to find the right data to steal, but finding the most valuable data that may change or update that they can continue to steal each day/week/month - as what might be found in a Telco environment. Our data is truly unique for two reasons.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Network security threats weaken the defenses of an enterprise network, endangering proprietary data, critical applications, and the entire IT infrastructure. This guide to major network security threats covers detection methods as well as mitigation strategies for your organization to follow. Also read: What is Network Security?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. By masking high-value assets in a sea of fake attack surfaces, attackers are disoriented and attack a fake asset, in the process alerting security teams to their presence. But it can work the other way. What is Deception Technology?

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 11, 2024

If we look closely, there are lessons to be learned from these five fateful API attacks that can help any organisation secure its APIs better. Zendesk 2017 The scenario: The helpdesk ticketing platform Zendesk was exposed to attackers thanks to a SQL injection vulnerability in a GraphQL endpoint. Here they are.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

To prevent APTs requires a strong foundation of basic security techniques combined with effective security monitoring. However, some additional security techniques can improve the odds against APTs even more. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions. National Security Agency (NSA). What Are APTs?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies.

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