eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators. The team may be divided into sub-teams depending on the type of security controls it is responsible for, such as network security, endpoint security, or the security operations center (SOC).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This strategy seems to be a trade-off, as such services are way easier to take down by authorities, but it allows bypassing network security products that don’t block legitimate providers. AT&T labs provided a list of IoCs (indicators of compromise) that system administrators can use to add specific rules to security solutions.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. And hackers will continue to use emotion an an effective social engineering tool now and into the future, because it works.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

According to Finances Online , most common cybersecurity attack vectors in 2020 include phishing (38%), network intrusions (32%), stolen/lost records (8%), and system misconfiguration (5%). Cybersecurity Engineer. Information Security Officer. IT Security Specialist. Firewall administration and maintenance.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Android, Apple, Apache, Cisco, and Microsoft are among the names reporting significant security vulnerabilities and fixes in the last week, and some of those are already under assault by hackers. These flaws affect SEL-5030 acSELeratorQuickSet and SEL-5037 GridConfigurator devices and were detailed by Nozomi Networks researchers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Russian software engineer Eugene Kaspersky’s frustration with the malware of the 80s and 90s led to the founding of antivirus and cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky Lab. In recent years, Cluley has been well-known for his cybersecurity analysis, blog, and award-winning podcast Smashing Security. Eugene Kaspersky | @e_kaspersky.

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