eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies were targeted in this attack, allowing unauthorized access to critical systems used for court-authorized wiretapping — a tool vital for law enforcement surveillance. law enforcement for surveillance purposes. The hackers, identified by U.S.

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Google Security

AUGUST 3, 2021

Posted by Kees Cook, Software Engineer, Google Open Source Security Team To borrow from an excellent analogy between the modern computer ecosystem and the US automotive industry of the 1960s, the Linux kernel runs well: when driving down the highway, you're not sprayed in the face with oil and gasoline, and you quickly get where you want to go.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

However, Avast disclosed that their researchers discovered and reported the vulnerability in August 2023 after reverse-engineering a rootkit deployed by the infamous North Korean hacking group dubbed Lazarus. March 1, 2024 HikVision Warns of Security Management System Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: Insufficient server-side validation.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

On February 24, the National Security Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) publicly warned that a threat actor had exploited a national documents circulation system (SEI EB) to distribute malicious documents to Ukrainian public authorities. Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors. Final thoughts.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Evaluate the network architecture: Determine whether the SaaS provider uses network segmentation to separate client data and apps from one another, reducing the risk of unauthorized access and lateral movement in the event of a security breach. Internal actors also play a substantial role in cybersecurity breaches.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

The idea, as in any security defense is to sufficiently frustrate an attacker so he or she will go elsewhere. And for the average home user, because again, economies of scale and Value Engineering, the average price of even a nice high quality padlock makes them much more achievable now than they would have been 100 years ago.

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Hacking Marketing Government InfoSec 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

The idea, as in any security defense is to sufficiently frustrate an attacker so he or she will go elsewhere. And for the average home user, because again, economies of scale and Value Engineering, the average price of even a nice high quality padlock makes them much more achievable now than they would have been 100 years ago.

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Hacking Marketing Government InfoSec 52