SecureList

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Penetration testing is something that many (of those who know what a pentest is) see as a search for weak spots and well-known vulnerabilities in clients’ infrastructure, and a bunch of copied-and-pasted recommendations on how to deal with the security holes thus discovered.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

MARCH 22, 2023

This article provides an introduction to covert entry assessments, and will address the many factors to consider when deciding on a pretext for physical social engineering. Deciding on a Pretext The technique of social engineering in-person is often referred to as physical social engineering or in-person social engineering.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. Our flagship event, the SECTF, has been joined by other events over the years, such as the SECTF4Kids, and SECTF4Teens. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. What was their objective?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2020 witnessed the participation of over 19,000 players and this year it’s expected to double up, as the event is being held online. The post Details of SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2021 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

How Much Do I Tell My Team when Engaging Red Team Testing? It’s most common for a Red Team exercise to be an extremely limited knowledge event. If your goal is to absolutely find a way from the outside into your organization, you probably should do an External Network Penetration Test instead.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 12, 2024

Conduct penetration testing and vulnerability assessments periodically to uncover weaknesses in your website’s security infrastructure. Ensure backups are stored securely and can be quickly restored in the event of a data loss incident such as a cyber attack or hardware failure. Test the backup and restore process periodically.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

This betrays a lack of preparation for disaster recovery and ineffective penetration testing of systems. Test systems: Don’t assume correct installations and configurations, use penetration testing to validate initial and ongoing status of externally facing and high value systems. Ascension lost $2.66

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events. However, they offer more than these security tools, with automated, continuous testing and automated breach simulation at their core.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. Conduct regular network penetration tests to identify flaws and vulnerabilities in your corporate networks. If you don’t have the talent in-house, employ a third-party security firm.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

Clearly, preventing fires is better than fighting them……” So, to what extent are we able to protect ourselves from Cybersecurity events? Social engineering. Social engineering is the most prevalent way threat actors find their way into your environment.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This method improves control and containment in the event of a breach by isolating affected segments while protecting the rest. In the event of a breach, segmentation improves security by blocking lateral movement. Implement automated alerts for crucial events and keep logs in a secure location that is easily accessible.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last Wednesday, an anonymous individual published a file online containing the entirety of twitch.tv’s source code, information about twitch’s internal services and development tools, penetration testing reports and tools, and payouts to prominent Twitch streamers. How do I protect my code and development tools from being leaked?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Ever since offensive security testing began, we have expected that the test or simulation will find something. Even if a pen tester doesn’t uncover an issue, the best ones can always achieve success through phishing or social engineering of your organization’s employees. That’s where offensive testing can help.

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SecureList

MAY 9, 2024

They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. We additionally observed the threat actor behind this backdoor launching penetration testing tools, such as Ligolo-ng, Inveigh and Impacket. Their recent offensive activity is contingent on current socio-political events.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

Thinking like a fraudster can help create additional barriers for these social engineering tricks and form a foundation for effective security awareness training so that the human factor hardens an organization's defenses instead of being the weakest link. Yet another step in prepping for the attack is to proofread the email.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Ransomware attackers get into a network in many ways: Social engineering. Unpatched exploits.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

Most cyber attacks are carried out using a combination of social engineering, phishing emails, and vulnerabilities — Java, Adobe Flash and Acrobat, Firefox and Chrome plugins, 0-day client-side / browser vulnerabilities. The logs need to be aggregated, safeguarded, and correlated with other relevant security events.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

” And, “Nearly half (48.8%) of C-suite and other executives expect the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ accounting and financial data to increase in the year ahead.” Fuzz Testing Fuzzing, or fuzz testing, is a common technique that hackers use to find vulnerabilities in software.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

How Much Do I Tell My Team when Engaging Red Team Testing? It’s most common for a Red Team exercise to be an extremely limited knowledge event. If your goal is to absolutely find a way from the outside into your organization, you probably should do an External Network Penetration Test instead.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The publication outlines the three areas in cybersecurity where the engineers believe that ML helps most significantly: Network intrusion detection/security information and event management (SIEM) solutions : Keeping an intrusion detection system (IDS) up to date can be a manual and time-consuming process.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

AI could impact more than just social engineering. “It’s reasonable to assume that highly automated reconnaissance target selection, penetration testing and delivery of pre-packaged victims to cyber criminals will absolutely be the norm,” said Ferguson.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Social engineering vulnerability assessment: This focuses on identifying human vulnerabilities that can be used by attackers to trick people into disclosing sensitive information that may jeopardize the security of their system. Social engineering methods include phishing , baiting, and tailgating.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning should be used to test proper implementation and configuration. Organizations need to adopt more formal, centralized control and testing to improve resilience and ensure maintained devices.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Conduct frequent security audits and penetration testing: Detect and resolve any vulnerabilities before they are exploited by fraudulent actors to minimize the likelihood of data breaches. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Social engineering: Social engineering testing is an effective tool to complement user awareness by exposing human flaws in processes that can subsequently be addressed. When considering engaging a social engineering exercise, it is important to remember that the objective is not to shame employees.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They are also becoming more concerned about how the provider monitors security events, responds to malware attacks , and reports on these issues. An effective way to prevent leaks of sensitive data is to record, store, and analyze all events that occur in the information system of the cloud provider. Looking Into The Future.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Researchers are not permitted to exfiltrate data, intentionally access the content of communications, data or information or do exploit discovered vulnerabilities “beyond the minimal amount of testing required to prove that a vulnerability exists or to identify an indicator related to a vulnerability.”.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

Conduct user awareness training: Incorporate a focused training program into onboarding and workflow process so employees can learn about social engineering strategies, phishing risks, and cloud security best practices. This increases the likelihood of security events and jeopardizes system integrity and confidentiality.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 16, 2022

This is a well-understood flow of events. It’s simulated in nearly every penetration test and red team, included in every threat intelligence report, and shows up in pretty graphs in our EDR dashboards. An attacker sends their thing. A user clicks the thing. The thing goes boom. The attacker has a callback.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2023

On our red team engagements and penetration tests, conditional access policies (CAP) often hinder our ability to directly authenticate as a target user. If and when you decide to enable TAPs, you’ll know exactly what you are signing up for and the new events you should be monitoring. As such, this detection may be more nuanced.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Crawley: Pen testing is when you simulate cyber attacks, so you're not actually conducting cyber attacks because you have the consent of the owner of the network or the computer application that you're penetration testing, but within the rules that your client has given you. And, in the middle, grey box testing.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Crawley: Pen testing is when you simulate cyber attacks, so you're not actually conducting cyber attacks because you have the consent of the owner of the network or the computer application that you're penetration testing, but within the rules that your client has given you. And, in the middle, grey box testing.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2021

Last month, I found myself Googling: Is weed legal in Nevada? This was the day after arriving in Reno for Wild West Hacking Fest – Way West 2021. I kept noticing that the hotel smelled like it from the moment we arrived. I was attending one of the first security conventions to have an in-person ….

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the event of a ransomware attack, an organization could lose access to part or all of its network data and systems, blocking further work. Like any malware, ransomware enters the network through attack vectors like phishing emails , social engineering , software and remote desktop protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities, and malicious websites.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

There is a sequence of log events that indicates whether the client push method was used to install the client, but the logs do not indicate whether automatic or manual client push installation was used. Review the System Windows Logs events that occurred a few minutes before and after the last time ccmsetup was executed.

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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. In the event of the Ransomware assault, the G Suite administrator will receive a notification about the incident either via e-mail or by Slack.

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