The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

Vulnerability researchers, ranging from penetration testers to threat actors, continually seek out fresh security flaws which SAP subsequently issues patches for. And it is only a matter of time before threat actors pull off a high-profile data breach. It makes perfect sense for them to do so. In 2016 the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

A universe of devices and technology has fallen into our laps at a speed that organizations struggle to manage effectively. As more information about IoT device vulnerabilities is published, the pressure on industry and government authorities to enhance security standards might be reaching a tipping point. By 2025, we expect 21.5

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 15, 2021

Indeed, according to recent data, 67% of users stated they would use a solution that automatically updates card details for online services and wallets when a card expires or is replaced, if it was available. The first journey: The physical Card issuance leveraging the secure chip.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It’s rare that I agree with someone so much on the topic of securing connected devices. Weak or known credentials Secure communication No backdoors Security configuration He had an interesting point about this on Twitter as well, saying: If you called these devices unsafe instead of insecure, you might have better results.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

More than 1,500 organizations worldwide spanning Financial Services, Defense, Manufacturing, Energy, Aerospace, and Transportation Systems trust OPSWAT to secure their files and devices; ensure compliance with industry and government-driven policies and regulations, and protect their reputation, finances,?employees,?and employees,?and

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Enterprise Secrets Management Explained: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tool Selection madhav Thu, 08/17/2023 - 06:28 Whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, modern applications and integrations have accelerated the need for digital secrets. This is precisely what secrets management ensures. What is secrets management?

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Using LOLBINS, common legitimate pentesting tools, and fileless malware; misleading security researchers by placing false flags—these and other anti-forensic tricks often make threat attribution a matter of luck. That is why there is always a percentage of targeted attacks that remain unattributed for years. Project TajMahal.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

But while other countries took swift action to secure these vulnerabilities, the U.S. continues to utilize PACS without first closing major security gaps. Research has consistently shown that nation-state threat actors actively scan for the DICOM port. But the U.S. In the U.S., What’s going on here?

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

“Privacy gives people the freedom to be themselves and connect more naturally, which is why we build social networks.” “Privacy gives people the freedom to be themselves and connect more naturally, which is why we build social networks.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 25, 2019

Scarcity in talent means there is a critical deficit in developer security training. million employees today, according to the latest estimates from (ISC)², the world’s leading cybersecurity and IT security professional organisation. Organisations across the globe are suffering a cybersecurity workforce “gap” of around 2.9

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Experts say it’s an indicator that operators of critical infrastructure could use a serious infusion of security controls. A security advisory released earlier this week by the state of Massachusetts’s Department of Environmental Protection referred to additional unsafe practices or behaviors at the Bruce T.

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NopSec

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s not hard to understand why if you take a high-level view of the matter. It’s not hard to understand why if you take a high-level view of the matter. What a cybersecurity team is striving for is understanding and managing the risks their organization faces. That’s how risk is assessed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

At times, the quest to stay on top of web application security can seem futile. And as a CISO, you have the ongoing struggle of understanding the scope of the issue yet managing the finite and appropriate resources to secure web applications. So let's look at those odds and see why they are so daunting.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 Why is it important? Why should you perform one?

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The majority of infected devices that carried out these attacks were traced to China, India, and the United States, while China, Pakistan, and Russia were the most actively attacking countries. The security flaw enabled unauthenticated transmission of TR-064 packets, resulting in the proliferation of the Mirai malware.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 If you think you can audit your cloud-based IT infrastructure the exact same way that you assess security and privacy on a traditional on-premises network, you may be due for a reality check. link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I've long been a proponent of Content Security Policies (CSPs). I've used them to fix mixed content warnings on this blog after Disqus made a little mistake , you'll see one adorning Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and I even wrote a dedicated Pluralsight course on browser security headers.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2018

And because we are slaves to convenience, we have a propensity for taking shortcuts when it comes to designing, configuring and using digital systems. And now we are on the verge of making matters dramatically worse as smartphones and IoT devices proliferate. I recently had a chance to discuss this state of affairs with J.T.

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NopSec

AUGUST 30, 2022

In prior blogs, we’ve spelled out how an organization finds its vulnerabilities and how security teams consider threat intelligence to determine overall risk. Now let’s multiply the number of alerts the security team fields daily from a half dozen to hundreds. Once the danger is understood, the next step, of course, is to contain it.

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Spinone

JULY 24, 2019

Cloud collaboration services like Office 365 invest millions of dollars in security upgrades. However, to get the most out of Microsoft security capabilities you must implement some Office 365 security best practices. How to Secure Office 365 then? Security management. Identity and access management.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

A deep dive into macOS 11’s internals reveals some security surprises that deserve to be more widely known. Introduction Disclaimers macOS 11’s better known security improvements Secret messages revealed? CPU security mitigation APIs The NO_SMT mitigation The TECS mitigation Who benefits from NO_SMT and TECS ?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 28, 2020

Not everyone would describe cloud security as "very exciting," however, the four expert panelists who joined us on our series of SecureWorld Remote Sessions for a Q&A hour all certainly shared this sentiment. The panelists spoke on cloud migration, the state of the cloud during the pandemic, the DevOps pipeline, and more.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And why is that? So they’re often unprepared when a nation state APT choses to focus on them. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They have IT contractors who can provision laptops and maintain a certain level of compliance and security. Often they lack the visibility of a SOC.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Before selecting Veracode, Advantasure , a leader in the healthcare technology industry, was on the hunt for an AppSec program that would not only protect them against cyberattacks, but also prove compliance with laws and regulations in several states. Read on to read about the current state of AppSec from developers who face it every day.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 23, 2020

There are several benefits for using Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) for your software security. This technique, no matter how good the analysis, will always result in false positives (FPs). Why is this important? However, I can think of at least six challenges to this form of analysis. Six Problems.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last week at WordCamp OC, I gave a talk on Security for WooCommerce sites. As ecommerce sites are much more complex and typically handle sensitive data through digital payment transactions, there are a lot more points of potential security breach. The GDPR potentially affects every website no matter where they are located.

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Veracode Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Before selecting Veracode, Advantasure , a leader in the healthcare technology industry, was on the hunt for an AppSec program that would not only protect them against cyberattacks, but also prove compliance with laws and regulations in several states. Read on to read about the current state of AppSec from developers who face it every day.

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Engineering Software Technology Risk 52

Notice Bored

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Why do data need to be backed up? Does it state who those audiences are? Is it more of a detailed plan for what backups to do, when and how, than a clear and unequivocal statement of management's overall expectations re backups? What's the purpose? How should it be done? but as usual, there's more to it than that. Don't agree?

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m starting a new series with this 2022 edition where I think about what Information Security could or should look like in the distant future—say in 2050. That means asset management, identity, access control, logging, etc. We’re just not there yet with (info)security because it’s a brand-new field.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And my background is pretty straightforward with cyber security for the past 16 years on many different levels. And my background is pretty straightforward with cyber security for the past 16 years on many different levels. Vamosi: At SecTor, an annual security conference in Toronto, Paua gave not one but two talks this year.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Why have the strides toward diversity been so modest, despite declarations of support by cybersecurity companies and the industry on whole? Yet people will say things like “hey do you know how to configure a router,” or other pretty basic things. Why do you feel like you need to dumb it down or take it back to the basics?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 23, 2020

There are several benefits for using Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) for your software security. This technique, no matter how good the analysis, will always result in false positives (FPs). Why is this important? However, I can think of at least six challenges to this form of analysis. Six Problems.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 23, 2020

There are several benefits for using Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) for your software security. This technique, no matter how good the analysis, will always result in false positives (FPs). Why is this important? However, I can think of at least six challenges to this form of analysis.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

How is it different, and why do we need to pay more attention to it today, before something major happens tomorrow. James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 26, 2022

Configuration Drift for Cloud-Native Machine Identities. What is configuration drift? Unfortunately, configuration drift in the cloud is inevitable. Configuration drift occurs when the actual known state of the infrastructure differs from the last defined configuration. brooke.crothers.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. What Security Research has Already Been Performed? Why we modified TUBE_HEADVOLUME. Table of Contents.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It falls to IT security teams to determine where those vulnerabilities lie in their organization and which ones they need to prioritize. Vulnerability management tools can help, but even then finding, patching and testing vulnerabilities can still take an extraordinary amount of time. What is Vulnerability Management as a Service?

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