The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Related: Equipping Security Operations Centers (SOCs) for the long haul. Enterprises have long operated in an implicit trust model with their partners. Web architecture from the past decade followed a trend where most web applications were server heavy, and enterprises’ data centers handled the bulk of the processing.

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Cisco Security

JULY 26, 2021

As organizations accelerate their transition to hybrid cloud, multicloud, and other dynamic environments, static security controls are no longer adequate. The shift of applications and the associated security controls within dynamic cloud environments create challenges for firewall teams to keep up with security requirements.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Microsoft this month also issued a different patch for another MSDT flaw, tagged as CVE-2022-35743. “So it’s no surprise they are often targeted by more advanced attackers. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. So why do we do these government warnings then? ” Huntley added. “At

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The common acronym in nearly all of Saim Raza’s domains over the years — “FUD” — stands for “ F ully U n- D etectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances. ZERO OPERATIONAL SECURITY.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh , which claims to be based in the United States. The Army told Reuters it removed an app containing Pushwoosh in March, citing “security concerns.” Edwards said the U.S.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In subsequent posts we are diving deeper into different Cisco Secure detection technologies and how their respective detections can be prioritised, promoted to SecureX as incidents and extended. Medium and Low – possibly malicious or risky detections, that could indicate about a potential compromise or degraded security posture.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Today’s columnist, Raj Badhwar of Voya Financial, says to prevent cloud-based breaches like the one that happened to Capital One in 2019, security teams need to develop an enterprise cloud operating model based on a cloud-first approach. For Phase 1, establish a core cloud infrastructure security foundation.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

The Ireland Health Service Executive (HSE) is continuing to operate under electronic health record (EHR) downtime procedures and experiencing continued care disruptions, after suffering a ransomware attack more than six weeks ago. The average price tag for downtime is just over $274,000. D464-Darren Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0 Cost comparisons.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 28, 2021

Recent cyber attacks on industrial organizations and critical infrastructures have made it clear: operational and IT networks are inseparably linked. The traditional security perimeter that industrial organizations have built over the years by installing industrial demilitarized zone (IDMZ) is no longer sufficient. Endpoint compliance.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Bahrain government and groups linked to them—such as LULU , a known operator of Pegasus, and others like them who are associated with a separate government—were tagged as culprits of the surveillance activity. Dubbed by Citizen Lab as FORCEDENTRY, this iMessage exploit is said to have been in use since February 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here are our picks for the top threat intelligence feeds that security teams should consider adding to their defensive arsenal: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange: Best for community-driven threat feeds FBI InfraGard: Best for critical infrastructure security abuse.ch

Internet 72

Internet Internet Cybersecurity Malware 72

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A surge of critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits has made for a very busy week in IT security, affecting a range of tech giants like Atlassian, Cisco, Apple, Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft. And Linux distributions and the TorchServe AI tool were confronted with major security flaws too.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

Migrating IT systems and applications out of the data center to cloud computing platforms is a tenet of an effective digital transformation strategy. But in their rush to the cloud, too many organizations fail to identify the security risks that are unique to cloud computing, primarily misconfigurations. Cloud Security Myth No.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

Security experts from Symantec are warning of tech support scams abusing Call Optimization Services to insert phone numbers. Crooks are improving their tech support scams by using Call Optimization Services that are commonly used in legitimate call center operations to perform: Tracking the source of inbound calls.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Companies have moved quickly to embrace cloud native applications and infrastructure to take advantage of cloud provider systems and to align their design decisions with cloud properties of scalability, resilience, and security first architectures.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Today, on December 27, 2023, we ( Boris Larin , Leonid Bezvershenko , and Georgy Kucherin ) delivered a presentation, titled, “Operation Triangulation: What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers”, at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress (37C3), held at Congress Center Hamburg.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

An individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple , Dell , and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

–( BUSINESS WIRE )–In a brief video explainer and commentary, Josh Stella , co-founder and CEO of Fugue , the cloud security and compliance SaaS company, talks to business and security leaders about what hackers are searching for when they target cloud computing infrastructures and how to thwart them. FREDERICK, Md.–(

Architecture 52

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Carcano offers five takeaways security teams can put to work. This incident reflects the state of all too many industrial control system (ICS) installations, especially those with smaller budgets or size, where security gets overlooked or under deployed. What specific operation technology (OT) processes are involved?

Artificial Intelligence 73

Artificial Intelligence Risk Engineering Firmware 73

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Virtual local area networks (VLANs) are one of the most important networking innovations of the last 30 years, enabling organizations of all sizes to expand or specialize their operations with virtually segmented networking groups and operations. Also read: What is a VLAN?

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Container Security and Cloud Native Best Practices. This makes the base image the most important one to secure. . There are different types of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Microsoft Azure), and below you’ll read more about their specific best practices of container security. . What Are Container Security Risks?

Architecture 69

Architecture Risk Accountability Software 69

SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Carcano offers five takeaways security teams can put to work. This incident reflects the state of all too many industrial control system (ICS) installations, especially those with smaller budgets or size, where security gets overlooked or under deployed. What specific operation technology (OT) processes are involved?

Artificial Intelligence 71

Artificial Intelligence Risk Engineering Firmware 71

McAfee

OCTOBER 30, 2020

McAfee MVISION Cloud was the first to market with a CASB solution to address the need to secure corporate data in the cloud. Today, Gartner named McAfee a Leader in the 2020 annual Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) for the fourth time evaluating CASB vendors. Government’s Joint Authorization Board (JAB).

Marketing 86

Marketing Architecture Risk Encryption 86

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates address 56 CVEs in multiple products, including Windows components,NET Framework, Azure IoT, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Edge for Android, Exchange Server, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, Skype for Business and Lync, and Windows Defender. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DNS IoT Backups Mobile 98

Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2018

” Alex Bolling, the former chief of operations at the CIA’s Information Operations Center, approached the problem of cyber attacks against critical infrastructure that in most of the cases are owned by private entities. intelligence or military operations.” ” continues CyberScoop. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 31, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 26, 2023. In general, an event is considered material if it has a significant impact on the financial position, operations, or relationship with customers of a company. Kind of like how we use hashtags to tag different information in our social media posts. What is inline XBRL?”

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The security operations center ( SecOps ) team sits on the front lines of a cybersecurity battlefield. The SecOps team works around the clock with precious and limited resources to monitor enterprise systems, identify and investigate cybersecurity threats, and defend against security breaches.

DNS 67

DNS Manufacturing Data breaches Risk 67

Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2022, the same threat actor started spoofing various important entities in South Korea, including KRNIC (Korea Internet Information Center), Korean security vendors such as Ahnlab, cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, and others. Figure 3 below shows that the decoy content of the document is related to Menlo Security company.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

So far so good, and it could have been the end of the story, but then Kenneth followed up: We’re now also operating another 32 other mirrors which are optimized for minimal storage and hosting only the highest traffic projects […] Would the Kali project be willing to accept ten additional mirrors from the FCIX organization?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. The phishing emails were carefully crafted and written on behalf of a medical center that is part of the organization under attack. The attackers were able to find this information on the medical center’s public website.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2022

The malware operator exclusively used compromised web servers located in South Korea for this attack. Flag for starting C2 operation. Time to start backdoor operation. If the expected value from the C2 server is received, the malware starts its backdoor operation. Securely delete a file. Length(bytes). Description.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JULY 31, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 26, 2023. In general, an event is considered material if it has a significant impact on the financial position, operations, or relationship with customers of a company. Kind of like how we use hashtags to tag different information in our social media posts. What is inline XBRL?”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. The attacker used an old version of Microsoft.Exchange.WebService.dll tagged as 15.0.0.0 I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. WebService.dll assemply version.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In such a case the redirection script pushes to one of the following domains by introducing the HTML meta “refresh” tag, pointing the browser URL to a random choice between 4 different entries belonging to the following two domains: http[://com-kl96.net I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Malware 42

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Microsoft Office 365 is a powerful collection of business productivity tools and services including Microsoft Office products that allow businesses to effectively have the entire portfolio of products and services needed to carry out businesses operations effectively and efficiently.

Mobile 40

Mobile Cloud Migration Software Artificial Intelligence 40

Cisco Security

APRIL 21, 2021

A single developer can develop code, deploy an infrastructure through code into a public cloud, construct security groups through code, and deploy an application on the resulting environment all through a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. From Operational View to Threat Model. To contextualize a requirement.

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