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Q&A: Why emerging IoT platforms require the same leading-edge security as industrial controls

The Last Watchdog

In 2019, and moving ahead, look for legacy IT business networks to increasingly intersect with a new class of networks dedicated to controlling the operations of a IoT-enabled services of all types, including smart buildings, IoT-enabled healthcare services and driverless cars. Related: Why the golden age of cyber espionage is upon us.

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SIEM Explained: What is SIEM and How Does it Work?

eSecurity Planet

Gartner first coined the term SIEM in 2005 to combine the technologies of security event management (SEM) and security information management (SIM). If the SIEM analysis detected malware or malicious activity, it could generate alerts for a security engineer or security operations center (SOC) to investigate. What is a SIEM?

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

SIEMs failed to live up to their hype in the decade after they were first introduced in 2005. Then about five years ago SIEMs got recast as the ideal mechanism for ingesting event log data arriving from Internet traffic, corporate hardware, mobile and IoT devices and cloud-hosted resources — the stuff of digital transformation.

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Gulf countries came under hackers’ spotlight in 2018, with more than 130 000 payment cards compromised

Security Affairs

This data comes not only from the analysis of underground forums and phishing websites, but also from the analysis of cybercriminals’ infrastructure (including but not limited to C&Cs) and malware disassembling. Group-IB Threat Intelligence experts detected a total of 138 978 compromised cards issued by the Gulf countries’ banks.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

The Outlaw Botnet uses brute force and SSH exploit (exploit Shellshock Flaw and Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability ) to achieve remote access to the target systems, including server and IoT devices. Shellbot is known since 2005 and even available on GitHub. Technical Analysis.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Dave Kennedy started as forensic analysis and cyber warfare specialist in the US Marine Corps before entering the enterprise space. In-depth technical analysis of a new method of extracting user cardholder data from compromised websites using legit Google Analytics protocol ? Read more: Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021.

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Top SD-WAN Solutions for Enterprise Security

eSecurity Planet

The vendor’s Secure SD-WAN product sits under Barracuda’s Network Protection solutions alongside zero trust access, industrial security for OT and IoT networks , and SASE. Founded in 2005, Palo Alto Networks is a leading network security provider whose reputation extends to its SD-WAN capabilities. Palo Alto Networks.

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