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Episode 229: BugCrowd’s Casey Ellis On What’s Hot In Bug Hunting

The Security Ledger

Related Stories Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling Episode 226: The Cyber Consequences Of Our Throw Away Culture Spotlight: Automation Beckons as DevOps, IoT Drive PKI Explosion. The post Episode 229: BugCrowd’s Casey Ellis On What’s Hot In Bug Hunting appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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NEW TECH: Exabeam retools SIEMs; applies credit card fraud detection tactics to network logs

The Last Watchdog

Related: How NSA cyber weapon could be used for a $200 billion ransomware caper. The earliest SIEMs cropped up around 2005 or so. Related: Autonomous vehicles are driving IoT security innovation. And on the horizon loom a full blown Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks , which will drive data generation to new heights.

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MY TAKE: Equipping SOCs for the long haul – automation, edge security solidify network defenses

The Last Watchdog

Primary vectors take the form of phishing campaigns, supply chain corruption and ransomware attacks, like the one that recently resulted in the shut down of Colonial Pipeline. Here are the takeaways: Pressurized landscape. Organizations today must withstand a constant barrage of cyber attacks.

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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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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware. In 2005, Sony BMG delivered millions of CDs with a rootkit that monitored listening habits and unintentionally left a backdoor to the device for cybercriminals. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Email is also usually how ransomware works. Bots and botnets.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

Mikko had read some of my reporting on Netsky, which Skynet backwards, a virus also known as Sasser, was a typical virus-of-the-day back in 2005. Instead we have these faceless ransomware groups. Hypponen: I think the big shift has been around ransomware groups going after the biggest possible talks. So it pays off.

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Top SD-WAN Solutions for Enterprise Security

eSecurity Planet

Designed for zero trust and SASE security frameworks Identity-based intrusion detection and prevention ( IDPS ) and access control Automated integrations with leading cloud-hosted security vendors Integrated threat defense for DDoS , phishing , and ransomware attacks Insights into client devices with AI-based discovery and profiling techniques.

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