Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

billion Azure AD brute force authentication attacks and detected 35.7 Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) and passwordless authentication would allow customers to protect their accounts from brute force attacks. billion Azure AD brute force authentication attacks and intercepted 35.7 ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

PaperCut MF/NG contains an improper access control vulnerability within the SetupCompleted class that allows authentication bypass and code execution in the context of system. The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

PaperCut has conducted analysis on all customer reports, and the earliest signature of suspicious activity on a customer server potentially linked to this vulnerability is 14th April 01:29 AEST / 13th April 15:29 UTC.” The PoC code allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute code on vulnerable PaperCut servers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“These senseless acts of targeting those who are unable to respond are the motivation for this research, analysis, tools, and blog post. Memory analysis gave us about a 5-minute window after files were encrypted to retrieve this public key.” ” they wrote.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

BlueCharlie primarily focuses operations on defense and intelligence consulting companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), think tanks, and higher education. ” reads the analysis published by Recorded Future. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. Mandiant researchers first observed this affiliate targeting Veritas issues in the wild on October 22, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

Email Authentication and Security Methods Organizations can combat spear phishing through email authentication protocols and security strategies. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) SPF is an authentication protocol that allows domain owners to specify the IP addresses they are allowed to send on their behalf.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2021

The company started in education and has expanded to government and corporate markets. ExtremeControl is popular with education, entertainment, hospitality and healthcare customers and can scale to 200,000 endpoints. This solution is popular among education and healthcare in part due to its focus on maintaining regulatory compliance.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The technologies for secure remote access can range from VPNs and multi-factor authentication to more advanced access and zero trust controls. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, and monitoring systems are just a few of the tools and procedures used to maintain security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The experts focused their analysis on devising attack techniques to break cloud isolation by bypassing the security boundaries implemented by cloud providers and gaining access to other customers’ sensitive data. ” reads the analysis. ” reads the advisory published by Wiz.

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Info Source

JULY 18, 2023

By Petra Beck, Senior Analyst Capture Software, Infosource Key Takeaways The expanded eIDAS (electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services) 2.0 The EC initiated the European electronic Identification, Authentication and trust Services initiative (eIDAS Regulation). regulation is entering implementation stage in the EU.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

PaperCut MF/NG contains an improper access control vulnerability within the SetupCompleted class that allows authentication bypass and code execution in the context of SYSTEM. process creation analysis), log file analysis, and Network signatures. The CVE-2023-27350 flaw is a PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Researchers discovered a new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, dubbed Panchan, targeting Linux servers in the education sector since March 2022. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. At the time of the analysis, the researchers discovered 209 peers, 40 of which are currently active. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Careful analysis reveals typical elements that may indicate that this is a fake site. In this case, one must act immediately, without panic or fear: Immediately change the password of the targeted service; Activate two-factor authentication, if you have not already done so; Contact the targeted organisation and the police.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The APT group is using almost exclusively living-off-the-land techniques and hands-on-keyboard activity to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

The law also allows operators to use covered information to comply with applicable law or for legitimate research purposes (in certain circumstances), and to disclose covered information to a State or local educational agency for PreK-12 school purposes, as permitted by State or federal law.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Kaspersky researchers have published an analysis of phishers’ Telegram channels used to promote their services and products. ” continues the analysis. These bots allows phishers to bypass 2FA (two-factor authentication) protections automatically. ” Phishing-as-a-Service. One-time password (OTP) bots.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

PaperCut has conducted analysis on all customer reports, and the earliest signature of suspicious activity on a customer server potentially linked to this vulnerability is 14th April 01:29 AEST / 13th April 15:29 UTC.” ” The CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score – 9.8) is a PaperCut MF/NG Improper Access Control Vulnerability. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. ” reads the analysis. “The described installation technique is unique.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

These systems are widely used in enterprises and educational organizations. ” reads the analysis published by Tenable. Experts also found a denial-of-service (DoS) flaw and credentials stored in plain text that could be accessible to authenticated users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

’ The shared responsibility model allows application owners to add an authentication function by simply clicking a button. ” continues the analysis. The vulnerability is related to a misconfiguration in ‘Shared Responsibility confusion.’ Below is the disclosure timeline: Jan.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Endpoint detection and response (EDR).

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

See 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)-(B): Implementation Specification: Risk Analysis (required), Implementation Specification: Risk Management (required); see also 45 CFR 164.304 (definition of “Availability”). implement stronger authentication solutions, such as multi-factor authentication. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Voice-based queries use natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis for speech recognition so their conversations can begin immediately. Education In education and training , AI can tailor educational materials to each individual student’s needs.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Finally, the Department of Commerce will develop new standards for content authentication and watermarking for AI-generated content, and U.S. The Administration will develop best practices to guide the use of AI throughout the criminal justice system, including the use of AI in sentencing, policing, and forensic analysis.

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Adam Shostack

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It ties together some deeper analysis of where we are with the discipline of security engineering, some of the challenges we face, and how we can solve them. These errors include selecting bad tooling, using tools badly, or failing to recognize that they must authenticate, sanitize or otherwise apply security knowledge to a situation.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 17, 2019

annually, for a period of five years, engage an independent third-party professional to conduct a current, comprehensive and thorough risk analysis of security risks to be reviewed by the Indiana Attorney General and shared with the 15 other states that were parties to the litigation. The case was filed in the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

The agent does the vulnerability scan and sends the results to a central server for analysis and remediation. platform for analysis and vulnerability assessment. The agent gathers information and connects with a central server, which manages and analyzes vulnerability data. This data is subsequently transmitted to the Tenable.io

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Preservica

AUGUST 14, 2020

As stated recently by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months,” a sentiment likely shared by educators and home workers struggling to adapt to remote access and a bevy of new applications. Active Preservation.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified hundreds of compromised credentials from Singaporean government agencies and educational institutions over the course of 2017 and 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Organization type: corporate, education, utility, non-profit, government International regions: Asia, South America, North America, etc. These reports suffer some significant sampling errors in their analysis that limit their usefulness.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In direct response to the publication of Radware’s analysis of the new discovery of the DemonBot malware strain effecting Hadoop clusters earlier the week, October 25th, 2018, 0x20k of Ghost Squad Hackers has released the full source code of the 0day exploit used to build his newest model; the FICORA Botnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 13, 2018

In these blog posts, we look at how a public key infrastructure (PKI) -based solution for managing the authentication and confidentiality for users, devices and networks are crucial to data integrity. In addition to educating users about the dangers of the IoT, physical measures must be taken.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28). Blockchain, Provenance, and Authentic Information. Information and Content Explosion. Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. One use case is supply chains.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Take advantage of how technology is levelling the playing field Technology has broken barriers and created greater access to opportunities in other fields for years: education, healthcare, etc. “…present yourself as a gift…and put into energy solving someone’s problem,” he said.

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