The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. I’ve recently had several deep-dive discussions with cybersecurity experts at Juniper Networks, about this. The intensely competitive cybersecurity talent market is partly to blame here.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in August 2020. The CISA MAR provided indicators of compromise (IoCs), Yara rules, and other technical info that could be used by system administrators to discover compromise systems within their networks. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky. .”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. This hostname connection is particularly heterogeneous, but it technically makes sense.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 3, 2018

The lack of qualified cybersecurity professionals is one of the main reasons why we are yet unable to get a handle on cybercrimes. By having more cybersecurity professionals, we can enhance security. Compounding this is the fact that most cybersecurity graduates are millennials who want to create something of their own.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Avast. However, the researchers explained that the rootkit has a functionality implemented in the proc_write function that exposes an interface in the /proc file system which could be used as an indicator of compromise when the value 1 is written into the file /proc/syslogk.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

AT&T labs provided a list of IoCs (indicators of compromise) that system administrators can use to add specific rules to security solutions. Even if the malware is highly evasive, security solutions such as EDR can spot unusual activities, especially if you enable behavioral analysis. How to Protect Against Shikitega.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2023

For the occasional, more in-depth analysis of tag quality, make VLAN tag assessment a part of your regularly scheduled network audits and vulnerability assessments. To make sure you don’t end up with a scenario like information packets with dual tags, continually monitor traffic moving within and across VLANs with network monitoring tools.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

If the NAS is exposed to the Internet the dashboard will display the message “The System Administration service can be directly accessible from an external IP address via the following protocols: HTTP.”. Administrator of devices exposed to the Internet should: Disable the Port Forwarding function of the router.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a Malware Analysis Report (MAR) that includes technical details about a new strain of malware, tracked as BLINDINGCAN, that was attributed to North Korea. In April, the U.S.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

million individuals from the Company’s systems. represented in its privacy policy that the Company used encryption and authentication tools to protect information but failed to encrypt the data (at rest) on its computer systems.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Despite WeSteal is advertised as implementing a “RAT Panel,” experts did not find RAT feature in their analysis. Organizations with effective spam filtering, proper system administration and up-to-date Windows hosts have a much lower risk of infection.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

“The lengthy delay for the cleanup routine to activate may be explained by the need to give system administrators time for forensics analysis and checking for other infections.” concludes MalwareBytes. ” If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CloudPassage’s 2021 AWS Cloud Security Report found that misconfiguration of cloud platforms (71 percent), exfiltration of sensitive data (59 percent), and insecure APIs (54 percent) are the top cloud security threats facing cybersecurity professionals. Read more: Best Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees in 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company , has identified a series of sophisticated successful phishing attacks against the management and executives of more than 150 companies around the world. The detailed technical analysis of PerSwaysion operations and attack scheme is available in Group-IB’s blog post.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

senators and representatives, it is based on documents provided by Equifax itself and the cybersecurity consultants involved in the incident response and in the investigation. The reports also refers documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security Administration (SSA), and U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Here, organizations should work toward achieving an effective system-wide process between security operations, IT operations, and system administration teams to ensure everyone is on the same page. These are the VMaaS vendors that stood out in our analysis. Others take care of everything. Ivanti VMaaS.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How to Conduct a Vulnerability Assessment: 5 Steps toward Better Cybersecurity. Password cracking consists of retrieving passwords stored in computer systems. System administrators and security teams (and hackers) can use them to spot weak passwords. Also read: Penetration Testing: How to Start a Pentesting Program.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Privileged accounts are among an organization’s biggest cybersecurity concerns. These accounts give admins control over data, applications, infrastructure and other critical assets that average system users don’t have permission to access or change. Automated threat detection takes this ease-of-use further.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Develop and implement suitable remediation procedures in collaboration with key stakeholders such as system administrators, network engineers, and security teams. To reach the target system or network, authenticated scans require valid login credentials.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

For example: Software Component Analysis tools (e.g., Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

For example: Software Component Analysis tools (e.g., Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 30, 2019

For example: Software Component Analysis tools (e.g., Over time, vendors recognized the importance of cybersecurity and created their own database of vulnerabilities. It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well.

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