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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Lousy IoT Security

Schneier on Security

Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five vulnerabilities of four different kinds: Data exposure: PDF files of shared whiteboards (e.g. OTA -- over-the-air updates) were stored in a publicly accessible AWS S3 bucket that also lacked TLS encryption (CVE-2019-16270, CVE-2019-16274).

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Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

Security Affairs

Cyber security researcher Luca Mella analyzed the Makop ransomware employed in a recent intrusion. Their operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage. filename: YDArk.exe md5: 9fd28d2318f66e4fe37a9a5bc1637928 Figure.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

This article looks at the remote desktop protocol, how RDP attacks work, best practices for defense, the prevalence of RDP attacks today, and how remote desktop software vendors are securing their clients. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Table of Contents. What is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

eSecurity Planet

However, with all the benefits SD-WAN provides organizations, it also opens the door for a new set of security challenges. This article looks at the security functionality of SD-WAN solutions and how to bolster SD-WAN cybersecurity. Security Challenges to SD-WAN. Also read : Top XDR Security Solutions.

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Is the Resurgence of Phishing Attacks A Cause For Concern?

Adapture

Let this sink in: For every 10 cyber security incidents that are reported, 8 of them are phishing attacks. What’s more, phishing attacks target what’s often the weakest link in an organization’s security infrastructure; namely, its end users. If the attachment is a ransomware, your end user’s computer could get encrypted and locked up.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

The US Justice Department says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security researchers, but what constitutes good-faith security research? He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Is hacking a crime? But MIT didn’t press charges.

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