The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication. To boost productivity, they must leverage cloud infrastructure and participate in agile software development. This applies to established companies migrating to cloud infrastructure as well as to digital native startups. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2020

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. The phishing lure starts with a link that leads to the real login page for a cloud email and/or file storage service.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

It’s not difficult to visualize how companies interconnecting to cloud resources at a breakneck pace contribute to the outward expansion of their networks’ attack surface. They then were able to trick some 18,000 companies into deploying an authentically-signed Orion update carrying a heavily-obfuscated backdoor.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

But as businesses like Amazon and Microsoft that provide cloud services dig deeper for evidence, it now appears Russia exploited multiple layers of the supply chain to gain access to as many as 250 networks.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations often utilize multiple vulnerability scanning solutions for assessing different aspects of their IT infrastructure like endpoints, cloud assets, databases, and network devices. Performing a complete scan with authentication, which entails giving valid login credentials, may increase the number of CVE findings identified.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

These tools allow for the central management and deployment of patches across multiple systems simultaneously, streamlining the process and saving time. Downtime Patching Linux systems usually requires restarting or rebooting the entire system, and this can result in downtime.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

Researchers disclosed a flaw in VMware Cloud Director platform, tracked as CVE-2020-3956 , that could be abused to takeover corporate servers. VMware Cloud Director is a cloud service-delivery platform that allows organizations to operate and manage successful cloud-service businesses. The flaw received a score of 8.8

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Alarmingly, this API lacks any form of authentication, allowing virtually anyone, even a malicious website you might visit, to send commands to the CLI. They can be remotely exploited without authentication, potentially enabling remote code execution, service disruptions, and arbitrary operations on the routers. via port 8076.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 23, 2018

Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17 percent in 2018 to $287.8 While the increase in cloud migration is by no means a new trend, we are seeing more and more organizations seeking cloud-like consolidation, whether on-premises or in a private or public cloud. billion, up from $246.8

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

These solutions are typically available as software products or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, depending on the environment, whether on-premises data centers or hybrid and cloud systems. PAM is the utility that verifies the permissions for administrative users according to these policies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The threat actors leverage perfectly orchestrated social engineering technique by “persuading” people holding significant corporate positions to open a non-malicious PDF email attachment coming from an authentic address in their contacts. The page resembles an authentic Microsoft Office 365 file sharing page. About Group-IB.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA madhav Tue, 08/01/2023 - 05:18 Incorporating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a fundamental security measure for your organization is now considered standard practice. MFA bombing or MFA fatigue attacks demonstrate the limitations of simple two-factor or multi-factor authentication.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 9, 2022

In part 1 of this two-part blog entry on thoroughly assessing data security in a Db2 for z/OS environment, I covered four aspects of Db2 data protection: privilege management, client authentication, data encryption and column masks/row permissions. Application architecture - Can application architecture enhance Db2 data protection?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

Students, parents and teachers at each K-12 facility, henceforth, need to be treated as the equivalent of remote workers given to using a wide variety of personally-owned computing devices and their favorite cloud services subscriptions. And it must be assumed that many of them are likely ignorant of good cyber hygiene practices.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

There was this big migration of data from on-prem to cloud, and the next big shift is going to be the migration of data into these generative apps," he says. This example uses 'Ring Video Doorbell' as the display name, but recipients should be suspicious that the sender's email address isn't an authentic Ring email address.

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