eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The diagram below, for example, shows that application-level controls are Microsoft’s responsibility with software as a service (SaaS) models, but it is the customer’s responsibility in IaaS deployments. What authentication methods does the provider support? Does the provider encrypt data while in transit and at rest?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Defending Against RDP Attacks Examples of Notable RDP Attacks Remote Desktop Software and Cybersecurity Secure Remote Desktop Solutions The Importance of Remote Monitoring and Management. RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

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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.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2023

User Authentication: In addition to checking VLAN IDs to ensure they match and are approved for that particular VLAN, many other user authentication methods are typically used to ensure devices and users are approved for that VLAN. Trunk: The trunk port forwards and facilitates VLAN-to-VLAN communication across multiple VLANs.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. This tests against ten types of weak password related threats for example; Weak, Duplicate, Empty, Never Expires, plus six more. We have verified its authenticity. Are your users' passwords…P@ssw0rd?

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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. Consider, for example, the security advantage of static versus dynamic SQL statements.

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Robert's Db2

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In a follow-on Part 2 entry, I'll address the challenge of enabling a DBA or system administrator to do his or her job whilst preventing that person from being able to access data in user tables. When you omit the WITH USE FOR clause of CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT, it is as though you'd specified WITH USE FOR PUBLIC WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION.

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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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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

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. In this case, recipients should be suspicious that the Ring login page is hosted on immobilmedia[.]com com instead of ring[.]com. Be careful with display name spoofing.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. Class breaks are endemic to computerized systems, and they're not something that we as users can defend against with better personal security. For Twitter users, this attack was a double whammy.

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