Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

USinfoSearch’s statement did not address any questions put to the company, such as whether it requires multi-factor authentication for customer accounts, or whether my report had actually come from USinfoSearch’s systems. In this case we let them in to honeypot them, and that’s how they got that screenshot.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

Cybereason’s researchers recently set up a honeypot environment with a network architecture that replicated that of “typical power substation” and waited. Only two days after the honeypot was launched, it was attacked by a black-market seller, who installed backdoors that would allow anyone to access it, even if admin passwords were changed.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

If your internal point-of-sale system goes down, you’re no longer able to complete in-store transactions until the server outage is fixed. And network users don’t just need to be authorized — they need to be authenticated, too. Honeypots A computer system specifically designed to trap attackers is called a honeypot.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

In this simple environment network security followed a simple protocol: Authenticate the user : using a computer login (username + password) Check the user’s permissions: using Active Directory or a similar Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Enable communication with authorized network resources (servers, printers, etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Although beyond the scope of the network, effective network security relies upon the effective authentication of the user elsewhere in the security stack. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) : In today’s ransomware-riddled environment, two-factor authentication should also be considered a minimum requirement for all forms of remote access.

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