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Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks

Security Affairs

Some targeted entities may discount the threat posed by these social engineering campaigns, either because they do not perceive their research and communications as sensitive in nature, or because they are not aware of how these efforts fuel the regime’s broader cyber espionage efforts. ” reads the joint advisory.

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DDoS amplify attack targets Citrix Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Security Affairs

The DTLS protocol is a communications protocol for securing delay-sensitive apps and services that use datagram transport. The attacks began last week, the systems administrator Marco Hofmann first detailed them. I found these source IP addresses of the attackers in my nstraces: 45.200.42.0/24 24 220.167.109.0/24

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

It covers seven security domains: security operations and administration; access controls ; risk identification, monitoring and analysis; incident response and recovery; cryptography ; network and communications security; and systems and application security. The 125-question exam takes up to 3 hours to complete.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

“I believe a privacy-focused communications platform will be even more important than today’s open platforms,” Zuckerberg said. Reputations tend to color the way we read events. Denying anything happened gives system administrators more time to identify and patch newly discovered vulnerabilities.

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How to Perform a Vulnerability Scan in 10 Steps

eSecurity Planet

A good vulnerability scanning tool should allow you to plan scans or trigger them depending on events or situations. On-Demand Scans may be used to detect folder/file collaboration events and ensure that the appropriate remedial action is taken, hence facilitating collaboration/sharing-related remediation processes.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet. Check Point.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Beyond MITRE ATT&CK

ForAllSecure

LineCON is when you’re queued up for a talk or an event and someone starts taking to you. But once they get in, how do they operate, and a lot of them just use the same tools that your system administrators would use to move around the environment. And so then it becomes Okay, well, how can you defend against this?