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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

I spoke with Greg Young, Cybersecurity Vice President at Trend Micro about this. Trend Micro has evolved from one of the earliest suppliers of antivirus suites to a provider of a broad platform of systems to help individuals and organizations reduce cyber exposures. We met at RSA 2020 in San Francisco.

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TeamTNT is back and targets servers to run Bitcoin encryption solvers

Security Affairs

In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The discovery of the recent attacks is important because on November 6th, 2021, TeamTNT communicated via Twitter a farewell note.

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Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers

Security Affairs

Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted an IRC bot dubbed Shellbot that was built using Perl Shellbot. “During the traffic monitoring, several identities such as luci, lucian, dragos, mazy, hydra, and poseidon were spotted in IRC communication channels.” ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro.

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Android Botnet leverages ADB ports and SSH to spread

Security Affairs

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB ( Android Debug Bridge ) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).

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Cryptojacking campaign uses Shodan to scan for Docker hosts to hack

Security Affairs

A new cryptojacking campaign was spotted by experts at Trend Micro, crooks are using Shodan to scan for Docker hosts with exposed APIs. This script also starts an SSH daemon inside the container for remote communication.” ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” concludes Trend Micro.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. The router or switch then facilitated communication between the other devices on the network such as other servers, network storage, and printers. How Network Security Works Networks connect assets for the purpose of communication.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

or specialized tools to deliver obfuscation defenses such as: Honeypots: Provide tempting targets for attackers that contain no valid information as one of several similar deception technologies to trigger alerts for early attack detection. Communication protocols (TCP, HTTPS, etc.): behind the proxy.

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