Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2019

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. The vulnerability is not part of the applications themselves but of the underlying Electron framework -- ­and that vulnerability allows malicious activities to be hidden within processes that appear to be benign.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since the inception of data forensics almost forty years ago, methods for investigating security events have given way to a market of vendors and tools offering digital forensics software (DFS). As cybercrime flourishes and evolves, organizations need a fleet of tools to defend and investigate incidents. The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As that definition spans the cloud and data centers, and on-premises, mobile and web users, application security needs to encompass a range of best practices and tools. DevSecOps and code security and debugging tools can help with developer issues in general, but we’ll cover many more controls and best practices in the next section.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

There is also less hardware and compute power to work in your typical IoT device when compared to traditional devices, so embedding security becomes a matter of choice, rather than necessity. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Security isn’t static.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Indeed many sandboxes have signatures on certutils, since it’s quite a notorious tool used by some attackers, so that avoiding the behavior signature match it would take a lower score from public sandboxes. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. OCX VT coverage.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

This office had sort of crawled to a halt, because they were processing kids that had lost their parents and they were trying to find profiles and sponsors for them, sponsors that pay for their schooling and all that stuff, and their network, their computers were so screwed up that they had to like stop. People that tool leather in Africa.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. The trouble is, details of this leaked prematurely.

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