The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. When it comes to cyber warfare, America is no shrinking violet, of course. They use a botnet to feed a large number of usernames and passwords into accounts associated with the targeted entity.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Among those affected was SAP SE. Breached records: more than 56 million.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. One tried-and-true incursion method pivots off social engineering.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. Of course, you need an explicit consent, which is usually a legal agreement, to run a pentest, but you must also define the scope very precisely before the operation. Of course, some cases may require other tools.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

A new report from Cybereason has highlighted the alarming scale and variety of attacks faced by ICS or industrial control systems, and it seems that it’s not only nation-state attackers but also opportunistic traditional cybercriminals that are now targeting utility providers. These included recipients’ usernames and email addresses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Of course our guest on this episode, he already knew all that. It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever. Then from there we go to a we're brute forcing username passwords or credentials. They spent that time researching and understanding the environment.

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