The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

For instance, major vulnerability was discovered lurking in the GNU C Library, or GLIBC, an open source component that runs deep inside of Linux operating systems used widely in enterprise settings. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. Manipulating runtime. This quickly gets intricately technical.

Energy and Utilities 212

Energy and Utilities Systems administration Access Cybersecurity 212

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The courses in the plan are focused on services that are relevant to developers building applications on the IBM Cloud platform and prepare you for the certification exam, which you can now take online with Pearson Vue. Explore our IBM solutions library here The post IBM Cloud solution tutorials: 2023 in review appeared first on IBM Blog.

Cloud 65

Cloud Cleanup Compliance Security 65

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And therefore, knowing of course how these things are delivered and so on. Of course it's an edited version of the tool that's written by Benjamin Delby , but we've got definitely much much more tools that we have, like, written from zero, from this crutch in house.

Encryption 52

Encryption Ransomware Passwords IT 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

Passwords 52

Passwords Authentication Access Data breaches 52

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect. Users were encouraged to change their passwords. million customers worldwide.

Data breaches 55

Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 55

ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Was there a misconfiguration? What's this?

Security 52

Security IoT Manufacturing IT 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Was there a misconfiguration? What's this?

Security 52

Security IoT Manufacturing IT 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Thanks to these crypto libraries, today’s online economy is the size of Spain’s GDP! Did someone just forgot to change the default password? Was there a misconfiguration? What's this?

Security 52

Security IoT Manufacturing IT 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Q: If a ransomware attack happens in the future, is it likely that if tape is used, the attackers will use their system access to attack the tape library and robot since they did not get what they want? As we have seen, hackers keep upping their game and it is just a matter of time before they add attacks on tape robots and libraries.

Ransomware 143

Ransomware Libraries Encryption Passwords 143

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

You’re gonna push as part of your DevOps cycle through, you know, things like making sure you’re not using old versions of libraries. I mean, this is assuming you kind of do the base, like, did the person forget to set a password? ” as well as, of course, where the bug’s fixed. Brumley: Absolutely.

Marketing 52

Marketing Government IT Systems administration 52

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2021

I mean after all the usual Maslow's hierarchy of needs stuff , of course, the thing that I (and many of my readers) can instil in our kids is a deep passion for this life-altering and possibly career-defining thing that increasingly defines our everyday being. The greatest gift I can give my kids is a love of technology.

Education 28

Education IT Retail Libraries 28

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

Passwords 52

Passwords e-Discovery Encryption Paper 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

Passwords 52

Passwords e-Discovery Encryption Paper 52

Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

Predictions of, and calls for, the end of passwords have been ringing through the press for many years now. None the less, the experience of most people is that passwords remain a central, albeit frustrating, feature of their online lives. Lastly, many security guides advocate for the use of password managers. Introduction.

Security 118

Security Passwords Authentication Phishing 118

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

You’re gonna push as part of your DevOps cycle through, you know, things like making sure you’re not using old versions of libraries. I mean, this is assuming you kind of do the base, like, did the person forget to set a password? ” as well as, of course, where the bug’s fixed. Brumley: Absolutely.

Marketing 40

Marketing Government IT Systems administration 40

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

You’re gonna push as part of your DevOps cycle through, you know, things like making sure you’re not using old versions of libraries. I mean, this is assuming you kind of do the base, like, did the person forget to set a password? ” as well as, of course, where the bug’s fixed. Brumley: Absolutely.

Marketing 40

Marketing Government IT Systems administration 40

IT Governance

MAY 24, 2024

Very basic controls can get you a long way: Strong passwords and MFA [multifactor authentication] Anti-malware software Secure configuration Regular patching Firewalls Not doing these types of things just makes you a more likely target. For example, take the ransomware attack on the British Library last year.

Security 104

Security Risk Ransomware Phishing 104

eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

Of course, hackers also use Ncat. The NSEDoc Reference Portal links to the full list of 604 Nmap scripts and 139 Nmap script libraries. All of the scripts are written using the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) and the lists of scripts or libraries additionally link to individual pages with more in-depth information.

Communications 52

Communications Access Security Manufacturing 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

Authentication 52

Authentication Passwords Artificial Intelligence IT 52

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

I was reminded of this just yesterday when my friend from Cloudflare, Junade Ali, posted this: Now @LastPass has added breached password notifications using the k-Anonymity API design by me and @troyhunt - joining @1Password , Okta PassProtect, Apple, Google, etc. Most of the libraries HIBP uses are open source.

Passwords 145

Passwords IT Privacy Libraries 145

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

They'd left a MongoDB instance exposed to the public without a password and someone had snagged all their data. Or someone else makes one in a library or platform I'm dependent on and wammo! Of course he's going to be nice! But I can make mistakes. Coding mistakes. Configuration mistakes. It is I who is pwned.

Data breaches 27

Data breaches IT Security Libraries 27

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

Cybersecurity 121

Cybersecurity Ransomware Passwords Cloud 121