eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The malware was first spotted on February 9, 2022, when 360Netlab’s honeypot system captured an unknown ELF file that was spreading by exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. The post B1txor20 Linux botnet use DNS Tunnel and Log4J exploit appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. ” wrote Diachenko.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

There’s no doubt that monitoring and continually updating all parts of a multi-tiered security system is a must-do best practice. Tweaking one system can open fresh, unforeseen security holes in another. DeSanto: When you think about it, security and performance are usually hooked at the hip. LW: Engagements?

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

Cybereason’s researchers recently set up a honeypot environment with a network architecture that replicated that of “typical power substation” and waited. Only two days after the honeypot was launched, it was attacked by a black-market seller, who installed backdoors that would allow anyone to access it, even if admin passwords were changed.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A critical vulnerability in the open-source logging software Apache Log4j 2 is fueling a chaotic race in the cybersecurity world, with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) issuing an emergency security update as bad actors searched for vulnerable servers. The Broad Reach of Log4j. Anybody using Apache Struts is likely vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

One of the cybercrime underground’s more active sellers of Social Security numbers, background and credit reports has been pulling data from hacked accounts at the U.S. consumer data broker USinfoSearch , KrebsOnSecurity has learned. “We don’t let people use VPNs.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

This month, we look at another scam taking advantage of the public’s fascination with ChatGPT, another data breach at Booking.com, and another news story about blue checkmarks – but this time it’s not at the tech company you’re thinking of. If the system is to be truly useful, it will require other firms to adopt it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

This is how big data analytics is enabling behavioral biometric-authentication mechanisms. The 2018 Data Threat Report commissioned by Thales and conducted by 451 Research revealed 99% of respondents (a sample of 1,200 senior security executives from around the globe) are using or planning to use big data.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am.

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