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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. See the Top Rootkit Scanners.

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What is Incident Response? Ultimate Guide + Templates

eSecurity Planet

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Cryptojacking : Unauthorized use of a computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrencies.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

And then eventually, you come out with a timeline of the events of what's happened. They do like crypto mining and containers and stuff. So seems relatively benign, but one thing a lot of people don't realize is that they have a detection for crypto mining and they'll just destroy the system. CAMPBELL: Yeah, exactly.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

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.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

And that's when we had this kind of great freeze event in Texas where they lost power and all this stuff. So this is sometimes used to figure out passwords and credit card details as they're going through any point of sale. It's mine. Like maybe I should just risk it and just start publishing this stuff to raise awareness.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Mine was 2000. And so we were basically you know, we started doing enterprise monitoring packet captures, you know, decryption, replaying all the events, incident response, all the assessment work, that it was a playground, you know, I got to do everything.

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