Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 347 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Quick response (QR) codes are a convenient format for storing all kinds of information in a readable and secure way, at least when correctly implemented. Here’s how QR codes work, how hackers can use them against you, and how to defend yourself and your organization. Flawed Implementations Can Be Devastating.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 300 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

But in addition to vastly improved reasoning and visual capabilities, GPT-4 also retains many of ChatGPT’s security and privacy issues , in some cases even enhancing them. They presented this summary of those exploits — the thumbs up means those capabilities have been enhanced in GPT-4: ChatGPT security issues carried over to GPT-4.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Application security is the practice of securing software and data from hackers, whether that application comes from a third party or was developed in house, regardless of where it resides or how it’s accessed. How Does Application Security Work? What Are the Types of Application Security?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters. Device Security is Hard. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Guest Blog: TalkingTrust.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2022

Hackers have found a way to infect Windows Event Logs with fileless malware , security researchers have found. The system uses DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to store some resources the application needs and will load automatically. If it does not find one, the encrypted shell code is written in 8KB chunks in the event logs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.”. The most important change in the latest Hive variant is the encryption mechanism it adopts. The post Hive ransomware gang starts leaking data allegedly stolen from Tata Power appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 3, 2018

As the head of a security company I’m hypersensitive about the security of my personal and company data. I know that in the age of devices we use interchangeably in our work and personal lives that unless everything you are doing is secure, nothing is secure. I appreciate I’m in the minority because of what I do.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 5 Common Phishing Attacks and How to Avoid Them? A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Hackers are scanning the web for vulnerable Fortinet, Pulse Secure Products installs. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

To control the browser, the malware uses a library called Rod. The malware encrypts all the data with a key that is unique for each sample and sends it along with a sample identifier to the C2 server located at the domain name youbot[.]solutions. ” “The business listing has a logo of an eye in a red circle.

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Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

Security Keys are another attempt address this problem—initially in the form of a second authentication factor but, in the future, potentially as a complete replacement. Very briefly, Security Keys are separate pieces of hardware capable of generating public/private key pairs and signing with them. Contrasts with existing solutions.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft today released updates to plug three dozen security holes in its Windows operating system and other software. Handy in that respect is CVE-2019-1468 , a similarly widespread critical issue in the Windows font library that could be exploited just by getting the user to visit a hacked or malicious Web site.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management. Why is the CIA triad important?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Definition, How it Works, & Examples. their significance, and their pros and cons.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive. The ransomware encrypts data on the victim’s machine and appends the.Jnec extension to the encrypted data asking a ransom 0.05 bitcoins (about $200). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

xHelper is a piece of malware that was first spotted in October 2019 by experts from security firm Symantec, it is a persistent Android dropper app that is able to reinstall itself even after users attempt to uninstall it. The researchers also provided information on how to remove xHelper from an infected device. and Russia.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

Every June, Gartner hosts a terrific security conference near Washington, D.C. called Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. This event is focused on the needs of senior IT and security professionals, such as CISOs, chief risk officers, architects, IAM and network security leaders. The keyboard of course!

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

First discovered in 1998, SQL injections (SQLi) are still a devastatingly effective attack technique and remain a top database security priority. This article looks at how your organization can detect vulnerabilities and steps you can take to prevent SQL injection attacks. . Also Read: Are Your Databases Secure? Tyrant-SQL.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. Fortunately, in this episode, we’re discussing vulnerabilities in both. Yeah, like that.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. These features make Nmap a popular port scanning tool among network administrators, security experts, and amateurs.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Application programming interface (API) security is a combination of tools and best practices to secure the all-important connections between applications. API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built. This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Non-glibc C standard library. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Prerequisites.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Very few of these devices have security in mind when they were built. This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Non-glibc C standard library. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. Prerequisites.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently released a comprehensive guide to help them secure their code and processes. See the Top Code Debugging and Code Security Tools. How to Secure Code.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And my background is pretty straightforward with cyber security for the past 16 years on many different levels. Vamosi: At SecTor, an annual security conference in Toronto, Paua gave not one but two talks this year. What would be valuable from their perspective to encrypt and then ask for the ransom.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 5, 2018

We also have a sub-set of records from the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center out in Liberty, TX. When the situation calls for it, TDA staff may use special power tools to crawl through records and identify specific types of information, such as social security numbers. Brooks photograph collection.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

.” In December, eSecurity Planet detailed FireEye’s initial findings , implications for the industry, and how to mitigate similar attacks. Since then, much has been learned about the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) deployed and what steps organizations are taking to harden their network and application security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? The question is, who is hacking the internet of things today, and how does one even get started?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from for all secure. Herfurt: My name is Martin Herfurt and I'm a security researcher. It's not been like that terrible, terrible security. And they further linked him to some 150 other car thefts in the area.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

This is part of a giant list of Living off the Land (LOL) techniques that attackers employ to mask their activities from runtime endpoint security monitoring tools such as AVs. This temp file is the Ammyy RAT encrypted file, which will be decrypted and renamed at a later stage ( wsus.exe ). dll library). dll this case).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As always, our pressured IT and security teams will need to use severity ratings in combination with a risk analysis of assets potentially exposed by vulnerabilities to determine priorities and schedules. Active Vulnerability Exploits This Week Many IT and security teams struggle to keep up with vulnerability management and patch management.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. So how hard is it to hack APIs? During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. Not very hard.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. So how hard is it to hack APIs? During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. Not very hard.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. As you browse the myriad of malicious software featured in this article, we offer tips for how best to defend against each type. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. Jump ahead: Adware.

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