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Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes 118K users

Security Affairs

Users of the e-sports knowledge base were exposed via a publicly accessible and passwordless MongoDB database, the Cybernews research team has discovered. RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is an encryption system used for secure data transmission. The database was closed after researchers informed Liquipedia’s admins about the issue.

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Top Open Source Security Tools

eSecurity Planet

It has more than 70 extensions, and a knowledge base with more than 14 million open source components. It offers comprehensive host-based intrusion detection across multiple platforms, including Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, BSD, Windows, Mac and VMware ESX. Metasploit. It scans Java, NuGet, and NPM packages.

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Hackers Are Now Exploiting Windows Event Logs

eSecurity Planet

If it does not find one, the encrypted shell code is written in 8KB chunks in the event logs. According to the researches, the most unusual and innovative aspect of the SilentBreak campaign is the “Encrypted shellcode divided into 8 KB blocks and saved in the binary part of event log.”. Also read: How Hackers Evade Detection.

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WireGuard vs. OpenVPN: Comparing Top VPN Protocols

eSecurity Planet

OpenVPN supports more encryption types than WireGuard, which only offers ChaCha20 and Poly1035. WireGuard uses fewer lines of code than many other popular VPN protocols, including OpenVPN, leaving less room for errors and vulnerabilities. This also makes it easier to audit. Also Read: VPN Security Risks: Best Practices for 2022. Back to top.

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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Krebs on Security

Those compromises were noteworthy because the consumer information warehoused by these data brokers can be used to find the answers to so-called knowledge-based authentication (KBA) questions used by companies seeking to validate the financial history of people applying for new lines of credit.

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7 Best Email Security Software & Tools in 2023

eSecurity Planet

How we evaluated the best email security software & tools Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Avanan Best for Advanced Threat Intelligence Integration Check Point’s Avanan is a cybersecurity solution that focuses on safeguarding cloud-based email and collaboration services.

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ProtonMail launches Address Verification and full PGP support

Security Affairs

Address Verification allows you to be sure you are securely communicating with the right person, while PGP support adds encrypted email interoperability. When ProtonMail first launched in 2014, our goal was to make email encryption ubiquitous by making it easy enough for anybody to use. Address Verification.