The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Findings released this week by ReversingLabs show 87 percent of security and technology professionals view software tampering as a new breach vector of concern, yet only 37 percent say they have a way to detect it across their software supply chain. Its function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The entire technology industry received a sizable lump of coal in their collective stocking earlier this week in the form of two major security vulnerabilities in a widely-used software tool. Unfortunately, the patch itself contained another security vulnerability, which has also been patched. What is Log4J? How bad is it?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The threat actors are using the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol as an amplification vector in attacks against Citrix appliances with EDT enabled. The DTLS protocol is a communications protocol for securing delay-sensitive apps and services that use datagram transport. 24 220.167.109.0/24 ” wrote Hofmann. .

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

According to the complaint, over a period of 19 days, hackers were able to infiltrate the Company’s computer systems. They argue that the Company failed to protect its computer systems adequately, take steps to prevent the breach, disclose material facts to consumers, and provide timely and adequate notice, among other things.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

An IT security certification can provide a key boost for your career, but with so many different certifications available (and so many organizations more than happy to take your money for training and testing), it’s important to make sure that the time and investment are well spent. How to Choose a Security Certification.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Using misconfigured multi-factor authentication (MFA) and an unpatched Windows vulnerability, Russian state-sponsored hackers were able to breach a non-governmental organization (NGO) and escalate privileges, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI revealed last week. Security Best Practices.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What the Common Vulnerability Scoring System is, how to use it, limitations and alternatives, and key changes in CVSS v4.0 In addition, he’s won hackathon events in the UK and internationally, and is accredited for multiple bug bounties. One example is TLS [Transport Layer Security]. Why or why not? X and v4.0].

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

And in between all that one security company shared a BlackMatter decryption tool , which might have helped to hasten the group’s demise. FIN7 Dupes Security Job Applicants. or Bastion Security Group, are highly ranked in Google search results. Fake vs real security company (source: Gemini Advisory).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 23, 2019

While the attack didn’t cause customer outages, or affect the reliability of the grid, it did induce a temporary loss of visibility to the utility’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. Best Practices to Secure Critical Infrastructure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This practice renders the entire encryption exercise futile as in the event of a breach, cyber criminals can easily acquire the encryption keys and thereby obtain control of the encrypted data. Do the storage/system administrators also own and manage the encryption keys used for data-at-rest encryption? Data security.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Automated patch management can help prevent security breaches by automatically identifying, downloading, testing, and delivering software and firmware updates to devices and applications through the use of specialized software tools. Software updates are critical for keeping a system’s integrity and security intact.

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Info Source

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The educational format provided system administrators and end users with training and best practices for applying DocuWare applications that empower their business to not just keep pace but to stay ahead. Integrating DocuWare with another system such as Outlook. Scaling a DocuWare system to meet new business growth.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Vulnerability scans play a vital role in identifying weaknesses within systems and networks, reducing risks, and bolstering an organization’s security defenses. The scan findings will offer insight into the target environment’s security flaws.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

This article looks at the remote desktop protocol, how RDP attacks work, best practices for defense, the prevalence of RDP attacks today, and how remote desktop software vendors are securing their clients. Also read : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. Table of Contents. What is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)?

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. The company has also used security information for advertising in the past.). Reputations tend to color the way we read events.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This week’s vulnerability news is proof that everyone experiences security vulnerabilities, even the biggest tech names and projects. Android, Apple, Apache, Cisco, and Microsoft are among the names reporting significant security vulnerabilities and fixes in the last week, and some of those are already under assault by hackers.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Privileged access management solutions monitor, manage and secure privileged credentials by detecting threats and brokering access while optimizing users’ efficiency to complete tasks. These tasks create a much larger attack surface and a greater risk of a data breach, making PAM an essential tool in securing a network and its assets.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 9, 2022

In part 1 of this two-part blog entry on thoroughly assessing data security in a Db2 for z/OS environment, I covered four aspects of Db2 data protection: privilege management, client authentication, data encryption and column masks/row permissions. Consider, for example, the security advantage of static versus dynamic SQL statements.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It falls to IT security teams to determine where those vulnerabilities lie in their organization and which ones they need to prioritize. Typically, a security team will leverage a cloud security platform to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other cloud risks. That process can be overwhelming.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Trillion by 2023 , data security challenges are further poised to go up – unless organizations take a conscious decision to implement a cohesive data protection strategy at an organization level that shuns the traditional siloed approach towards data security. The second layer of the stack covers system-level protection controls.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 15, 2023

IBM + Anycloud This strategic partnership between IBM and Anycloud offers a secure and easy-to-use service, allowing companies to back up data from Microsoft 365 to the IBM Cloud for data protection. Additionally, Anycloud offers unlimited storage and the opportunity to secure data at a minimal monthly price per user.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

Frank, now the chief innovation officer and co founder of Tidal Security, returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss the ATT&CK, only this time from the perspective of his new company. He talks about the community platform that Tidal Security launched at Black Hat USA 2022. Vamosi: I just returned from Hacker Summer Camp 2022.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

The US Justice Department says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security researchers, but what constitutes good-faith security research? It will no longer prosecute good-faith security research that would have otherwise violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Is hacking a crime? Who is responsible?

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erwin

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The systems that deliver the data have to perform well enough to meet the needs of the business. Finally, data protection covers the mechanics of ensuring your data is backed up properly and your myriad endpoints are secured. Join us at at Quest EMPOWER , a free, virtual event taking place November 10-11.

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