eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is recommending that government agencies and private organizations that use Microsoft’s Exchange cloud email platform migrate users and applications to Modern Auth before Basic Auth is deprecated in October. Read next: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions.

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IG Guru

OCTOBER 29, 2018

October 16, 2018Mohit Kumar A four-year-old severe vulnerability has been discovered in the Secure Shell (SSH) implementation library known as Libssh that could allow anyone to completely bypass authentication and gain unfettered administrative control over a vulnerable server without requiring a password.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Vulnerabilities in WatchGuard firewalls and Microsoft Windows and Windows Server need to be patched and fixed immediately, security organizations said in alerts this week. WatchGuard provides a detailed 4-Step Cyclops Blink Diagnosis and Remediation Plan that includes the following advisories: Use unique passwords for each Firebox.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Security Center under the Ministry of National Defense recorded a large number of virus-infected e-mails addressed to several state institutions. The Emotet campaign uses malicious emails that attempt to trick recipients into opening the zipped archive with the password included in the message. Security Center. Security Center.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can read more about that attack, along with the year’s other biggest stories, in our 2021 cyber security review of the year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The CISA agency is warning of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting multiple state and local governments in the US since August. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. since August.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs. Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Among those affected was SAP SE. The researchers discovered credentials that provided access to 95,592,696 artifacts, as well as download permissions and some deploy operations.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

DHS CISA issued an emergency directive to tells government agencies to address the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) by Monday. The Department of Homeland Security’s CISA issued an emergency directive to order government agencies to address the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) by Monday. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The APT group, recently discovered by ESET, targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, including militaries and Ministries of Foreign Affairs. The malware samples analyzed by the researchers are slightly obfuscated using string obfuscation and dynamic Windows API library loading.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code based on public Python libraries. newversion file extension instead of . Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. Jason Project GUI.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Manipulating runtime. This quickly gets intricately technical.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2018

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage. Here are this week’s stories.

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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. So what if you accidentally forget the password? That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. But the file is protected with a password.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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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. Strong encryption keys are passwords for encryption.

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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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. 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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

“We are thrilled to be working with Badge, enabling a best-in-class authentication solution that builds on top of our market-leading identity data management and identity analytics capabilities to provide greater privacy and security to our customers,” said Wade Ellery , Field CTO, Radiant Logic.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Brumley: Yeah.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Is there something more secure? Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so.

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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. If the user stores passwords in a browser, we got that, if the user is the local admin, that's even better.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Brumley: Yeah.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2019

Secure software depends on people finding vulnerabilities and deploying fixes before they are exploited in the wild. This has led to a world of security researchers and bug bounties directed at finding new vulnerabilities. When I got out of undergrad, I was a computer security officer. Brumley: Yeah, absolutely. Brumley: Yeah.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Remember after last month’s relatively serene cyber security scene we said this wasn’t the beginning of the GDPRevolution ? Hackers steal names and Social Security numbers from Maryland Department of Labour (78,000). Croatian government targeted by mysterious hackers (unknown). Libraries in Onondaga Co.,

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

But their popularity has made them a target for hackers, making container security an important area to supplement in the already extensive cybersecurity portfolio. The need for container security. Misconfigured permissions can multiply these problems, so container security is too critical to be taken lightly. Runtime security.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Alaris security team explained that the documentation is only accessible to customers that have a support contract with Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). The Alaris security team explained that the documentation is only accessible to customers that have a support contract with Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD).

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. Always change the default passwords for any IoT devices you install before extended use. Jump ahead: Adware. Bots and botnets. Browser hijacker.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These critical encryption concepts encompass the vast majority of encryption algorithms and tools currently in wide use and can be used in combination for secure communication. Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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