The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. The infamous Mirai botnet self-replicated by seeking out hundreds of thousands of home routers with weak or non-existent passwords. And we’re just getting started.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

For more on pentesting program design and assembling a team, read How to Implement a Penetration Testing Program in 10 Steps. This allows organizations not to understand not only where their weak points are, but also how to fix them and take action. With pentests, the most expert testers will provide remediation recommendations.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

Wireless networks are often neglected by security teams and managers who set poor passwords and permissions. Penetration testers will try to brute force passwords and prey on misconfigurations. See the Best Cloud, Container and Data Lake Vulnerability Scanning Tools 7. There are many variations of red and blue team tests.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Touhill “Adversaries should remember that our military doctrine identifies cyber as one of our combined arms capabilities,” says Greg Touhill, president of AppGate Federal Group , a Florida-based supplier of software perimeter security systems. And as a company decision maker, you can promote cyber hygiene.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani. Immediately following Iran’s counterstrike against American military posts in Iraq, a tweet circulated claiming that more than 20 American soldiers had been killed. Never buy a device that doesn’t allow you to set a long and strong password.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2018

But fuel it I did and I spent a big whack of the week doing things I hope to talk about next week (namely some major architectural changes to HIBP services), as well as preparing both the Pemiblanc credential stuffing list for HIBP and then pushing out Pwned Passwords V3. Polar Fitness and military personnel tracking.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since many people use the same passwords or patterns when generating passwords, hackers have more and more opportunities to gain access to sensitive company data. Password manager tools allow organizations and their employees to seamlessly and securely handle login credentials. Best Password Manager Tools.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. FRANK: Like a password policy problem.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. FRANK: Like a password policy problem.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. FRANK: Like a password policy problem.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Also research the impact of the information’s proximity to potential man-made hazards, for example the airport, military bases, plants or factories that handle hazardous or flammable material. Put subject matters experts in a room together to brainstorm how to effectively approach the information management disaster plan.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2022

Common operations like enumerating services, cracking passwords, intercepting HTTP requests, or even analyzing malware do not necessarily require a pentesting OS. DEFT is a distro employed by military, government officers, law enforcement, investigators, universities, and individuals. See the Best Penetration Testing Tools.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

From social engineering, CEO fraud and physical security, to social media threats, phishing and password theft, "The Inside Man" Season 5 teaches your users real-world applications that make learning how to make smarter security decisions engaging and fun. Date/Time: Wednesday, April 12, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Can't attend live?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2019

They can be brought in to test and bypass a company’s defences and rather than taking advantage of any vulnerabilities, these are reported and advised on how to fix them. they’ll go through physical and digital bins for charts, passwords and any sensitive data they could use to launch an attack).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

I recently visited with Silverfort CEO Hed Kovetz, who described how the idea for the company percolated when the co-founders were toiling in the encryption branch of Unit 8200 , the elite cybersecurity arm of the Israeli military. LW: So the bad guys have figured out how to overcome the two-factor authentication?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This creates a lot of opportunities for hackers to gain access to company resources because users often reuse passwords or mirror patterns in creating them. The recent boom in remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic has further amplified the need to secure network endpoints , in which effective password management plays a big role.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I was one of 68 million Dropbox users that received an email last year asking me to reset my password because they found out that in 2012 they had lost our User IDs and hashed passwords. In addition, they aren’t taking responsibility for failures in their solutions if they were to occur, such as User IDs and passwords being stolen.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 26, 2018

» Related Stories Expert says: Hack your Smart Home to Secure It Fitness apps: Good for your health, not so much for military security Mobile, automation-industry leaders promote two new IoT security efforts. Among them: establishing strong device. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? The question here was disruptive.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Many security programs focus on employee education (creating a strong password, being aware of phishing, etc.). Make any digital training personal and relevant to employees by providing programs about how to protect themselves and their families. •Educate employees. Your employees can be your first line of defense or your weakest link.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. Are your users' passwords…P@ssw0rd? Verizon's Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2023

military procurement system Spoofing an Apple device and tricking users into sharing sensitive data Israel and US to Invest $3.85 military procurement system Spoofing an Apple device and tricking users into sharing sensitive data Israel and US to Invest $3.85 Korean Kimsuky APT targets S.

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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. 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. I must have the password.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

Operational Security is typically a military process. US Army Video: Operations security or OpSec, preserves the effectiveness of military capabilities and keeps potential adversaries from discovering our critical information. Don't use familiar passwords seriously. It was first used during the US Vietnam War in the late 1960s.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Use PasswordIQ to find which users are sharing passwords and which ones have weak passwords See the fully automated user provisioning and onboarding Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. Executive Reports - Create, tailor and deliver advanced executive-level reports NEW!

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Here, then, is a comprehensive look at ransomware, what it is, how to prevent it, and what to do if you become one of its unfortunate victims. How ransomware works. Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

However, once the user downloads and extracts the file, the Redline Stealer (aka RedStealer) malware is activated and is capable of stealing passwords and downloading further malware onto the user's device." PS: [Yours Truly at DarkReading] How Password Managers Can Get Hacked. What follows all too often one can readily imagine.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 12, 2022

federal security agencies are putting companies on alert to potential threats from Russian state-sponsored cybercriminal groups, warning in particular about dangers to critical infrastructure and urging organizations to learn how to detect and protect against attacks. Also read: Best Password Managers & Tools for 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools. Access Control Access controls add additional authentication and authorization controls to verify users, systems, and applications to define their access.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

We recruit military veterans, women, and minorities. You go into those rabbit holes and you find yourself looking at Python programming and next day you're trying to figure out how to install the virtual machine to test some things on your computer. He understood what he wanted to accomplish and how to get there. It's amazing.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

The NACD Handbook principles provide directors with a high-level understanding of how to think about cyber issues from the perspective of corporate strategy. Directors should develop at least a high-level familiarity with how data is secured ( e.g. , encryption of critical company data, both while at rest and in motion).

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Observers do, however, have a pretty good idea who was behind the NotPetya attack because several governments, including the United States and the United Kingdom, issued coordinated statements blaming the Russian military. Get this wrong, and the government will end up writing some very large checks. But this is easier said than done.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is increasingly focused on "Cognitive Warfare," a term referring to artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled military systems and operational concepts. This involves influencing the thinking of decision-makers, military commanders, and the general public in rival countries. efforts to support Taiwan.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Hollywood Studios spent a decade creating a robust hardware certification process that includes military grade encryption with a complicated set of keys, all to protect the latest blockbuster releases. Vamosi: In this day and age, piracy of digital motion pictures is not supposed to happen.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. The sooner your users learn how to spot these types of attacks, the less risk your organization could face. government.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2020

As a cybersecurity principal analyst at Forrester, he advises enterprise clients on how to stay in front of the latest iterations of cyber attacks coming at them from all quarters. LW: You’re not the first security expert to advocate eliminating passwords. We are much closer to that than we ever have been.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Here’s Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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