SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

The FBI says that since May 2021, North Korea threat actors have used Maui to encrypt servers responsible for healthcare services, such as electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. Maui is believed to be designed for manual execution by attackers.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

How to Protect Against Social Engineering Attacks Organizations can protect themselves against social engineering attacks by educating employees about the risks, enabling multi-factor authentication, and implementing security policies that require verification of any requests for sensitive information or actions.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Operating Systems/Applications. As I understand it, this is the culmination of an effort launched about a year ago when Google started signing the “distroless” images. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

spec , expected in to land in 2021. Operating Systems/Applications. I take exception to the use of “application security” in David’s title, which I (personally) take to mean something more than mutual TLS (which is more about application identity and authentication/authorization). Servers/Hardware.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Paula Januszkiewicz, from Cqure , joins The Hacker Mind to discuss her two presentations at SecTor 2021 on digital forensics. You’ll want someone with years of pen testing experience, some one who knows the operating system like no other. Who are you going to call for help?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

Indeed, passwordless authentication is worth celebrating, but every EOL requires a strategic plan to ensure a graceful transition. With the convenience and ease of passwordless authentication, it’s now possible to smooth the transition for your customers enough to achieve 100% adoption. This article explains how. That’s lost revenue.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

AI is almost good enough at simulating human activity to defeat the biometric systems designed to fight fraud, effectively putting us back at square one. IIain Paterson and Justin Macorin join The Hacker Mind podcast to share insights from their SecTor 2021 talk on hacking behavioral biometrics. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. I would say it's closer to the metal with a virtual machine.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY - MAY 10: Fuel holding tanks are seen at Colonial Pipeline’s Linden Junction Tank Farm on May 10, 2021 in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Good security hygiene can include relatively simple things like requiring multi-factor authentication, having response plans ready, and keeping backup systems in place.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Multi-factor authentication If changing passwords is like the eating your veggies of the security world, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is more like eating fresh fruits. There's a good reason why MFA usage jumped from 28% in 2017 to 78% by 2021; it works well. And guess what? Not one of them involves passwords.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected. Like all the unused files within your operating system?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability. It’s an interesting story, one they presented at Black Hat Europe in 2021, so I hope you’ll stick around. Their Operating System type was set to windows.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. They used a scientific method, within a controlled environment, to measure the speed at which 100 samples of ransomware from 10 popular variants encrypted nearly 100,000 files, totaling nearly 53GB, across different Windows operating systems and hardware specifications.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In April of 2021, the Library of Congress will again review new exemption requests. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire. It would say, Oh, I'm sorry I don't recognize that tire, you know I can't drive.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In April of 2021, the Library of Congress will again review new exemption requests. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire. It would say, Oh, I'm sorry I don't recognize that tire, you know I can't drive.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

MK: As all good memes should be, it’s authentic, right? And I think we’re coming up to another FDR moment here in 2021 when Joe Biden is president. Apple and Google are building a contact tracing exposure notification facility into their operating systems. I never had the vertical or the horizontal game to go with it.

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