SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Leveraging vendor donation programs Many tech companies offer discounted or donated products to nonprofits to help them stay safe and secure. These programs are an excellent way for nonprofits to access high-quality cybersecurity tools without straining their budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thirty years ago, Adobe created the Portable Document Format (PDF) to facilitate sharing documents across different software applications while maintaining text and image formatting. Today, PDF is considered the de facto industry standard for documents that contain critical and sensitive business information.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In the event of a security incident, such as a data breach or malware attack, the MSSP springs into action. They must also conduct regular risk assessments and maintain documentation of their compliance efforts. Their team of experts works quickly to contain the threat, minimize damage, and restore systems to a secure state.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. Once a single link is found, cyber criminals can use Advanced Persistent Bots (APBs) to collect and index the remaining documents.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: This data breach was unique in the sense that there was not a breach in the company's servers, but an authentication error, meaning no authentication was required to view documents. Once a single link is found, cyber criminals can use Advanced Persistent Bots (APBs) to collect and index the remaining documents.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2021

Hunt for those elusive documents, forage for forms like W-2s and 1099s, and gather with finance departments and accountants to see how good (hopefully) or how bad (hopefully not) of a year we objectively had. Malware released into the recipient’s system. I understand the sense of dread and loathing this time of year brings.

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A Screw's Loose

MARCH 5, 2013

It’s no longer okay to just sell you a phone or tablet, they want to incentivize you to buy it so you can participate in a BYOD program. Let’s build identification and authentication frameworks on which we can then base access to that data. Let’s start with the basics like encrypting our data while it sits in the data center.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If you’re running edge detection, if your scanning your networks, even occasionally rebooting your servers these activities will remove some running malware, yet the bad actors somehow return and remain persistent. Stealth malware. Hence we talk alot about Advanced Persistent Threats. Special coding tricks?

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected. Vamosi: Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system. What if you hid in plain sight by using the files already on your computer?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To answer some of these questions we’ve gathered information from published documents and talked to the companies that plan to support it and the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) that oversees Matter. This exposes them to hacking, malware, etc.,” We can’t leave devices behind, or this whole program won’t work,” says Klein.

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