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Enhance Your Security Posture: Doing Four Things Can Reduce Unauthorized Penetrations by 85%

CTOvision

Secure Configurations for Network Devices such as Firewalls, Routers, and Switches. href="[link] Control 10: Secure Configurations for Network Devices such as Firewalls, Routers, and Switches. Limitation and Control of Network Ports, Protocols, and Services. Secure Network Engineering.

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What Should A CIO Do After You’ve Been Hacked?

The Accidental Successful CIO

What you don’t do may be the most important thing Image Credit: Cigac Semiárido CIOs send a great deal of our time trying to secure the company’s networks. We invest in firewalls, two-factor authentication systems, and lots and lots of training for everyone in the company. Companies can avoid 99.9%

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Deception and Forensics for the Next Generation — Part 3: Meet the Deception Network

SecureWorld News

With most of the preliminaries over, we have one more task before us: a brief introduction to deception networks. First, what a deception network isn't. While it is true, of course, that deception nets evolved from honeypots, today's deception network is far and beyond that rather primitive technology.

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Advisory: Malicious North Korean Cyber Activity

SecureWorld News

The FBI believes that variants like Blindingcan are being used alongside proxy servers, maintaining a presence on victim networks. Exercise caution when opening e-mail attachments even if the attachment is expected and the sender appears to be known. Exercise caution when using removable media (e.g.,

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Microsoft Reports on Techniques Used by SolarWinds Hackers

SecureWorld News

Applying this level of permutations for each individual compromised machine is an incredible effort normally not seen with other adversaries and done to prevent full identification of all compromised assets inside a network or effective sharing of threat intel between victims.".

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Are Bad Bots Unleashing Havoc in the Digital Realm?

SecureWorld News

In these instances, a network or server is flooded with excessive traffic, rendering it inaccessible to legitimate users. Exercise caution with links: Be vigilant when clicking links, particularly within emails or unfamiliar websites. Launching denial-of-service attacks: Bots can orchestrate large-scale denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

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Government Agencies Discover New Chinese Malware Strain

SecureWorld News

Chinese government actors are using malware variants in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation. Exercise caution when opening e-mail attachments even if the attachment is expected and the sender appears to be known. Check out the complete report here.

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