All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Whether in-the-cloud or on-premise there is a shift to a model where individual applications need to protect themselves instead of relying on firewall-like techniques. In last years SOSP Hari Balakrishnans group at MIT CSAIL team presented a paper on CryptDB which has a novel SQL-aware encryption approach. Contact Info.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

In August 2022, the French hospital Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF) was the victim of a ransomware attack that disabled medical imaging and patient admission systems. 3 Unit 42 research also found that 83% of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners run on an end-of-life operating system. But ransomware isn’t the only risk.

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Healthcare Security Network Policies 73

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Operating Systems/Applications. The NIST and DHS have teamed up on some efforts to secure BGP; more information is available in this article.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

A common way for a malware program to attack is to find and exploit the system’s vulnerabilities. It is a fact that no system is fully free of vulnerabilities or weaknesses, which may be in the form of an old application, an unpatched operating system, or a browser with inadequate security protocols.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

This can show "good faith" from the ransomware group by allowing targeting and recovery of just sensitive files and not having to rebuild the entire server if the Operating System files are encrypted as well.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

To further explain the differences between white hat, grey hat, and black hat hackers, let’s define each group and their characteristics. The organization’s security team then works to implement these recommendations, which may involve patching software, configuring firewalls, or implementing additional security controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, if the operating system pattern is Linux Oracle Enterprise, the architect would use that pattern first in its design unless technical constraints made the consumption of this pattern suboptimal to accomplish the solution’s goal. Claire LaVelle is a principal consultant QSA for Verizon Cyber Security Consulting group.

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Galido

DECEMBER 28, 2018

A common way for malware to attack is for it to find exploits and vulnerabilities in a system. Shield weaknesses by removing applications you no longer use, update software, browsers, operating system and plugins. Anti-virus programs can catch most malicious bugs that enter your system. Turn on your firewall.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? Operating Systems/Applications. Venky explains it in this post. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. In talking with customers, I find that one of the things that really challenges their thinking is how to best utilize security groups to their maximum effect. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 14, 2023

Ensure that your network and devices are protected by up-to-date antivirus and firewall software. Additionally, regularly update your software and operating systems with the latest security patches to stay ahead of potential vulnerabilities. Enable firewalls to prevent unauthorized access to your network.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? Operating Systems/Applications. Venky explains it in this post. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Here’s a post by Grant Orchard on using VMware NSX’s security groups to protect workloads deployed via vCAC (now vRA).

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Here we were in the 21st century, and the lab was using an operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft. Because it's network monitoring tools.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Here we were in the 21st century, and the lab was using an operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft. Because it's network monitoring tools.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JUNE 28, 2009

We have three service desks, three different radio systems, four large data centers, and at least six different groups providing server support and desktop support. We have at least five different work management systems, and some unknown number of document management systems.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

That’s perhaps because of a dedicated group of hackers who are working to improve automotive security. Fortunately, there's a group of automotive hackers that are trying to help. You know with modern vehicles, they're actually becoming like they're running on bluetooth, they're running the Android operating system.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Vamosi: So a vulnerable version of Bash provided an attacker the ability to pass untrusted code to other systems and processes.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Tactical — Here, you will find reports or messages in formats like STIX-MISP that detail the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) deployed by hacker groups and specific malware. This ranges from understanding cryptography to having insights into operating system architecture.

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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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