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Agentless Workload Scanning Gets Supercharged with Malware Scanning

Prisma Clud

Using WildFire in 2021 to analyze malicious files, our threat research team discovered a 73% increase in Cobalt Strike malware samples compared to 2020. The speed, volume and sophistication of modern malware attacks has made them more difficult to detect.

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Security vs Compliance | Hacking In To Cybersecurity

Linux Academy

Our previous posts in this series have focused on informing you, the reader, on how to land a job in the cybersecurity career field , but we’re going to switch gears in this episode and talk about something that every security professional needs to understand: Does Compliance equal Security? Compliance Defined. Security Defined.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Says Midnight Blizzard Swiped U.S. Gov’t Emails During Microsoft Hack, Tells Fed Agencies To Take Immediate Action

Tenable

More than half (55%) plan to use it within the next year, with the top use cases being rule creation, attack simulation and compliance monitoring. Automate and enforce compliance of your cloud environments’ configurations with industry standards, and audit for misconfigurations. You can now submit them to the U.S. Users from the U.S.

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Is your print environment secure? Here’s why it should be your 2024 priority

CIO

The Foundry survey found three significant challenges forcing security leaders to redirect their focus: meeting governance and compliance regulations; budgetary constraints/demonstrating RoI and employee awareness and training issues. Given the many other security challenges and priorities faced by CISOs this is perhaps unsurprising.

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Malware Analysis using Osquery Part 1

AlienVault

In this blog series, we’ll analyze different malware families, looking at the types of events generated on the endpoint and how we can use Osquery to detect them. The dropper spreads through email phishing and downloads the malware using a malicious Office macro. Let's start! File samples: [link]. Stay tuned!

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SSL/TLS Decryption Can Help with GDPR Compliance

Palo Alto Networks

You might be surprised to learn that SSL decryption can be a valuable tool for protecting data in compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), when applied according to best practices. Attackers exploit this lack of visibility and identification to hide within encrypted traffic and spread malware.

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Malware Analysis using Osquery Part 2

AlienVault

In the first part of this series, we saw how you can use Osquery to analyze and extract valuable information about malware’s behavior. In this post, we are going to see another common technique that malware uses persistence. The malware will be executed every time the user logs on. Registry Persistence.

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