Tenable

APRIL 20, 2021

Threat actors are leveraging a zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure, for which there is no immediate patch scheduled for release. On April 20, Pulse Secure, which was acquired by Ivanti last year, published an out-of-cycle security advisory (SA44784) regarding a zero-day vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN appliance.

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Ivanti

JUNE 14, 2023

This includes promoting a culture of individual cybersecurity awareness and deploying the right security tools, which are both critical to the program’s success. But considering recent cybersecurity reports, they're no longer enough to reduce your organization’s external attack surface.

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Tenable

MAY 25, 2023

Background On May 24, several international agencies — including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S, How long has Volt Typhoon been operating? It is part of a new naming convention used by Microsoft.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ransomware is a strain of malware that blocks users (or a company) from accessing their personal data or apps on infected iOS, iPadOS, and Android mobile devices, macOS laptops, Windows personal computers and servers, and Linux servers. Communications : The malware scans the contents of the SD card.

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Ivanti

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week is Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, which is part of October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We sat down with Daniel Spicer, chief security officer at Ivanti, to learn more about what it’s like to work in the cybersecurity world. There is no such thing as a typical day for any cybersecurity professional.

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Ivanti

JUNE 20, 2023

Increases in attack surface size lead to increased cybersecurity risk. Thus, logically, decreases in attack surface size lead to decreased cybersecurity risk. As with all things related to security and risk management, being proactive is preferred. Reduce your cybersecurity attack surface by reducing complexity.

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MagmaLabs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

To achieve security within our digital platforms, we need to adapt a good cyber hygiene strategy. Keep reading to learn the importance, benefits and best practices to secure your data from cyber attacks. According to Gartner’s study, global security spending would reach $133.7 Keeping Yourself and Your Business Safe Online.

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Firemon

APRIL 9, 2024

The Rise of the ASIC The Appliance Becomes the Standard Security Goes Mainstream Book a Demo Jody Brazil CEO at FireMon By the early 2000s, proxies had lost, and stateful inspection dominated the market. In addition, Netscreen introduced a security-specific ASIC for firewall decision packet processing.

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Kaseya

APRIL 6, 2023

This means investing heavily in numerous security products and, with any luck, finding security experts to manage it all. For small and midsize businesses (SMBs), building an in-house security team can be expensive and time-consuming, distracting them from their core business. What is managed detection and response (MDR)?

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added eight vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog , including four vulnerabilities for Owl Labs Meeting Owl. CVE-2022-31461 Owl Labs Meeting Owl Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability 7.4 On September 18, the U.S.

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Tenable

APRIL 27, 2020

They discovered that this also affected systems when the port used for the administration interface or user portal was also used to expose a firewall service, such as the SSL VPN. CVE-2020-12271 is a pre-authentication SQL injection vulnerability that exists in the Sophos XG Firewall/Sophos Firewall Operating System (SFOS).

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2015

Last year, Enterprise IT was dramatically shaped by the influx of security breaches, data leaks and a new wave of hackers. This year, two of 2014’s biggest stories will intersect as security and Windows 10 prepare to re-shape the Enterprise. Security Spending. Windows 10. and is finally giving Enterprises exactly what they need.

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Tenable

JULY 11, 2023

Microsoft also issued an advisory with guidance on the malicious use of Microsoft signed drivers as well as an advisory regarding a security feature bypass in Trend Micro EFI modules. For more information, please refer to Microsoft’s blog post. It was assigned a CVSSv3 score of 8.8 and was exploited in the wild as a zero-day.

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The Parallax

MAY 10, 2019

Google’s Android mobile operating system has long been criticized for fragmentation , as millions of older devices no longer receiving regular security and feature updates continue to connect to the Internet. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY AND PRIVACY. Fragmentation likely to hinder Android P’s security chops.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2023

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Critical infrastructure forms the fabric of our society, providing power for our homes and businesses, fuel for our vehicles, and medical services that preserve human health.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 4, 2023

Most system commands work, and even some programming–though the output is predicted from the training set, not the result of actually running a program. Is this the future of operating systems? GitHub requires all users to enable two-factor authentication by the end of 2023. Any new technology has security risks.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Globally, cybersecurity has emerged as one of the biggest challenges facing corporations, and discussions on how to prevent and defend against cyberthreats have been a focal point of MSPs and IT teams this year. Nonetheless, IT risk assessment isn’t just confined to cybersecurity.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

AI has infiltrated programming, security, and virtually every branch of technology. MLC LLM , from developers of Web LLM , allows many different combinations of hardware and operating systems to run small large language models entirely locally. Data is stored in pods, which are analogous to secure personal web servers.

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Tenable

JULY 12, 2021

Here's how Tenable's data can allow security professionals to have a more realistic view of their exposure. Standardized taxonomies have dominated the way cybersecurity professionals describe and talk about systems' security. What is an Attack Surface?

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Ivanti

JULY 12, 2022

Risk-based prioritization methods take into account known exploited, appearances in malware and ransomware and if an exploit is trending into account helping to more effectively reduce risk. Many expected it to be disabled or uninstalled from those systems which are no longer supported.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But first, tech giants and telecommunications network providers will have to fix its major security flaws, researchers say. READ MORE ON PHONE SECURITY AND PRIVACY. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. Primer: Why are Androids less secure than iPhones? Android Q adds privacy, fragmentation.

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Jeremiah Grossman

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

This relates to my last post where Boaz Gelbord ( Security Scoreboard ), cited something very interesting about the Massachusetts data security regulation going into effect March 1. Their listed “Computer System Security Requirements” of their "risk-based approach" is pasted below.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, Microsoft released its monthly set of software security patches. Hence, they pose a greater security risk since your vulnerable systems are exposed until a patch becomes available. The December 2021 Security Update Release Notes can be found here. Go to Settings > System > About.

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Cybersecurity affects the everyday lives of most IT practitioners and IT leaders worldwide, with more than 50 percent of them citing “Improving IT Security” as a top priority in 2021 as per our 2020 IT Operations Survey Results Report. Here are a few steps your organization should take to improve its cybersecurity posture.

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Datavail

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) discovered a recent wave of ransomware attacks that target unsecured Microsoft SQL Server databases. This ransomware attack, called FARGO, also known as Mallox and TargetCompany, starts off by using brute force and dictionary attacks to gain access to the system.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 2, 2019

While the average worker has grown as comfortable using mobile devices as desktop computers, security teams have yet to catch up. Mobile devices have emerged in recent years as the leading platform for cybercrime and cybersecurity threats against organizations. To overcome the challenges of mobile security threats, companies must: 1.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Tenable’s Security Response Team reviews the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2019. With 2019 coming to an end, the Tenable Security Response Team reflects on the vulnerabilities and threats that had a major impact over the last year. The flaw gained so much attention that both Microsoft and the U.S. Seeing double with DejaBlue.

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Perficient

JANUARY 27, 2023

DevSecOps is an approach to software development that emphasizes security as a critical aspect of the development process. It is a combination of development (Dev), security (Sec), and operations (Ops) practices that work together to build, test, and deploy secure software.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Cyber security threats can lead to the loss of confidential information, disruption of essential services, and damage to your critical infrastructure. There are many potential cyber security threats, and it can be difficult to protect against all of them. Implementing strong cyber security policies and procedures.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

After double-digit growth in the past two years, cybersecurity budgets expanded more modestly in 2023. 1 - Cybersecurity budgets grow, but less than in years past Cybersecurity teams on average saw an increase in their 2023 budgets, but the bump was much smaller than in previous years, as organizations across the board reined in IT spending.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This makes endpoint security management a non-negotiable IT function that all companies must undertake. Sometimes, the only challenge is the absence of a good endpoint security management tool — a gap that Kaseya VSA can fill effortlessly. This new year, let’s approach endpoint security with a renewed focus.

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Once bad actors gain access to an organization’s computer network, they can damage the business by blocking access, encrypting systems and data to demand a ransom, or surreptitiously stealing crucial information that can fetch them a tidy sum on the dark web. Software vulnerabilities pose serious cybersecurity risks.

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Tenable

AUGUST 1, 2019

Microsoft took the unusual step of publishing a blog post announcing security updates for out-of-support versions of Windows, including Windows XP and Windows 2003, and warning that BlueKeep could be as impactful as the WannaCry worm that took hold in May 2017. Upgrading end-of-life (EOL) operating systems.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 10, 2021

An attacker plants malware on your system that encrypts all the files, making your system useless, then offers to sell you the key you need to decrypt the files. We’ll have more to say about that, but the tl;dr is simple: pay attention to security basics. The concept behind ransomware is simple. But what about ransomware?

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Lacework

APRIL 16, 2024

This powerful feature was created to correlate many individual weak signals in order to create a story of a security incident. To do this, we must combine security domain expertise with anomaly detection. Such weak signals would likely evade detection by many legacy or rules-based security tools.

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Jeremiah Grossman

APRIL 17, 2009

While I’ve seen many published threat models, I’ve not seen any specifically focused on the nuances of website security (maybe I missed it?). Website security is much different from other forms of software or business models and deserves special attention in the ways it's handled.

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PowerSchool

MARCH 3, 2020

How to prepare your edtech systems and prevent security breaches. By Rich Gay, PowerSchool Chief Information Security Officer & & Vice President of Development. The threat of a hack into your school or district’s edtech systems is any K-12 tech director’s constant worry. Deploy multi-factor authentication.

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