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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

TechCrunch

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital (a $10 billion hedge fund) co-led the round, which also included participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Authentic Ventures and others. . Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In

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It's 2022. Why do you keep using SMB?

Ivanti

During the last 25 years, companies have relied on SMB protocol to allow them to collaborate and centralize corporate documents. The history of SMB (and why it's no longer relevant). The latest iteration, SMB 3.1.1, encryption added in SMB3 and implemented a pre-authentication integrity check using?SHA-512?hash.

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Maximize Your Vulnerability Scan Value with Authenticated Scanning

Tenable

Start doing authenticated scanning. Performing authenticated scans of your environment offers essential benefits and is a practice widely recognized as valuable. The scan configurations we observe in Tenable’s SaaS products are telling: our customers run unauthenticated scans 20 times more than authenticated ones.

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Leverage Two-Factor Authentication for Maximized Security

Kaseya

Phishing, social engineering and unsecured networks have made password based authentication insecure for some time. In today’s age where security breaches have become an everyday occurrence, password-only authentication is not sufficient. Increase Security with Two-Factor Authentication.

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Microsoft’s June 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 129 CVEs Including Newly Disclosed SMBv3 Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1206)

Tenable

This flaw can be exploited on an authenticated server or against an SMB client. An authenticated attacker would need to send a specially crafted packet to exploit this vulnerability against a vulnerable SMB server. CVE-2020-1301 | Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

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CVE-2022-37958: FAQ for Critical Microsoft SPNEGO NEGOEX Vulnerability

Tenable

CVE-2022-37958 is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the SPNEGO NEGOEX protocol of Windows operating systems, which supports authentication in applications. What is SPNEGO NEGOEX? More details about SPNEGO NEGOEX can be found here. What protocols use SPNEGO NEGOEX?

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

Tenable

As cybercriminals successfully swipe credentials using infostealer malware, they will often launch “MFA-fatigue” attacks to breach compromised accounts that are protected with multifactor authentication. . Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation ” (MITRE). 4 - Cybersecurity looms large in SMB software purchases.