The Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2023

The findings were presented by Deep Instinct security researcher Daniel Avinoam at the DEF CON security conference held earlier this month. Microsoft's container architecture (and by extension,

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Authors/Presenters:Saksham Agarwal, Qizhe Cai, Rachit Agarwal, David Shmoys, Amin Vahdat Our sincere thanks to USENIX , and the Presenters & Authors for publishing their superb 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24) content, placing the organizations enduring commitment to Open Access front and center.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Authors/Presenters:Lin Jiang, Feiyu Zhang, Jiang Ming Our sincere thanks to USENIX , and the Presenters & Authors for publishing their superb 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24) content, placing the organizations enduring commitment to Open Access front and center.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

And while an emergency stop may certainly be a risk minimizing action in some circumstances, describing it as such is surprising, especially when presented in contrast to a "safe stop" maneuver. I also like Figure 27 & 28 (shown), showing risks associated with a generic architecture. million people were seriously injured.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Many thanks to Israel’s Tel Aviv University for publishing their presenter’s tremendous Cyber Week 2023 security content on the Tel Aviv University’s TAUVOD YouTube channel.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2022

These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture. They seem to be solid products, the present troubles being ignored. Actually, some data was lost.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2024

This would include the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) for software, eliminating the barrier to interoperability presented by today’s baroque, non-standard and non-programmatic interfaces to access data. Each such interface would allow for interoperability and potential competition.

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Banking Financial Services Marketing Data privacy 294

Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

This memo analyzes the video, presents internal analysis, and offers strategies for response to the Trade Federation. The pen testers misunderstand our network architecture, again. Again, the pen testers ignore facts to present "findings" to their clients. Finding 5.1: "Physical access not controlled." This is flat-out wrong.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Adopting application architectures based on event-driven microservices helps resolve these concerns and enables us to scale different services independently. However, event-based microservices present significant challenges, including communication between these services. The post What are message queues?

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CSO Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) zero-trust security framework presents a new way of solving an age-old problem of securing networks and information, and organizations of all sizes are rethinking their security architecture, processes, and procedures to adopt zero-trust principles.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

However, over time, an adversary was smart enough to look and see if the vendor relied on lesser cyber protection, thereby presenting a softer target. Traditionally, systems were designed, built and operated based on architectural and technical limitation decisions years ago, and as such, trust was decided upon contract award.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

Both of these are essential areas of cybersecurity, but of the two, authorization presents the more demanding architectural challenge. Authentication answers the question: who are you? Authorization answers the question: given who you are, what can you do? To read this article in full, please click here

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This comes after the partners have spent the past couple of years fine tuning an architectural design that’s compatible with existing IT systems, he says. Wu observes that ABE’s fine-grained access control capability could enhance any of the major areas of digital services that exists today, while also being future-proofed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2022

The “ Top Five Cybersecurity Predictions for 2022 ” webinar presented by Steve Piper, CISSP, Founder & CEO of CyberEdge overdelivers and gives us TEN predictions for the coming year. In the presentation, Steve mentions his regret in limiting the title to just five predictions, and expands upon the list by adding five honorable mentions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Generating and maintaining static signatures for variations on IoT malware is tedious, as the assembly code often changes across variants and architectures and text strings are subject to modification. Diaphora works by analyzing each function present in the binary and extracting a set of features from each analyzed function.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Most cloud architectures use a combination of splitting data vertically, horizontally and replication to improve response times, scalability, availability and fault tolerance. Object storage introduces new challenges related to data consistency, which are not present in relational databases. This is called object storage.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Experts noticed that the malware supports multiple CPU architectures, including x86(32/64), ARM(32/64), MIPS(MIPS32/MIPS-III) and PPC, it is written in the Go open-source programming language. “At present, the most useful functions for the entire Botnet are to execute Shell commands , update Peer List and UpdateBotFile.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The “move to cloud” presents significant cybersecurity challenges for critical infrastructure related industries, that still put a premium on one element of the C-I-A triad (confidentiality, integrity and availability) over others, namely availability [ii]. Using Purdue model for segmentation as a gold standard.

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Javvad Malik

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A blend of newer buildings mixed in with some very old architecture, overlaid with some tasteful (and not so tasteful) graffiti. A great red v blue team session presented by the bank formerly known as Transferwise and Clarified Security by Taavi Sonet and Rasmus Männa. The walk from the hotel to the venue, was short, but scenie.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The malware impersonates a Visual Studio update and was designed to support Intel and Arm architectures. Researchers from Bitdefender discovered a new macOS backdoor, dubbed RustDoor, which appears to be linked to ransomware operations Black Basta and Alphv/BlackCat. RustDoor is written in Rust language and supports multiple features.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

For example, a sample with the MD5 hash sum 914e49921c19fffd7443deee6ee161a4 contains two architectures: x86_64 and ARM64.” The first one corresponds to previous-generation, Intel-based Mac computers, but the second one is compiled for ARM64 architecture, which means that it can run on computers with the new Apple M1 chip.”.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Next, we demonstrate that some backdoors, such as ImpNet, can only be reliably detected at the stage where they are inserted and removing them anywhere else presents a significant challenge. The post Inserting a Backdoor into a Machine-Learning System appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If you are searching for the tools you need to confidently move to a zero trust model and you’d like to learn about the vital role authentication plays in laying a strong foundation for security, we’d like to invite you to attend a live virtual event: The Zero Trust Leadership Series Presents: The Bridge to Zero Trust Virtual Event On Wednesday, March (..)

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NetSpi Executives

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) present limitless possibilities for enhancing business processes, but they also expand the potential for malicious actors to exploit security risks. How transparent is the model architecture? Will the architecture details be publicly available or proprietary?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The main reasons to rewrite malware in Rust is to have lower AV detection rates, compared to malware written in most common languages, and to target multiple architectures. The move follows the decision of other ransomware gangs, like Hive , Blackcat , RansomExx , and Luna , of rewriting their ransomware into Rust.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Robinsons also discussed OpenSSF’s reference architecture – see graphic below. Microsoft got plenty, including architecture-level vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange , along with significant flaws in Active Directory and Microsoft 365. A number of successes so far include: Secure Software Development Fundamentals courses.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2021

Additionally, taking advantage of the already present system tools means that attackers don’t necessarily need a framework design of their own. One proven way to overcome these kinds of attacks is by implementing zero trust architecture. About the essayist: Nick Campbell is Senior Director of Security & Architecture at Liquid Web.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With the arrival of 5G and the evolution to cloud architectures, managing subscriber data and services efficiently is essential to ensuring an operator’s business profitability. HPE addresses these challenges through stateless Network Functions (NF) on a common service-based architecture. Data Security. More About This Author >.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2022

The advisory also provides recommended guidance and considerations for organizations to address as part of network architecture, security baseline, continuous monitoring, and incident response practices. ” reads the advisory. Enable strong spam filters to prevent phishing emails from reaching end users. Filter network traffic.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

My first day on the job included an all-hands, and I saw GeorgeSt present how many bugs the Secure Windows Initiative had managed through the Vista process.) After I joined the SDL team, and we started working together, I saw the tremendous focus that the team had on bugs. (My

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As companies interact more digitally with customers and end-users, their attack surface increases, presenting more opportunities for would-be attackers. Design and align to consistent, secure core reference architectures easily managed and scaled to meet business requirements. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Veracode Security

AUGUST 2, 2021

They need to understand the different cloud architectures and platforms. Since every cloud platform is different in terms of configuration models, APIs, and services, using multiple can present operational and security challenges. Security professionals need to be able to read and write code. Ideally … security needs to become code.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

Although the lack of user verification is well known, it’s hard not to believe someone’s background when presented in a professional manner. “The latest focus on LinkedIn by attackers was inevitable,” Morgan said.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ %s Safari/537.36″ The malware gets the version number of the installed chrome.exe from the EXE file present at one of the following file paths: C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe. Checking the OS architecture and the next shellcode architecture.

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Google Security

MARCH 12, 2021

In this post, we will share the results of Google Security Team's research on the exploitability of Spectre against web users, and present a fast, versatile proof-of-concept (PoC) written in JavaScript which can leak information from the browser's memory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

then) and confirmed that all the previously rejected vulnerabilities were still present in the version 2.2.2 The following vulnerabilities, discovered by the security researcher Pierre Barre , impact all versions up to 2.3.0 “Luckily, I was able to get access to the latest version of SANnav in May 2023 (the latest version was 2.2.2

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