SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2024

The event not only showcases athletic prowess but also presents a significant challenge for cybersecurity professionals. The Olympics are a particularly attractive target for cybercriminals due to the global attention and massive scale of the event," said Patrick Tiquet, Vice President, Security & Architecture, at Keeper Security.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 16, 2019

Boeing maintains that other security barriers in the 787's network architecture would make that progression impossible. While we appreciate responsible engagement from independent cybersecurity researchers, we're disappointed in IOActive's irresponsible presentation.". I don't have an opinion about whether or not it's lying.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“Nevertheless, the mitigation was simple and presented no risk to partner experience, so we put it into the then-stable 22.8 ” However, LastPass maintains that its “customer passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.” build and the then-canary 22.9

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2025

The experts used a diagnostic software to analyze the vehicle architecture, scan the Electronic Control Unit (ECU), identify its version, and test diagnostic functions. The experts focused their analysis on the Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) infotainment system, which was first presented by the carmaker in 2018.

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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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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 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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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 319

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2025

In his annual letter to shareholders , Jassy presented Alexa+ as the first personal assistant that can truly act, declaring Generative AI is going to reinvent virtually every customer experience we know. But while the surface resemblance is easy to draw, the underlying intentand trajectorysets the two efforts worlds apart.

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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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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2025

It's not just a policy problemit's an architectural one. The report's findings present a sobering reminder: access is the new perimeter. A whopping $88,000 in detection, response, and recoveryper breach. These numbers paint a picture of systems that are vulnerable by design, not by accident.

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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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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 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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Cisco Security

MAY 21, 2021

“Two thirds of the CIOs in all the organizations have said that post-pandemic they will spend more on security investments, and projects that used to take years now take weeks or months”. – Chuck Robbins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco, RSAC 2021 keynote presentation. In case you missed it, you can watch it 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

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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Critically, the malicious extension only requires read/write capabilities present in the majority of browser extensions on the Chrome Store, including common productivity tools like Grammarly, Calendly and Loom, desensitizing users from granting these permissions.

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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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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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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Extensibility – an architecture that has the ability to add new functionality and customizations easily. Furthermore, the Cisco Telemetry Broker architecture can scale seamlessly both horizontally and vertically. Availability – being able to handle any outages speedily. Availability. Extensibility.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

If the file is present on the system, it terminates execution. Specifically, they collect: Current username; Processor names and number of cores; Physical disk name and size; The values of the TotalVirtualMemorySize and TotalVisibleMemorySize properties; Current hostname; Local IP address; Installed OS; Architecture.

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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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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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SecureList

APRIL 17, 2025

However, this transition to a modular architecture isn’t something new as we have seen modular versions of the MysterySnail RAT deployed as early as 2021. For instance, the typo in the ExplorerMoudleDll.dll that we previously noted was present in the modular version of MysterySnail RAT from 2021.

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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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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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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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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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Quantum-powered cybersecurity solutions also present significant opportunities, specifically when looking at threat detection and intrusion response. A Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) will enhance security by enforcing strict verification and continuous authentication.

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