Schneier on Security

JUNE 10, 2021

For example, a photo agency that makes stock photos available on its website with copyright watermarks can markpaint them in such a way that anyone using common editing software to remove a watermark will fail; the copyright mark will be markpainted right back. One application is tamper-resistant marks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

Operators behind the Amadey Bot malware use the SmokeLoader to distribute a new variant via software cracks and keygen sites. ASEC researchers recently discovered that Amadey malware is being distributed by SmokeLoader which is hidden in software cracks and serial generation programs available on multiple sites.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Whether it’s package hijacking, dependency confusing, typosquatting, continuous integration and continuous delivery ( CI/CD ) compromises, or basic web exploitation of outdated dependencies , there are many software supply chain attacks adversaries can perform to take down their victims, hold them to ransom , and exfiltrate critical data.

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Software Authentication VPN Architecture 138

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Your website and infrastructure should be PCI compliant, and this includes choosing to use programs and software that comes PCI-DSS certified that you run your operations with. The post How to evolve your organization into a data-centric security architecture appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

Threat actors targeted a large software development company in Ukraine using the GoMet backdoor. Researchers from Cisco Talos discovered an uncommon piece of malware that was employed in an attack against a large Ukrainian software development company. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. ” concludes the report.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ConnectWise , which offers a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link. build and the then-canary 22.9

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. MIPS is both the most common CPU architecture and least hardened on average. Within our 15 year data set, there have been no positive trends from any one vendor.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 19, 2023

Here are a few takeaways: A converged ecosystem Cloud migration and rapid software development were both on a rising curve when Covid 19 hit and the global economy suddenly shut down in 2020. the architecture must come first, and then they can decide which product choices they would prefer.”

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Penetration Testing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Autodesk AutoCAD, a widely used CAD software across engineering, architecture, and manufacturing industries, has been found to contain 40 zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Penetration Testing Architecture Manufacturing Engineering 140

Kali Linux

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The i386 architecture has long been obsolete, and from this week, support for i386 in Kali Linux is going to shrink significantly: i386 kernel and images are going away. Some terminology first Let’s start with the terms used in Kali Linux to talk about CPU architectures. amd64 refers to the x86-64 architecture, ie.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Visit Cycognito Pricing Through its SaaS architecture, CyCognito provides tiered pricing for security testing, intelligence, and premium support. It creates a comprehensive picture of your attack surface, including assets that typical security solutions can’t see. Pricing is dependent on the quantity of Internet-facing assets.

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Software Risk Architecture Internet 112

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2022

Best SMB Security Tools & Software. Delivers consolidated management of all next-generation firewall (NGFW), software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) , switching and wireless policies from anywhere with a single cloud management and analytics platform. Zerto’s software-only platform is easy for SMBs to implement.

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Software Firewall Backups Small Business 133

Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix 60 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day flaw in all supported Microsoft Office versions on all flavors of Windows that’s seen active exploitation for at least two months now.

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Architecture Internet Internet Software 275

The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

Like SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline, Miami-based software vendor, Kaseya, was a thriving entity humming right along, striving like everyone else to leverage digital agility — while also dodging cybersecurity pitfalls. Chris Clements, VP of solutions architecture, Cerberus Sentinel.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2022

NVIDIA Clara Holoscan MGX platform is the name and it will from now on provide medical grade reference architecture and long-term support to all AI powered medical devices. As they will receive a 10-year long-term software support and a design visionary on hardware architecture that will also benefit end users.

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Artificial Intelligence Architecture Manufacturing Healthcare 130

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Access controls are the nexus of security and the expanding perimeter, and zero trust is the architecture that encompasses it. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture. The network security perimeter is dynamically created and policy-based, and must be guarded by secure and highly managed access controls.

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Healthcare Technology Architecture IoT 268

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

New frameworks, like SASE , CWPP and CSPM , seek to weave security more robustly into the highly dynamic, intensely complex architecture of modern business networks. A broad push is underway to retool an old-school software monitoring technique, called observability , and bring it to bear on modern business networks. Forget phases.

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Software Cloud Migration Architecture Engineering 205

Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2024

As software development grows more complex and APIs become more central to new software architectures, vulnerabilities can stem from various sources, whether it’s an issue within open-source components or a mistake made by one of your developers. In a digital+ world, there is no escaping “vulnerabilities.”

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This has resulted in astounding innovations in cloud services, mobile computing, IoT systems and agile software development. Whether it’s IoT (Internet of Things) devices, desktop applications, web applications native to the web browsers, or mobile applications – all these types of software rely on APIs in one way or another.

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Mobile Penetration Testing Digital transformation IoT 266

Cisco Security

APRIL 6, 2022

No one enjoys forking out gobs of money and spending sleepless implementation hours every few years in exchange for a shiny new box with largely the same architecture as the old one, save for maybe a slightly faster CPU. The big deal about the new Secure Firewall 3100 Series architecture is the emphasis on processing encrypted traffic.

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Firewall Architecture Encryption VPN 130

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

Here are key takeaways: The speed imperative Software has become the life blood of virtually all industries. As companies have come to realize how pivotal software is, an urgency has arisen to develop code as quickly as humanly possible. That’s become the mantra of DevOps.

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Software Financial Services Risk Data privacy 194

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But as we know, software engineering is a game of trade-offs, and serverless architectures come with their own challenges. Flexible pay-as-you-go payment plans offered by most cloud services help minimize costs, adding a financial incentive as the cherry on top of the developer’s cake.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 5, 2023

Microservices is a software development approach where an application is divided into small, independent and loosely coupled services that work together to provide the application’s overall functionality. Each microservice is designed to perform a specific task or function and communicates with other microservices via lightweight APIs.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Many API vulnerabilities also expose business logic functions in the software. The challenge is around discovery, security testing, protection and the visual understanding of the interconnected nature of this modern software. But business logic abuse may get worse. There will be an increase in compliance requirements, like U.S.

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Cybersecurity Marketing Encryption CISO 234

Anton on Security

JANUARY 12, 2022

Note that this has nothing to do with the “shift left” of software development. to just install your SIEM software correctly or sign up for a cloud SIEM service. Still, focusing on collection (sources, messages, volumes, architectures, use cases, etc) is still be required to succeed. It is not enough - absolutely, not enough!?—?to

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Planning required processes and security components when initially building your architecture. software) — the better it will be able to de-risk the personal data it is responsible for. Helping ensure data privacy. Unique IDs. It is also possible to obfuscate personal data by replacing it with unique identifiers (UID).

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Risk Encryption Data privacy CISO 240

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

Among the latest additions are: Cisco Small Business RV routers and IOS software (38 new Cisco vulnerabilities in all). Purdue network architecture. Network Architecture and Design. Network Architecture and Design. Here’s some of the advice detailed in the document.

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Network Security Architecture Authentication Firewall 137

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What’s more, striking the right balance between protecting against advanced threats and ensuring high Quality of Experience (QoE) is not easy when new DevOps/SecOps tools are pushing out a 10X increase in software releases. Effective testing becomes critical.

Risk 208

Risk Architecture Firewall Telecommunications 208

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Implementing a Zero Trust architecture involves verifying every attempt to access the system. S ameer Malhotra , CEO, TrueFort : Malhotra Software supply chain attacks will continue to place more responsibility and accountability on DevSecOps teams. SBOMs provide a clear audit trail of software components, ensuring traceability.

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Cybersecurity Social Engineering Cyber threats Software 258

Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2022

Password management software firm LastPass has suffered a data breach, threat actors have stole source code and other data. We utilize an industry standard Zero Knowledge architecture that ensures LastPass can never know or gain access to our customers’ Master Password. ” reads a notice published by the company.

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Data breaches Password Management Passwords Architecture 145

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2022

The threat landscape is also continuously changing, with new attacker trends coming to light and new software vulnerabilities discovered which put organizations at risk if they are not patched. Security threats are here to stay and perfect software doesn’t exist, so hardening and resilience must be the priority for any business leaders.

Risk 235

Risk Cybersecurity Architecture Data breaches 235

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In the age ofcloud-native architectures, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) models, microservices, and containerized environments, and at a time when code changes happen daily and even hourly AST products originally built for monolithic applications and slower release cycles come up short.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2021

Software developers are king of the hill; they are the deeply-committed disciples pursuing wide open, highly dynamic creative processes set forth in the gospels of DevOps and CI/CD. In this heady environment, the idea of attempting to infuse a dollop of security into new software products — from inception — seems almost quaint.

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Penetration Testing Digital transformation Software Architecture 183

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

278 Federal Administration’s files contained technical information, encompassing documentation on IT systems, software requirement documents, or architectural descriptions. 4,779 Federal Administration’s files contained personal data such as names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses.

Ransomware 142

Ransomware Data breaches Unstructured Data Architecture 142

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The most recent updates came in October 2022, when ISO 27001 was amended with enhanced focus on the software development lifecycle (SDLC). These updates address the growing risk to application security (AppSec), and so they’re critically important for organizations to understand and implement in their IT systems ASAP.

Cyber threats 203

Cyber threats Software Risk CISO 203

Penetration Testing

JANUARY 4, 2024

In January 2010, Inductive Automation introduced the Ignition platform, an integrated software solution for SCADA systems.

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Penetration Testing Architecture Software 92

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

About the essayist: Armistead Whitney is the founder and CEO of Apptega , a software platform that helps businesses build, manage and report their cybersecurity programs. CyberXchange helps cut through the noise, alleviating the ever-growing vendor fatigue, allowing organizations to build a more secure and compliant cybersecurity program.”

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