The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2018

Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing can help to identify weaknesses and areas where networks have not been configured correctly. Ensure you have comprehensive backups. based cybersecurity professional; his 15 years IT experience, includes penetration testing and ethical hacking projects.

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Pen Test

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Introduction As we navigate through the complexities of modern cybersecurity penetration testing (pentesting) remains a crucial practice for organisations and individuals alike. Set Up a Firewall Configuring a firewall is essential for any system, especially for one loaded with hacking tools.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With this growing concern, many wonder: Can cybersecurity hack your phone? While cybersecurity’s main goal is to protect, there are circumstances where it can be used to ethically test phone vulnerabilities. Let’s dive deeper to understand how cybersecurity and hacking intersect when it comes to your phone.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Further classifications may be based on your area of specialization, which can include network security, ethical hacking, cloud security, and more. Examples of focus areas covered feature penetration testing and performing threat assessments, aiding individuals to better defend against cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

Audits and penetration testing. Regular audits and penetration tests can help you identify vulnerabilities in your system. If your system is hacked, it’s important to have a plan in place for how to respond. First, it helps you recover from a hack or other data loss. Have an incident response plan.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2025

In this entry, lets focus on test day itselfand how to maximize the educational, financial, and professional value of the OSCP exam experience. OffSec has gone to great lengths to make the OSCP a realistic simulation of a black-box penetration test; however, to ensure fair grading and timely results, it comes with inherent limitations.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

Operators behind the Pysa ransomware, also employed a version of the PowerShell Empire penetration-testing tool, they were able to stop antivirus products. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FBI). Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Through brute force, illegitimate actors can attempt to hack a user’s password by trying an infinite number of combinations. Test, test, test. Conducting frequent connection and penetration testing is important to ensure constant viability for users. This is where length of strength comes into play.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

This also results in a higher level of risk to organisations with most home networks undeniably easier to hack into than office networks. Ensure you have a robust data protection solution in place that delivers secure and air-gapped backups that are immutable.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Security expert Pasquale Fiorillo demonstrates how to hack n RFID/NFC Vending Machine. The affected vendor did not answer to my responsible disclosure request, so I’m here to disclose this “hack” without revealing the name of the vendor itself. Road to arbitrary credit: Spending 1€ infinite times isn’t the scope of that hack.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2021

Hacking or auditing your own database will put you in the mindset of an attacker and help you find vulnerabilities you may have missed. To ensure the test is comprehensive enough, there are third-party services and white hat hackers that specialize in penetration testing you can hire to do the job for you.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

However, the company was able to restore its network from backups and no client workstations were affected during the intrusions. Despite not being the true LockBit Locker group, these micro criminals were still able to cause significant damage by encrypting a large number of internal files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Without adequate backups, the data they house can be lost forever. When natural disasters affect physical data storage devices, it can lead to data loss especially if backups and disaster recovery plans are not in place. A permanent loss of this data can then occur in a situation where there are no backup copies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2022

As hacks and extortion become more and more frequent, to truly minimize the risk of potential extortion and lost clear text data, a data security platform, specifically data-in-use encryption, also referred to as encryption-in-use, is the only option for complete protection and peace of mind. ” Tim Prendergrast, CEO, strongDM.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

FormBook FormBook is an information stealer advertised in hacking forums. Remcos Remcos is marketed as a legitimate software tool for remote management and penetration testing. physically disconnected) backups of data. AZORult's developers are constantly updating its capabilities. Qakbot can also be used to form botnets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

do not conduct periodic penetration tests and analyses of the state of maturity of technical and organizational measures taken to reduce cyber risk; when these analyses flag weaknesses, they do not immediately handle them but are added to a “ to-do-list ” without a specific deadline in the short term; and. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

State-sponsored hacking is a growing concern, with governments using cyberattacks to gather intelligence, disrupt infrastructure, or compromise national security. Hacktivism and Ideological Motives Hacktivism refers to hacking activities undertaken for ideological or political reasons. The first one is selling it on the dark web.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Looking at the disastrous Colonial Pipeline hack as a glaring example of the importance of stringent safeguards—not to mention the growth in ransomware attacks on enterprises—implementing robust security measures is a must. Maintain segmented backup copies of media repositories to facilitate recovery while still preserving access control.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

It is apparent to even the most casual observer that successful cyber-attacks are happening at an alarming frequency, and it is happening to trusted institutions where we all believed our private data was secured and impenetrable from unscrupulous fraudsters, criminals or even state sponsored hacking by some rogue Governments.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

The open source security tool, Nmap, originally focused on port scanning, but a robust community continues to add features and capabilities to make Nmap a formidable penetration testing tool. This article will delve into the power of Nmap, how attackers use Nmap, and alternative penetration testing (pentesting) tools.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Regardless of the implemented architecture, all organizations should implement the following additional DNS server protections: Backup DNS server information or implement disaster recovery solutions as one would for any other critical data: Use automation to avoid human error. Relatively high frequency backups (daily or at least weekly).

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Spinone

JULY 29, 2020

Some of the typical responsibilities and tasks include: Configuring technical security controls Conducting an app risk assessment Whitelisting/blacklisting apps Performing penetration testing For app security engineers, it’s vital to control SaaS apps and the risks related to them. Risky and insecure apps should be blacklisted.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last Wednesday, an anonymous individual published a file online containing the entirety of twitch.tv’s source code, information about twitch’s internal services and development tools, penetration testing reports and tools, and payouts to prominent Twitch streamers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2023

We embrace good backup and disaster recovery processes with seamless business continuity in mind, in cases of data losses, system crashes or any form of disaster. The back-up strategy covers the primary and secondary sites.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The company should also perform frequent backups of key data and shut off old servers and virtual machines that aren’t being used anymore. Bring in an ‘expert’ – Has the company hired reputable third-party experts to perform a risk analysis or see if they can “hack into” the company systems?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In this case, there are third-party software solutions that provide automated vulnerability scanning including the following software solutions: Qualys Nessus Metasploit BurpSuite Amazon Inspector Nmap There are also third-party companies that provide penetration testing services.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Protect your backup systems.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The Global State of Information Security Survey 2017 suggests that companies should look into deploying threat detection tools and processes (including monitoring and analyzing security intelligence information), conducting vulnerability and threat assessments, penetration tests and security information, and event management (SIEM) tools.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Criminal hacking has become a major threat to today’s organizations. Software Vulnerabilities Exploiting software vulnerabilities is one of the most common ways that hackers penetrate systems. Fuzz Testing Fuzzing, or fuzz testing, is a common technique that hackers use to find vulnerabilities in software.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. So basically, we deliver custom penetration tests. Well, why hack your way through a complicated backdoor method when you can waltz right in the front door as a fully credentialed user and then escalate individual privileges from the inside.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

How not to disclosure a Hack. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. implement offline storage and tape-based backup. review Active Directory password policy. All very sound advice.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

In April 2023, Bleeping Computer and other tech outlets like TechRadar began circulating reports of cybercriminals successfully hacking WordPress websites. Conduct internal and routine penetration testing or similar assessments against web applications to identify exploitable weaknesses before Balada does.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllsecure about our expectations around people who hack for a living. Hacking day in and day out. There’s sometimes a very thin line between pen testing and criminal hacking. And, in the middle, grey box testing. Want to Learn More About Zero-Days?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllsecure about our expectations around people who hack for a living. Hacking day in and day out. There’s sometimes a very thin line between pen testing and criminal hacking. And, in the middle, grey box testing. You are acting as your cyber attacker.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Starting with penetration testing, ending up with incident response and forensics, so pretty much everything that is important for various customers all around the world. So what led Paula into forensics? So, whenever you perform some attacks.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

Issues can be used in various ways; for instance, I have seen them used as a way to track individual tasks, IT help tickets, and even findings and security issues discovered in past penetration test reports.?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Like any other criminal hack. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. A village is like a mini conference within a larger conference and it is not just at DEF CON, ICS village is also at RSAC, Hack the Capital, AvergerCon, BSides, and many more. The hack was on that pipeline.

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