Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2023

We discuss the benefits of passkeys over traditional passwords, but also why passkeys are not quite ready for prime time use. The post Google Now Supports Passkeys, Risky New Top Level Domains, Twitter’s Encryption Dilemma appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Non-encrypted data, insecure protocols and poor user authentication mechanisms are among the security issues that leave seismological networks open to breaches, the authors note.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

These guidelines should include the following: Set up a Strong Password Policy. One of the most common ways by which malicious actors perpetrate account takeover (ATO) fraud is via password brute forcing attacks. Infosec personnel should also help employees store those passwords safely such as via the use of a password manager.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It includes integration of Glyptodon Enterprise into Keeper Security’s zero-trust and zero-knowledge security and encryption architecture, resulting in a highly-secure, agentless remote access platform, without the need of a virtual private network (VPN). “In

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

We are rapidly approaching a "secure by default" web and the green padlock is becoming the norm ( about two thirds of all browser traffic is now encrypted ). A great resource for getting a quick snapshot of how a site implements their SSL / TLS / HTTPS ("encryption of traffic", for the masses) is SSL Labs.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

We only had Infosec Europe and the most we got out of there was some free USB sticks… If we were lucky they would be 500 megs. It’s so easy to manipulate anyone that works in infosec. Yeah, infosec is full of characters. Passwords. I mean take for example passwords – they were a funny thing even back then.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

HideezKey- This is a deep-dive into a nice concept for a security token & password manager that turned into a horrible product due to lack of proper R&D and Threat Modeling. This will help me later in the case I will be able to obtain a firmware that eventually is encrypted (i.e. known-plaintext attack). In PLAINTEXT.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Next, the threat actor set their sights on Thycotic—a password vault housing organizational secrets (passwords), including those for privileged accounts.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel #cyber #NFL pic.twitter.com/tl7OWM2Aqf — CyberKnow (@Cyberknow20) February 12, 2022. It is used by affiliates who breach organizations, steal valuable information, and then use ransomware to encrypt the organizations’ files—rendering them unusable. Smart marketing tbh.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Quantum computing poses a potential threat to current cybersecurity practices, which are based on encryption algorithms that can be broken by quantum computers. Ultimately, regardless of how standards and technology continue to evolve and adapt, the shortest way to break encryption is to obtain the key.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2022

“These critical security assets are often poorly managed and provide attackers with the ability to hide in encrypted traffic, pivot across networks and eavesdrop on sensitive data,” warns Bocek. SolarWinds: Should Security Live in InfoSec or DevOps? SUNBURST—Code Signing Was a Problem; It Should Have Been the Solution. Shelley Boose.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

As any infosec manager will tell you, no matter how secure your infrastructure, anyone with the right credentials can walk through the front door. Using data encryption, each node verifies its part of the user credentials when needed. Identity security is the greatest weakness in enterprise security.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

Over the years, the infosec community has discovered multiple APTs operating in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict region – Gamaredon, CloudAtlas , BlackEnergy and many others. Encryption and communication As we have mentioned above, two modules (Crypton.dll and Internet.dll) are bundled with every installation of the CloudWizard framework.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

What is encryption? Here are two of our favorites by Infosec blogger John Oppdenaker on Twitter: My password was hacked. I was going to change my password to one of my favorite places in France, but is it Toulon (too long!)? How do I change my password?". Do I have to change my cat's name again?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Figure 3: Encrypted communication with driverconnectsearch[.]info We can hypothesize that the malware writers may have emulated the Brushaloader stager functionalities, creating a sort of custom version exploiting the same mechanism. Figure 2: Classic Brushaloader sample (left) along with the recent Javascript stager (right). info server.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Typically, that post-breach recovery relies on surface level fixes: “rotating the KRBTGT password twice”, “increasing the available RID pool”, etc. The NTDS.dit file is used by Active Directory to manage and organize users, groups, security descriptors and password hashes. password hashes) from Active Directory.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2021

Maintained by infosec teams. Also Read: How to Prevent Password Encryption Exploits. This communication protocol means the traffic will be SSL encrypted and highly secure. Also Read: Best Password Management Software & Tools. The below table touches on the critical differences: Authorization (OAuth).

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Next, the threat actor set their sights on Thycotic—a password vault housing organizational secrets (passwords), including those for privileged accounts.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

The document is encrypted with the password “VelvetSweatshop”, a common technique employed by multiple threat actors. The document is encrypted with the password ‘VelvetSweatshop’. The Excel document downloads a Microsoft Office Word document, by pointing to an embedded OLEObject which contains a URL, in its “sheet1.xml.rels”

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

If the victim organization is slow to pay up, even though its files are encrypted and some of its confidential data has been stolen, the attackers additionally threaten to carry out a DDoS attack. New additions to the ransomware arsenal. Last year, the SunCrypt and RagnarLocker ransomware groups adopted new scare tactics.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. This was a software flaw.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A chatbot developed by OpenAI, called ChatGPT, has gone viral and is able to mimic human language and speech styles and can interact with users in a conversational way. It can be used for a range of purposes, including writing code, talking like a “Valley girl”, and even podcast introduction scripts. Attackers broke into a […].

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. Cigent + Cisco Duo brings multi-factor authentication and encryption for data at rest and in transit. Encrypt files everywhere. Read more here.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, hardcoded credentials such as API keys, encryption keys, and database passwords can be discovered by grepping for keywords such as “key”, “secret”, “password”, or a regex search for hex or base64 strings. Don’t forget to search in your git history for these strings as well.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. Vamosi: For this episode I also want to weigh in on a very controversial topic within infosec today. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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Errata Security

MAY 19, 2020

If there's one thing that the entire cybersecurity industry is agreed about (other than hating the term cybersecurity, preferring "infosec" instead) is that you need this vulnerability disclosure program. It asserts that encryption algorithms should be public instead of secret, that the only secret should be the password/key.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. Vamosi: Within InfoSec there's an informal use of AppSec as well. Don't use familiar passwords seriously. If you want nothing to connect back to you choose an entirely new set of passwords.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And if a write-based broken object-level authorization happens on critical functionalities such as password reset, password change, and account recovery, attackers can often pivot these vulnerabilities to take over user or admin accounts. On a banking site, it could lead to attackers leaking everyone’s credit information and tax forms!

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 7, 2025

This REST API is the more complete way to create a new msDS-Device as it allows us to provide values for the msDS-KeyCredentialLink (huge thanks to @DrAzureAD and the post Deep-dive to Azure AD device join which saved a lot of time and effort uncovering the structure of this request, youre contributions to the infosec scene are always appreciated!):

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. How to screen for natural infosec talent: Ask for a worst case scenario for any common situation. Street is an industry-respected speaker and analyst and currently is the VP of InfoSec for SphereNY.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. There were PDFs of Election Day passwords that supervisors use to start in elections. Bee: Can you tell me what the password was? Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I’m Robert Vamosi, and in this episode we’re talking about ways in which bad actors can manipulate legitimate tools to gain persistence on a site so they can steal data or encrypt it for ransom. A lot of infosec’s knowledge is either tribal -- passed on from one person to another - or can be found in books.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. To do so, just supplying a password, and DNA would hit you that way.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. To do so, just supplying a password, and DNA would hit you that way.

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