Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. I’ve been in infosec for over 30 years and have had the great privilege of evolving and learning as a cybersecurity executive in a space I love.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I owe the infosec community a huge debt of gratitude. But DEF CON is not THE infosec community. However, it is only a small cog in a very large wheel and there are many other parts of the infosec community to be explored. My team and I will continue to give back at other events and strive to always be better.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The post DEF CON 29 Red Team Village – ‘CTF Recap and Upcoming Events’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our thanks to DEFCON for publishing their outstanding DEF CON 29 Red Team Village videos on the Conferences’ YouTube channel.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Enter Project 2030, a collaboration between Oxford Visiting Researcher Victoria Baines and Trend Micro Vice President of Security Research Rik Ferguson, which uses a mixture of survey data and forward-thinking understanding of technology to predict the infosec concerns a decade from now. AI could impact more than just social engineering.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In the wake of such an event, you might think: How do I prevent such an event from happening? You can log events such as input validation failures, authentication and authorization success and failures, application errors, and any other events that deal with sensitive functionality like payment, account settings, and so on.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack in which bad actors pose as a trustworthy entity via phone, email, or text message in order to steal personal information from the recipient. Attackers may try to get their victims to reveal their date of birth, social security number, credit card information, or account passwords.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Economic effects, including inflationary pressures, have had a broad impact across the InfoSec landscape," Smeaton said. Develop a cybersecurity incident response plan In the event of a cyberattack, organizations should have a plan in place to respond quickly and effectively.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

And if a threat actor employs social engineering , the analyst might even need a basic grasp of psychology. Highlighting the AI advantages in ITSM and InfoSec, you can use ChatGPT. They should be adept at automating the search for indicators amidst a barrage of "raw" events in an optimized manner.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The publication outlines the three areas in cybersecurity where the engineers believe that ML helps most significantly: Network intrusion detection/security information and event management (SIEM) solutions : Keeping an intrusion detection system (IDS) up to date can be a manual and time-consuming process.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

These are common con techniques and used by social engineers. He has been a speaker on the infosec circuit and was one of the keynotes at the inaugural 44CON London security event in 2011. The opportunity to appear on TV is either appealing, a curiosity, or a complete no no.

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 16, 2024

Before attending, I was not familiar with the event. The event was a blast! Ethan Hobart, Senior Security Consultant While at DEF CON, I attended Social Engineering AI Like You’re Piccard by Jayson E. These social engineering bypasses are effective, and the AI happily complies with your ask.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2022

This section contains some interesting reading related to the state of infosec today. Hackers are now hiding malware in Windows Event Logs By injecting shellcode payloads into Key Management Services, attackers have started obfuscating and sneakily bypassing detection. Recommended Reading. For More: [link].

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. I’ve been in infosec for over 30 years and have had the great privilege of evolving and learning as a cybersecurity executive in a space I love.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. You have all this data, you have the logs coming out from network vulnerability scanners, you might have recordings made of social engineering attempts and that sort of thing. I mean if you can’t handle the details, then what do you think working in infosec is all about?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

She is an impressive force within the infosec world. You have all this data, you have the logs coming out from network vulnerability scanners, you might have recordings made of social engineering attempts and that sort of thing. I mean if you can’t handle the details, then what do you think working in infosec is all about?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2023

If and when you decide to enable TAPs, you’ll know exactly what you are signing up for and the new events you should be monitoring. The following powershell command will return all of the TAP generation events in a tenant. I can’t tell you how to handle your log events, but I would treat this event with heavy scrutiny in my tenant.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

You’d think that having an amazing resume, a couple of bug bounties, or a CTF win would land you that dream infosec job. There's a serious shortage of InfoSec professionals. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

You’d think that having an amazing resume, a couple of bug bounties, or a CTF win would land you that dream infosec job. There's a serious shortage of InfoSec professionals. I've mentioned before but InfoSec Twitter is a valuable resource. For many, though, that isn’t true.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Writing exploits or developing infosec tools is no exception, they often need to have access to the latest libraries. We did not want to step on any other projects toes in infosec realm, or even IT in general. How did you pick the name?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. No infosec Twitter or Discord. So if you both enter the room at the same time, it depends on the sequence of events whether the light is ultimately on or off. I started in journalism. Hacking away.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. No infosec Twitter or Discord. So if you both enter the room at the same time, it depends on the sequence of events whether the light is ultimately on or off. I started in journalism. Hacking away.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Fortunately I was covering security for ZDNet from day one, and eventually got pretty good at explaining infosec to others. No infosec Twitter or Discord. So if you both enter the room at the same time, it depends on the sequence of events whether the light is ultimately on or off. I started in journalism. Hacking away.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As 2023 draws to an end and cybersecurity budgeting is nearly complete, it helps to consider the year’s events and try to predict next year’s trends. After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The general topic of how to get started in InfoSec, that's a given. In this episode, I want to talk about another way to get experience in InfoSec bug bounties. I've done a bunch of field wide hacking events, at least pre COVID which are a really great experience. So I used after that event and got home.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

Threat actors have developed social engineering approaches that leverage the uncertainty and chaos of the pandemic in order to deliver their malicious software. I’ve been in infosec for over 30 years and have had the great privilege of evolving and learning as a cybersecurity executive in a space I love. To Your Success , .

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