SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

ISO 22317: Focuses on Business Impact Analysis (BIA), detailing the processes for identifying and evaluating the impact of different events on business operations. Collect and safeguard critical artifacts such as event logs, system logs, and authentication records from corporate systems.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2025

The timing of the attack, just ahead of a major promotional event, appears designed to disrupt critical revenue streams and shake consumer confidence. You must equip your staff with the knowledge to recognize phishing attempts, social engineering ploys, and other common cyber threats through regular, targeted training sessions.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Table of Contents What is penetration testing? How penetration testing is done How to choose a penetration testing company How NetSPI can help Penetration testing enables IT security teams to demonstrate and improve security in networks, applications, the cloud, hosts, and physical locations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2021

SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2020 witnessed the participation of over 19,000 players and this year it’s expected to double up, as the event is being held online. The post Details of SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2021 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

MARCH 22, 2023

This article provides an introduction to covert entry assessments, and will address the many factors to consider when deciding on a pretext for physical social engineering. Deciding on a Pretext The technique of social engineering in-person is often referred to as physical social engineering or in-person social engineering.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 21, 2025

Phishing and Social Engineering: Train employees on how to identify and report phishing attempts and other forms of social engineering. Implement a system for regular testing and evaluation, which should include: Vulnerability Scans: Regularly scan your network and systems for vulnerabilities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Ever since offensive security testing began, we have expected that the test or simulation will find something. Even if a pen tester doesn’t uncover an issue, the best ones can always achieve success through phishing or social engineering of your organization’s employees. That’s where offensive testing can help.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events. However, they offer more than these security tools, with automated, continuous testing and automated breach simulation at their core.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

How Much Do I Tell My Team when Engaging Red Team Testing? It’s most common for a Red Team exercise to be an extremely limited knowledge event. If your goal is to absolutely find a way from the outside into your organization, you probably should do an External Network Penetration Test instead.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

Clearly, preventing fires is better than fighting them……” So, to what extent are we able to protect ourselves from Cybersecurity events? Social engineering. Social engineering is the most prevalent way threat actors find their way into your environment.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. Conduct regular network penetration tests to identify flaws and vulnerabilities in your corporate networks. If you don’t have the talent in-house, employ a third-party security firm.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

Thinking like a fraudster can help create additional barriers for these social engineering tricks and form a foundation for effective security awareness training so that the human factor hardens an organization's defenses instead of being the weakest link. Yet another step in prepping for the attack is to proofread the email.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

This betrays a lack of preparation for disaster recovery and ineffective penetration testing of systems. Test systems: Don’t assume correct installations and configurations, use penetration testing to validate initial and ongoing status of externally facing and high value systems. Ascension lost $2.66

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

AI-Enhanced Pentesting Tools: Threat actors are using AI to boost the capabilities of penetration testing (pentesting) tools, allowing them to identify flaws in victim systems faster. Create an allowlist of approved external users and block communications from users not on the list.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

The regulation requires an incident response plan outlining how to detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity events. Risk assessments must now include scenario-based testing, ensuring organizations can respond to real-world threats. Monitor and Test Regularly Cybersecurity isnt a set-it-and-forget-it process.

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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. How do I protect my code and development tools from being leaked?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This method improves control and containment in the event of a breach by isolating affected segments while protecting the rest. In the event of a breach, segmentation improves security by blocking lateral movement. Implement automated alerts for crucial events and keep logs in a secure location that is easily accessible.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

AI could impact more than just social engineering. “It’s reasonable to assume that highly automated reconnaissance target selection, penetration testing and delivery of pre-packaged victims to cyber criminals will absolutely be the norm,” said Ferguson.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Social engineering vulnerability assessment: This focuses on identifying human vulnerabilities that can be used by attackers to trick people into disclosing sensitive information that may jeopardize the security of their system. Social engineering methods include phishing , baiting, and tailgating.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning should be used to test proper implementation and configuration. Organizations need to adopt more formal, centralized control and testing to improve resilience and ensure maintained devices.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

Most cyber attacks are carried out using a combination of social engineering, phishing emails, and vulnerabilities — Java, Adobe Flash and Acrobat, Firefox and Chrome plugins, 0-day client-side / browser vulnerabilities. The logs need to be aggregated, safeguarded, and correlated with other relevant security events.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 12, 2024

Conduct penetration testing and vulnerability assessments periodically to uncover weaknesses in your website’s security infrastructure. Ensure backups are stored securely and can be quickly restored in the event of a data loss incident such as a cyber attack or hardware failure. Test the backup and restore process periodically.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 15, 2024

YOU MAY WANT TO READ ABOUT: Free White Rabbit Neo AI For Penetration Testing and Hacking Non-Coding Roles in Cybersecurity There are many roles within cybersecurity that focus more on strategy, risk management, and analysis, rather than on technical coding tasks.

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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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NopSec

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Social engineering: Social engineering testing is an effective tool to complement user awareness by exposing human flaws in processes that can subsequently be addressed. When considering engaging a social engineering exercise, it is important to remember that the objective is not to shame employees.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

Social Engineering Techniques Social engineering is different—it’s about manipulating people instead of hacking technology. Here are some common social engineering techniques: Phishing: Sending fake emails that look real to trick users into clicking on bad links or sharing sensitive info.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Penetration Testing Penetration testing is a service where cybersecurity companies simulate real-world attacks on an organization’s network to find vulnerabilities before hackers do. Consultants from cybersecurity companies are brought in to identify weaknesses in systems and suggest ways to fortify them.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2021

Last month, I found myself Googling: Is weed legal in Nevada? This was the day after arriving in Reno for Wild West Hacking Fest – Way West 2021. I kept noticing that the hotel smelled like it from the moment we arrived. I was attending one of the first security conventions to have an in-person ….

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

” And, “Nearly half (48.8%) of C-suite and other executives expect the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ accounting and financial data to increase in the year ahead.” Fuzz Testing Fuzzing, or fuzz testing, is a common technique that hackers use to find vulnerabilities in software.

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Google Security

MAY 22, 2024

Among the harmful side effects of these tests: There is no evidence that the tests result in fewer incidences of successful phishing campaigns; Phishing (or more generically social engineering) remains a top vector for attackers establishing footholds at companies. But are users the last line of defense?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Conduct frequent security audits and penetration testing: Detect and resolve any vulnerabilities before they are exploited by fraudulent actors to minimize the likelihood of data breaches. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Researchers are not permitted to exfiltrate data, intentionally access the content of communications, data or information or do exploit discovered vulnerabilities “beyond the minimal amount of testing required to prove that a vulnerability exists or to identify an indicator related to a vulnerability.”.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They are also becoming more concerned about how the provider monitors security events, responds to malware attacks , and reports on these issues. An effective way to prevent leaks of sensitive data is to record, store, and analyze all events that occur in the information system of the cloud provider. Looking Into The Future.

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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. Ransomware attackers get into a network in many ways: Social engineering. Unpatched exploits.

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NetSpi Executives

JANUARY 16, 2024

How Much Do I Tell My Team when Engaging Red Team Testing? It’s most common for a Red Team exercise to be an extremely limited knowledge event. If your goal is to absolutely find a way from the outside into your organization, you probably should do an External Network Penetration Test instead.

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