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It's a Zero-day? It's Malware? No! It's Username and Password

The Hacker News

As cyber threats continue to evolve, adversaries are deploying a range of tools to breach security defenses and compromise sensitive data. This article explores the seriousness of compromised credentials, the challenges they present to security solutions, and the

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Commenting on the SANS Threat Intelligence Summit 2021 Presentations – An Analysis and Practical Recommendations

Security Boulevard

The dissemination phase consists of active processing and dissemination of the processed data for the purpose of communicating the actionable intelligence for the purpose of ensuring that an organizations defense is actively aware of the threats facing its infrastructure and security defense mechanisms.

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Towards native security defenses for the web ecosystem

Google Security

To help deploy a production-quality CSP in your application, check out this presentation and the documentation on csp.withgoogle.com. Since the initial launch of CSP at Google, we have deployed strong policies on 75% of outgoing traffic from our applications, including in our flagship products such as GMail and Google Docs & Drive.

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SOC modernization: 8 key considerations

CSO Magazine

We are at a point where the scale and complexity of historical security defenses either aren’t working or are stretched to their limits. This means CISOs need to think about security transformation, and as they do, every process and layer of the security technology stack is in play.

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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. Also read : Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service?

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RSAC insights: Introducing ‘CWPP’ and ‘CSPM,’ new frameworks to secure cloud infrastructure

The Last Watchdog

“Even if your application is not patched, we are actually blocking the threats, and giving the security practitioners time to actually apply the necessary patches to their system.”. It’s encouraging that smarter security frameworks like CWPP and CSPM are coalescing; they signal the direction we need to keep heading in.

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The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub

Security Affairs

Black Lotus is able to disable security solutions, including Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity (HVCI), BitLocker, and Windows Defender. The rootkit is able to bypass security defenses like UAC and Secure Boot, it is able to load unsigned drivers used to perform a broad range of malicious activities.