SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In 2021, remote working is still very much considered the norm as the world continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Within an office environment, workers have a number of protections, such as the company firewall and regularly updated infrastructure. Without these protections, remote staff can potentially be vulnerable.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Welcome to Technology Short Take #136, the first Short Take of 2021! This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Networking.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

The FBI says that since May 2021, North Korea threat actors have used Maui to encrypt servers responsible for healthcare services, such as electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. Maui is believed to be designed for manual execution by attackers.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Some organizations have begun using Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) to protect their APIs, but this isn’t a true solution to API security. In May 2021, Peloton, the exercise company, found that its API was not authenticating users properly. What do APIs do? Unfortunately, that’s already happened.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

Researchers Nir Ohfeld and Sagi Tzadik join The Hacker Mind to talk about their presentation at Black Hat Europe 2021 on the ChaosDB vulnerability. It’s an interesting story, one they presented at Black Hat Europe in 2021, so I hope you’ll stick around. One of the IP addresses was the instance metadata service.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

The key takeaway here is that anytime there is firewalling or other stateful services in place, the traffic will route to the (non-distributed) service router instead of just the distributed routers. spec , expected in to land in 2021. Northbound Networks provides some information on the P4 programming language. Servers/Hardware.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Morse code cloaking dubious materials In a clever move first spotted in February 2021, malicious actors used meaningful combinations of dots and dashes (known as Morse code) to obfuscate harmful URLs in a file attached to an email. To view it, the unsuspecting person has to go through a rabbit hole of authentication steps.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

You need some form of authentication to access it that might be through a login and password or through a paywall or other sorts of authentication methods. And what we found was that almost 20% of all ransomware attacks in 2021 had their access to the organization compromised just 190 days beforehand. It might be your bank app.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

We do the same thing for firewalls. Then 2020 2021 The first part of 2022 happened, ransomware went wild and so many of the cyber insurance companies they were reading were against the ropes and struggling because the payouts were written against what were initially rather loose policies. So we're playing at that level.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

It's sort of a rerun of CVE 2021 40444. Hunters notice the ransomware on about 30 of their MSPs that they manage and find the ransomware used in authentication bypass vulnerability and like the Kaseya SaaS system. Here's Huntress John Hammond, again, discussing with Katie Nickels the discovery of Cassia in the summer of 2021.

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