Category: Security Boulevard

Smoker Backdoor: Evasion Techniques in Webshell Backdoors

Read the original article: Smoker Backdoor: Evasion Techniques in Webshell Backdoors “Smoker Backdoor” is a PHP webshell backdoor that uses hexadecimal and decimal obfuscation in conjunction with the PHP function goto to evade detection from malware scanners. The hexadecimal/decimal obfuscation…

XKCD ‘Wish On A Shooting Star’

Read the original article: XKCD ‘Wish On A Shooting Star’ via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe resident at XKCD! Permalink The post XKCD ‘Wish On A Shooting Star’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.   Advertise on IT Security…

Office Hours Recap: Three New JumpCloud Features

Read the original article: Office Hours Recap: Three New JumpCloud Features Learn about deep and customizable tools for system management, as well as JumpCloud’s new AWS S3 serverless app. Try JumpCloud free today. The post Office Hours Recap: Three New…

Q&A: Top Threats in 2020 Featuring Research from Forrester

Read the original article: Q&A: Top Threats in 2020 Featuring Research from Forrester The Forrester Research Top Cybersecurity Threats In 2020 report was recently published, based on data obtained from nearly 4,000 respondents as part of an extensive survey performed…

What is Modern Desktop Management?

Read the original article: What is Modern Desktop Management? What is Modern Desktop Management? Desktop management is a mature administrative IT task that goes back at least 20 years, with the advent of Group Policy. It filled a key need:…

Adaptive Shield Rises to SaaS App Security Challenge

Read the original article: Adaptive Shield Rises to SaaS App Security Challenge Adaptive Shield emerged from stealth to address the need to better secure software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Fresh off raising an additional $4 million in funding, the company’s namesake platform…

Fighting Fraud in a COVID-Induced Digital Reality

Read the original article: Fighting Fraud in a COVID-Induced Digital Reality As online platforms become even more popular during COVID-19, fraud is steadily increasing. Here’s what you need to know The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on how…

License Compatibility: Combining Open Source Licenses

Read the original article: License Compatibility: Combining Open Source Licenses Free and open source software (FOSS) components have become the basic building blocks of our software products, helping today’s developers build and ship innovative products faster than ever before. Many…

WFH Pressures Accelerate Cloud Security Demand

Read the original article: WFH Pressures Accelerate Cloud Security Demand The demand to secure cloud services, already high due to digital transformation investments, grew even more following the big push to work from home as a result of the novel…

It could happen to anyone…

Read the original article: It could happen to anyone… The headline is eye catching: a data breach at a highly respected security training organization when an employee falls for a phishing email. It is… The post It could happen to…

Mobile Phishing, the Next Battleground

Read the original article: Mobile Phishing, the Next Battleground With the rising popularity of iOS and Android devices for everything from sending a client an SMS to attending a Zoom call, it was only a matter of time before cybercriminals…

How to Stop WordPress Comments Spam

Read the original article: How to Stop WordPress Comments Spam Are spam comments on your site getting out of hand? We’ve been there. Our site used to get an average of 100 spam comments in a day! Well, we were…

What is Identity Governance Fatigue?

Read the original article: What is Identity Governance Fatigue? The Traditional Identity Journey Over the past decade, organizations have gone through many different stages of the identity journey. Depending on the size and maturity of your organization, you are probably…

A Modern Development Stack Makes Work More Fun

Read the original article: A Modern Development Stack Makes Work More Fun One of the many things I like about working at Cequence, over and above the protection value we provide our customers, is our commitment to using modern application…

James Mattis’ Coronavirus Public Service Announcement

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The OPSEC of Protesting

Read the original article: The OPSEC of Protesting For the past three months thousands of people have been protesting in the United States due to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and others. Many of the protesters…

How to champion security in DevOps

Read the original article: How to champion security in DevOps Making the shift from DevOps to DevSecOps requires better communication, which you can help your teams accomplish with security training and enablement. The post How to champion security in DevOps…

What are Wildcard Certificates and SAN SSL Certs? – Keyfactor

Read the original article: What are Wildcard Certificates and SAN SSL Certs? – Keyfactor SSL certificates automatically identify and authenticate public IP addresses’ by assigning each a public/private keypair attached to the server’s unique domain name. Embedding the domain name…

Measuring Security Effectiveness: Infiltrations and Ransomware by

Read the original article: Measuring Security Effectiveness: Infiltrations and Ransomware by Attackers have many ways to infiltrate a network, and security teams typically see only approximately one-third of those attacks. The post Measuring Security Effectiveness: Infiltrations and Ransomware by appeared…

MediaOps Makes the Inc. 5000 List

Read the original article: MediaOps Makes the Inc. 5000 List Here at MediaOps we have two big announcements today. The first is that we have earned a place in the Inc. 5000 annual ranking of the fastest-growing companies in America.…

PCI Compliance for the utilities industry

Read the original article: PCI Compliance for the utilities industry It would appear the utilities industry has a hard time when it comes to data security. IBM’s latest data breach report shows that, as of 2020, the energy sector’s average…

How CSPs Can Build Trust With 5G Security

Read the original article: How CSPs Can Build Trust With 5G Security The era of 5G means a deeper and different level of security for networks We are set to undergo a major transformation and soon we will no longer…

Slack Strengthens Cybersecurity Controls

Read the original article: Slack Strengthens Cybersecurity Controls Slack today announced it has made it possible for IT organizations to manage their own encryption keys as part of an effort to enhance the security of its widely employed messaging service.…

ForgeRock Identity Platform Updates are Here!

Read the original article: ForgeRock Identity Platform Updates are Here! More Ways Than Ever to Transform Your Business With the ForgeRock Identity Platform Since 2010, millions of people have safely accessed the connected world with the help of the ForgeRock Identity…

XKCD ’26-Second Pulse’

Read the original article: XKCD ’26-Second Pulse’ via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe resident at XKCD! Permalink The post XKCD ’26-Second Pulse’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.   Advertise on IT Security News. Read the original article: XKCD ’26-Second Pulse’

The Power of True Single Sign-On™ (SSO)

Read the original article: The Power of True Single Sign-On™ (SSO) Access management and single sign-on (SSO) are essential for enabling a successful remote workforce and future business continuity. Find free True SSO here. The post The Power of True…

Masergy Releases 2020 SD-WAN Market Trends Report

Read the original article: Masergy Releases 2020 SD-WAN Market Trends Report Identifies SD-WAN as a Key Enabler for Remote Workforces and Enhanced Security DALLAS – August 11, 2020 – Masergy, the software-defined network and cloud platform for the digital enterprise, today…

The New Battleground is Shadow Code

Read the original article: The New Battleground is Shadow Code Results from the 2020 survey by Osterman Research and PerimeterX on the risk of third-party scripts and open-source libraries used in modern web applications. The post The New Battleground is…

AI helps home users detect and prevent unknown cyber threats

Read the original article: AI helps home users detect and prevent unknown cyber threats SecureAge adds Automatic Mode to SecureAPlus   11 August 2020 – SecureAge Technology, a leading global data and endpoint protection company, today has announced the addition of…

How to Manage WFH Risks Through COVID-19 and Beyond

Read the original article: How to Manage WFH Risks Through COVID-19 and Beyond Work from home (WFH) brings many benefits to organizations, but it creates risks by virtually inviting cyberattacks along multiple vectors. This is NOT a call to stop…

BootHole Shows Need for Greater Scrutiny

Read the original article: BootHole Shows Need for Greater Scrutiny The recent BootHole and related vulnerabilities raise the question of whether software used for critical security functions should have special scrutiny. When a security operation fails the ramifications are considerable,…

WeAreDelphix: Meet Bruna Bolorino

Read the original article: WeAreDelphix: Meet Bruna Bolorino WeAreDelphix: Meet Bruna Bolorino michelle Mon, 08/10/2020 – 13:39 Meet Bruna Bolorino, senior sales director at Delphix. Based in Brazil, Bruna talks about her experience of bringing innovation to the LATAM market…

The Joy of Tech® ‘To Serve Man’

Read the original article: The Joy of Tech® ‘To Serve Man’ Via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®! Permalink The post The Joy of Tech® ‘To Serve Man’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.  …

6 Keys to Ensuring Remote Employee Security

Read the original article: 6 Keys to Ensuring Remote Employee Security There are some amazingly high profile architectural landmarks that we meant to be temporary in nature. Believe it or not, famous structures such as The London Eye, the original…

Newsletter July 2020

Read the original article: Newsletter July 2020 Blueliv Threat Exchange Network: July IOC highlights Connection discovered between Chinese hacker group APT15 and defense contractor Cyber-security firm Lookout said it found evidence connecting Android malware that was used to spy on minorities…

Shark Week: Avoid Being Cyber Bait in Uncharted Waters

Read the original article: Shark Week: Avoid Being Cyber Bait in Uncharted Waters Keeping employees protected during WFH is a lot like keeping swimmers protected from shark attacks As the world navigates the unchartered waters of a global pandemic, organizations…

New Study Finds Security Teams Increasingly Stressed

Read the original article: New Study Finds Security Teams Increasingly Stressed A new report and study from LogRhythm, titled “The State of the Security Team” has found that the cyber security professionals are facing higher levels of stress now than…

Cloud Security Challenges in the Next Phase of WFH

Read the original article: Cloud Security Challenges in the Next Phase of WFH As remote work becomes the new normal, organizations must address their cloud security to protect their data and employees Many organizations have been operating with a newly…

Interplanetary Networking (IPNSIG): Space Internet Governance

Read the original article: Interplanetary Networking (IPNSIG): Space Internet Governance SPEAKERS Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Dr. Scott Pace, Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council MODERATOR Scott Burleigh, Principal Engineer,…

XKCD ‘Mathematical Symbol Fight’

Read the original article: XKCD ‘Mathematical Symbol Fight’ via the comic delivery system monikered Randall Munroe resident at XKCD! The post XKCD ‘Mathematical Symbol Fight’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.   Advertise on IT Security News. Read the original article: XKCD ‘Mathematical Symbol Fight’

Quick Hit: Speeding Up Data Frame Creation

Read the original article: Quick Hit: Speeding Up Data Frame Creation (This is part 2 of n “quick hit” posts, each walking through some approaches to speeding up components of an iterative operation. Go here for part 1). Thanks to…

Modern CTO Interview: Flipping Turtles

Read the original article: Modern CTO Interview: Flipping Turtles Modern CTO podcast interview about web isolation and more with Kevin Lund, CTO and self-proclaimed “Turtle Flipper in Chief” at Authentic8. The post Modern CTO Interview: Flipping Turtles appeared first on…

Centrify Automates Password Reconciliation via Client

Read the original article: Centrify Automates Password Reconciliation via Client Centrify has extended its password access management (PAM) service to enable password reconciliation on the client. Torsten George, cybersecurity evangelist for Centrify, said enabling password reconciliation using Centrify client software…

Intel Leak: 20GB of Secrets Just the Start, Says Perp

Read the original article: Intel Leak: 20GB of Secrets Just the Start, Says Perp A large cache of confidential documents has been exfiltrated from Intel and leaked The post Intel Leak: 20GB of Secrets Just the Start, Says Perp appeared first…

Workplace Security Policy: Need of the Hour

Read the original article: Workplace Security Policy: Need of the Hour With rapidly evolving technology, employees at their workplaces have become more and more dependent on modern technological supplements and platformsContinue reading The post Workplace Security Policy: Need of the…

Sumo Logic Deepens Observability Across Operations, Security, Business and Customer Experiences Powered by Continuous Intelligence

Read the original article: Sumo Logic Deepens Observability Across Operations, Security, Business and Customer Experiences Powered by Continuous Intelligence New and Expanded Solutions Combine Observability with Real-time Intelligence Across AWS Environments, Software Development Tools and Process, Microservices and Distributed Transactions…

Securing Enterprise Mobile Apps with LoginRadius

Read the original article: Securing Enterprise Mobile Apps with LoginRadius If enterprise mobile apps are the future of businesses, we are already living in the future. With the growing popularity of technologies like 5G, blockchain, AI, and machine language, more…

3 Tips to Safeguard Your Digital Future

Read the original article: 3 Tips to Safeguard Your Digital Future The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has proven that applications are the driving force of the world economy. With a massive shift from brick-and-mortar locations to online operations across all industries…

Exorcist Ransomware and CIS Exclusion

Read the original article: Exorcist Ransomware and CIS Exclusion This year has been a bumper year for ransomware and its operators. Ransomware gangs are demanding millions; if those millions are not paid in time, then data stolen before encryption is…