A lot of attention gets paid to preventing pass-the-hash and pass-the-ticket attacks, but these tactics limit adversaries to what they can perform from the command line. Compromising a plaintext password gives an attacker unlimited access to an account — which can include access to web applications, VPN, email and more. One way to extract plaintext passwords is through Kerberoasting, but this brute-force technique takes a lot of time and patience.
140,000 Social Security numbers and about 80,000 bank account numbers — that’s what one attacker stole from a major financial institution back in 2019. How did it happen? The attacker used firewall credentials to obtain privilege escalation and hack into improperly secured Amazon cloud instances.
Although cyberattacks on higher education institutions date back years, there has been a spike in university cyberattacks over the last two years. Cybercriminals had taken advantage of the rapid transition to hybrid learning that higher education institutions have been forced to implement before they had time to strengthen their cybersecurity, which has left most of them exposed. This is yet another example of accelerated adoption of new technologies before security measures are in place.
On the 22nd September 2022, Australian telecommunications company Optus reported that they had experienced a cyber breach affecting nearly 11 million customers, which may make it the worst cyber attack in Australia’s history. Details of this attack are still emerging, however it has taken a couple of twists in the weeks following the attack, and there are some early indicators as to what occurred. In the News.
What if you could easily extend the retention of your CrowdStrike Falcon® detection data for a year or longer? Would that help with compliance? Investigations? Threat hunts? In Part 1 of this series, we covered the basics of Falcon Long Term Repository (Falcon LTR). To recap, Falcon LTR is an option available to Falcon customers. It offers a simple and cost-effective way to retain your Falcon detection data long term, which has historically been a costly and complex endeavor for security teams.
IT risk management and cybersecurity are two essential practices that define the effectiveness and security structure of modern organizations. IT risk management is the process of managing and mitigating risks via careful planning, specialized systems, guidelines, policies, and decisions across various sectors, not just cybersecurity. With IT risk management, the IT staff is focused entirely on IT risk mitigation.
47% of customers prefer web pages that load within 2 seconds. Not only do they expect, but 40% of visitors will also leave your site if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. This makes using the right Content Delivery Network more critical for your startup. It helps to achieve quick and secure content delivery. In the market for a CDN Service? Check out these factors before choosing your CDN service provider.
Enterprises have benefited from encapsulating applications into lightweight, independent units called microservices. By adopting an architectural pattern of loosely coupled and independently deployed services, microservices can rapidly deliver complex applications at scale without the typical technical debt of legacy applications.
First, as not all data is automatically considered to be Large type data, let’s define what “Large Data” is and what makes it “big” before moving on to a more in-depth examination of Large Data analytics. The term “Big Data” describes large quantities of data of any form, including but not limited to the three forms : structured, unstructured, and semi-structured. Such data sets are constantly being produced at a high rate and in a considerable quantity.
