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Threat Advisory: SwiftSlicer Wiper STRT-TA03

The ongoing geo-political crisis in Eastern Europe continues to be the scenario of deployment of a variety of payloads linked to information stealing and data/network destruction. The deployment of these payloads has been associated or contingent with Military actions as Microsoft and ESET have observed in some of their publications. These campaigns have targeted critical infrastructure affecting civilian populations in addition to military targets.

How to Choose the Best KYC Onboarding and KYC API Solution for Your Business

In today’s global economy, businesses are required to comply with stringent regulatory frameworks that necessitate identity verification for their clients. The process of verifying customer identities, commonly known as Know Your Customer (KYC), can be a complex and time-consuming task for businesses.

Project Management Gets Easier with Egnyte's Project Homepage

It can be difficult for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms to keep up with the latest project updates and ensure all stakeholders are kept informed. To help streamline project management processes, Egnyte is proud to introduce the project homepage – making critical information more accessible than ever before.

How to Streamline Security Operations With Identity Security Intelligence

“Black Swan” author Nicholas Nassim Taleb once wrote that “intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).” Organizations must take this definition to heart as they incorporate Identity Security intelligence – an essential element of any Zero Trust cybersecurity strategy. Many organizations have dedicated Security Operations Center (SOC) teams responsible for their threat detection, investigation and response efforts.

Network security LAN Manager Authentication Level

The LAN Manager (LM) is a group of early Microsoft client/server software products that enable users to connect personal computers on a single network. Its features include transparent file and printer sharing, user security features, and network administration tools. In Active Directory domains, the default authentication protocol is the Kerberos protocol. However, if Kerberos is not available for any reason, LM, NTLM, or NTLMv2 can be used as an alternative.

Cultivating Developer Adoption

Many organizations are encouraging their developer teams to adopt a security mindset and take more ownership on security issues earlier in the development process. But how can that actually be achieved effectively and what a successful program looks like in practice? In this recording, we’ll discuss some of the program lessons we’ve learnt from many enterprises that are going through this process and investigate different methodologies for implementing DevSecOps and will share what are best practices to follow and common pitfalls to avoid.

How to tackle Microsoft 365 account compromise and credential theft

A lot has changed since Sumo Logic last gave our two cents on how to secure Office 365. In the meantime, Office 365 has become Microsoft 365 (M365), and Sumo has continued evolving and expanding its security offering. Today’s threat actor is adept at compromising M365 accounts through various methods. Stealing credentials through phishing email campaigns and brute-force attacks has become commonplace.

TSA tells US aviation industry to boost its cybersecurity

The US Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) has issued new requirements for airport and aircraft operators who, they say, are facing a "persistent cybersecurity threat." The agency's new directive compels the aviation industry to improve their defences against malicious hackers and cybercriminals, just days after Preisdent Biden announced its National Cybersecurity Strategy that seeks tighter regulations to protect the United States's critical infrastructure.

Attackers Increasingly Abusing DigitalOcean to Host Scams and Phishing

Netskope Threat Labs is tracking a 17x increase in traffic to malicious web pages hosted on DigitalOcean in the last six months. This increase is attributed to new campaigns of a known tech support scam that mimics Windows Defender and tries to deceive users into believing that their computer is infected.