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March 21st, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Cyber criminals are taking full advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased communications surrounding it by installing spyware via apps to end-users’ mobile devices. The spyware being utilized is a commercial version called SpyMax, which can be acquired by anyone with an internet connection and a credit card.
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March 21st, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Threat actors are currently spreading malicious Coronavirus themed health advisories via email which, when opened, deploy a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) onto the systems of targets. This phishing campaign has been traced back to APT36, a Pakistan-based group notable for targeting Indian defense and government entities.
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March 9th, 2020 | Jay Ferron
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March 7th, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Cloud security is as important as ever as more and more services are moved to the cloud. Unfortunately misconfigured servers still exist, regardless of where they are located. A simple Google search (no Shodan required) is all it takes to find unsecured S3 buckets, which can be treasure troves of information. Let's be real though, that type of find is low-hanging fruit that any script kiddie or automated tool can find.
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March 7th, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Wireless network security has come a long way since the days of easily breakable Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WiFi Protected Access (WPA) 2 has been the most commonly used standard since it was released in 2004 and has had very few vulnerabilities since the original release.
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March 7th, 2020 | Jay Ferron
The popular free Certificate Authority (CA), Let’s Encrypt, will be revoking mil-lions of certificates that enable Transport Layer Security (TLS), the subsequent protection of data between machines, and the positive identification of services for their customers. Digital certificates bind a public cryptographic key to a name. It binds it to a domain name in the case of web traffic utilizing the HTTPS protocol.
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March 7th, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Apache Tomcat has been a popular Java servlet hosting application for over 20 years. It is used to host hundreds of thousands of websites and web applications.
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February 22nd, 2020 | Jay Ferron
For you security professions this is a great site to get guidance and software.
The software listed here developed within the National Security Agency and is available to the public for use. I encourage you to check it out!
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February 22nd, 2020 | Jay Ferron
The National Security Agency released the source code of Ghidra, its reverse engineering tool.
This source code repository includes instructions to build on all supported platforms (macOS, Linux, and Windows). With this release, developers will be able to collaborate by creating patches, and extending the tool to fit their cybersecurity needs.
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