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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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February 22nd, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Details of 10.6 million MGM hotel guests posted on a hacking forum
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February 22nd, 2020 | Jay Ferron
We expect services to protect themselves from fraudulent activity.
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February 22nd, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Many people believe that cybersecurity training and awareness isn’t important in their jobs, especially if their role isn’t technical. However, social engineering has led to the human element being the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain and attackers can be very resourceful and clever in their attempts. A recent attack on a U.S.
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February 22nd, 2020 | Jay Ferron
Emotet banking Trojan has been around since 2014 as banking malware. As the software was changed, the developers added additional spamming and malware delivery services found in otherbanking malware. Key to Emotet is how it incorporates functionality allowing the software to evade detection by antimalware products.
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