Imagine being named XYZ in a crowd of other XYZs – a purposeless name that creates confusion and does not communicate a purpose, adding to the cognitive pile of everyone’s day-to-day tasks. Similarly, Active Directory groups created by users need to have logical names so that current and future users do not find themselves stuck in a pickle.
Common indicators of a phishing attempt include warnings from your email service provider, urgent language, threat of dire consequences, too-good-to-be-true offers and more. Continue reading to learn what to look for to spot phishing attempts and how to keep yourself protected.
The Colorado Department of Higher Education is the government organization responsible for overseeing public education throughout the state. The organization implants most education-related policies and also manages data for educational institutions. This organization recently suffered from a significant data breach, leading to information losses for students associated with public schools throughout Colorado. It's an issue that could result in widespread data losses.
The SafeBreach Labs team is committed to conducting original research to uncover new threats and ensure our Hacker’s Playbook provides the most comprehensive collection of attacks. As part of our recent research efforts, we discovered a vulnerability in the Windows Defender update process that could effectively allow an unprivileged user to take full control of the Windows Defender tool and leverage it for future malicious activities.
In this blog, we will discuss innovative rootkit techniques on a non-traditional architecture, Windows 11 on ARM64. In the prior posts, we covered rootkit techniques applied to a modern Windows 10 OS (Part 1) and rootkit analysis of current threats for Intel x86-64 (Part 2). Although we have yet to come across any malware family in the wild targeting this platform, we may see it in the near future as Windows on ARM devices grow in popularity.
As per Cloudwards, a new organization gets hit by ransomware every 14 seconds. This is despite the fact that global cybersecurity spending is up and is around $150 billion per year. That’s why fortifying your organization’s network security is the need of the hour. Learn how companies are proactively improving their network security with these best practices.
Information security is vital to business continuity. Organizations trust their IT teams to enable innovation and business transformation but need them to safeguard digital assets in the process. This leads some leaders to feel that their information security policies are standing in the way of innovation and business agility.
A firewall that runs 24/7 requires a good amount of computing resources. Especially if you are running a complex firewall system, your performance overhead can actually slow down the overall throughput of your systems and even affect the actual functionalities of your firewall. Here is a brief overview of common firewall performance issues and the best practices to help you tune your firewall performance.
