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This new feature automates assigning severity levels to each incident, allowing security teams to quickly identify the most critical ones and prioritize their response accordingly.

Whether you realize it or not, service accounts represent a major risk to your data security. This article explains the fundamentals of service accounts and how attackers can exploit them so you can prevent yours from being compromised.

Mimikatz provides attackers with several different ways to steal credentials from memory or extract them from Active Directory. One of the most interesting options is the MemSSP command. An adversary can use this command to register a malicious Security Support Provider (SSP) on a Windows member server or domain controller (DC) — and that SSP will log all passwords in clear text for any users who log on locally to that system.

One year ago today, Russia launched a massive combined arms ground, air, and sea assault against Ukraine, including a large cyber component designed to sow confusion among Ukrainian authorities. At the first anniversary, the initial takeaway is the role played by cyber has not been as prominent as predicted for what has turned into the largest European land war since 1945. Russia and Ukraine are still actively using their cyber troops to conduct a variety of attacks against their foe.

A critical part of an organization’s overall cybersecurity strategy, Attack Surface Management (ASM) helps organizations to: This article describes ASM is, including why it is needed and how it works. At the end, I’ll discuss how software solutions can automate attack surface management. (This article was written by Shanika Wickramasinghe. See more of Shanika's contributions to Splunk Learn.)

Kroll helps development teams build agile penetration testing programs that prioritize security posture throughout the project life cycle while maintaining a rapid release cadence. When it comes to modern application delivery, speed and agility are the name of the game. Customer demands are driving rapid release cycles, pushing development teams to create new products and to update existing ones at a much more aggressive pace.

This and other notable threats from the previous quarter, as well as a look ahead to potential issues in 2023, are discussed in our Q4 Threat Landscape 2022 report.

Read also: GoDaddy reveals multi-year security breach, hackers targeted Asia-based data centers used by major global firms, and more.

As organizations implement additional security controls and detections, threat actors adjust to bypass them. Since our initial investigation into a Lorenz ransomware intrusion that exploited a Mitel MiVoice VoIP appliance, we have observed a shift in the group’s Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).

The purpose of this guide is to provide you with a thorough understanding of GLBA as well as tips for ensuring compliance with your organization.