On Monday, May 4th, **FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), issued a warning to financial companies stating that a new email phishing campaign was doing the rounds. According to the regulator, the campaign is ongoing, widespread, and made to look as though the emails are coming from FINRA itself.
Attack surface management (ASM) is the continuous discovery, inventory, classification, prioritization, and security monitoring of external digital assets that contain, transmit, or process sensitive data. In short, it is everything outside of the firewall that attackers can and will discover as they research the threat landscape for vulnerable organizations.
Security configurations are security-specific settings used to secure heterogeneous endpoints such as servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and tablets. As endpoints in your network diversify, securing each endpoint becomes a challenge. One way to ensure effective endpoint security is by automating it, which is where security configurations come into play. Security configurations are utilized to secure and control every facet of your network.
According to the Pew Research Center, last year, roughly seven percent of U.S. workers regularly enjoyed the option of working from home. Well accustomed to the nature of remote work, these individuals were equipped with stable internet connections, collaboration and communication tools, and security technologies that helped them excel from their home offices.
For continuous coverage, we push out major Detectify security updates every two weeks, keeping our tool up-to-date with new findings, features and improvements sourced from our security researchers and Crowdsource ethical hacker community. Due to confidentially agreements, we cannot publicize all security update releases here but they are immediately added to our scanner and available to all users. This post highlights a few things that we have improved in the last two weeks.
The Discovery tactic is one which is difficult to defend against. It has a lot of similarities to the Reconnaissance stage of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain. There are certain aspects of an organization which need to be exposed in order to operate a business. What is the MITRE ATT&CK™ Framework? - YouTube An error occurred. Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.
Loyalty schemes operated by the eCommerce industry have become so popular that they now represent a billion-dollar industry, with customers earning loyalty points when purchasing goods or services from their favourite brands. Yet financial losses from loyalty card fraud are equally significant — with an estimated $1 billion being stolen every year.