Part of operating an effective security program is the ability to never rest upon any previous success. When guarding against an adversary, yesterday’s success is quickly eclipsed by the dynamic shift in the attacker’s tactics. Just as a doctor “rules out” a particular diagnosis, an effective attacker first searches for well-known vulnerabilities using catalogs of offensive exploits. These are part of the attacker’s playbook.
When it comes to making business decisions about new technologies and software adoption into your organization – it’s vital to work with your security team to balance the need for speed without sacrificing security.
Readers Note : This is a summarized post of a detailed write up by the Elastic Security Intelligence and Analytics team. A deep dive on UAC Bypass is available to read here.
Originally posted on CyberNews. As more businesses race to shift their operations online, new website owners have to adapt to a new way of doing business and deal with a variety of online threats. While most of us think of disrupted websites or servers going offline when we hear the words “bot attack,” the reality is often different.
Phishing remains a problem for everyone and any tool that helps is valuable. This post was prompted by the ongoing usage of our free Phish.ly service that we see every day, as people discover the tool and derive enormous benefit from it. If you want to evaluate a suspicious email right now, you need read no further. Just forward that email immediately to scan@phish.ly to get a response quickly from the service.
The statistics support Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s claim that “every company is a software company.” The average enterprise was already deploying 464 custom applications back in 2017, and that number has likely been growing for the past five years with apps designed to meet unique business needs and support daily tasks and processes as they increasingly move online.
