Most successful hacks and data breaches are perpetrated through email. In a perfect world, everyone would find safer methods for communication, but since email isn't going anywhere anytime soon, encrypted email is our best option. Since Internxt doesn't have its own encrypted email yet, we've assembled a list of the best encrypted email services you should use in the meantime.
Today's business world is more complex than ever, and many companies are reliant on private networks to keep their data safe and secure. But what happens when you need to access data from a remote location or connect to multiple separate private environments? In this guide, we'll show you how to create a Tines Tunnel so you can route traffic from Tines to a private API/network successfully. Read on for step-by-step instructions.
In part 1 of this series, we looked at the common components of an Amazon VPC including CIDR blocks, subnets, firewalls, and route tables. We also looked at approaches for how to configure those components securely.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an AWS service that enables you to launch AWS resources within your own virtual network. Because you can deploy VPCs in separate regions and other VPC components themselves are deployable across different Availability Zones, VPC-hosted environments tend to be highly available and more secure.
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a protocol developed by Microsoft which at its core is designed to give users a graphical interface to a remote Windows computer over a network connection. The remote Windows machine runs an RDP server, while the local computer accessing it runs an RDP client. Windows comes bundled with Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection to easily access Windows hosts over RDP.
TeamTNT is a prevalent threat actor who has been targeting cloud and virtual environments such as Kubernetes and Docker since at least late 2019. This threat actor is financially motivated, focusing their efforts on stealing credentials and cryptomining. In 2020, we analyzed their use of Weave Scope on an unsecured Docker API endpoint exposed to the internet. In December 2021, we attributed an attack to TeamTNT in which they targeted a vulnerable WordPress pod to steal AWS credentials.
