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TikTok Lawsuits Show The Need For Increased Scrutiny of Apps
TikTok, the popular video posting app, has come under increased scrutiny. Recently, two lawsuits filed against the platform accused TikTok of privacy violations. According to a report from Reuters, a plaintiff accused TikTok of creating an account without her knowledge or consent in one lawsuit filed in California. The lawsuit accused TikTok of creating a file on the user. This file allegedly included biometric data based on videos that the user created, but did not upload.
Use Cases for Threat Hunting
For a very long time, cyber security measures had defensive features that aimed to build an impenetrable wall around your assets. Threat hunting practices shift this defensive approach to an offensive one. In this article, we discussed threat hunting and its use cases in great detail.
Start the Year Right with a Security and Privacy Check Up
At some point in the past, I began making new year’s resolutions for doing a bit of personal privacy and security maintenance on New Year’s Day or thereabouts. I would usually have a bit of downtime to finally get around to doing the things I’d been putting off all year. It’s become a fun habit that I wanted to share.
The Policy Expert: Network Security: Restrict NTLM: Audit Incoming NTLM Traffic
NTLM is Microsoft’s old mythological authentication protocol. Although new and better authentication protocol has already been developed, NTLM is still very much in use. NTLM protocol has proven to have many flaws that result in potential vulnerabilities. One caution measure that can be taken is auditing and logging any NTLM traffic events.
The Policy Expert: RDS: Do Not Allow Clipboard Redirection
Specifies whether to prevent the sharing of clipboard contents (clipboard redirection) between a remote computer and a client computer during a Remote Desktop Services session. By default, Remote Desktop Services allows clipboard redirection. If the status is set to Enabled, users cannot redirect clipboard data.
The Policy Expert: RDS: Authentication for remote connections by using Network Level Authentication
This policy setting allows you to specify whether to require user authentication for remote connections to the RD Session Host server by using Network Level Authentication (NLA). This policy setting enhances security by requiring that user authentication occur earlier in the remote connection process. If you enable this policy setting, only client computers that support Network Level Authentication can connect to the RD Session Host server.
The Policy Expert: Lan Manager Authentication Level
LAN Manager (LM) is a family of early Microsoft client/server software that allows users to link personal computers together on a single network. Network capabilities include transparent file and print sharing, user security features, and network administration tools. In Active Directory if the Kerberos protocol is not negotiated for some reason, Active Directory will use LM, NTLM, or NTLMv2.
The Policy Expert: Do Not Allow Supported Plug and Play Device Redirection
This policy setting allows you to control the redirection of supported Plug and Play devices, such as Windows Portable Devices, to the remote computer in a Remote Desktop Services session. By default, Remote Desktop Services allows redirection of supported Plug and Play devices.
The Policy Expert: MMS: IP Source Routing Protection Level
IP source routing is a mechanism that allows the sender to determine the IP route that a datagram should take through the network. An attacker could use source routed packets to obscure their identity and location. Source routing allows a computer that sends a packet to specify the route that the packet takes.
The Policy Expert: Maximum Security Log Size
Maximum log size should be set to any kind of event logs, as part of your security policy. This configuration’s value is highly important for detecting attacks and investigating their source. Allocating insufficient storage space will lead to information loss of what happened in the network, therefore breaches could remain undetected.