Akamai Platform Update: New Security Enhancements That Intelligently Automate Application and API Security, Mitigate Online Fraud, and Reduce Burden on Security Professionals

Today is Day 2 of Akamai's Platform Update. Yesterday, we talked about the acceleration of modern app development and how we're empowering users to shift more compute and data to the edge...

Top Certifications for Network Security Administrators in 2021

By Waqas The demand for security professionals is at its peak like never before. Here are some certifications that will help you polish your skills. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top Certifications for Network Security Administrators in 2021...

What is a honeypot? How they are used in cybersecurity

Cybersecurity experts strive to enhance the security and privacy of computer systems. Quietly observing threat actors in action can help them understand what they have to defend against. A honeypot is one such tool that enables security professionals to catch bad actors in the act and gather data...

Researchers Flag e-Voting Security Flaws

A group of election security experts said after a deep dive into Australia’s electronic voting systems that they have “serious problems” with the accuracy, integrity and privacy with elections run by the Australian Capital Territory ACT Electoral Commission. The team of four cybersecurity...

Why now is the time to make database security a priority

Today, fast-growing organizations are generating data at a breakneck pace, and building up diverse database environments in order to store and share data more effectively. While these activities are the sign of a thriving business, governing and securing all this data rarely meets the pace of new...

A New Slack channel for Cybersecurity Leaders Outside of the Fortune 2000

Perhaps due to the nature of the position, the InfoSec leadership roles tend to be solitary ones. CISOs, or their equivalent decision-makers in organizations without the role, have so many constant drains on their attention – keeping their knowledge fresh, building plans to secure their...

Akamai Recognized as 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls

Akamai has been named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls for the second time. Gartner defines web application firewalls WAFs as "solutions designed to protect web applications and APIs from a variety of attacks, including automated bots, injection and...

Malwarebytes releases SMB Cybersecurity Trust & Confidence Report 2021

What can we say about 2020 that hasn’t already been said? Beliefs were shaken. Values were questioned. Truths were tested. Then COVID happened and things really got crazy. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic on March 12, 2020. That same day...

100,000 Google Sites Used to Install SolarMarker RAT

Hackers are using search-engine optimization SEO tactics to lure business users to more than 100,000 malicious Google sites that seem legitimate, but instead install a remote access trojan RAT, used to gain a foothold on a network and later infect systems with ransomware, credential-stealers,...

WordPress Injection Anchors Widespread Malware Campaign

The downloader malware known as Gootloader is poisoning websites globally as part of an extensive drive-by and watering-hole cybercampaign that abuses WordPress sites by injecting them with hundreds of pages of fake content. The adversaries have so far delivered the Cobalt Strike intrusion tool,...

Women in Security: Celebrating Women’s History Month

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are honoring all of the women at VMware who inspire, lead, innovate and set the stage for the next generation to come. In a six-part series, we will highlight some of the outstanding women in security that are playing a significant role in keeping the...

North Korean hackers charged with $1.3 billion of cyberheists

The US Department of Justice recently unsealed indictments detailing North Koreas involvement in several global cyberattack campaigns against institutions in the financial and entertainment sectors, and money laundering schemes in certain US states. The first unsealed indictment is for hacking...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Evaluating individual and organizational cyber risk in a pandemic

Cybersecurity professionals find themselves in high demand as organizations worldwide continue to grapple with how to secure millions of remote workers. James Turner is an industry analyst at CISO Lens and served as an adjudicator from 2017 to 2019 for the Australian government’s cyber war games:...

Smarty Media New Media Smarty Security Breach

Smarty Media New Media Smarty is a software for demand management practices from Smarty Media, a German company This product is provided to anesthesiologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, neurologists and physicians who specialize in demand management practices. A security vulnerability exist...

MOSE - Post Exploitation Tool For Configuration Management Servers.

MOSE is a post exploitation tool that enables security professionals with little or no experience with configuration management CM technologies to leverage them to compromise environments. CM tools, such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible are used to provision systems in a uniform manner based on...

ZINC attacks against security researchers

In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. The campaign originally came to our attention after Microsoft Defender for Endpoint detected an attack in progress. Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive securit...

Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don't Turn to Telegram

Because the chat app doesn't encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it...

Go365 - An Office365 User Attack Tool

Go365 is a tool designed to perform user enumeration and password guessing attacks on organizations that use Office365 now/soon Microsoft365. Go365 uses a unique SOAP API endpoint on login.microsoftonline.com that most other tools do not use. When queried with an email address and password, the...

Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020

2020 is shaping up to be a banner year for software vulnerabilities, leaving security professionals drowning in a veritable sea of patching, reporting and looming attacks, many of which they can’t even see. A trio of recent reports tracking software vulnerabilities over the past year underscore t...

Enum4Linux-Ng - A Next Generation Version Of Enum4Linux (A Windows/Samba Enumeration Tool) With Additional Features Like JSON/YAML Export

enum4linux-ng.py is a rewrite of Mark Lowe's former Portcullis Labs now Cisco CX Security Labs enum4linux.pl, a tool for enumerating information from Windows and Samba systems, aimed for security professionals and CTF players. The tool is mainly a wrapper around the Samba tools nmblookup, net,...