Jan 06

Enterprise Cybersecurity challenges in 2023

In 2022, a lot of new variants of ransomware and groups (Ransomware as a Service) have targeted several major organizations and enterprises. New techniques (new features introduced by the notorious “LockBit” group, and a newcomer, “Play” that employs self-propagation techniques) and groups emerged as targeted ransomware attacks double in 2022. Today’s organizations, no matter their size, consist of many digital assets that power and enable businesses. These assets, including websites, information, data, and other forms of an online presence have become the fuel of modern businesses. And they all need to be protected.

Original Network Waves of Data

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Dec 26

Kerberos Authentication with Veeam v12

Kerberos Authentication with Veeam v12. NTLM authentication is still mandatory for communication between all Veeam infrastructure servers in v11. However, NTLM authentication is still required for communication between Veeam backup infrastructure servers (backup server, backup proxies, backup repositories, guest interaction proxies, log shipping servers, and mount servers). NTLM was subject to several known security vulnerabilities related to password hashing and salting. Kerberos only will be supported with Veeam Backup & Replication version 12. Veeam B&R v12 will also allow using gMSA Accounts for application-aware processing. These two new features should help you to get better security for all service accounts.

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Dec 12

Critical Fortigate VPN SSL Vulnerability – CVE-2022-42475

Updated on Tuesday 13, December – Affected versions.

Critical VPN SSL Vulnerability (FortiOS): Fortinet has just announced a critical vulnerability in all versions. Vulnerabilities that can be easily exploited remotely to compromise firewall or where remote code execution is considered likely in common situations. Manipulate the dynamic resources of some processes, the goal is to divert the working operation. The impact would be arbitrary code or execute unauthorized code or commands.

 

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Dec 07

Hackers love it when you post pictures of your work environment

Hackers love it when you post pictures of your work environment! We are all proud of what we are doing and proud of the great companies we are working in. But by taking pictures of your work environment for LinkedIn or your career blog you are unintentionally disclosing information about your technical setup. This is not a critical vulnerability by itself but can be used by adversaries to prepare for further attacks or to create a well-designed pretext for social engineering.

 

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Dec 06

The core function of a SOC

The core function of a SOC (Security Operations Center) is to investigate, monitor, prevent, and respond to threats. SOC teams benefit from using a single platform with integrated yet disparate technologies for a full-picture view that is continually updated with emerging threat intelligence. This unified perspective simplifies security monitoring, supports incident response workflows, and provides all the core functionality required for building a SOC. Here’s a blog post about the main functions.

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