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From acceptable use policies to remote work guidelines, identifying the rules and procedures for all individuals accessing your organization’s IT resources is an IT security fundamental.
Beyond its criminal uses, hashcat is a must-have tool for penetration testers, sysadmins, and researchers to test system security, check password strength, and validate the strength of cryptographic algorithms.
Reputation filters used to prevent access to phishing sites were misused to allow access to the very sites they are meant to prevent access to.
Vigilance and regular reviews of network assets and policies can help avoid attacks that take advantage of access points created by legacy software and moves into the cloud.
Ransomware actors often prioritize gaining initial access to targeted networks, says Cisco’s Talos security intelligence group.
A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions.
Cisco aims to relieve beleaguered network and security teams with its AI-driven, platform-based approach to enterprise security.
The increasing volume and sophistication of fake network traffic has raised the cybersecurity stakes, jeopardizing sales and marketing efforts and complicating defense and protection.
The coordinated operation took down 593 IP addresses, which were flagged for abuse of the legitimate pen-testing software.
The moderate-severity vulnerability has been observed being exploited in the wild by Chinese APT Velvet Ant.