Amazon Web Services has revealed that in May 2020 it deflected the largest ever recorded DDoS attack. The previous largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack had been against GitHub in 2018 which was measured at 1.3 Terabits (Thousand Billion bits per second) – the attack against AWS in May was almost double at 2.3 […]
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Verizon has published their 13th annual Data Breach Investigations Report – and it focuses on security incidents and breaches that occurred during 2019. The 2020 DBIR analysed 157,525 incidents, 32,002 in detail and confirmed 3950 breaches in 81 countries. Although the scope is global, half of the incidents in the data come from North America
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Security software provider LastPass has published their third Annual Global Password Security Report which reveals the extent of password reuse. LastPass has analysed the anonymised data and usage patterns of their enterprise password vault used by 47,000 organisations around the world. Some key data points from the report: For Businesses under 25 employees the average
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VideoLAN has released a patch for their popular VLC Media player software to resolve a remote code execution vulnerability The VLC open source media player is widely used in domestic and enterprise environments for playback of all kinds of video files and digital signage applications. In a security bulletin, the developer state that: If successful, a malicious
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Security Awareness Training is an essential component of any organisation’s information security. Even though it is mandated by frameworks such as PCI-DSS or ISO 27001, Security Awareness Training should be more than just a compliance exercise. A good security awareness training programme will drive changes in behaviour amongst staff, suppliers and customers that will improve
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The developers of the OpenSSH implementation of Secure Shell have announced their intention to drop support for SHA-1 in a ‘near future release.’ OpenSSH is used by millions of system administrators to securely access networked systems. OpenSSH supports various encryption algorithms and the decision to drop support for SHA-1 comes as recent research demonstrates it
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In June 2020 Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes a record 129 defects and vulnerabilities in its software – with a further 19 patches in the June Microsoft Office patch bundle. This continues a recent trend of ever-increasing numbers of patches included in the monthly updates from Microsoft (the two previous highest number of patches were in
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Microsoft has pushed back the end of support dates for a raft of software versions in order to ease the burden on stretched IT teams during the COVID19 pandemic. Organisations have to keep their systems updated with supported versions of software in order to benefit from the monthly security patches which are essential for network
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April’s patch Tuesday release from Microsoft includes fixes for three zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows that are under active attack. CVE-2020-1020 is a flaw in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library. According to Microsoft: For all systems except Windows 10, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code remotely. For systems running Windows 10,
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Server hardening is a set of disciplines and techniques which improve the security of an ‘off the shelf’ server. Server Hardening is requirement of security frameworks such as PCI-DSS and is typically included when organisations adopt ISO27001. What is the attack surface The aim of server hardening is to reduce the attack surface of
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