Category: InfoSecWOTD

Today’s #InfosecWOTD Day 21 is

#Ciphertext 🧮 

When you take a plain text and apply encryption algorithm, the resulting text is called ciphertext. The algorithm is called a cipher.

The word cipher (cypher) has its origins in the Arabic word صفر sifr which means zero and it took many centuries for the word to mean encoding.

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Today’s #InfosecWOTD Day 19 is

#Cryptojacking 💸😈

Cryptojacking is the unauthorized use of personal or enterprise systems for crypto mining. The term crypto mining refers to an activity of solving cryptographic equations through the use of computing hardware to gain cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin, Dogecoin, Bitcoin etc.

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Today’s #InfosecWOTD Day 18 is

#RaaS 💀💰☁

It stands for Ransomware as a Service. This type of cloud offering is illegal and works very similar to any other cloud services (anything as a service XaaS) and is used by bad actors to amplify the ransomware attacks.

RaaS is a subscription-based model which enables its customers or affiliates to use existing ransomware tools and other exploits to execute ransomware attacks.

In the recent months, a malicious group REvil has emerged very strong in conducting these RaaS based attacks and is behind the Kaseya VSA Attack. Read more here: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/revil-threat-actors/

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Here is fun #InfosecWOTD Day 17 and it is

#catfishing 🐱🎣

Catfishing and phishing has a lot of similarities. It is a form of social engineering attack where an individual aka the catfish, sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site such as LinkedIn for fraudulent or deceptive purposes.

You can apply very similar strategies to avoid becoming a victim of a catfishing attack.

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#InfosecWOTD Day 16 is

#Backdoor 🚪 

Backdoors in technology or devices is a secret or undocumented vulnerability in computer software or hardware which is sometimes intentionally maintained or put in place by developers and engineers to gain remote access.

As this is something undocumented in most cases, when found by certain individuals with malicious intent can be used to gain unauthorized remote access and exploitation of such devices/systems.

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Today’s #infosec Word of the Day #15 is

#APT 💀⚓

It stands for Advanced Persistent Threat. A threat actor who is acting for a organized crime operative such as a nation state or state sponsored criminal group.

They are typically well funded, use cutting edge technology and target high value companies to conduct cyber espionage, theft of intellectual property for financial gains.

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Today’s #infosec Word of the Day #14 is

#NGFW 🔥🧱

In computer networking, It stands for Next-Generation Firewall (FW). There are many kinds of FWs. For example, a stateful firewall, monitors & detects states of all traffic(data) on a network to track & defend based on traffic patterns & flows. There are other types FWs and are commonly grouped as traditional FWs.

An NGFW provides capabilities beyond a traditional, stateful firewall. While a traditional firewall typically provides stateful inspection of incoming and outgoing network traffic, a next-generation firewall includes features like application awareness (whitelisting/blacklisting), intrusion detection & prevention, & cloud-delivered threat intelligence, & more.

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Today’s #infosec Word of the Day #12 is

#DRP 🔋 🔌

DRP stands for Disaster Recovery Plan. It is simply a plan for any business to be able to access the various components of information computer technology after a disaster strikes. #INFOSECWOTD

#DRP is often misunderstood or not properly implemented and is often confused with BCP – Business Continuity Plan. Which is a more comprehensive plan to make sure business can continue business operations through different challenges such as a break in supply chain, disaster and anything that is considered a business interruption. #INFOSECWOTD

Want to learn more in depth? Check out my article on ICSBits blog here: https://lnkd.in/e74vRa3

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Today’s #infosec Word of the Day #11 is

#TPM ✅🛡

TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It is a little piece of hardware that sits on your motherboard that has just one important function which is to generate and store cryptographic keys which are then used to authenticate your device. It is also called a cryptoprocessor.

#TPM is trending in the NEWS lately because #Microsoft just announced that the new #Windows11 will only run on a device that has some form of TPM. Here is a good #theVerge article: https://lnkd.in/e7CRUXK

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