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Ransomware Olive Branches 1090 714 Mark Arnold

Ransomware Olive Branches

Not so, Naughty? Have bad actors had a change of heart? While most ransomware operators continue their relentless attacks against operators to target healthcare organizations during the pandemic, a handful of threat actors are extending an olive branch to hospitals and workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis. Staffers at BleepingComputer, who reached out…

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The Top 10 Penetration Test Findings from 2019 with Eric Smith and Tim McGuffin 1080 720 Andrew Hay

The Top 10 Penetration Test Findings from 2019 with Eric Smith and Tim McGuffin

Lares® encounters a seemingly endless number of vulnerabilities and attack vectors when we conduct a penetration test or red team engagement, regardless of organization size or maturity. Though not every engagement is identical, we have analyzed the similarities between hundreds of engagements throughout 2019. Join Eric Smith and Tim McGuffin as they discuss the most…

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Hunting Azure Admins for Vertical Escalation: Part 2 1360 1068 Andrew Hay

Hunting Azure Admins for Vertical Escalation: Part 2

  This post is part 2 in the Hunting Azure Admins for Vertical Escalation series. Part 1 of this series detailed the usage and functionality of Azure authentication tokens, file locations that cache the tokens during a user session (“%USERPROFILE%\.Azure\TokenCache.dat”), methods for locating user exported Azure context files containing tokens, and leveraging them to bypass…

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Your Assistance Is Needed: Defeating Disinformation 1080 1440 Mark Arnold

Your Assistance Is Needed: Defeating Disinformation

Follow Up: Tricks, Trolls, and Securing the Home Worker In our recent blog about securing home workers, we drew attention to the impact of social engineering and the spread of disinformation campaigns targeting teleworkers. The barrage of information has made it nearly impossible to find needles of truth in haystacks of fake news. While more…

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Tricks, Trolls & (Securing) the Home-Based Staffer 1080 798 Mark Arnold

Tricks, Trolls & (Securing) the Home-Based Staffer

By now, you are most likely working from home for purposes of social distancing. Call it whatever you will, ‘shelter in place,’ ‘hunkering down,’ or ‘self-quarantine,’ we have all been forced to settle into our new work-from-home (WFH) normal. Unfortunately, this great migration homeward is fueling social engineering and manipulation. Predictably, the scramble to set…

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Announcing Lares Office Hours 1080 721 Andrew Hay

Announcing Lares Office Hours

In-person office hours are important for learning and engagement, yet risk serving only people who live close to one another and have flexible schedules. Many people have family responsibilities and (usually) long commutes to work. To provide the industry with greater access, while using everyone’s time more efficiently, we’re going to start offering free Lares…

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Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of March 23, 2020 1328 740 Andrew Hay

Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of March 23, 2020

Welcome to the Lares Credit Union Solutions Credit Union Morning Coffee informative video for the week of March 23, 2020. This video provides Credit Union executives, IT staff, and security analysts with the news they need to begin their week over their first cup of coffee on Monday morning – all in about 60 seconds.…

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Pandemics Bring Out The Worst Kind of Internet Pariah 387 387 Mark Arnold

Pandemics Bring Out The Worst Kind of Internet Pariah

Zoombombing is one of the latest digital shenanigans to surface during the current COVID-19 crisis to abuse video conferencing users. With the increased reliance on video conferencing platforms due to spikes in ‘work from home’ mandates, it was only a matter of time before bad actors would find a way to disrupt home-based staffers. Because…

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Questions With Andrew: What is Ransomware? 1438 769 Andrew Hay

Questions With Andrew: What is Ransomware?

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Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of March 16, 2020 1328 740 Andrew Hay

Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of March 16, 2020

Welcome to the Lares Credit Union Solutions Credit Union Morning Coffee informative video for the week of March 16, 2020. This video provides Credit Union executives, IT staff, and security analysts with the news they need to begin their week over their first cup of coffee on Monday morning – all in about 60 seconds.…

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