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From Lares Labs: Defensive Guidance for ZeroLogon (CVE-2020-1472) 2048 1365 Anton Ovrutsky

From Lares Labs: Defensive Guidance for ZeroLogon (CVE-2020-1472)

About Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) On September 11th, 2020, Secura researcher Tom Tomvoort published a blog post outlining the Zerologon vulnerability. Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday releases contained a patch for CVE-2020-1472 which can be exploited by attackers to hijack enterprise servers due to Netlogon cryptographic weaknesses. The vulnerability allows an attacker to set a password for the…

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School’s On(line) Kids – Is it Safe and Cybersecure? 2048 1446 Mark Arnold

School’s On(line) Kids – Is it Safe and Cybersecure?

School Days It’s Fall again and school is open (for most) in various modes of operation after several months of disruption due to COVID-19. Whether school districts offer in-person, virtual, or hybrid schooling models, many of them face challenges and are scrambling to meet and secure new technology demands. Some districts are more embattled than…

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Seeing Red 1638 2048 Mark Arnold

Seeing Red

Seeing Red Recently, I asked my Lares mates to comment on a red team (RT) architecture post I stumbled upon. A volley of responses ensued with the conclusion: “That’s a penetration testing platform – not full-scope”- and a non-committal “or maybe.” Our RT banter characterizes for the larger efforts to define RT. The red team…

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Time for Transition: From ACET to InTREx-CU 2048 1366 Mark Arnold

Time for Transition: From ACET to InTREx-CU

The Transition from ACET to InTREx-CU for Credit Union Examinations The National Credit Union Association (NCUA) Chairman Rodney Hood discussed changes to the credit union (CU) CyberSecurity and Technology examination program before Congress in early December 2019. Hood announced the adoption of the Information Technology Risk Examination (InTREx) solution to this end. InTREx is utilized…

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Security Program Components 101 1090 727 Andrew Hay

Security Program Components 101

The term “security program” means a lot of different things to a log of different people. To some, it’s just an acceptable use policy or password policy. To others, it’s the operationalization of security controls (e.g. firewalls, endpoint security, 2FA, etc.). To others still, it’s the measurement of how many alerts were triaged by the…

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Webinar – Defensive Strategies: The Power of Visibility 1090 728 Andrew Hay

Webinar – Defensive Strategies: The Power of Visibility

Defensive Strategies: The Power of Visibility When: OnDemand About the Webinar: Security programs are struggling with noise. What is legitimate and what is suspicious? Attackers use that to their advantage to hide and move around inside your environment. Offense should inform defense but is that truly happening? The attack paths are less focused on exploitation…

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Hunt Fast: Splunk and tstats 1090 818 Anton Ovrutsky

Hunt Fast: Splunk and tstats

Intro One of the aspects of defending enterprises that humbles me the most is scale. Enabling different logging and sending those logs to some kind of centralized SIEM device sounds relatively straight forward at a high-level, but dealing with tens or even hundreds of thousands of endpoints presents us with huge challenges. In this post,…

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Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of July 6, 2020 1328 740 Andrew Hay

Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of July 6, 2020

Welcome to the Lares Credit Union Solutions Credit Union Morning Coffee informative video for the week of July 6, 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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Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of June 29, 2020 1328 740 Andrew Hay

Credit Union Morning Coffee – Week of June 29, 2020

Welcome to the Lares Credit Union Solutions Credit Union Morning Coffee informative video for the week of June 29, 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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Lares CEO Featured in CUES CU Management Article 1090 726 Andrew Hay

Lares CEO Featured in CUES CU Management Article

Lares CEO Chris Nickerson was recently interviewed by Karen Bankston for a recent Credit Union Executives Society (CUES) CU Management article on the topic of keeping pace with evolving fraud detection. From the article: Testing fraud security measures also involves trying to find and exploit openings in a credit union’s mobile or online channels, core…

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