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- According to the Saudi Ministry of Energy, an attack on the Saudi Aramco building in Dhahran resulted in a minor fire, but there were no fatalities or injuries reported.
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Category: Prevent Cyber Crime
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
By filtering, tracking, and preventing any dangerous HTTP/S traffic that could enter the web application, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) safeguards the web application.
Authentication
The process of confirming a person’s identity before granting them access to a system, application, or resource is known as user authentication. Systems use a variety of credentials, such as user IDs, passwords or biometrics to verify that a user is genuine.
Computer Incident Handling
Businesses and organizations can create an effective strategy to guarantee cybersecurity by using incident handling, a cybersecurity technique.Accordimg to experts, ut describes the steps involved in identifying a threat, reacting to it, and then recovering.
Discretionary Access Control (DAC)
With discretionary access control (DAC), the owner of an object has the authority to decide who can access it and what particular activities they are allowed to carry out.
Malvertising
Malvertising, often known as malicious advertising, is a cyberattack technique that inserts malicious code into online advertisements. These compromised advertisements are typically displayed to consumers through reliable advertising networks, making them difficult for both internet users and publishers to detect.
Spoofing and How to Prevent
Cybercriminals use a method called spoofing to pass off malicious communication or activity as from a reliable source. They use this to make their phone calls, emails, and websites appear real.
Pharming
Pharming is a type of social engeneering cyber attack that uses malicious code to trick victims into visiting phony websites in an effort to obtain their information and login credentials.
HoneyMonkey
HoneyMonkey is an automated system which scans various websites on the Internet using a network of computers or virtual machines to check for viruses.
Password Spraying Attack
In a type of brute-force cyber attack as “password spraying,” attackers try to get access to several accounts using a small number of frequently used passwords.
Domain Name Systems (DNS) Exfiltration
Domain Name Systems (DNS) exfiltration is a cyberattack tactic in which a attacker uses DNS requests to covertly send private information from a compromised system to an outside server.