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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.
- On Tuesday, a Las Vegas court sentenced Duane "Keffe D" Davis to 40 years to life in prison for his involvement in the more than 30-year-old murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
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- A Pennsylvania woman is accused of fatally stabbing her husband and 3-year-old son at a family resort in the Poconos before attempting suicide.
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Tag: Cyber Attack
Brute Force Attack
A brute force attack is a type of cyberattack where attackers attempt to access an account or encrypted data without authorization by trying several login credentials or encryption keys until they figure out the right one.
Virus Signature
A piece of code having a distinct binary pattern that identifies a computer virus or family of viruses is called a virus signature.Based on code similarities, entire virus families can be identified using virus signatures.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Endpoints, firewalls, email, servers, cloud workloads, and the general network are just a few of the security layers over which Extended Detection and Response (XDR) collects, normalizes, and then correlates data.
Flooding Attack
A flooding attack is a type of cyberattack in which the attacker purposefully overwhelms a network by generating excessive network traffic, exhausting network resources.
Security Engineering
The field of designing, developing, and managing security systems that safeguard data, applications, and infrastructure in challenging circumstances is known as security engineering.
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
An organized method for restoring vital IT systems, data, and activities following a cyberattack, natural disaster, or other disruption is a disaster recovery plan (DRP).
In-Line Network Device
A specific type of network hardware that is directly connected to the network’s communication path is referred to as a “In-line network device.”
MITRE ATT&CK
The MITRE ATT&CK is a detailed cybersecurity knowledge base that describes adversary tactics, methods, and procedures (TTPs) to enhance corporate defense and threat detection.
Click Fraud
Fake clicks that target pay-per-click (PPC) or cost-per-click (CPC) advertisements are known as click fraud.Forced clicks, fraudulent clicks such bot clicks, click flooding, click injection, click redirection, mislabeled clicks from incentive campaigns, and the misreporting of impressions and video views as clicks are examples of common types.
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
In order to detect and block malicious activity in real time, an intrusion prevention system (IPS) actively monitors system and network traffic. IPS comprises firewall, anti-spoofing software, anti-virus/anti-malware software, and network traffic monitoring.