As workforce productivity increasingly depends on web-based applications, browsers have become essential gateways to the “connectivity economy.” According to recent data, 93% of desktop internet traffic in 2023 traversed through four popular web browsers. With their diverse functionalities and use cases, browsers are the most used desktop applications. To further expand their … [Read more...] about Prevent Breaches by Spotting Malicious Browser Extensions
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How to prevent surveillance through banner ads
The industrial scale of surveillance of internet users is a topic we keep returning to. Every click on a website, every scroll in a mobile app, and every word you type into a search bar is tracked by dozens of tech companies and advertising firms. And it affects not only phones and computers, but also smart watches, smart TVs and speakers — even cars. As it turns out, these … [Read more...] about How to prevent surveillance through banner ads
How to Prevent ChatGPT From Stealing Your Content & Traffic
ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) have added further complexity to the ever-growing online threat landscape. Cybercriminals no longer need advanced coding skills to execute fraud and other damaging attacks against online businesses and customers, thanks to bots-as-a-service, residential proxies, CAPTCHA farms, and other easily accessible tools. Now, the latest … [Read more...] about How to Prevent ChatGPT From Stealing Your Content & Traffic
Using Similarity-Based Mapping to Prevent Breaches
CrowdStrike data scientists describe a new similarity paradigm to organize information and make it accessible, searchable and mappable The new similarity-based mapping of cybersecurity data associates disparate representations of various objects important for cybersecurity, providing scientists and analysts with the tools necessary to prevent and respond to breaches more … [Read more...] about Using Similarity-Based Mapping to Prevent Breaches
How to Detect and Prevent impacket’s Wmiexec
Impacket, an open source collection of Python modules for manipulating network protocols, contains several tools for remote service execution, Windows credential dumping, packet sniffing and Kerberos manipulation. CrowdStrike Services has seen an increased use of Impacket’s wmiexec module, primarily by ransomware and eCrime groups. Wmiexec leaves behind valuable forensic … [Read more...] about How to Detect and Prevent impacket’s Wmiexec
Too many fields! 3 ways to prevent mapping explosion in Elasticsearch
Too many fields! 3 ways to prevent mapping explosion in ElasticsearchEnglish简体中文한국어日本語FrançaisDeutschEspañolPortuguêsA system is said to be "observable" when it has three things: logs, metrics, and traces. While metrics and traces have predictable structures, logs (especially application logs) are usually unstructured data that need to be collected and parsed to be really … [Read more...] about Too many fields! 3 ways to prevent mapping explosion in Elasticsearch
Can Data Protection Systems Prevent Data At Rest Leakage?
Protection against insider risks works when the process involves controlling the data transfer channels or examining data sources. One approach involves preventing USB flash drives from being copied or sending them over email. The second one concerns preventing leakage or fraud in which an insider accesses files or databases with harmful intentions. What's the best way to … [Read more...] about Can Data Protection Systems Prevent Data At Rest Leakage?
How Organizations Can Prevent Users from Using Breached Passwords
There is no question that attackers are going after your sensitive account data. Passwords have long been a target of those looking to compromise your environment. Why would an attacker take the long, complicated way if they have the keys to the front door? No matter how extensive your security solutions are, protecting the various systems in your environment, your organization … [Read more...] about How Organizations Can Prevent Users from Using Breached Passwords
Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection Attacks
In an effort to mitigate a large class of potential cross-site scripting issues in Firefox, Mozilla has blocked execution of all inline scripts and potentially dangerous eval-like functions for built-in "about: pages" that are the gateway to sensitive preferences, settings, and statics of the browser.Firefox browser has 45 such internal locally-hosted about pages, some of which … [Read more...] about Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection Attacks
How to Get Better Protection with Falcon Prevent
Introduction This document and video will demonstrate how CrowdStrike’s Falcon Prevent offers superior next generation AV protection against all types of attacks through a single, lightweight agent and cloud delivered console. Video Simplified Management from the Cloud On the main Falcon dashboard, you see an overview of the events in our environment. On the right … [Read more...] about How to Get Better Protection with Falcon Prevent