April 2, 2019 / by Elteni / Services
Are you in need of external vulnerability assessments to satisfy business or regulatory requirements? Or are you afraid you can not keep up with the latest known threats, and want a better handle on it? Elteni can help you meet any of those needs, and more, by providing you various external vulnerability assessment options. We […]
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Cybersecurity Alert – OCIE – Safeguarding Customer Records and Information in Network Storage – Use of Third Party Security Features
May 27, 2019 / by Elteni / Compliance, Cyber, OCIE, Policies
Alert On May 23, 2019, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) issued the alert “Safeguarding Customer Records and Information in Network Storage – Use of Third Party Security Features”. In this alert the OCIE ‘identified security risks associated with the storage of electronic customer records and information by broker-dealers and investment advisers in […]
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External Vulnerability Assessments
April 2, 2019 / by Elteni / Services
Are you in need of external vulnerability assessments to satisfy business or regulatory requirements? Or are you afraid you can not keep up with the latest known threats, and want a better handle on it? Elteni can help you meet any of those needs, and more, by providing you various external vulnerability assessment options. We […]
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Beyond the Grave virus, is it a hoax or a warning sign?
March 1, 2019 / by Elteni / Cyber
Here’s why we think there is something interesting about the “Beyond the Grave Virus” supposedly affecting hedge funds. We were curious because there was some chatter about it being a hoax. While this can be (very) true, we think it was worth looking in to. Who knows, it may possibly be an early exploration expedition […]
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There is a difference between privacy and cyber(security).
February 28, 2019 / by Elteni / Cyber
We see too often that the terms privacy and security (cybersecurity) are used interchangeably and felt it was important to help people understand that they are not the same thing. Yes, there is a relationship between the two, but again, they are not the same thing. If you ask a group of cybsecurity professionals whether […]
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Automating Password Cracking Using Responder and Hashcat! (Part 1)
February 7, 2019 / by Elteni / Cyber
Responder, one of the tools that is part of every pen-testers toolkit (if you are a pen-tester and you don’t use it, shame on you), is by far one of the greatest tools ever made. We use it on every internal and sometimes external pen test that we do. For those that aren’t familiar, responder […]
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“New” phishing campaigns – leveraging scare tactics (Ransomware 3.0)
February 6, 2019 / by Elteni / Business Email Compromise, Cyber, Phishing, phishing attack, phishing campaign, phishing scam, ransomware
We got an email today that we thought was very interesting. Most of the email phishing campaigns that we’ve seen thus far, and the most common ones our clients typically get fall into two buckets: click a link or open an attachment. We all know how effective some of these campaigns are. Lots of people […]
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How we were able to bypass Windows Defender on a Windows 10 machine to get a reverse shell!
January 23, 2019 / by Elteni / Cyber, defeat, Evade, Evasion, Internal, Penetration Test, Red Team, Reverse Shell, Unicorn, Window 10, windows defender
It seems we just peaked your interest, right? Isn’t that the reason you are here reading this? It’s either that, or you are just trolling, you know who you are. We’ve experienced first-hand and have also heard from many of our fellow pen testers that anti-virus solutions, especially some of the next-gen solutions are easy […]
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Is your email address the new social security number, and what does that mean?
November 18, 2018 / by Elteni / Cyber
Remember that time when you registered your first email address? For many of you it was probably with America Online (AOL), Echomail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. How many of you are still using those accounts today? I venture to say probably a good number of you. I openly admit that I still use an account that […]
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Are you fully protected if relying on credit and identity theft monitoring?
August 21, 2018 / by Elteni / Credit Monitoring, Cyber, Data Protection, Identity Theft, Personal Risk
Are you a high net or ultra-high net worth individual? Do you think credit and identity theft monitoring is worth it? Are you currently enrolled in one of these programs? I have personally been enrolled in these programs since 2009. Does it solely give me comfort knowing that my credit and identity is protected? No, […]
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Incident Response Plan – How do you move from developing one to testing it?
August 6, 2018 / by Elteni / Cyber, Incident Response, Table Top
In general, you’ve prepared for disasters that range from a file server crashing, to a total loss of power, and maybe even a hurricane making your offices inhabitable. You’ve thought through various scenarios that could affect your business and developed plans and procedures to document those efforts. You’ve worked so diligently to develop Disaster Recovery, […]
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