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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

TechCrunch

Bezos Expeditions — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ personal investment fund — and Whale Rock Capital (a $10 billion hedge fund) co-led the round, which also included participation from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Authentic Ventures and others. . Ironically, Pilot says it aspires to the “AWS of SMB backoffice.” (In

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CVE-2024-8260: SMB Force-Authentication Vulnerability in OPA Could Lead to Credential Leakage

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. This exploration led us to discover an SMB force-authentication vulnerability (CVSSv3 6.1) affecting all existing versions of OPA for Windows at that time.

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It's 2022. Why do you keep using SMB?

Ivanti

During the last 25 years, companies have relied on SMB protocol to allow them to collaborate and centralize corporate documents. The history of SMB (and why it's no longer relevant). The latest iteration, SMB 3.1.1, encryption added in SMB3 and implemented a pre-authentication integrity check using?SHA-512?hash.

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Leverage Two-Factor Authentication for Maximized Security

Kaseya

Phishing, social engineering and unsecured networks have made password based authentication insecure for some time. In today’s age where security breaches have become an everyday occurrence, password-only authentication is not sufficient. Increase Security with Two-Factor Authentication.

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Maximize Your Vulnerability Scan Value with Authenticated Scanning

Tenable

Start doing authenticated scanning. Performing authenticated scans of your environment offers essential benefits and is a practice widely recognized as valuable. The scan configurations we observe in Tenable’s SaaS products are telling: our customers run unauthenticated scans 20 times more than authenticated ones.

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Microsoft’s June 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 129 CVEs Including Newly Disclosed SMBv3 Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1206)

Tenable

This flaw can be exploited on an authenticated server or against an SMB client. An authenticated attacker would need to send a specially crafted packet to exploit this vulnerability against a vulnerable SMB server. CVE-2020-1301 | Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

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MSPs are the Holy Grail for Cybercriminals! Are You Protected?

Kaseya

MSPs hold the keys to the kingdom when it comes to data access and, while a typical day won’t involve leaping from trains to protect it like the fictional professor, they still need to take action to keep themselves and their SMB customers safe. They can also jump from a partner or SMB customer over to you! Island Hopping.

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