Monthly Round Up for the month of April 2024

Boat Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of Over 7.5 Million Users Amit Gupta-led startup Boat has reportedly witnessed a major data breach incident. The private details of over 7.5 million customers have made their way onto the dark web. This includes sensitive information like names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and customer IDs. As perContinue reading “Monthly Round Up for the month of April 2024”

Lab 2:  Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups

Objective You have been asked to implement your organization’s virtual networking infrastructure and test to ensure it is working correctly. In particular: Exercise 1: Create the virtual networking infrastructure Step 1: Type Virtual networks and press the Enter key and click + Create. Step 2: Fill in the details On the IP addresses tab ofContinue reading “Lab 2:  Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups”

PDCA and Clauses

Plan(P) Do(D) Check(C) Act(A) ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Clause 4 of 10 Clause 4: Context of Organization ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Clause 5 of 10 Clause 5: Leadership ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Clause 6 of 10 Clause 6: Planning ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Clause 7 of 10 Clause 7: Support ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Clause 8 of 10 Clause 8: Operation ISO/IEC 27001:2022: Clause 9Continue reading “PDCA and Clauses”

What is ISMS,CIA Triad

Information Security Management System (ISMS) Information Security Management System (ISMS) is a management system made of multiple interacting components. What is information? As per ISO/IEC 27000:“Information (knowledge or data) is an asset which, like other important business assets is of value to an organization and consequently needs to be suitably protected”. Information can be: InformationContinue reading “What is ISMS,CIA Triad”

Lab 1: Role Based Access Control

Objective You have been asked to create a proof of concept showing how Azure users and groups are created. Also, how role-based access control is used to assign roles to groups. Specifically, you need to: Step 1: Login to the portal Step 2: Go to Microsoft Entra ID and click on add user Step 3:Continue reading “Lab 1: Role Based Access Control”

Near Field Communication (NFC)

Near Field Communication, or NFC, is a short-range wireless communication technology that enables devices to interact with each other within a close proximity, typically within a few centimeters. It operates at a frequency of 13.56 MHz and can be used for various applications, such as contactless payment systems, secure access control, and data sharing between devicesContinue reading “Near Field Communication (NFC)”

Wazuh

Setting up Wazuh on Virtual Machine (OVA) User: wazuh-user Password: wazuh In our case it will be https://192.168.29.160 You will get the following web page User: admin Password: admin Setting up an agent on the endpoint. Once you login into the wazuh dashboard you can add agents: On clicking Agents option you will get theContinue reading “Wazuh”

HackTheBox – Photobomb

NMAP Scanning Added address in /etc/hosts and open the web page Upon clicking the link it asks for credentials. As we do not have any credentials I got the page below. I tried to view the source code and found the photobomb.js file. After opening that file I got the credentials. Username: pH0t0 Password: b0Mb!Continue reading “HackTheBox – Photobomb”

HackTheBox – Precious

NMAP Scanning Add website to hosts file: Open the web service This website takes a web page URL and converts it into PDF. On examining the pdf, it shows that it is using pdfkit v0.8.6 version On searching we found vulnerability for mentioned version On studying the POC it looks like the URL parameter isContinue reading “HackTheBox – Precious”

Domain 2: Asset Security

Asset Types Asset Classification Asset Storage Apply appropriate controls based on classification  Data is more valuable than the media  Asset Security Data Classification Type of Data Data Stakeholders Data Remanence Data left over after a removal and deletion process Data Destruction Scoping Portion of standards that will be applicable for organization Tailoring Customizing standards asContinue reading “Domain 2: Asset Security”