About this tag
Situational awareness is a recurring theme in discussions about personal safety and cybersecurity on WindowsForum. In campus safety contexts, it involves trusting instincts, using mobile safety apps, and recognizing environmental risks like quiet e-scooters. In cybersecurity, situational awareness extends to understanding how threat actors use network tunneling and spoofing to obfuscate their location, making attribution difficult. It also includes monitoring network traffic for suspicious activity, as seen in analyses of intrusion detection systems. The concept of becoming a "gray man"—blending in to avoid drawing attention—is another application of situational awareness for personal security. These threads highlight the importance of being alert and informed in both physical and digital environments.
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AA20-198A: Malicious Cyber Actor Use of Network Tunneling and Spoofing to Obfuscate Geolocation
Original release date: July 16, 2020 Summary This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques. Attributing...- News
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- access control antivirus best practices cybersecurity denial of service email security firewall geolocation incident response malicious software mitigation network spoofing private network removable media security updates situational awareness spoofing threat actors tunneling vulnerability
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- Forum: Security Alerts
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CISA Snort Rules Target NetSupport RAT, Kovter and XMRig
Original release date: June 30, 2020 Summary Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) analysts have compiled the top detection signatures that have been the most active over the month of May in our national Intrusion Detection System (IDS), known as EINSTEIN. This information is...- News
- Security
- antivirus cisa cryptocurrency miner cybersecurity einstein ids kovter malware mitigation netsupport network security phishing rat remote access security updates situational awareness snort signatures threat detection xmrig
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- Forum: Security Alerts
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VIDEO The 3 Rules to Become a Gray Man
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- gray man low profile security situational awareness
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- Forum: The Water Cooler