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NSA Attacks Against Virtual Private Networks

Schneier on Security

A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service organizations, and a number of airline reservation systems.".

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Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Malwarebytes

Since 2006, development of Tor has been conducted by a nonprofit organization called The Tor Project. The Exit Node behaves a bit like a VPN, so any service you use on the Internet will see the Exit Node’s IP address as the source of your traffic. What is the difference between Tor and a VPN? Should I use a VPN with Tor?

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

Earlier this year, for example, the group was tied to a particularly aggressive malware campaign that exploited recent vulnerabilities in widely-used networking products, including flaws in Cisco and D-Link routers, as well as Citrix and Pulse VPN appliances.

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Attacks against SolarWinds Serv-U SW were possible due to the lack of ASLR mitigation

Security Affairs

SolarWinds did not enable anti-exploit mitigation available since 2006 allowing threat actors to target SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in July attacks. Software vendor SolarWinds did not enable ASLR anti-exploit mitigation that was available since the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, allowing the attackers to launch targeted attacks in July.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Anton on Security

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. RSA 2013 and Endpoint Agent Re-Emergence RSA 2006–2015 In Anton’s Blog Posts!

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RCE vulnerability in OpenSSH – RegreSSHion (CVE-2024-6387)

Pen Test Partners

The CVE, dubbed regreSSHion, is a regression of CVE-2006-5051 reported in 2006. Versions before 4.4p1 are also vulnerable unless patches for CVE-2006- 5051 and CVE-2008-4109 have been applied. Numerous limiting factors may be applied and should be considered such as Access Control Lists (ACL) or Virtual Private Networks (VPN).

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Security Boulevard

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. RSA 2006–2015 In Anton’s Blog Posts! Somehow that fact blew my mind!

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