SecureWorld News

AUGUST 3, 2024

The hidden weakness: human error Despite leaps in cybersecurity technology, human error remains an Achilles heel in SCADA and IoT security. A compromised VPN account with a weak password led to a ransomware attack that disrupted fuel supplies throughout the U.S. The attacker's gateway? Human blunders.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

We also recommend you use a VPN to protect your computers and mobile devices from hackers. WD: The vulnerability report CVE-2018-18472 affects My Book Live devices originally introduced to the market between 2010 and 2012. Make sure to contact the affected vendors and insist they release a patch as soon possible !

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2021

By 2010, Forrester’s John Kindervag had presented the basic features surrounding the new concept known as zero trust. But even before the boom of IoT devices or the COVID-19 pandemic, trust was a major organizational vulnerability. Traditional tools like firewalls , VPNs , and NAC used to secure the network at the perimeter.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Perimeter81 VPN and zero trust 2020 Private Wiz Cloud security 2020 Private OneTrust Privacy management 2019 Private Darktrace AI network security 2017 Private Recorded Future Threat intelligence 2017 Acquired: Insight Thycotic Access management 2015 Private Checkmarx Application security 2015 Acquired: P.E.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Cybersecurity product categories: Next-generation firewalls , next-generation intrusion prevention , CASB , web gateway, NAC , advanced malware protection, email security , endpoint security , security management, VPN, security services. Founded: 2010. Appearances on eSecurity Planet ‘s Top Vendors lists: 10.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

All sites incorporated the archaic FCKeditor plug-in, which stopped receiving support in 2010. Azure-Connected IoT Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Type of vulnerability: Internet of things (IoT) RCE vulnerability. The fix: Update libraries and instances to versions patched after February 8, 2024.

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