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Threat Trends: Firewall

Cisco Security

In any perimeter defense a key component is firewalls—the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. In this Threat Trends release, we’ll be looking at Cisco Secure Firewall. The goal is to highlight the common threats that organizations encounter and block with Secure Firewall. Secure Firewall version 7.0

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New Russia Malware targets firewall appliances

CyberSecurity Insiders

Interestingly, Cyclops Blink has been operational since June 2019 and is now being developed into espionage conducting software from just a mere persistent remote access malware accessing WatchGuard Firewall appliances. The post New Russia Malware targets firewall appliances appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability

Schneier on Security

First commercially introduced in 2013, Cisco Trust Anchor module (TAm) is a proprietary hardware security module used in a wide range of Cisco products, including enterprise routers, switches and firewalls. Summary : Thangrycat is caused by a series of hardware design flaws within Cisco's Trust Anchor module.

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Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws

Krebs on Security

.” But Pyle said a great many EAS stakeholders are still ignoring basic advice from the manufacturer, such as changing default passwords and placing the devices behind a firewall, not directly exposing them to the Internet, and restricting access only to trusted hosts and networks. and Marquette, Mich.

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Threat-informed or Threat-owned? Classic Practices Will Probably Save You!

Anton on Security

At some point, a “pre-owned” (compromised before you ever saw it) email security appliance , firewall, or a piece of software will show up in your environment (you no longer need to be this elite for it; it ain’t 2013). new blog “Revisiting Traditional Security Advice for Modern Threats” , here are the key ideas from it.

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Alfer Microsoft, also SonicWall confirmed that its products were affected by Y2K22 bug

Security Affairs

SonicWall confirmed that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been impacted by the Y2K22 bug. Security vendor SonicWall confirmed that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been impacted by the Y2K22 bug. x should upgrade to the latest Junk Store 7.6.9. Junk Store 7.6.9

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

Krebs on Security

Danowski said that in 2013, i-SOON established a department for research on developing new APT network penetration methods. Danowski said i-SOON has achieved the highest secrecy classification that a non-state-owned company can receive, which qualifies the company to conduct classified research and development related to state security.