Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. In 2019 alone, attacks on IoT devices increased by 300%. Are You Secure?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Locking down web gateways and erecting a robust firewall were considered the be-all and end-all. Related: The shared burden of securing the Internet of Things. Company networks must support endless permutations of users and apps, both on-premises and in the Internet cloud. Fast forward to the 21 st Century’s third decade.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

“Our Litigation Firewall isolates the infection and protects you from harm. In fiscal year 2019, the FTC received 3.78 The Blacklist Alliance researches TCPA cases to uncover the phone numbers of plaintiffs and sells this data in the form of list-scrubbing services to telemarketers. million complaints about robocalls.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019 and Schuermann walked me through how Juniper’s security play pivots off the evolving infrastructure of a typical corporate network. Schuermann At Black Hat 2019, the company announced its latest initiatives to block threats at the router level. I’ll keep watch. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. This activity results in a rich matrix of overlapping threat feeds that, if all of the slices could somehow be combined, would present a heat map of an Internet throbbing with malicious traffic that unceasingly changes and steadily intensifies.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2019, we’ve seen a surge in domain name service (DNS) hijacking attempts and have relayed warnings from the U.S. In the enterprise environment, domain names, DNS, and certificates are the lifeline to any internet-based application including websites, email, apps, virtual private networks (VPNs), voice over IP (VoIP) and more.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But Will Thomas , a cyber threat intelligence researcher at Equinix, found an Internet address in the leaked data that corresponds to a domain flagged in a 2019 Citizen Lab report about one-click mobile phone exploits that were being used to target groups in Tibet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

Even a device that is reaching outbound to the internet could be attacked and taken over. “As an example of this scenario, consider how such an attack can take over the SonicWall firewall, which runs on the impacted VxWorks OS.” ” reads the report published by Armis Labs. ” continues the report.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected approximately 1% of active firewall appliances, which are devices mainly used by business customers. Cyclops Blink has been found in WatchGuard’s firewall devices since at least June 2019. Internet access to the management interface of any device is a security risk.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

Luckily, Thompson left an easy trail for the FBI to follow and affect her arrest in August 2019. The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry. Twenty years ago it was deemed sufficient to erect a robust firewall and keep antivirus software updated. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2024

A China-linked APT, tracked as StormBamboo, compromised an internet service provider (ISP) to poison software update mechanisms with malware. The Macma macOS backdoor was first detailed by Google in 2021 and has been used since at least 2019. This highlights the group’s ongoing evolution in cyber espionage tactics.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2022

A Digital Alert Systems EAS encoder/decoder that Pyle said he acquired off eBay in 2019. Pyle said he started acquiring old EAS equipment off of eBay in 2019, and that he quickly identified a number of serious security vulnerabilities in a device that is broadly used by states and localities to encode and decode EAS alert signals.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are under attack, threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2019-10149 flaw to take over them.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

This requires a robust connection to the Internet (Lumen and Gigamon), firewall protection (Palo Alto Networks), segmented wireless network (Commscope Ruckus) and network full packet capture & forensics and SIEM (RSA NetWitness); with Cisco providing cloud-based security and intelligence support. Recorded Future. urlscan.io.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2021

Until the year 2019, it was offering the spying software only to government organizations that were indulging in espionage related tactics on criminals. So the MacBook maker wants to nip such feelings from its users and is devising a fix that will act as a firewall against attacks related to the spread and installation of Pegasus malware.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Cybersecurity, which started with antivirus suites, spam filters and firewalls, has mushroomed into a $103 billion industry. Then along came cloud computing and the Internet of Things. With everyone connecting to the Internet to interact, new security regimes, like Zero Trust and Edge Security are gaining traction.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A DoS attack that caused disruptions at a power utility in the United States exploited a flaw in a firewall used in the facility. The incident took place earlier this year, threat actors exploited a known vulnerability in a firewall used by the affected facility to cause disruption. and 7 p.m., power grid ( Energywire , April 30).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts are monitoring the Mirai-based botnet since November 2019 and observed it exploiting two Tenda router 0-day vulnerabilities to spread a Remote Access Trojan (RAT). ” When the botnet was first detected in 2019, experts noticed it was exploiting the Tenda zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2020-10987.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to more hundreds of the world’s 1,000 top websites, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging Windows users and administrators to install security updates to address BlueKeep flaw (aka CVE-2019-0708). Now the National Security Agency (NSA) is also urging Windows users and administrators to install security updates to address BlueKeep flaw (aka CVE-2019-0708).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. CVE-2019-7256 is actively being exploited by DDoS botnet operators.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Most of the vulnerabilities listed below can be exploited to gain initial access to victim networks using products that are directly accessible from the Internet and act as gateways to internal networks.” 3) CVE-2019-19781 – An issue was discovered in Citrix® 9 Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis. Below the recommendations provided by ESET on how to configure remote access correctly: Disable internet-facing RDP. The situation changed from February, when the number reached 80,000.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

In addition to standard firewalls , features in UTMs often include intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) , secure web gateways , secure email gateways , remote access , routing and WAN connectivity. Some vendors have ditched the UTM label and prefer to call their tools next-generation firewalls (NGFW). URL filtering.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

When the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) announced the TLS 1.3 In the January 2019 report, EMA concluded: Some participants’ organizations may find they have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a Plan B to enable TLS 1.3 Needless to say, the rollout was not perfect). Needless to say, the rollout was not perfect).

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Configure network firewalls to block unauthorized IP addresses and disable port forwarding.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

Phobos operation uses a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model, it has been active since May 2019. They dropped hidden payloads or used internet protocol (IP) scanning tools, such as Angry IP Scanner, to search for vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports or by leveraging RDP on Microsoft Windows environments.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

Microsoft declared that an Emotet attack took down an organization’s network by overheating all the computers and bringing its Internet access down. “He’d been told the organization had an extensive system to prevent cyberattacks, but this new virus evaded all their firewalls and antivirus software. .

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? We met at Black Hat USA 2019 , where Baffin Bay touted its cloud-first, full-stack suite of threat protection services. For a full drill down on our conversation, give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Despite billions of dollars spent on the latest, greatest antivirus suites, firewalls and intrusion detection systems, enterprises continue to suffer breaches that can be traced back to the actions of a single, unsuspecting employee. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to sit down with Lucy CEO Colin Bastable, to discuss the wider context.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2019

I had the chance to visit with CipherCloud CTO Sundaram Lakshmanan at RSA 2019. In the past, for example, companies could get away with using a default password, and depend on firewalls and other internal security tools to provide protection. Everything they need is there. The security challenge, however, is now much more pronounced.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Launched in 2013 by Nir Polak, a former top exec at web application firewall vendor Imperva, Exabeam in just half a decade has raised an eye-popping $115 million in venture capital, grown to almost 350 employees and reaped over 100 percent revenue growth in each of the last three years. Talk more soon.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. At the same time, WAF technology is increasingly a part of more comprehensive security solutions like next-generation firewalls (NGFW), unified threat management (UTM), and more. Best Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Amazon Web Services.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Ransomware via Brute Force Attacks Researchers at F-Secure have found that in 2019, brute force attacks became one of the most preferred means of spreading ransomware. Malicious Apps statistic for 2019: As you can see, G Suite Marketplace has become a place where useful applications coexist with tons of fake malicious apps.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Attackers also use to exploit the Kentico Content Management System (CVE-2019-10068) and used SQLmap to bypass Web Application Firewalls. . The threat actors also heavily leverage VPNs services such as Private Internet Access, Atlas VPN, TiKNet VPN, VPN Master Lite, and CyberGhost.

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