Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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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. One new approach that is showing a lot of promise cropped up in late 2019. Incapsula was acquired by web application firewall vendor Imperva. Connectivity was relatively uncomplicated. Today, connectively is a convoluted mess.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

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 for no other reason than existing technologies being depreciated – but that continues to be a slow process. Needless to say, the rollout was not perfect).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In SiteLock’s 2019 Website Security Report , we analyzed 6 million websites in our sample data to determine the most prevalent cyber threats websites face today. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors. However, those aren’t the only ways to gain unauthorized access to database content.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China. A marketing slide deck promoting i-SOON’s Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) capabilities.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies. A statement from the U.S.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 6, 2021

respondents indicated that digital attacks had become more sophisticated between mid-2019 and July of the following year. Many organizations today need to integrate their technologies so that their data doesn’t exist in silos. Secure Orchestration Workflow Spotlight: “Firewall Impact Red”. Growing Focus on Security Integrations.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and industry consortiums that identify and blacklist IP addresses and web page URLs that are obviously being used maliciously; and hundreds more independent white hat hackers are doing much the same.

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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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Cisco Security

MARCH 7, 2022

Technology advances are meant to improve our lives, from better protection to faster connections to simplifying and streamlining processes for better efficiency. SSE was listed as one of Gartner’s “ 4 Must-Have Technologies That Made the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, 2021.” And now, Security Service Edge, or SSE.

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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). Checkpoint.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2021

The flaw was disclosed by Citrix in December 2019, the experts explained that it could be exploited by attackers to access company networks. The CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability was discovered by Mikhail Klyuchnikov from Positive Technologies. .” states the report published by Office of Inspector General.

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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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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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. At the same time, a tectonic shift to smarter technologies and strategies is rapidly taking shape. Much has changed; much has remained the same.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. Such bona fides led to the inaugural private “by invitation” Global Cyber Innovation Summit (GCIS) in Baltimore in May 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Imperva shared details on the incident it has recently suffered and how hackers obtain data on Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) customers. In August, cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. I had the chance to visit with Trevor Daughney, Exabeam’s vice president of product marketing at RSA 2019. Exabeam is a bold upstart in the SIEM space.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2019

Paige Thompson, a former Seattle technology company software engineer that goes online with the handle “erratic,” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to the huge trove of personal information. District Court in Seattle on September 5, 2019. Law enforcement identified and arrested the hacker. District Court in Seattle.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019 and had a wide ranging discussion about the complex challenges companies face meeting their end of the security burden, while using cloud services. Myriad entry points Data moving to and from the cloud also gets inspected, using data loss prevention (DLP) technology to help enforce policies, he added.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As Technology Audit Director at Cisco, Jacob Bolotin focuses on assessing Cisco’s technology, business, and strategic risk. Bolotin champions the continued advancement of the technology audit profession and received a master’s degree in cybersecurity from the University of California Berkeley. Working It Out in a Working Group.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

Yes, the rapid integration of digital technologies into all aspects of commerce has enabled wonderful new services. I had the chance to sit down at RSA 2019 with ExtraHop Networks , a Seattle-based supplier of NTA systems. The underlying principle of NTA technology is simple and straight forward. But velocity cuts two ways.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The list of tools and features included with InsightIDR include: User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) Endpoint detection and response (EDR) Network traffic analysis (NDR) Centralized log management Automated policy capabilities Visual investigation timeline Deception technology File integrity monitoring (FIM). Rapid7 Competitors.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2019 Executive Opinion Survey , it’s cyberattacks. When reflecting on 2019, it’s clear why that is. Below, I’ll recap notable incidents from 2019, expand upon their commonalities, and explore a few lessons to learn as we enter a new year. What keeps executives up at night?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Tech consultancy IDC tells us that global spending on security hardware, software and services is on course to top $103 billion in 2019, up 9.4 One security vendor that happens to focus on this activity is Virsec , a San Jose-based supplier of advanced application security and memory protection technologies. percent from 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology stack that first entered the cybersecurity lexicon about six years ago. I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. And this inspired him to co-found LogicHub. But that hasn’t been enough.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

“A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for an intrusion on the stored data of Capital One Financial Corporation, announced U.S. District Court in Seattle today and was ordered detained pending a hearing on August 1, 2019.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the Vega RaaS, dubbed Zeppelin. The group uses multiple attack vectors to gain access to victim networks, including RDP exploitation, SonicWall firewall vulnerabilities exploitation, and phishing attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2019

I had an evocative discussion at Black Hat USA 2019 with Andy Byron, president of Lacework, a Mountain View, CA-based start-up that has raised $32 million in venture capital to help companies address these conflicting imperatives. Redis underscores the pervasiveness of fresh attack vectors in modern tech stacks.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

Traditional networking either causes operations bottlenecks by forcing all traffic to route through centralized firewalls or exposes remote assets and cloud resources to attack. SASE vendors provide points of presence (PoPs) worldwide using the cloud or SD-WAN technology. What Are the SASE Benefits?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Our most recent cybersecurity research is now available in the “ Cybersecurity Trends in 2019: Protecting Websites in the Age of Stealth Attacks ” report. This is one of many lessons from 2018 that will apply throughout 2019. Cybersecurity Takeaways for 2019. Block malicious incoming traffic using a website application firewall.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The Cyclops Blink malware has been active since at least June 2019, it targets WatchGuard Firebox and other Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network devices.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We met at Black Hat USA 2019 , where Baffin Bay touted its cloud-first, full-stack suite of threat protection services. Baffin Bay, which supplies its technology to partner MSSPs, is part of this shift. For a full drill down on our conversation, give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The Cyclops Blink malware has been active since at least June 2019, it targets WatchGuard Firebox and other Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network devices. According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected roughly 1% of all active WatchGuard firewall appliances. ” reads the advisory published by TrendMicro.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

The firewall emerged as the cornerstone around which companies were encouraged to pursue a so-called defense-in-depth strategy. Intrusion detection, intrusion prevention and sandboxing technologies got bolted onto the firewall. Anti-virus suites morphed into endpoint detection systems. SASE fundamentals.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. Bandura Cyber is a 6-year-old supplier of threat intelligence gateway technologies. Bandura Cyber complements existing firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems.

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