eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This week, the following active exploits of vulnerabilities were announced: Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) group exploits January 2023 vulnerabilities in Fortinet firewalls and ManageEngine software to perform remote code execution (RCE) on U.S. The fix: Apply patches to update the relevant Adobe products.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cisco+ Secure Connect Platform Cisco+ Secure Connect strives to provide a turnkey SASE solution for a variety of needs.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks started as a firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) company and focuses on the convergence of security, networks, and the cloud. Cato SASE Cloud Cato SASE Cloud provides a cloud-native solution for SASE that is fast to deploy, simple to manage, and capable of improving security and performance.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Collectively, these episodes highlight the need for comprehensive cybersecurity defenses and timely patch management for risk mitigation. CVE-2023-3519 was used by the attackers to infect computers, including misleading PowerShell scripts, malware payloads within normal processes, and PHP web shells for remote control. are affected.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Here’s a roundup of the week’s major vulnerabilities that security teams should mitigate or patch. August 12 , 2023 Ford Auto’s TI Wi-Fi Vulnerability The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand and become a threat to connected businesses. Adobe also updated their Commerce and Dimension software.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The platform, previously called Versa Secure Access or Versa Secure Access Fabric, connects to both cloud and local resources with ease.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices. Subscribe The post Cloudflare One SASE Review & Features 2023 appeared first on eSecurity Planet. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

You can strengthen your cybersecurity defenses by using reliable antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and virtual private networks (VPNs). CVE-2023-6317 allows for the bypass of permission procedures, enabling unauthorized users to be added. CVE-2023-6318 permits privilege escalation to get root access.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Palo Alto is a top cybersecurity company that pioneered firewall technology and continues to focus on market leadership. Prisma SASE Palo Alto’s Prisma SASE solution is the only company recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

An old Microsoft Windows spooler flaw is added to the CISA KEV list, and the Cactus Ransomware gang currently pursues unfixed Qlik Sense servers with a vulnerability patched in September 2023. Only after additional testing in May 2023 did Brocade accept the vulnerabilities existed, but did not issue patches until December 2023.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

September 2, 2024 RansomHub Exploits Multiple Vulnerabilities to Attack Critical Sectors Type of vulnerability: Multiple security flaws from major organizations. The problem: CVE-2024-40766 is a serious access control vulnerability that affects SonicWall Firewall Gen 5, Gen 6, and Gen 7 devices (CVSS v3 score: 9.3). 13o or 6.5.4.15-116n

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Beyond these daily handlers, ISC benefits from other users who willingly share performance data from their firewalls and intrusion detection systems. Subscribe The post 6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. The Internet Storm Center manages to differentiate itself in several ways.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This code exists in all software that uses Secure Boot, like SUSE, Red Hat, and Debian. The RCE vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-40547 and has a severity rating of 8.3. Orca Security published a blog post about the vulnerabilities — its researchers discovered and reported the issues in Fall 2023, and Microsoft quickly patched them.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Several major companies identified and addressed significant security and vulnerability problems in last week’s vulnerability news. SonicWall dealt with a serious access control vulnerability that affected its firewall systems. This flaw has the potential to bring down the firewall or grant unauthorized access to resources.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. Sophos: Noted that 43% of all 2023 malware signature updates are for stealers, spyware, and keyloggers often used to steal credentials from devices.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

CVE-2023-6548 is a remote code execution vulnerability for an authenticated user, and CVE-2023-6549 is a denial-of-service vulnerability. To exploit CVE-2023-6548, an attacker must have access to NSIP, CLIP, or SNIP and also have management interface access. There’s evidence that it’s been exploited in the wild.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

Implementing SASE Bottom Line: Implement SASE to Improve Security and Operations What Problem Does SASE Solve? Traditional networking either causes operations bottlenecks by forcing all traffic to route through centralized firewalls or exposes remote assets and cloud resources to attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2000, Fortinet began producing physical firewall appliances and soon expanded into other security categories. Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports. These priority maintenance requirements should also be extended to other security solutions that protect DNS servers such as firewalls and antivirus applications. Hide the primary DNS server from public access through network isolation and firewall configuration.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

Most Compromises Exploit Unmanaged Devices Microsoft’s fourth annual Digital Defense Report for 2023 reveals that 80% of all ransomware compromises come from unmanaged devices and that 60% of those attacks use remote encryption. As endpoint security improved, attackers realized that these security solutions only work in two conditions.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 9, 2024

Businesses need to know that pure prevention is in the past and, instead, automatically assume compromised security. Defense in depth and operational resiliency are the future for organizations that want to survive in the new world of cyber threats. Bad actors will always find a way to penetrate organizations if they want to.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 19, 2024

The problem: Cisco announced patches for 10 vulnerabilities (one critical, four high, five medium) affecting its IOS XR Software, SD-WAN vMaange, and Secure Client products. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-48788 , earns a critical CVSS score of 9.8

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Customers then can incorporate VMware SD-WAN Edge appliances (physical or virtual) and optional add-ons such as payment card industry (PCI) compliance packages, external gateways, enhanced firewall service, and dedicated hosted components.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 7, 2024

Data link layer: Uses VLANs and MAC filtering to regulate access and ensure secure communication between nodes. Network layer: Protects data in transit and ensures safe network paths by utilizing firewalls, VPNs , and secure routing protocols. These situations demonstrate how gaps in cloud security can cause severe disruptions.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Despite available patches, threat researcher Yutaka Sejiyama detected over 82,000 vulnerable firewalls exposed to the internet early the next week, but by the end of the week, Shadowserver estimated the number to be reduced to just over 22,000. A similar flaw disclosed last year to Microsoft, CVE-2023-36052 , earned a CVSS score of 8.6.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) also reveals that inside actors were responsible for 83% of 2022 data breaches. Use web application firewall (WAF): WAF screens requests based on IP addresses or HTTP headers, identifies code injection attempts, and defines response quotas. million records exposed.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As 2023 draws to an end and cybersecurity budgeting is nearly complete, it helps to consider the year’s events and try to predict next year’s trends. 2023 cybersecurity issues will continue: Weak IT fundamentals, poor cybersecurity awareness, and ransomware will still cause problems and make headlines.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption can also be found incorporated into a variety of network security and cloud security solutions, such as cloud access security brokers (CASB), next-generation firewalls (NGFW), password managers , virtual private networks (VPN), and web application firewalls (WAF).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Network Security Users are accountable for proper network segmentation, firewalls, and intrusion detection/prevention systems. Network security measures are taken care of by the PaaS provider, though users should implement secure coding practices.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud deployment model: Public , private , and hybrid deployments all have different configuration requirements; private clouds may demand more stringent security, affecting settings, whereas hybrid setups handle both on-premises and cloud configurations.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2024

Hide the origin web server’s IP and restrict access with a firewall. Monitor infrastructure continuously: Check system capacity, traffic, and essential infrastructure, such as firewalls, on a regular basis to discover irregularities.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In June 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published, alongside other security agencies, a guide on how to secure remote access software and listed other potential vulnerabilities created by these tools. This level of access can be problematic.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It was updated by Chad Kime on December 7, 2023. Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices. This article was originally written by Sam Ingalls and published on May 26, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2024

The fix: CocoaPods fixed these flaws and reset all user sessions since October 2023. These vulnerabilities, known as CVE-2023-2071 and CVE-2023-29464, enable remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and create DoS circumstances. To minimize risks, patch your systems as soon as possible.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 15, 2024

The problem: CVE-2023-27532 (CVSS score: 7.5) This resulted in defenses being disabled and ransomware being deployed, as demonstrated by the EstateRansomware group’s attack on a failover server using FortiGate SSL VPN and RDP connections. For admins, upgrade immediately to avoid exploitation attempts.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Employ Web Application Firewalls (WAF) Consider deploying a WAF for an additional layer of defense. See the top Web Application Firewalls Sanction Whitelisted Domains and IPs When feasible, configure your API to exclusively accept requests from trusted domains or specific IP ranges.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Passwords: A core element of authentication, passwords are the bane of security managers. According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , almost half of business data breaches were due to compromised credentials, many due to weak passwords. The staple tools for authenticating a user are the user name and password.

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