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Chinese national charged for hacking thousands of Sophos firewalls

Security Affairs

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. It was designed to download payloads intended to exfiltrate XG Firewall-resident data.

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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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Video: How Hackers Steal Your Cookies & How to Stop Them

eSecurity Planet

Transcript Cookie theft is a cyberattack where hackers exploit session data stored in cookies, like login credentials, to gain unauthorized access to your accounts. With stolen cookies, bad actors can commit identity theft, cause financial loss, and access your accounts. In this video, we’ll show you how to stay safe.

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International law enforcement operation dismantled RedLine and Meta infostealers

Security Affairs

. “Investigations into RedLine and Meta started after victims came forward and a security company notified authorities about possible servers in the Netherlands linked to the software. Change passwords : After malware removal, update passwords for key accounts (email, banking, work, social media) and enable two-factor authentication.

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Back to the Future of Firewall

Cisco Security

As a network and workload security strategy leader, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the good old network firewall. Spoiler alert: I’m not going to join the cool club of pronouncing the firewall dead. The two main problems for the firewall to overcome in all those new deployment scenarios are insertion and visibility.

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Simplify Network Security with Cisco Secure Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) on AWS

Cisco Security

With traditional firewalls, network security teams are charged with the heavy lifting of deploying new solutions. According to Gartner, by 2025, 30% of new deployments of distributed branch-office firewalls will switch to firewall-as-a-service, up from less than 10% in 2021. Introduction. Starting with version 7.1

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Cybersecurity Firm Imperva Discloses Breach

Krebs on Security

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Image: Imperva. ”