SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

However, when improperly configured or left exposed to the internet, HMIs become prime targets for cyberattacks. According to Casey Ellis, Founder and Advisor at Bugcrowd, safety-critical control systems like HMIs "should never be on the Internet." Exposing HMI systems to the Internet can have serious consequences," Raju explains.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Malware is one of the biggest threats businesses face, and with nearly a third of all malware coming through the internet and email, businesses and consumers alike need ways to protect themselves. This guide covers the major categories of internet security suites and includes a few of the top options for each. Antivirus Software.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Zyxel addressed tens of vulnerabilities that expose users to cyber attacks, including command injection and authentication bypass. Taiwanese vendor Zyxel addressed tens of vulnerabilities in its firewalls and access points.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Limitations of traditional security measures While organizations typically rely on email filters, firewalls, and antivirus software, these solutions often fall short against AI-powered phishing attacks. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) : Enforce robust MFA protocols to add an extra layer of security.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Despite efforts by Columbus officials to thwart the attack by disconnecting the city’s systems from the internet, it became evident later that substantial data had been stolen and circulated on the dark web. Installing up-to-date firewalls , secure access controls, and intrusion detection systems is a must.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

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

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The two vulnerabilities are: CVE-2025-0108 Palo Alto PAN-OS Authentication Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2024-53704 SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN Improper Authentication Vulnerability Researchers recently warned that threat actors exploit a recently disclosed vulnerability, CVE-2025-0108, in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. Here are the key takeaways: Surprise packages.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

iLnkP2p is bundled with millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including security cameras and Webcams, baby monitors, smart doorbells, and digital video recorders. Upon connecting, most clients will immediately attempt to authenticate as an administrative user in plaintext, allowing an attacker to obtain the credentials to the device.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

Set-up 2-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication or two-step verification involves adding a step to add an extra layer of protection to accounts. A VPN encrypts all internet traffic so that it is unreadable to anyone who intercepts it. Set up firewalls. Firewalls help, but threats will inevitably get through.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

Keep an eye out for security announcements from your firewall vendors; it’s possible additional similar vulnerabilities will come to light. The problem: Juniper Networks released a bulletin about a remote code execution vulnerability in its SRX firewalls and EX switches. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-21591.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

A firewall policy is a set of rules and standards designed to control network traffic between an organization’s internal network and the internet. Featured Partners: Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) Software Learn more Table of Contents Toggle Free Firewall Policy Template What Are the Components of Firewall Policies?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A host-based firewall is installed directly on individual networked devices to filter network traffic on a single device by inspecting both incoming and outgoing data. How Host-Based Firewalls Work Organizations often adopt host-based firewalls for device-specific security control.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Lock things down Having a strict policy to protect your important assets with strong passwords and multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be a no-brainer. Use a firewall and VPN A firewall protects an entry point to a network while a VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between two networks.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Enable two-factor authentication on all critical accounts. don’t install software from random places on the internet. Everything. Setting up Google 2FA.

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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. A Safer Internet of Things. The post The Internet of Things Is Everywhere.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) If your staff can log on to the internet to access their emails, so can an attacker.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. ” warns Censys. bash_history).

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Researchers reported that there are 490,000 Fortinet firewalls exposing SSL VPN interfaces on the internet, and roughly 69% of them are still vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997. The researcher describes the issue as a reachable pre-authentication that impacts every SSL VPN appliance.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

XZ backdoor to bypass SSH authentication What happened? was used by tens of millions of websites approximately 4% of all sites on the internet which highlights the severity of the incident, whose full impact is yet to be determined. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? According to Cloudflare, Polyfill.io

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For decades, the cornerstone of IT security has been Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , a system that allows you to encrypt and sign data, issuing digital certificates that authenticate the identity of users. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. Support for DMARC To implement BIMI, companies must embrace DMARC , which stands for “domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance.” Another is S/MIME , which stands for “secure/multipurpose internet mail extensions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Fortinet has recently fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability in the management interface of FortiWeb firewall was discovered by Andrey Medov, from cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Tech company F5 has warned customers about a critical authentication bypass vulnerability impacting its BIG-IP product line that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. In general you can say that if the BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface is exposed to the internet, then the system in question is impacted.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. “This is reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance,” French vulnerability researcher Charles Fol tweeted.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

With a specific request that doesn’t require authentication an attacker is able to upload arbitrary files via J-Web, leading to a loss of integrity for a certain part of the file system, which may allow chaining to other vulnerabilities,” says Juniper. The Juniper firewalls use the Appweb web server.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

“Our Litigation Firewall isolates the infection and protects you from harm. Thousands of documents, emails, spreadsheets, images and the names tied to countless mobile phone numbers all could be viewed or downloaded without authentication from the domain theblacklist.click.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

The ransomware targets unpatched internet-facing servers, impacting systems across 70+ countries in sectors like critical infrastructure, health care, governments, education, technology, manufacturing, and small- to medium-sized businesses. This ensures that even if the VPN is compromised, attackers can’t move laterally.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whether it’s IoT (Internet of Things) devices, desktop applications, web applications native to the web browsers, or mobile applications – all these types of software rely on APIs in one way or another. WAF (Web Application Firewall) employs setting rules based on IP addresses, and monitoring traffics to block malicious IPs.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It was just a few short years ago that the tech sector, led by Google, Mozilla and Microsoft, commenced a big push to increase the use of HTTPS – and its underlying TLS authentication and encryption protocol. Related: Why Google’s HTTPS push is a good thing At the time, just 50 % of Internet traffic used encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2022

Most business applications, especially Microsoft Exchange were on-premise deployments that required a company either opening up access to the whole internet or requiring a VPN connection to the company’s perimeter firewall or dedicated VPN concentrator. Enterprises are likely Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, or Check Point.

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 15, 2025

I have been able to verify this dump is real, as devices in it are listed on Shodan and share the same unique serialnumbers: Dumped config with serial number, and Shodan internet scanning showing the same IP having the same serialnumber The dump is ordered by country. In other words, the data is authentic. Somebody just released them.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Palo Alto Networks warns customers to restrict access to their next-generation firewalls because of a potential RCE flaw in the PAN-OS management interface. Palo Alto Networks warns customers to limit access to their next-gen firewall management interface due to a potential remote code execution vulnerability in PAN-OS.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The vulnerabilities of internet security, once mostly a nuisance, have become dangerous and costly. Seeing the flaws continue year after year, the industry began linking authentication of valid software components to the underlying hardware, or the “root of trust”. . • The FBI reports that 3,000-4,000 cyberattacks are counted each day.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

. “Additionally, Visual Studio Code tunneling involves executables signed by Microsoft and Microsoft Azure network infrastructure, both of which are often not closely monitored and are typically allowed by application controls and firewall rules. This tactic also allowed them to bypass firewall restrictions and evade closer scrutiny.

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