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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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Everyday Threat Modeling

Daniel Miessler

Think about how irresponsible you’d feel if that thing happened, and perhaps stress less about it if it would be considered a freak event. Example 2: Using a VPN. A lot of people are confused about VPNs. If you log in at the end website you’ve identified yourself to them, regardless of VPN. This is true.

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NordLayer Review: A VPN for the Zero Trust Era

eSecurity Planet

However, many of these VPN solutions have three significant issues. First, VPNs can be difficult to set up, secure and maintain. Second, VPNs do not scale well and can become congested. Users might decide to bypass the hassle of VPNs and access those cloud resources directly without any additional security protection.

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Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3

Cisco Security

now includes groups of rules mapped to the MITRE framework so that customers can both deploy explicit protections and see events mapped to those known attackers’ tactics and techniques. Additionally, the reporting and eventing capabilities have been enhanced to show any events that map to specific tactics as described by MITRE.

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VulnRecap 2/19/2024: News from Microsoft, Zoom, SolarWinds

eSecurity Planet

The problem: Microsoft patched 73 vulnerabilities in its most recent Patch Tuesday event, which occurs every month. Appliances with affected software must have Anyconnect SSL VPN enabled on whichever interface is exposed to the internet for an attack to occur. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-3259 , was first discovered in May 2020.

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How to Prevent DDoS Attacks: 5 Steps for DDoS Prevention

eSecurity Planet

DNS servers can be specifically targeted by attackers and vulnerable to various types of attacks. If the organization does not use it, UDP access to port 53 (DNS) should be blocked. For more information, see How to Prevent DNS Attacks. Steps to take in the event of a DDoS. Anti-DDoS Architecture. Isolate targets.

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Defending Against Misconfigured MFA & PrintNightmare Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

They then authenticated to the victim’s VPN to initiate a remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection to the domain controllers. This unfortunate turn of events shows how adversaries can quickly sneak into a system and exploit vulnerabilities to escalate privileges and compromise the whole network. Security Best Practices.

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