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ThousandEyes Pi4 Wireless Deployment at Black Hat USA

Cisco Security

A deployment guide for wireless ThousandEyes agents deployed to monitor the Black Hat 2023 conference by Adam Kilgore & Ryan MacLennan ThousandEyes (TE) Black Hat 2023 Deployment Guide This guide documents the setup and installation procedures used to deploy ThousandEyes at Black Hat 2023.

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. PASSIVE DNS.

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New DNS Spoofing Threat Puts Millions of Devices at Risk

eSecurity Planet

Security researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability that could lead to DNS spoofing attacks in two popular C standard libraries that provide functions for common DNS operations. Understanding DNS Spoofing Attacks. For example, when you enter [link] the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers.

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Some Zyxel devices can be hacked via DNS requests

Security Affairs

Experts at SEC Consult discovered several security issues in various Zyxel devices that allow to hack them via unauthenticated DNS requests. The first issue is an information disclosure flaw via unauthenticated external DNS requests that affect Zyxel devices from the USG, UAG, ATP, VPN and NXC series. Pierluigi Paganini.

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RSA Conference® 2022 Security Operations Center Findings Report

Cisco Security

The RSA Conference® SOC analyzes the Moscone Center wireless traffic, which is an open network during the week of the Conference. The RSAC SOC coordinated with the Moscone Center Network Operation Center for a SPAN of the network traffic from the Moscone Center wireless network. Domain Name Server (DNS). Voice over IP.

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Microsoft Buys Corp.com

Schneier on Security

A core part of the way these things find each other involves a Windows feature called " DNS name devolution ," which is a kind of network shorthand that makes it easier to find other computers or servers without having to specify a full, legitimate domain name for those resources.

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Cisco addressed high-severity flaws in IOS and IOS XE software

Security Affairs

CVE-2024-20303 (CVSS score 7.4) – A vulnerability in the multicast DNS (mDNS) gateway feature of IOS XE Software for Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs). An unauthenticated, remote attacker can trigger the flaw to cause an affected device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

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