eSecurity Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Social engineering is a common technique that cybercriminals use to lure their victims into a false sense of security. As social engineering tactics become more advanced, it’s important to know how to identify them in the context of cybersecurity. Social engineering in cybersecurity attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Firewalls monitor and control incoming and outgoing traffic while also preventing unauthorized access. Overlapping rules may impair firewall efficiency or expose flaws that allow attackers to circumvent regulations. Choose a centralized platform that is interoperable with several firewall suppliers.

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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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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Let me tell you about possibly my favorite onsite social engineering team engagement I have ever done! So, before we start, what exactly is tribe mentality, and why is it important to social engineering ? So, before we start, what exactly is tribe mentality, and why is it important to social engineering ? What do you see?

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

During the investigation, we discovered a wider trend: a campaign of escalated social engineering tactics originally associated with the ransomware group “Black Basta.” There has been a significant rise in ransomware actors using social engineering techniques to gain unauthorized access to sensitive systems and data. What Happened?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Team82 researchers have disclosed an attack technique that bypasses industry-leading web application firewalls (WAFs) by appending JSON syntax to SQL injection payloads. The researchers used a WAF shortcoming against the firewalls: Lack of support for native JSON syntax. “This turned out to be JSON.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

The advisory placed much of the blame on Versa customers who “failed to implement system hardening and firewall guidelines…leaving a management port exposed on the internet that provided the threat actors with initial access.” Versa said the weakness allows attackers to upload a file of their choosing to vulnerable systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

Vincent (Vince) Moore, Senior Network Engineer at OPSWAT, has dabbled in the IT field since he took computer programming classes in high school (COBOL, Fortran, GWBASIC, and Pascal). He has extensive experience in routing and switching, network design, firewalls, cyber security, and data analysis. employees,?and

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The Cisco Secure Technical Alliance supports the open ecosystem and AWS is a valued technology alliance partner, with integrations across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX, Secure Firewall, Secure Cloud Analytics, Duo, Umbrella, Web Security Appliance, Secure Workload, Secure Endpoint, Identity Services Engine, and more.

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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. Some of the countermeasures that can be considered are CCTV, alarms, firewalls, exterior lighting, fences, and locks. The next implementation method is to develop countermeasures to avoid loss of assets.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2020

Case in point: unsecured webcams make up the top three out of the five most popular searches on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that specializes in identifying unsecure devices online. Consider setting up a firewall: One of the main ways that hackers find and access non-secure web cameras is by probing networks for points of entry.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Use company-approved/vetted devices and applications.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The TCU is designed as a stand-alone processor that will reside on a motherboard next to a CPU, GPU or other compute engine. Hardware with a TCU included will allow companies to pre-emptively detect threats and minimize the endless and often inadequate number of security patches they have been forced to choose for years.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 31, 2024

Developed by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, this open-source web application firewall (WAF) engine supports Apache, IIS, and Nginx. In the world of web application security, ModSecurity has long been a good choice against cyber threats.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

According to a source with direct knowledge of the breach investigation, the problem stemmed in part from a misconfigured open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) that Capital One was using as part of its operations hosted in the cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

LW: Why are suppliers of legacy firewall, vulnerability management and EDR solutions also now integrating SIEM capabilities? SOAR uses the output of detection engines and investigations and recommends workflows or playbooks to build a response plan, saving time and effort.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

That said, the next-generation firewall (NGFW) market — where we also list Palo Alto as a leader — has gotten tougher in recent years, with low-cost competitors like Versa Networks and Sangfor offering good firewalls at lower cost. It was also named a Leader in a Forrester Wave for Enterprise Firewalls.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Making hot desking secure and accessible on a global scale The first rule of interviewing a CISO at the Australian division of Laing O’Rourke is this: You can’t dig deep into use cases or cli… Read more on Cisco Blogs Laing O'Rourke used Cisco Secure Firewall and Identity Services Engine to deliver global, secure network access.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

— wei (@XiaoWei ) August 14, 2024 XiaoWei pointed out that blocking IPv6 on the local Windows firewall cannot prevent the exploitation of the issue because the vulnerability is triggered before it is processed by the firewall. No Yes RCE CVE-2024-38178 Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability Important 7.5

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2019

First commercially introduced in 2013, Cisco Trust Anchor module (TAm) is a proprietary hardware security module used in a wide range of Cisco products, including enterprise routers, switches and firewalls. TAm is the root of trust that underpins all other Cisco security and trustworthy computing mechanisms in these devices.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Ergo, something about this request triggered the firewall and caused it to be challenged. We saw an example of that earlier on with Stripe's request from their IP showing it triggered a firewall rule, but what we didn't see is the contents of that POST request, the actual payload that triggered the rule. Next rabbit hole!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

For instance, included in the Pastebin files from Orvis were plaintext usernames and passwords for just about every kind of online service or security product the company has used, including: -Antivirus engines. Multiple firewall products. Orvis says the exposure was inadvertent, and that many of the credentials were already expired.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

TL;DR Don’t wait for a breach to happen before you pursue social engineering testing. Get the most value out of your social engineering testing by asking the questions below to maximize results. These efforts build up to a proactive security strategy that’s needed to combat today’s persistent social engineering attacks.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

When the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) announced the TLS 1.3 Technology improvements will increase rates of adoption over time, such as Cisco Secure Firewall’s ability to decrypt and inspect encrypted traffic. Needless to say, the rollout was not perfect). We’d love to hear what you think. Cisco Secure Social Channels.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2021

“Guides for cheats will typically ask users to disable or uninstall antivirus software and host firewalls, disable kernel code signing, etc.” . “It is common practice when configuring a cheat program to run it the with the highest system privileges,” the report notes. ” Detailed report.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 12, 2023

SonicWall warned customers today to urgently patch multiple critical vulnerabilities impacting the company's Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network reporting engine software suites. [.]

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Investing in top-notch firewalls is also essential, as they serve as the first line of defense against external threats. Social engineering: These attacks exploit human error to gain unauthorized access to organizational systems. Strengthen authentication. The hackers then sell the information or use it themselves for financial gain.

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The Hacker News

JULY 12, 2023

SonicWall on Wednesday urged customers of Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network reporting engine software to apply the latest fixes to secure against a set of 15 security flaws that could be exploited by a threat actor to circumvent authentication and access sensitive information.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Cisco uniquely integrates security and networking, for instance we recently integrated Cisco Secure Firewall to operate on Cisco Catalyst 9000 Series switches. Additionally, Secure Firewall can be deployed in a containerized form, on-premises and in clouds.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By using CIS Benchmarks, network and security engineers can identify and harden configurations, and establish a more secure posture as suggested by the guidance. It breaks these guidelines into two sets of tasks: one for network engineers and another one for network defenders. x Benchmark v4.2.0 - Level 1 CIS Cisco IOS XE 16.x

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In some ways, CrowdSec mimics the behavior of a constantly-self-updating, massive, multi-party, and multi-network firewall. Like a classic network-layer firewall, CrowdSec allows administrators to configure all sorts of OSI Middle Level (i.e., Levels 3 Network and Level 4 Transport) rules. CrowdSec released version 1.0

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2022

Because traditional enterprise network security relies on static firewall rules that can only be updated in maintenance windows after a change approval process, securely developing and deploying applications in an automated way will not work in dynamic cloud environments where rules and policies are constantly in flux. Sivasankaran.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Locking down web gateways and erecting a robust firewall were considered the be-all and end-all. Kramer and Shatz envisioned providing a service that would function as a “global, single-pass networking and security engine in the cloud,” Greenfield added. “A Incapsula was acquired by web application firewall vendor Imperva.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2021

Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) provided a local, web-based interface to allow customers to manage Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls and the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility clients. The vulnerability affects ADSM software versions from releases ‘9.16.1 and earlier.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 31, 2024

billion Advancements have included everything from sandboxing and web applications firewalls (WAFs,) early on, to secure web gateways (SWGs) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDIs,) more recently. I recently visited with Uy Huynh , vice president of solutions engineering, at Dallas, Tex.-based Related: Island valued at $3.5

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Google’s Dataproc security issues could be exploited not just through the analytics engine but through Google Compute Engine, too. December 11, 2023 Sonar Finds Three Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Firewall pfSense Type of vulnerability: Cross-site scripting and command injection.

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