eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis.

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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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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Morris Worm, ostensibly created to map the internet, ultimately brought down roughly 6000 systems. Early Internet. As the ARPANET evolved into the internet, connecting exponentially more computers throughout the world, malicious code likewise made advances. He was fined over $10,000 and sentenced to three years of probation.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

From the telemarketer’s perspective, the TCPA can present something of a legal minefield in certain situations, such as when a phone number belonging to someone who’d previously given consent gets reassigned to another subscriber. “Our Litigation Firewall isolates the infection and protects you from harm.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. This activity results in a rich matrix of overlapping threat feeds that, if all of the slices could somehow be combined, would present a heat map of an Internet throbbing with malicious traffic that unceasingly changes and steadily intensifies.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

The investigation revealed that the threat actor had been present in the organization’s on-premises network for about three years, aiming to maintain access for espionage purposes. One method used was exploiting a legacy F5 BIG-IP appliance exposed to the internet, which served as an internal Command and Control (C&C).

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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. Related: The shared burden of securing the Internet of Things. Company networks must support endless permutations of users and apps, both on-premises and in the Internet cloud. Fast forward to the 21 st Century’s third decade.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Ergo, something about this request triggered the firewall and caused it to be challenged. Cloudflare Payload Logging 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 Sometimes, people on the internet lose their minds a bit over things they really shouldn't. Looks like it's time to go down the next rabbit hole. Did I change anything?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's the right approach?

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SecureList

JUNE 28, 2021

This post offers a condensed version of his presentation alongside the video, which you can view below. Deployed publicly on the Internet, honeypots mimick real devices, and, in essence, function like traps for the attackers targeting such devices. What are honeypots? However, from our experience, these mechanisms might not be enough.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

The development of the Internet and the distributed processing of information over shared lines has certainly made security a necessary duty. Network communication on the Internet follows a layered approach, where each layer adds to the activity of the previous layer according to the TCP/IP implementation paradigm.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One question that SiteLock encounters quite often is “Why do I need a firewall when my host has one?” If you haven’t spent a good portion of your life researching firewalls, it’s easy to understand why you’d ask. In Part One below, we’re covering Network Firewalls. Part One: Firewalls -> Network Firewalls.

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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. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Astoundingly, some 68 percent of phishing attempts have never been seen before and phishing is 45 times more dangerous than having data exposed, according to research presented by Google and University of Florida professor Daniela Oliveira at Black Hat USA 2023. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Criminal hackers recognized the golden opportunity presented by hundreds of millions employees suddenly using a company VPN to work from home and remotely connect to an array of business apps. VPNs and RDP both enable remote access that can put an intruder deep inside the firewall. RPD presents a similar exposure.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

This requires a robust connection to the Internet (Lumen and Gigamon), firewall protection (Palo Alto Networks), segmented wireless network (Commscope Ruckus) and network full packet capture & forensics and SIEM (RSA NetWitness); with Cisco providing cloud-based security and intelligence support. From Russia With Love. urlscan.io.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Let us start with the abbreviations that define the categories of information security products: WAF stands for Web Application Firewall , NGFW stands for Next Generation Firewall. NGFW (or Next Generation Firewall) is an evolution of traditional firewalls and serves to delimit access between network segments.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2021

Since the vulnerable DNS clients are usually exposed to the internet this creates a huge attack surface. Basically, you could say DNS is the phonebook of the internet. FreeBSD is widely used in firewalls and several commercial network appliances. Together they are used by over 100 Million devices. Some background.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2019

In the past, for example, companies could get away with using a default password, and depend on firewalls and other internal security tools to provide protection. The cloud presents a dual risk. 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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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 1, 2022

This web server is present in Arris firmware which can be found in several router models. ISP customer premise equipment (CPE) often uses this web server, and ISP subscribers will typically get these routers in loan for telephony and Internet access. Various system and firewall logs. muhttpd web server. Path traversal.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from SentinelOne have discovered a critical vulnerability ( CVE-2021-45608 ) in KCodes NetUSB component that is present in millions of end-user routers from different vendors, including Netgear, TP-Link, Tenda, EDiMAX, D-Link, and Western Digital. ” reads the report.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

To defend its web applications, the bank chose to go with an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF), called ModSecurity, along with an open-source Apache web server. Twenty years ago it was deemed sufficient to erect a robust firewall and keep antivirus software updated. Hunting vulnerabilities. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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DoublePulsar

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These scenarios include the FortiManager on public internet while the FortiGate unit is behind NAT, FortiGate unit is on public internet while FortiManager is behind NAT, or both FortiManager and FortiGate unit have routable IP addresses. FortiManager is a product you sit centrally to manage a load of FortiGate firewalls.

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

A firewall with the right threat intelligence embedded could have blocked communications with the command-and-control server thus preventing a Trojanized Orion install from connecting back to the attackers and stopping them from furthering the attack. Outside of the corporate firewall, it is the Wild West.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

There are personal stashes of data breaches all over the place and they're usually presented like this one: You'll recognise many of those names because they're noteworthy incidents that received a bunch of press. Ashley Madison. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 22, 2024 It's like I've seen it all before!

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Firewall supplier Check Point Software Technologies has reported a massive surge in the registration of coronavirus-related domains, since Jan. Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

And that’s certainly borne itself out in the IoT report where you have a 62%, greater flaw density, observable flaw density and environments where they are operating IoT devices on the internet. Let’s say you had a printer operating on the internet. If you have that IoT device, what had to go wrong?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

By tapping into a data lake with its advanced analytics platform, Exabeam can make more and better correlations in real time and then “present the information in a fast and solid way so it can be analyzed,” she says. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

He added that “while being a man-in-the-middle is a frequently sought position for an attacker, when a company attains the same position, similar risks present themselves.”. Top Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors for 2021. Further reading: Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 12, 2022

Traditional networking and infrastructure solutions continue to pose challenges, as they may lack the necessary automation and visibility, present availability issues, and are limited in scalability. This helps lower costs and provides improved visibility and control over application delivery.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Augusto Barros, Vice President of Solutions at Securonix , presented at SecureWorld on the challenge of detecting threats in the cloud. But as Barros explained in his presentation at SecureWorld New England 2021, significant changes are underway. "The The challenge of detecting threats in the cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Definition, Threats & Protections Public Internet Threats If your enterprise network is connected to the public internet, every single threat on the internet can render your business vulnerable too. These threaten enterprise networks because malicious traffic from the internet can travel between networks.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The annual Black Hat conference, happening this week in Las Vegas, is renowned not only for its cutting-edge presentations and workshops but also for its robust cybersecurity measures that protect the large event from malicious threat actors. This includes firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and monitoring tools.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

It uses specific methods for each browser to exfiltrate the data stored in the target browsers: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge. The malware also plans to steal saved VPN/dial up credentials from the AppdataMicrosoftNetworkConnectionsPbkrasphone.pbk and Pbkrasphone.pbk phonebooks if present. Social media.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

CISA mentions that firewalls could have been used to neutralize the malware, limiting the impact of the breach. Does CISA agree that the SolarWinds malware could have been neutralized had victim agencies placed firewalls in front of the servers running SolarWinds Orion and configured them to block outgoing connections to the internet?".

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

An unauthenticated attacker could exploit the flaw to check whether a domain is present or not via the web login interface. The response will include the IP address of the host if the corresponding domain is present. “A SEC Consult researchers also published the PoC code for the vulnerability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

These developments have made the perimeter so porous that the old approach of simply hiding behind a firewall and keeping the rest of the world at bay is no longer feasible. However, this reconnaissance or dwell period also presents an opportunity to stop the malware before it has activated. So where do we go from here?

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