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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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cisco Security was honored to be a sponsor of the 24th Black Hat USA 2021 Conference – the internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the security community with the latest cutting-edge research, developments and training. In addition, Matt personally prefers the newer MFA system than the age-old firewall system.

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ZoneAlarm

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228, also known as Log4Shell or LogJam) in the Java-based logging utility Log4j has caused widespread panic on the internet as security experts rushed to patch the flaw. Due to … The post Log4j Zero-Day Flaw: Update on the High-Profile Security Vulnerability appeared first on ZoneAlarm Security Blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2022

CVE Number Affected devices CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 Log4J RCE CVE-2022-1388 F5 BIG IP RCE No CVE (vulnerability published on 2022-02) Adobe ColdFusion 11 RCE CVE-2020-7961 Liferay Portal – Java Unmarshalling via JSONWS RCE No CVE (vulnerability published on 2022-04) PHP Scriptcase 9.7 LFI CVE-2018-16763 Fuel CMS 1.4.1

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. As every computer security professional knows, if anything is on the Internet, it’s subject to increasingly sophisticated attacks. All APIs should use the TLS v1.2 (or

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure. In order to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 12, 2021

Firefox recently announced that it will be rolling out DNS-over-HTTPS (or DoH) soon to one percent of its Canadian users as part of its partnership with CIRA (the Canadian Internet Registration Authority), the Ontario-based organization responsible for managing the.ca Source: Mozilla Blog). ” The downside of encrypting DNS.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

CVE-2021-33543 Missing authentication: allows unauthenticated remote access to sensitive files due to default user authentication settings. CVE-2021-33544 RCE: the affected product is vulnerable to command injection, which may allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code. Impact of the vulnerabilities.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

But as soon as the Chinese government became aware of political discussions on the app, it was abruptly blocked by the country’s online censors, on Monday February 8, 2021. An investigation by the Stanford Internet Observatory found that some of the back-end infrastructure for the Clubhouse App was provided by Agora.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

million in 2021, according to IBM. The vulnerabilities of internet security, once mostly a nuisance, have become dangerous and costly. Cybersecurity has never felt more porous. You are no doubt aware of the grim statistics: •The average cost of a data breach rose year-over-year from $3.86 million to $4.24

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 14, 2021

This blog post is divided into four parts: Introduction : provides an overview of what happened. From at least last Thursday, 10th of June 2021, multiple users report on Twitter that they got hacked after being approached to create new digital art. arielbeckerart) June 10, 2021. . FVCKRENDER (@fvckrender) June 11, 2021. .

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In this blog, we take a deeper dive into cloud security topics from these predictions focusing on the targeting of API services and apps exploitation of containers in 2022. Recent statistics suggest that more than 80% of all internet traffic belongs to API-based services. Internet of Things – More than 30.9 billion by 2026.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The bug, tracked as CVE-2021-44228 , is a zero-day vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) that could give attacks control of the systems the software is running in. Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2021. Also read: Best Patch Management Software for 2021. ” The Logj4 tweet.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. However, when revisiting these metrics, we noticed that this changed in the beginning of 2021. For information on the methodology behind this chart, please see the end of the Threat Trends blog.).

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Cisco Security

MARCH 16, 2021

Hiding internet activity strengthens privacy—but also makes it easier for bad actors to infiltrate the network. In this blog I’ll describe two recent privacy advances—DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and QUIC—and what we’re doing to maintain visibility. Privacy suffers when people can snoop on your internet activity and sell your data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

Tue, 05/04/2021 - 09:40. Take for example, if you are asked to calculate the factors of the current year “2021”, you may do this by dividing 2021 with 2, then 3, … until you reach the number 43, which gives you the result of 43 x 47 = 2021. Data Firewall. Internet Of Things. Threat or Opportunity?

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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. In October 2021 the popular UA-parser.js a trusted vendor.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

What unfolded in the immediate wake of the SolarWinds disclosure serves as a vivid example of a trend that’s getting a lot of buzz at RSA Conference 2021 : the convergence of TIP, SOAR and EDR technologies. 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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McAfee

JULY 29, 2021

Architected for the cloud-first and remote-first deployments, MVISION Cloud Firewall secures access to applications and resources on the internet, accessed from every remote site and location, through a cloud-native service model. Wherever networks went, firewalls followed.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

Our Threat Trends blog series takes a look at the activity that we see in the threat landscape and reports on those trends. The fact is that different threat types require varying amounts of internet connectivity in order to carry out their malicious activities. Organizations and malicious DNS activity. Preventing successful attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

In November 2021, AT&T Alien Labs™ first published research on our discovery of new malware written in the open-source programming language Golang. In our November 2021 research article, Alien Labs first described its findings about the new BotenaGo malware along with technical details. Executive summary. Recommended actions.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021. Internet service providers should be much clearer about how many customers are using outdated routers and encourage people to update devices that pose security risks ".

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

DataTribe and AllegisCyber Capital have been on the ground floor of bringing the CyberPort vision to life and will be among the anchor tenants (with another 40-plus cyber companies) when the new campus is ready for occupancy in early 2021. million unfilled cybersecurity positions globally by 2021 – up from 1 million in 2014.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 11, 2021

Our Threat Trends blog series takes a look at the activity that we see in the threat landscape and reports on those trends. The fact is that different threat types require varying amounts of internet connectivity in order to carry out their malicious activities. Organizations and malicious DNS activity. Preventing successful attacks.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 1, 2021

CVE-2021-20322: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “it was DNS again.” PAN GlobalProtect VPN: CVE-2021-3064 . Palo Alto Networks (PAN) firewalls that use its GlobalProtect Portal VPN running PAN-OS versions older than 8.1.17 Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief . Why am I here? . What is it? .

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Kali Linux

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In Secure Kali Pi (2022) , the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. If you are only interested in using the Raspberry Pi as a Wi-Fi client, you can stop here, and unmount everything like we did in our secure Kali Pi blog post. hcd usr/lib/firmware/brcm/BCM-0bb4-0306.hcd

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

About 10 malicious servers have been searching the internet for vulnerable systems, and while the search began slowing, it has now ramped up to more than 100 sites by morning, Recorded Future noted , citing information from threat intelligence vendor GreyNoise. thousands of Azure customers and millions of endpoints are impacted by the flaws.

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Fox IT

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One year ago, Fox-IT and NCC Group released their blogpost detailing findings on detecting & responding to exploitation of CVE-2021-44228, better known as ‘Log4Shell’. Thus, in the first part of this blog we will look back at how our own Security Operations Center (SOC) tackled the problem in the initial days of the ‘code red’.

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Google Security

JULY 27, 2023

Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ] and builds off of the mid-year 2022 review. More than 20% are variants of previous in-the-wild 0-days from 2021 and 2020. Bug collisions are high.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “Based on the analysis of the available data, the entire network of Lord & Taylor and 83 Saks Fifth Avenue locations have been compromised,” the firm wrote in a blog post examining the breach. The post Point-of-Sale (POS) Security Measures for 2021 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. Evolving threats.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Riccardi engagingly chronicles how company leaders raced down the path of Internet-centric operations, and then cloud-centric operations, paying far too little attention to unintended data security consequences. 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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Cisco Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Consider how attackers exploit internet-facing applications. Protects application communications without additional firewalls or proxies. Check out this great blog by Sujata Ramamoorthy , Senior Director of Security Engineering in our Security & Trust Organization. Missed any of our earlier blogs?

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. While Verizon even admits in the 2021 DBIR that they’re not entirely sure why email is still such a big thing, but it does serve its purposes.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

Analyzing data from more than 200 billion daily transactions last year, the 2022 report found that: Phishing attacks rose 29% in 2021 compared to 2020, driven by multiple trends: COVID-19 and work-from-home: Consumers engaged in more activities online, giving attackers new ways to take advantage.

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Security Through Education

JUNE 22, 2021

According to NOCA (National Council on Aging) these are the top ten financial scams targeting the elderly as of February 2021. As more people use the Internet for dating, con artists see an opportunity to find their next victim. Internet and email fraud. Sadly, not everyone goes to the police. Not The Oldest Tricks in the Book.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

Out of the 25 best practices we analyzed in our 2021 Security Outcomes Study , it was found that proactively refreshing technology had the strongest effect on improving overall defenses. Cloud & web security – Protect users from ransomware and other malware while they’re on the Internet or using cloud applications. Twitter.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. In 2020, when much of life shifted online, internet resources repeatedly suffered from surges in totally legitimate activity. What Q1 2021 will bring is hard to say.

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