Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Alloy Taurus is known for leveraging the SoftEther VPN service to facilitate access and maintain persistence to their targeted network. Experts added that the IP 196.216.136[.]139 139 resolved to vpn729380678.softether[.]net softether[.]net net from late December 2022 through mid-February 2023.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2020

A new company has been added to the list of the victims of the Netwalker ransomware operators, it is Forsee Power , which provides advanced lithium-ion battery systems for any mobility application. Consider installing and using a VPN. Install and regularly update anti-virus or anti-malware software on all hosts.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you reuse passwords, you only need one of your cloud services to be breached—once criminals have stolen your credentials through one service, they potentially have access to every account that shares those same credentials, including banking platforms, email and other services where sensitive data is stored.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

So we listened when customers pointed out the weaknesses in the Duo Push – the notification Duo Mobile users approve when they want to log into protected accounts. They receive a second notification and assume it's simply their VPN (Virtual Private Network) at home reconnecting and accept the push.

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McAfee

MARCH 20, 2020

The internet is accessed directly , without a VPN. Most VPN deployments aren’t ready to scale to an entire workforce routing traffic through them. Slowdowns and outages can cause users to turn off their VPN. The post How McAfee Can Help You Scale Security to Employees Working from Home appeared first on McAfee Blogs.

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McAfee

MAY 10, 2021

Protecting laptops and mobile devices for travel become extra important when using public, airport, and public Wi-Fi, as those networks can expose people to more threats than their home networks. . Look into using a virtual private network (VPN). and on top of the latest consumer and mobile security threats, follow?

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

In our last Universal Prompt blog we focused on a few of the security benefits that using it provides. In this blog we’ll get into more of the user experience benefits. Users can add additional verification methods, manage their existing devices, or reactivate Duo Mobile for Duo Push from the Universal Prompt. at the AA level.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In a previous blog post ( [link] ) we explored the relationship between GPDR and applications in the cloud. In other words, users were accessing company data either physically on site, or through a dedicated network or VPN. You arrive to work and check your O365 email account. Second is to manage risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. In perimeter-based models, the system will trust user credentials if they are, say, logged in to the corporate VPN or if they are using a pre-registered device. This number would receive a code via text as an additional verification step when logging into the account.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Bad Packets warns of over 14,500 Pulse secure VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510. White hat hacker demonstrated how to hack a million Instagram accounts.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Keep your online accounts secure. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Help telecommuting employees : Given the rise of mobile and the cloud, organizations would do themselves a great disservice if they exclude telecommuting employees from their security training programs. That includes setting up a VPN through which remote employees can access work assets. Employ Device Encryption.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. With Duo, the University team stood up integrations within days instead of the predicted weeks or months , protecting their apps and VPN. What is phishing?

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

In a blog post published Mar. Our investigation has found a single account had been compromised, granting limited access. “WhiteDoxbin” offering to pay $20,000 a week to corrupt employees at major mobile providers. “No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

Often, you'll see this pattern play out ad nauseam as the organisation involved takes the shotgun approach of blasting their message out over and over again: When you look for a VPN, you really want to be confident they're responsible, ethical and behave in a professional manner.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. 25, 2019, when security firm CrowdStrike published a blog post listing virtually every Internet address known to be (ab)used by the espionage campaign to date. That changed on Jan. Contacted on Feb.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Microsoft blogged about its attack at the hands of LAPSUS$, and about the group targeting its customers. The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2019

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab estimated that by the time the program ceased operations, GandCrab accounted for up to half of the global ransomware market. ” Dedserver also heavily promoted a virtual private networking (VPN) service called vpn-service[.]us Vpn-service[.]us HEAVY METALL.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 13, 2024

million ATO attacks against their customers -The SolarWinds attack that compromised victim’s Microsoft365 accounts hit 100 companies and 9 US Federal Agencies. But there is one simple solution to drastically reduce the risk of account take-over: enable Multi-Factor Authentication. Even the one without mobile phones?

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

These days, users connect to company resources through a variety of endpoints: desktops, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, wearables…the list goes on. In the Apple or Google ecosystems, they can seamlessly be shared between devices logging into the same iCloud or Google account respectively. That’s where passkeys come in.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If someone obtains the thing that you know then it's (probably) game over and they have access to your account. That's not to say that this model is "bad" and by any reasonable definition, it's a massive improvement over 1FA that would prevent the vast majority of account takeover attacks I see today.

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Hackology

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Current Netflix Password-sharing Policy Netflix only allows account sharing under a single, physical household. In simple terms, Netflix will only allow sharing your account with those who stream from the same internet as yours (the main account), preferably your family members. What is a Single Physical Household?

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

now mandates that multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be used for all accounts that have access to the cardholder data, not just administrators accessing the cardholder data environment (CDE). Passwords for accounts used by applications and systems must be changed at least every 12 months and upon suspicion of compromise.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

This blog post was originally created by Jeremy Rasmussan, Chief Technology Officer at Abacode. Read the original blog here. . RDP client software is available for most flavors of Windows (including Windows Mobile), Linux, Unix, macOS, iOS, Android, and other operating systems. Once is a fluke. Twice a pattern.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

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BH Consulting

JUNE 20, 2023

One may know what the term VPN means, but what about when a VPN should be used and more importantly – not used, and what are the risks of using a VPN versus the benefits. For the purpose of this blog – we are going to use the term information security to mean both cyber and information security.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Do you remember all the passwords to your various accounts and profiles? Our passwords are the gatekeepers to our digital lives, from online banking and shopping accounts to social media platforms, a significant portion of our online accessibility is determined by the strength (and memorability) of our passwords.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

That service, too, accounts for a fairly large share of DNT detections across the world. The Middle East (8.04%), South Asia (7.79%), Africa (5.97%), and Latin America (5.02%) again accounted for the highest shares of detections. Google Marketing Platform (ex-DoubleClick) accounted for 11.76%. The Middle East.

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Duo's Security Blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

based and mobile-first OpenID Connect (OIDC) applications. To enable and secure remote access , SSO should also allow your users to access on-premises websites, web applications, SSH servers, RDP and SMB/file server hosts without having to worry about managing VPN credentials.

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McAfee

JULY 29, 2021

Avoiding traffic backhauls from remote sites to centralized firewalls through expensive VPN and MPLS lines reduces the deployment costs. For example, most NGFWs can permit or block user traffic based on the configured rule set, such as permitting accounting users to access files uploaded on a Teams site.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Blocking legitimate users is part of that problem, blocking users wanting to protect their traffic with a VPN is another: This has been there for the past year now. They also blacklist vpn IP addresses. Much of what I'm going to cover in the remainder of this blog post will focus on the site at uidai.gov.in

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

For mobile authenticators, confirm if there is any per-device cost for soft tokens, or if an unlimited number of enrolled devices is permitted for each user license. Token-related helpdesk tickets can account for 25% of the IT support workload. Authenticators Will you need to purchase hardware authentication devices?

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McAfee

AUGUST 23, 2020

However, digital transformation projects including cloud migration and ubiquitous mobile access have revealed architectural cracks, and many companies have seen the dam burst with the explosion in remote access demand in recent months. While this approach sufficed for years, digital transformation has created major challenges.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2021

To make matters worse, most SaaS offerings with thick software clients or mobile device apps deploy techniques like mutual certificate authentication (mTLS), which make transit decryption completely impossible. If that external collector is an edge firewall, NVM can provide it with all kinds of contextual flow data in near-real time.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 28, 2018

All too often businesses assign more permissions or system rights to user accounts than the accounts need to have. User accounts need to have appropriate permissions to only the resources they should have access to. User accounts need to have appropriate permissions to only the resources they should have access to.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2020

To Zoom’s credit, password protection and a “waiting room” feature, which allows the host to control when a participant joins the meeting, are the default settings for its free and single license paid accounts. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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