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VPN Test: How to check if your VPN is working or not

Malwarebytes

The primary function of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is to enhance your online privacy and security. Performing a VPN test or two can help you ensure that it’s up to the mark. VPN privacy test. In particular it stops them looking at your DNS traffic, which can reveal which websites you’re visiting.

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Bing ad for NordVPN leads to SecTopRAT

Malwarebytes

Most of the malicious search ads we have seen have originated from Google, but threat actors are also abusing other search engines. In this blog post, we look at a very recent malvertising campaign impersonating the popular VPN software NordVPN. This is true here as well, where we have a redirect to besthord-vpn[.]com

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Future Focused: A Safer Way to Expose Private Server Names

Cisco Security

Shrink the DNS attack surface with Auth-DoH. In this analogy, the invisibility superpower is DNS over HTTPS (DoH). It’s a new protocol that encrypts the DNS request to keep bad actors from discovering or altering domain names or snooping on users’ internet destinations. My inspiration: Loki , the Marvel superhero.) The problem?

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Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

Krebs on Security

In the case of e-hawk.net, however, the scammers managed to trick an OpenProvider customer service rep into transferring the domain to another registrar with a fairly lame social engineering ruse — and without triggering any verification to the real owners of the domain. ” REGISTRY LOCK.

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New Duo Feature Lets Users Skip the VPN Hassle

Duo's Security Blog

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) feature for the Duo Network Gateway prompts users to authenticate only when necessary, instead of first having them try and fail, forcing them to try again after logging into the company’s virtual private network (VPN). For instance, if the company name is “Example, Inc.”

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VulnRecap 2/19/2024: News from Microsoft, Zoom, SolarWinds

eSecurity Planet

Appliances with affected software must have Anyconnect SSL VPN enabled on whichever interface is exposed to the internet for an attack to occur. February 19, 2024 ExpressVPN Split Tunneling Disabled after Discovered Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: DNS traffic leak. Changing passwords, secrets, and pre-shared keys.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

“This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. “Our security team investigated and confirmed threat actor activity, including social engineering of a limited number of GoDaddy employees. ” In the early morning hours of Nov. and 11:00 p.m.