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VulnRecap 1/16/24 – Major Firewall Issues Persist

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The problem: Ivanti announced two vulnerabilities that affect Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Ivanti Policy Secure products. The problem: Technology company Bosch has a thermostat, the BCC100, that’s vulnerable to firmware replacement from a threat actor. versions earlier than 21.2R3-S7 Junos OS 21.3 Versions 9.x

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VulnRecap 1/22/24 – Watch Chrome, Ivanti, Citrix Issues

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The problem: The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification has an open-source network implementation, EDK II, with nine discovered vulnerabilities. To exploit CVE-2023-6549, an attacker must find an appliance that’s configured as a gateway, such as a VPN virtual server, or it must be configured as an AAA virtual server.

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How To Set Up a Firewall in 8 Easy Steps + Best Practices

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Set Secure Firewall Rules & ACLs To prevent unwanted access and ensure effective traffic management, secure your firewall through updating firmware to resolve vulnerabilities and adopting proper configurations prior to installing firewalls in production. Sample Windows Defender Firewall prompts for firewall activation 2.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – Sept. 11, 2023 – Android Update Fixes 33 Vulnerabilities

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Network security is another big theme this week: Whether it’s a VPN connection or an enterprise-grade networking platform, patch management solutions typically won’t update network devices, so admins may need to keep an eye on any flaws there too. of the Atlas VPN Linux client. via port 8076. version of Superset.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

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Risk assessments and gap analysis of existing security controls provide strategic and technical evaluations of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy to determine if critical assets are sufficiently protected. and installed software (operating systems, applications, firmware, etc.). assets (endpoints, servers, IoT, routers, etc.),

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Barracuda SecureEdge SASE Review 2023

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These one, three, and five year subscriptions provide enhanced support for the hardware, firmware maintenance, security updates, and optional participation in early-release firmware updates. SecureEdge Support For the appliances, the primary source of support will be the required Energize Updates subscriptions.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

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Most organizations use one of the AES algorithms for file encryption, full-disk encryption, application encryption, wifi transmission encryption, virtual public network (VPN) encryption, and encrypted protocols such as transport layer security (TLS). This article was originally written by Sam Ingalls and published on May 26, 2022.