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Mitigating Dynamic Application Risks with Secure Firewall Application Detectors

Cisco Security

Tags – Predefined tags that provide additional information about the application. Example tags include webmail, SSL protocol, file sharing/transfer, and displays ads. An application can have zero, one, or more tags.

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Demystifying SSL and HTTPS: Why You Need This Simple Security Feature on Your Site

SiteLock

Recently, ServerPress released a huge update to their DesktopServer local development environment software: Native support for SSL and PHP7. Now, let’s take a closer look at SSL and HTTPS to understand why this was such an important feature to support, and why you should have HTTPS enabled on your website no matter your CMS or business case.

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China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations

Security Affairs

The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. Most of the compromised devices acted as ShadowPad C2 servers, most of them shared a unique SSL certificate spoofing Microsoft on port 443. ” reads the advisory published by Recorded Future.

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Ask a Security Pro: What Is Website Encryption?

SiteLock

Some of the questions I regularly field in these workshops are related to the mechanics of SSL certificates, and their role in protecting website data from prying eyes. HTTPS and SSL Certificates. Did you know that most HTTPS connections are actually using TLS (Transport Layer Security) ciphers, not Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ciphers?

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Experts warn that Mirai Botnet starts exploiting OMIGOD flaw

Security Affairs

The popular expert Kevin Beaumont reported that a Mirai botnet is attempting to compromise vulnerable systems and that it also closes port 5896 (OMI SSL port) to prevent other threat actors to infect them. Tags available to all GN users and customers now. link] — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) September 17, 2021.

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WordPress Security and Maintenance Update 4.9.5 Released

SiteLock

Use safe redirects when SSL is forced: This changes how the WordPress admin login page behaves, using the safe_redirects setting — further securing administrative login pages. This could allow attackers to move around on the back end of the host, potentially accessing sensitive data.

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HTTPS Is Easy!

Troy Hunt

If you are a tech pro and you want to go deeper on HTTPS, have a browse back through the dozens of posts on the SSL tag or go and watch 3 and a half hours of Pluralsight training on the subject. Next, you'll see that this is all very Cloudflare-centric and you may be wondering "why not use Let's Encrypt instead?