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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

I’m referring to Security Information and Event Management ( SIEM ) systems and to firewalls. SIEMs failed to live up to their hype in the decade after they were first introduced in 2005. This will come to fruition on smarter platforms using automated tools, including advanced firewalls. Firewalls predate SIEMs.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

Krebs on Security

“The largest category of information accessed was information on consumers and small businesses as of the time they applied for one of our credit card products from 2005 through early 2019,” the statement continues. “She allegedly used web application firewall credentials to obtain privilege escalation.

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Capital One discovered more customers’ SSNs exposed in 2019 hack

Security Affairs

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. The security breach data breach took place on March 22nd and 23rd, the hacker accessed information of customers who had applied for a credit card between 2005 and 2019. District Court in Seattle.

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Joomla! vulnerability is being actively exploited

Malwarebytes

is an open-source CMS that’s been around since 2005, and has been one of the most popular CMS platforms by market share for much of that time. Use a Web Application Firewall (WAF). Many companies, from small outfits to large enterprises, use a CMS in some form to manage their websites.

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SAML: Still Going Strong After Two Decades

eSecurity Planet

In 2005, the open standard consortium OASIS released SAML 2.0 In 2005, OASIS released 2.0, Also read : Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors. SAML is an open standard facilitating the communication and verification of credentials between identity providers and service providers for users everywhere. to broad appeal.

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On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

Malwarebytes

The Windows Firewall enabled by default, and the Internet Explorer popup blocker. In 2005, one malware install which needed the.NET framework to run would helpfully install the whole thing for you if you didn’t have it. For one final slice of additional context, 2005 was also a key year for security happenings.

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20 Years of SIEM: Celebrating My Dubious Anniversary

Anton on Security

I remember how our engineers struggled in 2002 with some API-based collection from a known firewall vendor. One of the most notorious and painful problems that has amazing staying power is of course that of data collection.