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The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products

Schneier on Security

At the end of 2015, the maker of internet switches disclosed that it had detected malicious code in some firewall products. Researchers later determined that hackers had turned the firewalls into their own spy tool here by altering Juniper’s version of Dual EC. Juniper said little about the incident.

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CVE-2020-3452 flaw in Cisco ASA/FTD exploited within hours after the disclosure

Security Affairs

Cisco fixed CVE-2020-3452 high-severity path traversal flaw in its firewalls that can be exploited by remote attackers to obtain sensitive files from the targeted system. Researchers from Rapid7 scanned the Internet for ASA/FTD devices, it reported the presence of 85,000 units, 398 of which are spread across 17% of the Fortune 500.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Demisto launched in May 2016. Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage.

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Successful operations against Russian Sandworm and Strontium groups targeting Ukraine revealed

Malwarebytes

On Wednesday, the DOJ announced that it had disrupted GRU’s control over thousands of internet-connected firewall devices compromised by the Russian Sandworm group. A sinkhole is a way of redirecting malicious internet traffic so that it can be captured and analyzed by security professionals.

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5 Linux malware families SMBs should protect themselves against

Malwarebytes

In a perfect world, the firewalls of our servers would only allow web traffic in from trusted ports. With the Cloud Snooper malware, however, untrusted web traffic sneaks past firewalls and enters right into Linux servers — a big no-no. Specifically, they noticed some servers were receiving some anomalous inbound traffic. How it works.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's the right approach?

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RSAC insights: CyberGRX finds a ton of value in wider sharing of third-party risk assessments

The Last Watchdog

CyberGRX launched in 2016 as a clearinghouse for companies to pool and share standardized assessment data and actually analyze the results for action. No one, save threat actors, was paying close attention to the ramifications of granting a myriad of small- and mid-sized contractors privileged access inside the company firewall.

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