Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“In many of the observed DEV-0270 instances, the actor gained access by exploiting known vulnerabilities in Exchange or Fortinet ( CVE-2018-13379 ). To maintain persistence in a compromised network, the DEV-0270 APT group adds or creates a new user account (i.e. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

When Timehop announced a breach of 21 million records during summer 2018, it posted an hour-by-hour timeline of the attack and the company's incident response. On June 22, 2018, the hacker discovered that the "users" table was in use, had been populated with PII, and that his credentials gave him access. The hacker logs in at 2:04 p.m.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The nonstop intensity of these attacks is vividly illustrated by the fact that malicious bot communications now account for one-third of total Internet traffic. Established web application firewall (WAF) suppliers like Imperva, F5 and Akamai are hustling to strengthen their respective platforms. Shifting security challenge.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

However, the first-generation of SD-WAN solutions were notable for one key thing: they were solely focused on improving connectivity and did little to account for security. The firewall emerged as the cornerstone around which companies were encouraged to pursue a so-called defense-in-depth strategy. SASE fundamentals.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

I visited with Joe Sykora, vice president of worldwide channel development for Bitdefender, at Black Hat USA 2018 , and asked him to put the remarkable staying power of endpoint security in context. In this fast-evolving, digitally-transformed, business environment, enterprises in 2018 will spend a record $3.8 keep intensifying.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. “It is possible that an infected computer is beaconing, but is unable to egress to the command and control due to outbound firewall restrictions.” 001” Skype account.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Imperva shared details on the incident it has recently suffered and how hackers obtain data on Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) customers. In August, cybersecurity firm Imperva disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive information for some customers of its Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product, formerly known as Incapsula.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies. In May 2018, the FBI executed a similar strategy to dismantle VPNFilter, which had spread to more than a half-million consumer devices.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2021

Coined by Gartner in late 2018, SASE is gaining momentum as a generational disruptive force. Security got bolted on by installing firewalls at web gateways. A few web gateway firewall providers jumped out of the gate in 2019 draping their legacy services in a SASE mantel. Clearly, bolt-on security just isn’t cutting it.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

SonarQube apps are installed on web servers and are directly connected to systems and source code repositories, such as BitBucket, GitHub, or GitLab accounts, or Azure DevOps. Configure SonarQube instances to sit behind your organization’s firewall and other perimeter defenses to prevent unauthenticated access.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. A common technique to achieve persistence is to leverage stolen account logons, especially ones that give access to privileged accounts. Privilege account credentials are widely available for sale.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. An attacker creates a new admin user and logs into an OpenFire account. Akira carries out attacks via compromised user accounts, particularly ones that don’t have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

Also, there is no firewall by default.” ” Experts also discovered the presence of backdoor accounts in MySQL. “MySQL is pre-configured with several static accounts. ” Experts also reported the use of predefined passwords for admin accounts. and 3.1.1 – last updated in November 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

To remedy this vulnerability, Adobe recommends installing Update 16 for ColdFusion 2018 and Update 6 for ColdFusion 2021. An attacker creates a new admin user and logs into an OpenFire account. Akira carries out attacks via compromised user accounts, particularly ones that don’t have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Back in 2018, almost two-thirds of the small businesses suffered from cyber security attacks. . Therefore, make sure to set up the latest network routers and firewall protocols across all IT equipment to strengthen your security and create a defense against hackers and security breaches. Firewalls . Two-factor authentication .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. Attacks in 2018 Victim Organization January City of Farmington, New Mexico February Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) March City of Atlanta, Georgia July LabCorp, U.S. Check Point.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 5, 2023

ExtremeControl integrates into the customer’s major third party ecosystems for private cloud orchestration, mobile device management (MDM), enterprise mobility management (EMM), content filter, and firewall solutions. Agents Both agent-based and agentless assessment options are available.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. According to a report published by the NASA Office of Inspector General, hackers breached the Agency’s network in April 2018 and remained undetected for nearly a year.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 8, 2023

This article explores: What Is Email Security Best Options to Secure Business Email Email Security Best Practices How Email Security Blocks Threats Bottom Line: Email Security What Is Email Security Email security is a concept that protects email accounts, servers, and communications from unauthorized access, data loss, or compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 10, 2021

Raise Virtual or Physical Firewalls. We strongly recommend using a software or appliance-based web application firewall (WAF) to help filter out malicious data. . Firewalls today, including NGFW and FWaaS offerings, have both a comprehensive set of default rules and the ease to change configurations as needed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. “ Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Securitynumbers were not compromised.”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Microsoft’s “ Security Intelligence Report, Volume 24 ” shows a 250% increase in the number of phishing emails and attacks since 2018. Employees inevitably rely on a few identical or similar passwords for multiple accounts. An attacker might send an email impersonating a company’s CEO to an accountant asking for financial information.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Block cybercriminals and bad bots with a web application firewall. Our second tip for taking a proactive approach to cybersecurity is using a web application firewall (WAF) to block malicious traffic, like cybercriminals and bad bots. It’s important to note that cybersecurity education isn’t a one-time event; it’s a process.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

based organizations were the primary targets, accounting for 42.13% of all DDoS attacks, up more than three percentage points from the second quarter. It attacked routers that were compromised in 2018 when MikroTik RouterOS had a vulnerability. In second place was Hong Kong (14.36%, a huge jump from 1.8%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2018, the Timehop app suffered a serious breach that resulted in data belonging to 21 million users being compromised. This ability to log in to the administrative account could have been prevented with multifactor authentication in place. Here are three terrifying examples. Colonial Pipeline.

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Authentication VPN Passwords Accountability 71

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

In April 2018, Kaspersky researchers discovered a new Octopus sample developed to target Windows systems, the malicious code had been disguised as a Russian version of the Telegram app used by the Democratic Choice (DVK) opposition party in Kazakhstan. ” reads the report published by cyber threat intelligence firm Prodaft.

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Hacking Telecommunications Government Firewall 72

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

At its broadest level, it aims to secure everything outside enterprise firewalls , a concept known as the ever-expanding network edge. As a result, Gartner predicts that SASE offerings will become more commonplace as a way to maximize revenue and account control. What is Secure Access Service Edge? Just what is SASE technology?

Firewall 114

Firewall Architecture Technology Encryption 114

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Censornet was a Niche Player in 2017 and 2018. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers, Forcepoint was a Niche Player in 2018 and 2019 before becoming a Visionary in 2020. Recognition for Censornet. Forcepoint. Recognition for Forcepoint.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

These are the leaders in networking, and accounting for nearly 70% of the market.” The BLEEDINGBIT vulnerabilities affect several Texas Instruments chips, the CVE-2018-16986 flaw affects CC2640 and CC2650 chips running BLE-STACK 2.2.1 to address the CVE-2018-16986 flaw. and earlier, and CC2640R2 running version 1.0

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Firmware Manufacturing IoT Mobile 79

Cisco Security

JANUARY 22, 2021

Back in 2018, they updated the Enterprise ATT&CK Matrix with Trusted Relationship (T1199) and Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) to increase awareness of these adversary techniques. The other is User Account Control (M1052) , a Windows configuration step that helps stop adversaries from gaining elevated process access.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Startup Est Headquarters Staff Funding Funding Type Abnormal Security 2018 San Francisco, CA 261 $74.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 Series A Perimeter 81 2018 Tel Aviv, Israel 159 $65.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In November 2018, security researchers from Check Point made an interesting discovery about the wildly popular game “Fortnite” — the website was vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks. In fact, cross-site scripting attacks account for 31% of all attacks — making it the most common type of attack (followed by SQL injection at 20%).

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Small Business Accountability Software Firewall 98

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

billion in 2018. Many veteran security leaders don’t know where to begin accounting for thousands of cloud resources continuously making millions of intermittent connections. Consider that the raw number of non-human identities is rising faster than human identities. billion by 2023, up from 18.4 That breaks down to 3.6

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Additionally, no firewall rules, port forwarding rules, or DDNS setup are required on the router, which makes this option convenient also for non-tech-savvy users.” The “P2P Cloud” feature bypasses firewalls and effectively allows remote connections into private networks. ” reads the report published by SEC Consult. !

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

InsightIDR comes with several dashboard views that give administrators visibility into network activity like firewall traffic, blocked traffic by port and IP, total DNS traffic, and DNS queries. Insight Connect helps automate several IT processes, improves indicators, and comes with 200+ plugins. Rapid7 Competitors.

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