The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2019

I had an evocative discussion at Black Hat USA 2019 with Andy Byron, president of Lacework, a Mountain View, CA-based start-up that has raised $32 million in venture capital to help companies address these conflicting imperatives. The massive transformation that’s happening right now introduces a lot of risk.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2019, we’ve seen a surge in domain name service (DNS) hijacking attempts and have relayed warnings from the U.S. D’Angelo In fact, most organizations, regardless of geographic location or industry, are exposed to these risks. Security goes beyond the firewall, not just behind it.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumers and organizations are enthused about the operational benefits of more robust mobile connectivity, but the shift to 5G networks doesn’t come without risks. Here we’ll discuss the most significant risks posed by 5G, how U.S. Table of Contents What Are the Cybersecurity Risks of 5G? How is 5G Different?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

failing to regularly update your theme, plugin, and core files is a huge security risk. The more administrators a site has, the greater the risk of an attacker executing a brute force attack to compromise the valuable contents within a database. According to the 2019 Verizon Security Report , 34% of breaches involved internal actors.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

Luckily, Thompson left an easy trail for the FBI to follow and affect her arrest in August 2019. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks. The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry. Her hack served as a wake-up call about the prevalence of fresh risks spinning out of cloud migration.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, regular patching, and endpoint protection act as the digital equivalent of preventive pest spray. CISOs must assess their organizations' unique threat landscape and implement solutions tailored to their industry, size, and risk profile. Context matters.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This intel often gets leveraged by firewall suppliers who tap into a small selection of what they figure to be the most helpful threat feeds to configure their products. We had a chance to visit at Black Hat 2019. You don’t have to upload 4 million rules and watch the firewall blow up.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected approximately 1% of active firewall appliances, which are devices mainly used by business customers. Cyclops Blink has been found in WatchGuard’s firewall devices since at least June 2019. Internet access to the management interface of any device is a security risk.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. This all goes toward ascertaining whether the criminal is willing and able to supply a viable decryption key, according to Josh Zelonis, senior analyst for cybersecurity and risk at Forrester.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

While this article focuses on handling data breaches, a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan (BCP) encompasses a broad spectrum of risks, including pandemics, natural disasters, financial instability, and human errors. ISO 22301:2019 is a leading framework here. Introduce MFA for all corporate accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2019

Caz-bees first took shape as a cottage industry circa 2013 to 2014 in response to a cry for help from companies reeling from new Shadow IT exposures : the risk created by early-adopter employees, quite often the CEO, insisting on using the latest smartphone and Software-as-a-Services tools, without any shred of security vetting.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We need to work with many different teammates on campus — risk management, legal, compliance and institutional review boards, to name a few — to effectively manage cybersecurity risk across our communities. They see the investment in MFA as critical to a campus cybersecurity program and managing risk for a campus.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The most obvious thing about today’s security landscape is that threats are on the rise: According to Accenture, 68 percent of business leaders felt their cybersecurity risks were increasing in 2020. Risk Based reported that data breaches exposed 36 billion records during the first half of 2020. How Tools Address the Challenges.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

In the January 2019 report, EMA concluded: Some participants’ organizations may find they have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a Plan B to enable TLS 1.3 Technology improvements will increase rates of adoption over time, such as Cisco Secure Firewall’s ability to decrypt and inspect encrypted traffic.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

HYAS found that despite its notifications to the French authorities, some of the apparently infected systems were still attempting to contact the sinkholed control networks up until late 2019. “It is possible that an infected computer is beaconing, but is unable to egress to the command and control due to outbound firewall restrictions.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Danish security researcher Ollypwn has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

In addition to standard firewalls , features in UTMs often include intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) , secure web gateways , secure email gateways , remote access , routing and WAN connectivity. Some vendors have ditched the UTM label and prefer to call their tools next-generation firewalls (NGFW). URL filtering.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A DoS attack that caused disruptions at a power utility in the United States exploited a flaw in a firewall used in the facility. The incident took place earlier this year, threat actors exploited a known vulnerability in a firewall used by the affected facility to cause disruption. and 7 p.m., power grid ( Energywire , April 30).

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Ransomware via Brute Force Attacks Researchers at F-Secure have found that in 2019, brute force attacks became one of the most preferred means of spreading ransomware. Malicious Apps statistic for 2019: As you can see, G Suite Marketplace has become a place where useful applications coexist with tons of fake malicious apps.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

To briefly level-set, let’s take a quick step back in time – way back to 2019 before the “work from home (WFH) era” had begun to illustrate the gravity of the paradigm shift that occurred over the past two years and its security implications. To summarize, visibility evaporated, and meanwhile, organizational risk levels spiked parabolically.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. ” reads the advisory p ublished by Applied Risk. 06 and older.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. At the same time, WAF technology is increasingly a part of more comprehensive security solutions like next-generation firewalls (NGFW), unified threat management (UTM), and more. Best Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Amazon Web Services.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Let us start with the abbreviations that define the categories of information security products: WAF stands for Web Application Firewall , NGFW stands for Next Generation Firewall. NGFW (or Next Generation Firewall) is an evolution of traditional firewalls and serves to delimit access between network segments.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Our most recent cybersecurity research is now available in the “ Cybersecurity Trends in 2019: Protecting Websites in the Age of Stealth Attacks ” report. The goal was to identify attack patterns and risk factors based on the types of vulnerabilities present in websites and the types of attacks today’s hackers deploy.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The majority of the vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain initial access to the target networks, they affect systems that are directly accessible from the Internet, such as firewalls and gateways. 3) CVE-2019-19781 – An issue was discovered in Citrix® 9 Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

To briefly level-set, let’s take a quick step back in time – way back to 2019 before the “work from home (WFH) era” had begun to illustrate the gravity of the paradigm shift that occurred over the past two years and its security implications. To summarize, visibility evaporated, and meanwhile, organizational risk levels spiked parabolically.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

CVE-2019-6340 – Improper Input Validation Leading to Remote Code Execution in Drupal This week’s most tweeted-about vulnerability is a, yet another, highly critical remote execution flaw in Drupal – CVE-2019-6340. Twitter timeline of the most talked-about vulnerabilities of 2019 so far. x before 8.5.11

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 25, 2023

GA-01-22320 and prior (Windows 10, 11 Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022)) Schneider Electric Easy UPS Online Monitoring Software (V2.5-GS-01-22320 GS-01-22320 and prior (Windows 10, 11 Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022)) The Easy UPS Online Monitoring Software is used to configure and manage APC and Schneider Electric branded Easy UPS products.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

US organizations whose data was stolen and leaked online in the past are at risk of cyber attacks that are orchestrated by an unnamed Iran-linked threat actor. Attackers also use to exploit the Kentico Content Management System (CVE-2019-10068) and used SQLmap to bypass Web Application Firewalls. .

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Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

Enacted in 2017, this regulation is all about minimizing risk in the financial services sector, which, lets face it, is prime real estate for cybercriminals. The program should be tailored to your specific business risks. Insight: Many businesses make the mistake of copying templates without understanding their unique risks.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. Eventually, governments will address the risk by beefing up security and purchasing cyber insurance, which go hand in glove. The fact that the losses municipalities are sustaining is quantifiable, makes this a definable problem that can be addressed by traditional risk mitigation approaches.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 7, 2022

This includes secure web gateways (SWGs), cloud access security brokers (CASBs), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), remote browser isolation (RBI), and firewall as a service (FWaaS), all from a single vendor. The “secure edge” conversation was kicked off, officially, in 2019 by Gartner. What is the relationship between SSE and SASE?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The most obvious thing about today’s security landscape is that threats are on the rise: According to Accenture, 68% of business leaders felt their cybersecurity risks were increasing in 2020. Proofpoint found that 88 percent of worldwide organizations experienced spear-phishing attacks during 2019. How Tools Address the Challenges.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

API-based inline deployment for fast risk scoring, behavioral analysis , and detection. Risk assessment, rating, and categorization for cloud applications. Native user behavioral analysis for profiling app risks and business impact. Native user behavioral analysis for profiling app risks and business impact.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Later we upgraded the severity of this due to risk of remote code execution, acquired a CVE number and issued the public annoucement quoted below.” The vulnerability received the CVE-2019-12409 identifier. . “This issue originally had the title “default solr. ” reads the security advisory. through 8.3 (the

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Malwarebytes

JULY 15, 2021

It sells a range of Internet appliances primarily directed at content control and network security, including devices providing services for network firewalls, unified threat management (UTM), virtual private networks (VPNs), and anti-spam for email. Devices at risk. The devices that the security notice mentions are running 8.x

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2019

District Court in Seattle on September 5, 2019. According to the indictment, Paige THOMPSON created a scanning software that used to identify AWS customers who had misconfigured their firewalls, then the hacker accessed their servers to steal data, and to “mine” cryptocurrency. .” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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