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Cisco fixes 34 High-Severity flaws in IOS and IOS XE software

Security Affairs

The IT giant issued 25 advisories as part of the September 2020 semiannual IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication. Two vulnerabilities can allow authenticated attackers with local access to the target devices to execute arbitrary code. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Future Focused: Encryption and Visibility Can Co-Exist

Cisco Security

The European Union is concerned enough that it drafted a resolution in November 2020 to ban end-to-end encryption, prompting outcry from privacy advocates. In this blog I’ll describe two recent privacy advances—DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and QUIC—and what we’re doing to maintain visibility. Keeping your destination private: DNS over HTTPS.

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Stories from the SOC: Fighting back against credential harvesting with ProofPoint

CyberSecurity Insiders

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. of cases in 2020. According to recent research , phishing assaults targeted credential harvesting in 71.5%

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FBI warns cyber actors abusing protocols as new DDoS attack vectors

Security Affairs

According to our estimate, CoAP can reach up to 32 times (32x) amplification factor, which is roughly between the amplification power of DNS and SSDP.”. In February, Radware researchers reported that attackers were abusing the CVE-2020-2100 flaw in 12,000+ internet-facing Jenkins servers to mount reflective DDoS attacks.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 What appears to have happened is that in order to address "security vulnerabilities on the plug", TP-Link issued a firmware update that killed the HA integration. Looks like @tplinkuk broke it with a firmware update which will now break a bunch of stuff around the house.

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How to Stop DDoS Attacks: Prevention & Response

eSecurity Planet

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Also read: How to Secure DNS. In 2020 the U.S. Types of DDoS Attacks.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

Botnet based on Medusa, working since 2020. Its capabilities include smart brute-forcing by analyzing the initial request for authentication data it receives from a Telnet service. DNS changer Malicious actors may use IoT devices to target users who connect to them. Our advantages: 1.

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