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China-linked threat actors have breached telcos and network service providers

Security Affairs

Enforce MFA on all VPN connections [ D3-MFA ]. Perform regular data backup procedures and maintain up-to-date incident response and recovery procedures. Ensure that you have dedicated management systems [ D3-PH ] and accounts for system administrators. Protect these accounts with strict network policies [ D3-UAP ].

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

Like in the case of SolarWinds in 2020, masked threat actors aren’t afraid to linger for months during reconnaissance. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question.

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Kaseya Breach Underscores Vulnerability of IT Management Tools

eSecurity Planet

After a series of highly publicized ransomware attacks this spring, the Kaseya attack most resembles the compromise of SolarWinds in late 2020. Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack.

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

eSecurity Planet

This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. Many software-defined networking solutions (SDN) have built-in 128- and 256-bit AES encryption and IPsec-based VPN capabilities. Encrypting Data in Transit.