SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In Q4 2020, Citrix ADC (application delivery controller) devices became one such tool, when perpetrators abused their DTLS interface. Overall, Q4 remained within the parameters of 2020 trends. Extortionists’ activity regularly made the news throughout 2020. This trend continued in the last months of 2020.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Threat actors are attempting to hack Zyxel devices exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability CVE-2020-29583, security researchers warn. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. Source: DZone’s Edge Computing and IoT, 2020 . A Safer Internet of Things.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

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. The CVE-2020-3452 flaw was independently reported to Cisco by Mikhail Klyuchnikov of Positive Technologies and Abdulrahman Nour and Ahmed Aboul-Ela from RedForce.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

In October last year, experts reported a critical stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5135 , in SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) appliances. This flaw exists pre-authentication and within a component (SSLVPN) which is typically exposed to the public Internet.”. 6.5.1.12, 6.0.5.3, SonicOSv 6.5.4.v

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur. The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to SiteLock researchers and cybersecurity experts, the threat landscape will only continue to grow in 2020 and will likely bring even more new challenges with it. We’ve analyzed the current state of the industry and packaged up our top five cybersecurity predictions for 2020.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it. Then-President Donald Trump tried this in 2020, but it was blocked by the courts and rescinded by President Joe Biden a year later. This would be an enormous change in how the Internet works in the United States. Details matter.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

An attacker could use $300 worth of off-the-shelf equipment to eavesdrop and intercept signals from satellite internet communications. The academic researcher James Pavur, speaking at Black Hat 2020 hacking conference , explained that satellite internet communications are susceptible to eavesdropping and signal interception.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

From January through March 2021, TLS concealed 45 percent of the malware Sophos analysts observed circulating on the Internet; that’s double the rate – 23 percent – seen in early 2020, Dan Schiappa, Sophos’ chief product officer, told me in a briefing. And on the back end, it allows them to cloak any data as it is getting exfiltrated.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With the 2020 presidential election approaching, cybersecurity deserves to be a core issue for candidates. Cybersecurity platform: Does the candidate have a proactive cybersecurity stance in their 2020 platform? Do all campaign web properties use a cloud-based web application firewall (WAF) and a content delivery network (CDN)?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Fortinet has recently fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability in the management interface of FortiWeb firewall was discovered by Andrey Medov, from cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2024

The attackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Zyxel firewalls used by many critical infrastructure operators in Denmark. On April 25, 2023, Zyxel disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVSS score 9.8), tracked as CVE-2023-28771 , in a number of their firewalls. According to the report, 11 companies were immediately compromised.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Use of “domain age” is a feature being promoted by various firewall and web security vendors as a method to protect users and systems from accessing malicious internet destinations. The sites and domains of the internet are constantly changing and evolving. Domain Age Feature Definition. Domain Registration.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Exploitation of these together yields remote code execution under the privileges of the affected component on the firewall device.” Experts pointed out that this port is often accessible over the Internet. Below is the timeline for this vulnerability: 2020-10-26: Randori began initial research on GlobalProtect.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

“A number of factors may have contributed to the zero-day count in 2020 dipping, then quadrupling in 2021,” researchers James Sadowski and Casey Charrier wrote. “This activity continues China’s pattern of exploiting internet-facing devices, especially those used for managed security purposes (e.g.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Cybersecurity, which started with antivirus suites, spam filters and firewalls, has mushroomed into a $103 billion industry. And that’s why Stiennon and I are among the 45,000 or so attendees of RSA Conference 2020 here at San Franscisco’s Moscone Center. Then along came cloud computing and the Internet of Things.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

Traditional networking either causes operations bottlenecks by forcing all traffic to route through centralized firewalls or exposes remote assets and cloud resources to attack. This trend spreads out data center risk over the internet and increases the potential vectors for attack.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

VPNs got us all from crawling to walking in the early days of the internet, but security needs have outpaced VPNs' abilities to deliver true security and privacy for users and organizations so we now look to more advanced solutions to keep us cybersafe. The final nail in the coffin of VPN came in early 2020.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The idea of connecting your entire home to the internet was once a mind-blowing concept. And smart devices are big news— a study commissioned by the UK government in 2020 revealed that almost half (49 percent) of UK residents purchased at least one smart device since the pandemic started.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

For a larger indicator, consider the global airport security market, which had an estimated value in 2020 of around $11 billion with a projected growth to as much as $25 billion by 2028, of which perimeter security amounts for about a third of total spending. billion 2020, projected to rise to $517.17 Can you extend that comparison?

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

It's not a discussion we should be having in 2020, a time of unprecedented regulatory provisions designed to prevent precisely the sort of behaviour I'm going to describe in this post. All sensitive private and financial information are stored on a secured server and protected by the best firewall to prevent intrusions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

The Shadowserver Foundation is a nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone. The researchers scanned the Internet for printers that are exposing their Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) port online. and printers (or print servers).

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

A firewall with the right threat intelligence embedded could have blocked communications with the command-and-control server thus preventing a Trojanized Orion install from connecting back to the attackers and stopping them from furthering the attack. Outside of the corporate firewall, it is the Wild West.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Tracked as CVE-2020-25159 , the flaw is rated 9.8 The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-25159, has received a CVSS score of 9.8 ” Experts used the search engines for Internet-connected devices, like Shodan.io, to search for ENIP-compatible internet-facing devices and discovered more than 8,000 systems exposed online. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2021

Although such types of cyber attacks have been existing in the cyber landscape from the past decade or so, Black Lotus Labs reports that there has been an increase in such attacks from 2020 on par with the ransomware attacks. It was also known as Common Internet File System until 2004.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

(a.k.a “ZyXEL”) is a maker of networking devices, including Wi-Fi routers, NAS products and hardware firewalls. The flaw is designated as CVE-2020-9054. Zyxel’s advice for those users is simply “do not leave the product directly exposed to the internet.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The experts found six vulnerabilities in B&R Automation’s SiteManager and GateManager ( CVE-2020-11641 , CVE-2020-11642 , CVE-2020-11643 , CVE-2020-11644 , CVE-2020-11645 , CVE-2020-11646 ) that could potentially disrupt operations. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Locking down web gateways and erecting a robust firewall were considered the be-all and end-all. Related: The shared burden of securing the Internet of Things. Company networks must support endless permutations of users and apps, both on-premises and in the Internet cloud. Fast forward to the 21 st Century’s third decade.

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Spinone

MARCH 17, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe the network of interconnected electronic devices with “smart” technology. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015. billion “things” connected to the Internet , a 30% increase from 2015.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Unlike other IoT DDoS botnets, Ttint implements 12 remote access functions such as Socket5 proxy for router devices, tampering with router firewall and DNS settings, executing remote custom system commands. ” When the botnet was first detected in 2019, experts noticed it was exploiting the Tenda zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2020-10987.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Between December 2019 and until February 2020, the experts observed a number of attacks between 70,000 and 40,000 on a daily basis. Most of the attacks between January and May 2020 originated from IP addresses in the U.S., The situation changed from February, when the number reached 80,000. China, Russia, Germany, and France.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2020

At RSA 2020, I was encouraged by strong evidence that the cybersecurity industry has now jumped fully on board the ML bandwagon. Pitt points out that a big challenge for businesses today is that more than 80 percent of Internet traffic is encrypted. Up to 30 percent of bad traffic is now encrypted traffic as well,” Pitt points out.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

These cybercriminals are known for their creativity and ability to target cloud environments, as they introduced new techniques in 2020 that hadn’t been seen before. All internet communications, including SSL and SSH, rely on private and public keys for encryption. The two others are the “Cronb” and “What Will Be” attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Juniper Networks addressed several vulnerabilities in its firewalls, most of them can be exploited by attackers for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Another critical vulnerability addressed by the company is CVE-2020-1654 , it could be exploited to trigger a DoS condition or to execute arbitrary code remotely.

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