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Ask These 10 Questions to Enhance Your Social Engineering Testing

NetSpi Executives

TL;DR Don’t wait for a breach to happen before you pursue social engineering testing. Get the most value out of your social engineering testing by asking the questions below to maximize results. These efforts build up to a proactive security strategy that’s needed to combat today’s persistent social engineering attacks.

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VulnRecap 1/16/24 – Major Firewall Issues Persist

eSecurity Planet

Keep an eye out for security announcements from your firewall vendors; it’s possible additional similar vulnerabilities will come to light. The problem: Juniper Networks released a bulletin about a remote code execution vulnerability in its SRX firewalls and EX switches. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-21591.

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How to Avoid Being Blacklisted by Search Engines

SiteLock

That’s what happens when Google and other search engines blacklist a website. Blacklisting websites is how search engines protect browsers from malicious content. Google and other search engines send bots to scan websites and flag anything suspicious. Google and other search engines blacklist sites in order to protect web users.

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Elevating SaaS Security: The Strategic Role of Bug Bounty Programs

Security Boulevard

For engineers and security professionals working within SaaS environments, the standard suite of security tools—firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEMs, WAFs, endpoint protection and secure development practices—forms the backbone of any security architecture.

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Do Not Confuse Next Generation Firewall And Web Application Firewall

SiteLock

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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Cybersecurity First: #BeCyberSmart at Work and Home

Security Through Education

Build a Human Firewall. Securing your work environment requires you to create what is referred to among security professionals as a human firewall. A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Use company-approved/vetted devices and applications.

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Steps to Take If Your WordPress Site Is Hacked

SecureWorld News

This means not just updating your WordPress dashboard password but also changing your database, Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) setup, and hosting provider account credentials. Ensure all admin and standard user accounts have new passwords. Delete those accounts immediately if you discover any users who should not be there.

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