Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

The most important and integral part of any data security begins with having firewalls installed in the environment. Not just that, installing firewalls is an essential requirement of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS ). What is a PCI DSS Compliant Firewall? Protect cardholder data with a firewall.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Patch management issues The vulnerability patching process typically takes time for a variety of reasons: from actual patch release all the way to identifying vulnerable assets and “properly” patching them, considering any pre-existing asset inventory and whether the accountable personnel will learn about the vulnerability in time.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 18, 2025

What was once a contest of firewalls and intrusion detection, is now a high-stakes game driven by AI. While DR is critical for restoring operations after events like hardware failures, power outages, or natural disasters, it’s not designed to address the complexity and volatility of cyberattacks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

During a forensic investigation, Sygnia researchers observed multiple alerts that revealed a re-enabled threat actor account by a service account from an unidentified server. The encrypted China Chopper variant, frequently used by the attackers, employed AES encryption to evade detection by Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Physical security is the protection of personnel and IT infrastructure (such as hardware, software, and data) from physical actions and events that could cause severe damage to an organization. All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur.

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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. This consistent, proactive approach keeps threats at bay before they become a costly problem. CISO takeaway: Similarly, cybersecurity teams understand the importance of proactive defenses.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Using the Cisco Secure Endpoint APIs, partner integrations provide analysts with rich threat information and actions on endpoint events; like retrieving endpoint information, hunting indicators on endpoints, searching events, etc. Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

In addition, it allows you to collect hourly events from Cisco Secure Endpoint through the USM Anywhere Job Scheduler. The Cisco Secure Endpoint App on ServiceNow provides users with the ability to integrate event data from the Cisco Secure Endpoint into ServiceNow by creating ITSM incidents. Read more here. Read more here. Sumo Logic.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

Threat actors exploited the flaw to gain remote firewall access and breach corporate networks. In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. The vulnerability CVE-2024-24919 is a Quantum Gateway information disclosure issue.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Expert found a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet ’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can allow access to the FortiSIEM Supervisor. April 27 – Hacking Microsoft Teams accounts with a GIF image. April 26 – Hackers exploit SQL injection zero-day issue in Sophos firewall.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

Setting up a firewall is the first step in securing your network. A successful firewall setup and deployment requires careful design, implementation, and maintenance to effectively improve your network integrity and data security. Verify that the chosen firewall can meet your security standards and functions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

85% of the attacker IPs were observed only on a single day demonstrating that Layer 3 IP-based firewalls are not effective against these attacks because threat actors rotate same IPs to launch attacks. We intentionally configured a few accounts with weak credentials such as admin:admin, guest:guest, administrator:password.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It also performed charity work, and sought to engage employees and sustain morale with various team-building events. ” SentinelOne’s Cary said he came to the same conclusion, noting that the Protonmail account tied to the GitHub profile that published the records was registered a month before the leak, on January 15, 2024.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here are a few EDR vendors with an MSP focus: Sophos Intercept X with XDR synchronizes endpoint, server, firewall, and email security. Sophos XGS Series firewall appliances can identify and stop advanced known and potential threats – including ransomware. Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security addresses iOS, Android, and Chrome OS devices.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

Related video: New York holds companies accountable for data security. Security vendors responded with new systems designed to detect and quarantine malware that slipped through signature-based antivirus detectors and firewalls — before any harm could be done. “We Compliance requirements from regulators in Europe and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The skimmer is added to the onclick event of the checkout button and onunload event of the web page. ” This gateway is hosted on Dutch hosting provider Veeble and operated under the account name “sucurrin.” A good website firewall can help to minimize the risk of infection in the first place.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In one example, analysis of PowerShell console host history for a compromised user account revealed Rhysida actors leveraged PuTTy to remotely connect to systems via SSH [ T1021.004 ]. wevtutil.exe A standard Windows Event Utility tool used to view event logs. AnyDesk also supports remote file transfer.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

Each firewall, IDS, MFA, and email security is built to protect and stop cyber attacks. In that case, they may upload fake documents that tell employees to transfer money from their accounts into the criminals’ accounts or compromise their security even more. A better way forward for handling communication with security events.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

While state-of-the-art tools are vital, the true backbone of our defense strategy lies within our trained professionals—the human firewall.” Implement a robust upskilling program: Comprehensive upskilling programs are crucial, ensuring relevance and accountability, thus maximizing the return on investment in employee development.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In December 2023, Microsoft first noticed that to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2020

Below some mitigations recommended by the Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Research Team to reduce risk from threats that exploit gateways and VPN vulnerabilities: Apply all available security updates for VPN and firewall configurations. Monitor and pay special attention to your remote access infrastructure.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The good news is that security teams can learn to anticipate these events and know exactly what to do to stop or prevent them. Defending against DDoS attacks has long depended on traditional measures like firewalls and rate limiting. Once inside a network, a hacker can request Kerberos service tickets for AD accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2023

API testing transcends traditional firewall, web application firewall, SAST and DAST testing in that it addresses the multiple co-existing sessions and states that an application is dealing with. Ultimately if the APIs exist in, or could affect the security of the CDE, they are in scope for an assessment. PCI DSS v4.0

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While InsightIDR functions as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution, its functionality goes far beyond traditional SIEM products and extends to the budding XDR space. From the InsightIDR home dashboard, administrators can see metrics like users, events processed, notable behaviors, new alerts, honeypots, and more.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2022

Web Application and API protection (WAAP) , the next generation of Web Application Firewall (WAF) comes to the rescue. For example, Pelton, a fitness company exposed three million customer data due to a flawed API, which allows access to a private account without proper authentication. What is WAAP? .

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Crucially, this includes accounting for the cybersecurity posture of third-party partners. This is all to attest that the contractor has a robust security posture, and, in the event of an audit, could pass muster.”. In addition, every DoD contractor must conduct, at the very least, an annual self-assessment. Auditable reviews.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

QR payments are being tampered with, NFT accounts hacked, digital wallets emptied, and sensitive information compromised. Security information and event management (SIEM). Next-generation firewalls (NGFW). Firewalls have come a long way. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Best Cybersecurity Solutions : Overall Vendor Top Startup EDR Firewall SIEM Intrusion Detection Breach and Attack Simulation Encryption Small Business Security Email Security IAM NAC Vulnerability Management Security Awareness Training. Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW): Palo Alto Networks. Winner : Palo Alto Networks.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events. TIPs contextualize these threats, offering security teams more information, usually at a faster rate than vendor threat feeds.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. Based on our analysis to date, this event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2025

This confirms the trend of hacktivists exploiting trusted relationships (T1199 Trusted Relationship and T1078 Valid Accounts). They use these accounts to connect to the server via RDP to transfer and execute tools interactively. In one incident, they exploited the Microsoft Exchange server vulnerability CVE-2021-26855 (ProxyLogon).

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Real-life examples of depth of defense Network Perimeter: Organizations often deploy firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and network monitoring tools at the network perimeter to prevent unauthorized access. Google reported that enabling 2FA on user accounts helped prevent 100% of automated bot attacks.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 25, 2024

After mass email spam events, the targeted users were added to Microsoft Teams chats with external users. These external users set their profiles to a “DisplayName” designed to make the targeted user think they were communicating with a help-desk account. com supportserviceadmin.onmicrosoft[.]com noreply@domain[.]com,

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2021

Raise Next-Generation Firewalls . Lastly, and probably the most advanced microsegmentation method is next-generation firewalls (NGFWs). While not initially intended for the cloud, NGFW vendors are increasingly offering their security solutions in the form of firewalls as a service (FWaaS). . Integrate logs, events, and threats.

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