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Duo’s Data-Driven Defense: Combatting Cyber Threats in Higher Education

Duo's Security Blog

One threat pattern Duo has seen targeting higher education within the last year includes a mixture of MFA-targeted attacks including passcode phishing and MFA fatigue. If successful, the bad actor register malicious devices on the student’s account for continued access to the student’s account and the university’s VPN.

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Which is the Threat landscape for the ICS sector in 2020?

Security Affairs

Computers that use VPN software are less exposed to online threats, but unfortunately, they represent only 15% of the total. Such threats were blocked more often on computers with VPN software.” Use different accounts for different users. Limit the use of privileged accounts.

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How CASB and EDR Protect Federal Agencies in the Age of Work from Home

McAfee

According to an Analysis Report (AR20-268A) from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), this new normal work environment has put federal agencies at risk of falling victim to cyber-attacks that exploit their use of Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and misuse their VPN remote access services.

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Hackers target zero-day flaws in enterprise Draytek network devices

Security Affairs

The two critical remote command injection vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-8515 affect DrayTek Vigor network devices, including enterprise switches, routers, load-balancers, and VPN gateway. If you have not updated the firmware yet, disable remote access (admin) and SSL VPN. ” reads the report published by Qihoo 360.

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Ransomware Taxonomy: Four Scenarios Companies Should Safeguard Against

Cisco Security

” For some environments, this can unfold as easily as a compromised username and password being used to infiltrate a virtual private network (VPN) to access network resources. Leverage XaaS capabilities via the cloud and managed services versus on-premises infrastructure, allowing greater threat detection and vulnerability management.

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Verified Duo Push Makes MFA More Secure

Duo's Security Blog

So we listened when customers pointed out the weaknesses in the Duo Push – the notification Duo Mobile users approve when they want to log into protected accounts. They receive a second notification and assume it's simply their VPN (Virtual Private Network) at home reconnecting and accept the push.

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Simplify Network Security with Cisco Secure Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) on AWS

Cisco Security

Customers also benefit from support for dynamic policies for AWS tags, plus improved threat detection, simplified customization, and enhanced performance of our latest, industry-leading open-source IPS, Snort3. Traffic between the on-premises network and customer VPC’s, when passed over a Transit Gateway using VPN.

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