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US govt agencies share details of the China-linked espionage malware Taidoor

Security Affairs

The CISA agency provides recommendations for system administrators and owners to enhance the level of security of their organizations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing.

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Critical vulnerabilities in Philips Vue PACS devices could allow remote takeover

SC Magazine

Philips released software updates to address some of the flaws, but multiple vulnerabilities require system administrators to apply workarounds in the interim as the patches are currently in development and won’t be released for some time.

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Malware Evolves to Present New Threats to Developers

Security Boulevard

The Morris Worm, ostensibly created to map the internet, ultimately brought down roughly 6000 systems. Early Internet. As the ARPANET evolved into the internet, connecting exponentially more computers throughout the world, malicious code likewise made advances. Ransomware. Trojans/Spyware. Logic bombs. a trusted vendor.

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Machine Identities are Essential for Securing Smart Manufacturing

Security Boulevard

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) puts networked sensors and intelligent devices directly on the manufacturing floor to collect data, drive artificial intelligence and do predictive analytics. Clearly, traditional firewalls and antivirus systems will not be sufficient; the complex IIoT infrastructure demands something more advanced.

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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. With SD-WAN architectures, branch employees and remote users connect to an enterprise network through a web of connected devices over the internet. SDN vs SD-WAN.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

The reason is simple: they represent huge software stacks that must support many protocols and have to be internet-facing to operate properly. We encourage system administrators to immediately set up monitoring for these machines, due to the unlikelihood that patching (even in a timely fashion) will be sufficient to protect them.

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