Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Researchers from from Netlab, the network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, have discovered a new botnet, tracked as HEH, that contains the code to wipe all data from infected systems, such as routers, IoT devices, and servers. In the current version, each node cannot send control command to its peers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The consistent implementation of firewall best practices establish a strong defense against cyber attacks to secure sensitive data, protect the integrity and continuity of business activities, and ensure network security measures function optimally. Why It Matters By restricting access, this strategy mitigates potential damage.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

However, this reconnaissance or dwell period also presents an opportunity to stop the malware before it has activated. In order to execute any commands or extract any data, malware needs to be able to communicate with its command & control (C2) architecture, which almost always involves DNS transactions at some point.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s encouraging to see that enterprises understand that zero-trust architectures present one of the most effective ways of providing secure access to business resources,” said Chris Hines, director, zero-trust solutions, at Zscaler.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Vivek Nair, Wenbo Guo, Justus Mattern, Rui Wang, James F. O’Brien, Louis Rosenberg, Dawn Song Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Floris Gorter, Enrico Barberis, Raphael Isemann, Erik van der Kouwe, Cristiano Giuffrida, Herbert Bos Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, Diksha Shukla, James David Wheelock, Nitesh Saxena Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Renjie Xie, Jiahao Cao, Enhuan Dong, Mingwei Xu, Kun Sun, Qi Li, Licheng Shen, Menghao Zhang Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Full Presenters List: Rose Ceccio, Sophie Stephenson, Varun Chadha, Danny Yuxing Huang, Rahul Chatterjee Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Full Presenter List: Sophie Stephenson, Majed Almansoori, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Rahul Chatterjee Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Jian Qu, Xiaobo Ma, Jianfeng Li, Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, Junjie Zhang, Zhenhua Li, Li Feng, Xiaohong Guan Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 8, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Michele Campobasso, Luca Allodi Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Anaheim Marriott ; and via the organizations YouTube channel.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 6, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Garrett Smith, Tarun Yadav, Jonathan Dutson, Scott Ruoti, Kent Seamons“ Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

We’ll cover their uses and benefits in detail, but here’s a high-level overview to start: External vulnerability scan: Tests the network security of your company from the outside in order to find vulnerabilities and strengthen defenses against outside attacks. Why then should we run both kinds of scans?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 3, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Peng Jiang, Ruizhe Huang, Ding Li, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen, Jianhai Luan, Yuxin Ren, Xinwei Hu Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The answer, based on a couple of presentations at the conference, is that patching is incredibly difficult to get right, requiring way more attention than most companies can afford to give it. Art Ocain, VP for Cybersecurity and Incident Response at Airiam, noted that the managed security services provider patches as often as 10 times a day.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

At a time when it was relatively unfamiliar to the masses—just shy of a mere thirty years ago— the internet was also an intriguing concept for the country’s leaders who were present at its unveiling. If you are interested in joining Cisco’s Cloud and Network Security team, please visit current opportunities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2023

“Cloud is the present, and the future. Panagiotis holds the position of the Global Information Security Manager in Global Information Security at Intrum. I was motivated by another student who was about to take the master's degree for network security in the UK at Royal Holloway.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 28, 2021

I recently presented a webinar explaining the specific Zero Trust requirements for IoT/OT networks: Endpoint visibility. All these security events are reported to Cisco SecureX for investigation and remediation. Learn more by watching the replay of the webinar I recently presented. What about you?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Yutao Dong, Qing Li, Kaidong Wu, Ruoyu Li, Dan Zhao, Gareth Tyson, Junkun Peng, Yong Jiang, Shutao Xia, Mingwei Xu Many thanks to USENIX for publishing their outstanding USENIX Security ’23 Presenter’s content, and the organizations strong commitment to Open Access.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2022

Seeing the opportunity presented by the near overnight closure of office spaces, for example, the volume of targeted phishing attacks skyrocketed. More investment is also being directed at enhancing the security stack with ‘cloud first’ strategies instead of traditional on-premises spend.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020. It’s no secret that last year’s abrupt exodus away from corporate offices presented organizations with novel challenges related to monitoring and securing their newly remote workforce. A graphical depiction of the Security Logging and Analytics On-premises Architecture.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

Preamble: The great network visibility blackout of 2020. It’s no secret that last year’s abrupt exodus away from corporate offices presented organizations with novel challenges related to monitoring and securing their newly remote workforce. A graphical depiction of the Security Logging and Analytics On-premises Architecture.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2022

While TLS is being used to secure traffic between clients and servers on the internet, it does so by using unidirectional authentication — the server presents a digital certificate to prove its identity to a client. Mutual TLS (mTLS) addresses this security challenge by protecting communication between microservices in a service mesh.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

That said, other factors such as the “elite” network and data access the VPN often provides, as well as technical weaknesses around passwords and the authentication process, also played a part. At the same time, realizing the opportunity, cybercriminals took advantage of weaker security systems and increased attacks, specifically on VPNs.”.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

CISA does not presently have data regarding the percentage of agencies that have segmented and segregated their internal networks. CISA continues to develop and promulgate guidance to encourage network segmentation, including to drive adoption of zero trust architectures.".

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 12, 2023

Some courses are tailored to a specific discipline, while others may be broader, covering areas such as network security , ethical hacking, and more. As well as knowledge sharing, this network can present new opportunities in terms of career advancement, collaborations, and partnerships.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

This will not only help better test the architectures that need to be prioritized, but it will provide all sides with a clear understanding of what is being tested and how it will be tested. This ensures the entirety of the network and its endpoints are marked for testing and evaluation. This presents several challenges.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

Weaker solutions tended to churn out a high number of false positives, which, in turn, exacerbated the security analyst talent shortage. We also have a really broad offering in network security. They imagine a day when they invisibly secure a customers’ code from the first build.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Consider adopting network security measures like intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) to identify and prevent harmful traffic from reaching your RocketMQ server. This architecture reduces the size of the operating system by introducing “ghost files” that refer to different system volumes.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

With various Linux builds and distributions at the heart of cloud infrastructures, mobile and IoT, it presents a massive opportunity for threat actors,” he wrote. However, with more than 30 billion IoT devices expected to be connected to the internet by 2026, attacks against them can have wide-ranging impacts.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

If it’s an accident, then geez, you’re not managing your environment and you don’t have effective security architecture to prevent exposure of assets. To do information security well, you have to take care of the details. So, how can CISOs operationalize that kind of information?

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no secret that the shift to remote working at the start of the pandemic presented challenges for security professionals who were tasked with quickly mobilizing their new remote workforce and securing the network in this new environment.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Moreover, understanding basic best practices and the varied variety of software contributing to good IaaS cloud security improves your capacity to construct a strong defense against prospective attacks. What Is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Security?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

CISA does not presently have data regarding the percentage of agencies that have segmented and segregated their internal networks. CISA continues to develop and promulgate guidance to encourage network segmentation, including to drive adoption of zero trust architectures.".

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In this period, agents are installed on network devices, adequately configured, validated, and capable of demonstrating incident detection workflows. Architecture: Identifies network resources and connectivity requirements for agents. Configuration: Deploy Collectors and establish event sources, agents, and systems.

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