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Cisco fixes 34 High-Severity flaws in IOS and IOS XE software

Security Affairs

Two vulnerabilities can allow authenticated attackers with local access to the target devices to execute arbitrary code. One vulnerability can be exploited by an authenticated attacker to access some parts of the user interface they normally should not be able to access.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. One way or another, the fact persists that search engine abuse can amplify the problem.

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Stories from the SOC: Fighting back against credential harvesting with ProofPoint

CyberSecurity Insiders

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. DMARC is a protocol used to authenticate emails and prevent phishing attacks by verifying the sender’s domain.

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Threat Trends: Firewall

Cisco Security

In any perimeter defense a key component is firewalls—the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. In this Threat Trends release, we’ll be looking at Cisco Secure Firewall. The goal is to highlight the common threats that organizations encounter and block with Secure Firewall. Secure Firewall version 7.0

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

Spear phishing is a highly effective technique as it uses personalization, mind manipulation, and social engineering to exploit human vulnerabilities. Using Social Engineering Methods Social engineering involves the manipulation of people’s psychology so that they respond in a specific way.

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Back to the Future of Firewall

Cisco Security

As a network and workload security strategy leader, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the good old network firewall. Spoiler alert: I’m not going to join the cool club of pronouncing the firewall dead. The two main problems for the firewall to overcome in all those new deployment scenarios are insertion and visibility.

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Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) environments.

CyberSecurity Insiders

GoDaddy, Network Solutions) DNS service (E.g., If privilege escalation is possible from within an already-authenticated account, the mechanism by which that occurs must be thoroughly documented and monitored (logged) too. Akamai, CloudFront) Certificate providers (E.g., PCI DSS v4.0