The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

The Chinese government is well known for its censorship– and frequent harassment and intimidation of foreign journalists. China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ These are the foremost reasons China is ranked fourth worst globally regarding press freedoms.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

"As the commercial business world provides increasing technology support to local and national infrastructure, the scope of security expands beyond general commercial terms and underscores the importance of well established security vetting processes for both the vendors and government bodies." Include logging at no additional charge.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

With organizations around the world on heightened alert in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, government agencies have stepped up efforts too. Use centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) servers to manage administrative access to devices. Limit authentication attempts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

By redirecting the pointer to the Line Dancer interpreter, attackers can interact with the device through POST requests without authentication. Cisco Talos researchers tracked this cyber-espionage campaign as ArcaneDoor. Early in 2024, a customer contacted Cisco to report a suspicious related to its Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Multiple attacks against private organizations and government entities, especially during the pandemic, were carried out by threat actors by exploiting vulnerabilities in popular VPN systems. Select only solutions that support strong authentication credentials and protocols, and disables weak credentials and protocols by default.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

. “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user,” the company wrote. This will prevent the sending of NTLM authentication messages to remote file shares.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. “This is reachable pre-authentication, on every SSL VPN appliance,” French vulnerability researcher Charles Fol tweeted.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 22, 2021

Just to make sure we’re all up to speed, the PSN (Public Services Network) is a UK government network which was established to enable public-sector organizations to share resources easily. Authentication and access control, these include: Ensuring all passwords are changed from defaults. PSN compliance. Web servers. With CoCo: 2.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Some APT attacks may even be government-funded and nation-state actors. Once network presence is established, hackers can compromise authentication credentials to gain administrator rights for even more access. What’s most concerning about APT attacks are what — and who — is responsible. APT vs. a standard breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

Funnily enough, the key to protecting NFTs is first understanding their financial liability and the laws governing them. Cryptocurrency has been subjected to a rapidly changing balance of laws for the government to try and control it through regulation. Governmental regulations. Staying ahead.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

In July, Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) saw the vulnerability CVE-2023-35078, exploited by threat actors who spied on the Norwegian government, and earlier this month Tenable researchers discovered vulnerability CVE-2023-32560, which affects Ivanti’s Avalanche supply chain device management solution.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Authentication guarantees that users are who they say they are, typically through usernames and passwords or multi-factor authentication (MFA). Authorization governs what activities users are permitted to take after being authenticated. To enhance security in a public cloud environment: Use strong authentication.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

The experts from the DIVD privately reported two flaws to Kaseya in early July, the issues are respectively an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability and a privilege escalation flaw that could allow an attacker to change his role from read-only user to admin. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

In July, Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) saw the vulnerability CVE-2023-35078, exploited by threat actors who spied on the Norwegian government, and earlier this month Tenable researchers discovered vulnerability CVE-2023-32560, which affects Ivanti’s Avalanche supply chain device management solution.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2023

The first is CVE-2023-27350 which allows attackers to bypass the authentication required to utilize the Papercut NG 22.05 To counter such threats, individuals, businesses, and governments must prioritize cybersecurity measures, including robust firewalls, regular software updates, employee training, and incident response plans.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

China-linked hackers carried out cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks with TAIDOOR malware. China has been using #Taidoor malware to conduct #cyber espionage on governments, corporations, and think tanks. US government agencies published the Malware Analysis Report MAR-10292089-1.v1

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The protocols for a Zero Trust network ensure that specific rules are in place to govern the amount of access granted and are based upon the type of user, location, and other variables. Think of it like the government or military’s “need-to-know” policy. The Zero Trust journey. The answer is simple.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

An organization may meet minimum government or industry security requirements, but that doesn’t mean the organization is secure. Other components of a good cybersecurity posture include two-factor authentication and continuous cybersecurity monitoring. Fiction: Monitoring my edge firewall is the only monitoring needed.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Espionage and Political Motives In some cases, hackers may target organizations or governments for espionage or political reasons. State-sponsored hacking is a growing concern, with governments using cyberattacks to gather intelligence, disrupt infrastructure, or compromise national security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Those flaws are documented by MITRE , a government-funded organization that administers the CVE Program, which is meant to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Insecure authentication process such as flawed account recovery or password reset, or insecure session tokens.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

The Livingston firewall rapidly became replaced with Checkpoint running on Windows NT server, (Stop laughing, I actually set one up once). Cisco came to market with the PIX firewall, Netscreen came to market with the ASIC based firewall, and suddenly, security had a voice. Yes, that really happened back in the day.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Endpoint detection and response (EDR), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and the need for increased encryption, while implementing a zero-trust approach, were all called out as requirements within the order. Building and maintaining trust beyond the initial authentication is critical in a zero-trust framework.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. CISA refers to any malicious cyber activity from the North Korean government as Hidden Cobra.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

Government experts reported that threat actors are targeting Pulse Secure devices since June 2020 by attempting to exploit multiple know vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 , CVE-2020-8260 , CVE-2020-8243 , CVE-2021-2289. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In most cases, attacks targeting APIs go undetected as they are generally considered as trusted paths and lack the same level of governance and security controls. Exploitation of modern authentication mechanisms such as Oauth/Golden SAML to obtain access to APIs and persist within targeted environments. vulnerabilities. Orchestrator.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

28 NSA-CISA document (PDF download) urges buyers to use standards-based VPNs from vendors with a track record of swiftly addressing known vulnerabilities and using strong authentication credentials. Examine whether a product offers strong authentication credentials and protocols by default, as opposed to weak credentials and protocols.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Further, all computers shared the same password for remote access and appeared to be connected directly to the Internet without any type of firewall protection installed,” the report continued. When people’s health and safety are at risk, government will feel compelled to step in.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 15, 2022

The directive’s third section, entitled “Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity,” requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to begin moving to a zero trust architecture (ZTA). It also asked for nearly $10 billion to go to civilian cybersecurity programs across the government, reported FedScoop. on improving U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

Government Accountability Office (GAO) report notes that the energy industry faces “significant cybersecurity risks” because “threat actors are becoming increasingly capable of carrying out attacks.”. There is a common misconception that a robust firewall is enough to prevent unauthorized access to corporate networks. A recent U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

In addition, teams may be using operational frameworks that don’t enforce standardization and governance, as their API holdings skyrocket. That’s because the lack of control, security, and governance around APIs doesn’t just increase risks, it is also operationally inefficient.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

ransomware builder used by multiple threat actors Cisco fixes 3 high-severity DoS flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software Cybercrime Unpacking the MOVEit Breach: Statistics and Analysis Cl0p Ups The Ante With Massive MOVEit Transfer Supply-Chain Exploit FBI, Partners Dismantle Qakbot Infrastructure in Multinational Cyber Takedown U.S.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The pressing demands of the pandemic forced companies to focus on security fundamentals, such as anti-malware/anti-virus upgrades, multi-factor authentication and FireWall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) deployments. New hiring was flat.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Next-generation firewalls (NGFW).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

Pulling back the curtain, a VPN runs on various VPN protocols that govern the way a VPN client communicates with a VPN server. The protocol relies on encryption, authentication and peer-to-peer protocol (PPP) negotiation. Does not support Perfect Forward Secrecy One of the least secure protocols Firewalls can block PPTP.

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