Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Fortinet has recently fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The vulnerability in the management interface of FortiWeb firewall was discovered by Andrey Medov, from cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A circuit-level gateway (CLG) is a firewall feature that acts as a proxy and filters packets based on session information. CLGs are important because they provide specialized security filtering and prevent the discovery of IP addresses and open ports on CLG-protected devices.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2024

Jim and I talk about the findings of DirectDefense’s latest Security Operations Threat Report and dig into the intriguing ways artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping both cyberattack and defense automation strategies. Jim Broome is the President and CTO at DirectDefense.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security. Despite this, physical security must be implemented correctly to prevent attackers from gaining physical access and taking whatever they desire.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In early October, Fortinet addressed the critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684, that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. On October 18, Fortinet confirmed the critical authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. ” concludes the post.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

They dropped hidden payloads or used internet protocol (IP) scanning tools, such as Angry IP Scanner, to search for vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports or by leveraging RDP on Microsoft Windows environments. “Once they discover an exposed RDP service, the actors use open source brute force tools to gain access.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

UPnP is an insecure protocol, it uses network UDP multicasts, and doesn’t support encryption and authentication. “It is recommended that your QNAP NAS stay behind your router and firewall without a public IP address. Only use encrypted HTTPS or other types of secure connections (SSH, etc.).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2023

. “Executables written in Golang tend to be dedicated to scanning, brute-forcing and propagation, and a fork of the zmap internet scanning utility has often been observed.” This campaign specifically targets SSH servers exposed to the internet with password authentication enabled. ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The technologies for secure remote access can range from VPNs and multi-factor authentication to more advanced access and zero trust controls. We’ll cover a range of best practices for remote access security, from the simple and the practical to the more advanced. It will only require your biometrics or hardware tokens.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Sophos Firewall affected by a critical authentication bypass flaw Mar 20- Mar 26 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict Security Affairs newsletter Round 358 by Pierluigi Paganini Western Digital addressed a critical bug in My Cloud OS 5 CISA adds 66 new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Umbrella is Cisco’s cloud-based Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) platform that provides users with multiple levels of defense against internet-based threats. Umbrella integrates secure web gateway, firewall, DNS-layer security, and cloud access security broker (CASB) functionality to protect systems against threats.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

. “A buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious request to the firewall. “This flaw exists pre-authentication and within a component (SSLVPN) which is typically exposed to the public Internet.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

.” The researchers reported the issues to the United States Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which assigned the following five CVEs: Use of Hard-coded Credentials CWE-798 ( CVE-2023–1748 , CVSS3.0: Improper Authentication Validation CWE-287 ( CVE-2023–1752 , CVSS3.0:

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Nearly all CMS platforms, whether traditional or headless, offer some level of built-in security to authenticate users who are allowed to view, add, remove, or change content. Best security practices. or higher) encryption protocol, because systems using an older version of TLS are a security risk.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Researchers at the threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered a new wave of phishing attacks targeting multiple organizations that are abusing the ngrok platform, a secure and introspectable tunnel to the localhost. Users of ngrok and other tunnelling services are advised to obtain authorization from their information security teams.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7) CVE-2021-33882 – Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CVSS 8.2) CVE-2021-33883 – Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information (CVSS 7.1) An attacker doesn’t need any authentication to conduct the attack.

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SecureList

MARCH 12, 2024

Broken Authentication 5. Broken Authentication 5. Recommendations provided in these rankings are general in nature and based on information security best practices standards and guidelines, such as OWASP and NIST. Mitigation: implement authentication and authorization controls according to the role-based access model.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

The hackers were also able to turn off the two-factor authentication (2FA). On March 17-18th, 2023, GENERAL BYTES experienced a security incident. “Please keep your CAS behind a firewall and VPN. With VPN/Firewall attackers from open internet cannot access your server and exploit it.

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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. “Do On 12 August 2021 Kaseya released version 10.5.5-2

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

“A buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS) and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious request to the firewall. This flaw exists pre-authentication and within a component (SSLVPN) which is typically exposed to the public Internet.”. 6.5.1.12, 6.0.5.3,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In order to conceal malicious traffic, the threat actor routes it through compromised small office and home office (SOHO) network devices, including routers, firewalls, and VPN hardware. Volt Typhoon targets internet-facing Fortinet FortiGuard devices to achieve initial access to targeted organizations. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2022

ElasticSearch lacks a default authentication and authorization system – meaning the data must be put behind a firewall, or else run the risk of being freely accessed, modified or deleted by threat actors. “This could have gone very badly if bad guys had found it before we did,” said a spokesperson for Cybernews. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

These are essential elements of implementing a Zero Trust strategy for IoT/OT. • Reduce the attack surface by eliminating unnecessary internet connections to OT control systems and implementing VPN access with multi-factor authentication (MFA) when remote access is required. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Section 3 Sensitive authentication data must now be encrypted or protected if stored before authorization. Section 6 A requirement coming into force in March 2025 is that organisations will need to have a web application firewall in place for any web applications exposed to the internet.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Researchers discovered approximately 12,000 Juniper SRX firewalls and EX switches vulnerable to a recently disclosed CVE-2023-36845 RCE flaw. VulnCheck researchers discovered approximately 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper SRX firewalls and EX switches that are vulnerable to the recently disclosed remote code execution flaw CVE-2023-36845.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

.” The US CISA agency also published a security advisory to warn of risks associated with the successful exploitation of the flaws in the B&R Automation systems. Locate control system networks and remote devices behind firewalls, and isolate them from the business network.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Windows 7 and Server 2008 users can prevent unauthenticated attacks by enabling Network Level Authentication (NLA), and the threat can also be mitigated by blocking TCP port 3389. Security experts believe it is a matter of time before threat actors will start exploiting it in the wild. Enable Network Level Authentication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

Here are the simple tips for API security, let’s have a look! Authentication. To increase the complexity of hacking your device, always get to know who is calling your APIs, by using a simple access authentication (user/password) or an API key (asymmetric key). Call Security Experts. API Firewalling.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

“What zero trust is helping us [to do] is manage the new environment, the new ecosystem we have to support now,” said Mauricio Guerra, Dow Jones Chemical’s director of global information security in keynote at the RSA Conference May 18. Click here for more coverage of the 2021 RSA Conference. Now it’s different.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Enforce multi-factor authentication. See Supplementing Passwords for more information. Enable a personal firewall on agency workstations, configured to deny unsolicited connection requests. Disable file and printer sharing services.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Once compromised the eDNS servers, the attackers deployed a custom backdoor, tracked as SLAPSTICK, that allowed them to access the Solaris Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM). Crowdstrike collected evidence of the use of password-spraying attempts using extremely weak either third-party-focused passwords (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

. “ CVE-2019-10149 , which was first discovered on June 5, is now being used as the vulnerability for a widespread campaign to attack exim servers and propagate across the Internet.” In case OpenSSH is not present, it will install it and start it to gain root logins via SSH using a private/public RSA key for authentication.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

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. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. Keep operating system patches up-to-date.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

The CIS Security Controls, published by SANS and the Center for Internet Security (SIS) and formerly known as the SANS 20 Critical Security Controls , are prioritized mitigation steps that your organization can use to improve cybersecurity. The controls advocate for the use of automated information security software.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

According to the latest Cisco Annual Internet report , there will be 29.3 This massive explosion in device growth will increase reliance on APIs which brings increased security risk. Use strong authentication and authorization. and protocols like OpenID Connect to secure the sharing of sensitive company and user information.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

CISA reports provide the following recommendations to users and administrators to strengthen the security posture of their organization’s systems: • Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. the extension matches the file header).

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