Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. In addition to turning on the native anti-malware and firewall features in your operating system, also consider installing MalwareBytes as an extra layer of protection.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A good place to start is requiring employees to use strong passwords, setting appropriate Internet use guidelines and implementing strict rules around how customer information and data are handled. For example, it’s best not to surf the Internet with the same computer that you use to process payments. Back up your business information.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Despite billions of dollars spent on the latest, greatest antivirus suites, firewalls and intrusion detection systems, enterprises continue to suffer breaches that can be traced back to the actions of a single, unsuspecting employee. We’re easily distracted and we cling to our bad habits. It’s encouraging to see the good guys keeping pace.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to WatchGuard , Cyclops Blink may have affected approximately 1% of active firewall appliances, which are devices mainly used by business customers. Cyclops Blink has been found in WatchGuard’s firewall devices since at least June 2019. Internet access to the management interface of any device is a security risk.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Samsung S22 hacked Sophos fixed a critical flaw in its Sophos Firewall version 19.5

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Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

The data center also served as the gateway to the internet. All infrastructure within the enterprise was trusted and everything outside including the internet and DMZ was labeled as untrusted, so firewalls and other proper security devices were deployed at these boundaries mainly at the data center in order to protect the organization.

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

Pretending to be someone else, these hackers manipulate their victims into opening doors to systems or unwittingly sharing passwords or banking details. Once the criminal redirects internet traffic to malicious websites or takes control of servers, the damage is inevitable.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2021

Back in the mid-1990s, big banks and insurance companies came up with something called “bespoke assessments” as the approach for assessing third party vendor risk. No one, save threat actors, was paying close attention to the ramifications of granting a myriad of small- and mid-sized contractors privileged access inside the company firewall.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2025

Even if you take the time to manually erase data from your electronic devices, digital traces remain and cybercriminals can access these using specialized toolsgaining access to everything from your sensitive personal information and bank details to your photos and Social Security number. How likely is hacking after improper e-waste disposal?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? We’re protecting about 220 different brands, everything from companies with two people and an app, to big European banks.” I’ll keep watching and reporting. Talk more soon.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

The philosophy behind Bitcoin traces to the earliest days of the open internet. China might do this under the guise of a “patriotic” messaging campaign, publicly stating that it’s merely maintaining financial sovereignty from Western banks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2019

A couple of decades ago, when everything was on the company premises, sitting behind a firewall, security teams at least had a fighting chance to stay on top of things. The FBI arrested a 33-year-old Seattle woman and charged her with pilfering sensitive data for 100 million US and 6 million Canadian bank patrons. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's the right approach?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Launched in 2013 by Nir Polak, a former top exec at web application firewall vendor Imperva, Exabeam in just half a decade has raised an eye-popping $115 million in venture capital, grown to almost 350 employees and reaped over 100 percent revenue growth in each of the last three years. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

ngrok is a cross-platform application used to expose a local development server to the Internet, the server appears to be hosted on a subdomain of ngrok (e.g., The experts pointed out that ngrok server software runs on a VPS or a dedicated server and can bypass NAT mapping and Firewall restriction. 4f421deb219c[.]ngrok[.]io)

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Let us start with the abbreviations that define the categories of information security products: WAF stands for Web Application Firewall , NGFW stands for Next Generation Firewall. NGFW (or Next Generation Firewall) is an evolution of traditional firewalls and serves to delimit access between network segments.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Legacy perimeter defenses are rapidly losing efficacy as the landscape shifts to cloud computing and the Internet of Things. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Equifax lost data for 148 million citizens. One can only hope. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Capital One reportedly misconfigured a firewall and failed to keep close track of its AWS Management Console, which left access open to a laid-off Amazon technician, who was able to pilfer personal information for some 106 million bank patrons. Shifting responsibilities Ask Capital One how difficult that is. I’ll keep watch.

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Identity IQ

MARCH 9, 2023

IdentityIQ We rely on the internet, from communicating with loved ones on social media to working and conducting business. Connecting to a fake hotspot may unknowingly give criminals access to your personal information, including passwords, bank account information, and other sensitive data. Can Hackers Create Fake Hotspots?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2020

Nassar: On a personal level, we use our mobile devices to access just about everything from our email, to our banking, to social media collaboration, to sharing photos with family, it’s all in a cloud-mobile environment. Traditional security controls, like endpoint security, firewalls, proxies, etc., Are they being risky?

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Cisco Security

APRIL 29, 2021

The data center also served as the gateway to the internet. All infrastructure within the enterprise was trusted and everything outside including the internet and DMZ was labeled as untrusted, so firewalls and other proper security devices were deployed at these boundaries mainly at the data center in order to protect the organization.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

Microsoft declared that an Emotet attack took down an organization’s network by overheating all the computers and bringing its Internet access down. “He’d been told the organization had an extensive system to prevent cyberattacks, but this new virus evaded all their firewalls and antivirus software. .

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Thompson was thus able to manipulate APIs and command line interfaces (CLIs) to a number of bank systems, including S3 buckets holding valuable data. Many organizations, for instance, continue to rely heavily on legacy firewalls and WAFs, which, of course, is precisely where Capital One went wrong. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

Targeting Firewalls and IPS/IDS Appliances In the case of CVE-2022-42475, a flaw in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN, Mandiant observed a Chinese state-sponsored group exploiting the vulnerability in late 2022. firewalls, IPS/IDS appliances, etc.),” the researchers wrote.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 3, 2024

Multiple devices flooding your internet connection with traffic can cause slowdowns or crashes. This method is employed by hackers to overwhelm routers and firewalls with an excessive number of network connections. On the Internet, every entity is assigned an IP address for identification.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In the last few years, many banking trojans developed by Latin American criminals have increased in volume and sophistication. Javali trojan is active since November 2017 and targets users of financial and banking organizations geolocated in Brazil and Mexico. Background of Latin American Trojans.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

Some people think that VPNs are only useful for doing things like torrenting, accessing geo-locked content, or getting around work/school/government firewalls. VPNs will slow down my internet connection. So, you can have your banking app running, shielded by your VPN, and watch Netflix. VPNs are for illegal activity.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Bandura Cyber complements existing firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems. We can provide relief to a NextGen firewall that might be bogged down doing deep packet inspections, and enable organizations to use third-party intelligence from other sources,” he says. I’ll keep watch.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

Coyote: a multi-stage banking Trojan Developers of banking Trojans are constantly looking for new ways to distribute their implants. In a recent investigation, we came across new malware called Coyote that targets customers of more than 60 banking institutions, mainly from Brazil. Read our analysis here.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

When the internet arrived, the network added a firewall to protect networks and users as they connected to the world wide web. The internet of things (IoT), operations technology (OT), and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) also now connect to networks. In a complex, modern network, this assumption falls apart.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

Zero tolerance of downtime in factories, ports, banks, treatment plants, and other OT environments means that standard security practices like patch management or deploying protective solutions onto endpoints can be almost impossible to uphold. It also does not require an internet connection, updates to date telemetry, or modern OS versions.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

It enables us to stay connected on a personal level as well as provide essential services for banking, healthcare, transportation, and more. Internet of Things (IoT) : The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the telecom sector is a double-edged sword. Why are Telecom Sectors Targeted? What can be done?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Related: The case for a microservices firewall Netflix and Airbnb are prime examples of companies moving to single-page applications, or SPAs , in order to make their browser webpages as responsive as their mobile apps. The growth of APIs on the public Internet grew faster in 2019 than in previous years, according to ProgrammableWeb.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While its creators’ original 1983 design has undoubtedly proven itself by scaling to meet the demands of today’s internet, privacy just wasn’t a consideration 38 years ago; thus, the need for DoH. The real challenge comes in as DoH hides the DNS requests using SSL, just as your web browser does when connecting to your online banking website.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

Suspected Capital One hacker Paige Thompson was indicted for her alleged data breach and theft of more than 100 million people including 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 linked bank accounts. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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