The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2024

The hacker was able to infiltrate the water treatment plant because its computers were running on an outdated operating system, shared the same password for remote access and were connected to the internet without a firewall. Stolen identities, bank fraud and account takeover are common outcomes. Irreversible damage.

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Architecture Internet Internet Risk 113

The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

A greater good has come from Capital One’s public pillaging over losing credit application records for 100 million bank customers. In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services.

Cloud Migration 214

Cloud Migration Banking Firewall Software 214

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.

Malware 145

Malware Firewall Firmware DDOS 145

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. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

Risk 221

Risk VPN Internet Internet 221

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?

VPN 95

VPN Antivirus Identity Theft DNS 95

The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2024

By high school, Jim had thrown himself into the nascent Internet: launching one of the biggest BBS-es (bulletin board systems) in Georgia – a community that was ultimately acquired by CompuServe, an early consumer-focused Internet service provider.

Cyber threats 52

Cyber threats Artificial Intelligence Threat Reports Technology 52

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.

VPN 120

VPN DDOS Internet Internet 120

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?

Telecommunications 105

Telecommunications IoT Firewall Encryption 105

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.

Network Security 98

Network Security Firewall Penetration Testing Encryption 98

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.

Social Engineering 166

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Banking 166

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted (..)

Cybercrime 90

Cybercrime Spyware Data breaches Antivirus 90

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.

Hacking 115

Hacking DNS Surveillance Cybercrime 115

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Definition, Threats & Protections Public Internet Threats If your enterprise network is connected to the public internet, every single threat on the internet can render your business vulnerable too. These threaten enterprise networks because malicious traffic from the internet can travel between networks.

Network Security 107

Network Security Firewall Internet Internet 107

SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2024

There, I served as a QA analyst for firewalls, where my responsibilities included verifying the functionality of one of the first next-generation firewalls (NGFW), at the time referred to as a Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall. This model, initially known as R57, was later launched as the R60 NGFW.

Cybersecurity 74

Cybersecurity Architecture Firewall Banking 74

Cytelligence

MARCH 3, 2023

In the 21st century, the internet has become an inseparable part of our daily lives. We need the internet to perform our daily tasks and to connect with the world around us. The Internet is essential to check daily mail and perform office tasks. The students depend on the internet for learning and projects.

Cyber Attacks 52

Cyber Attacks Internet Internet Firewall 52

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.

Internet 115

Internet Internet Banking Backups 115

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2020

Related: Defending networks with no perimeter Machine learning already is deeply embedded in the online shopping, banking, entertainment and social media systems we’ve come to rely on. Pitt points out that a big challenge for businesses today is that more than 80 percent of Internet traffic is encrypted.

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Encryption Firewall Digital transformation 149

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.

Risk 195

Risk Cyber Risk Insurance Banking 195

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Their products can be found in banks, government offices, critical infrastructure facilities, hospitals, police stations and courthouses, a range of military uses including army recruitment centers and drill halls, residential construction of all types, safe rooms, and schools. Can you extend that comparison?

Cybersecurity 295

Cybersecurity Marketing Government Firewall 295

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.

Cyber threats 136

Cyber threats Technology Firewall Ransomware 136

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.

Internet 80

Internet Internet Banking Backups 80

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.

Digital transformation 147

Digital transformation Risk Firewall Accountability 147

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.

Hacking 142

Hacking IoT Firmware Internet 142

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. We do the same thing for firewalls. That's an example of AI.

Internet 40

Internet Internet Insurance Cyber Insurance 40

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)

Phishing 120

Phishing Cybercrime Mobile Internet 120

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.

DDOS 171

DDOS Internet Internet Digital transformation 171

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?

Telecommunications 52

Telecommunications IoT Firewall Encryption 52

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.

Big data 157

Big data Internet Internet Digital transformation 157

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.

Encryption 159

Encryption Digital transformation Data breaches Banking 159

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.

Risk 345

Risk Password Management Passwords Accountability 345

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.”

DDOS 73

DDOS Hacking Internet Internet 73

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

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DNS 74

DNS Advertising Surveillance Malware 74

eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2022

The domain name system (DNS) is basically a directory of addresses for the internet. Most of the time, the hackers redirect users to a copy of the legitimate website to steal credentials or banking data. There is no firewall that can block these DNS requests. Your browser uses DNS to find the IP for a specific service.

DNS 136

DNS Encryption Penetration Testing Architecture 136

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.

Antivirus 113

Antivirus Malware Banking Internet 113

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.

VPN 138

VPN Encryption Mobile Surveillance 138

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The internet is everywhere, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). The term “Internet of Things” applies to any nonstandard computing device that connects to wifi and can transmit data. This way, if the device is breached, it doesn’t allow malicious access to any other internet connected device. Further reading.

IoT 52

IoT Passwords Internet Internet 52