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Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Block TCP 445/SMB outbound from your network by using a perimeter firewall, a local firewall, and via your VPN settings. Two More Critical Flaws Action1 vice president of vulnerability and threat research Mike Walters highlighted two other critical flaws in a blog post.

Energy and Utilities

Energy and Utilities Authentication Firewall Engineering

Information stealer compromises legitimate sites to attack other sites

Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart -alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command and control (C2) servers. The code used on the web skimming victims is designed to look like popular third-party services such as Google Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel.

Firewall

Firewall Ransomware Risk

Cyber Playbook: An Overview of PCI Compliance in 2022

Herjavec Group

MARCH 24, 2022

Internet-facing architecture that is being ASV scanned has grown more complex over the last years with the implementation of HTTPS load balancers, web application firewalls, deep packet inspection capable intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) systems, and next-gen firewalls. PCI Data Security Standards v4.0.

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The WordPress 4.2 XSS Vulnerability

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Given a previously approved comment , an attacker could create a malformed comment using approved HTML tags and tack on 64 kb of any character (perl -e ‘print “a” x 64000’). Deploy A Web Application Firewall (WAF). To learn more about website vulnerabilities, read the related blog post on the WordPress Genericons XSS Vulnerability.

Backups

Backups Firewall Malware

HTML Smuggling Techniques on the Rise: Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

HTML smuggling is an evasive technique that uses legitimate HTML5 or JavaScript features to make its way past firewalls and other security technologies. In this way, rather than having to directly maneuver malicious code through a network, the malware instead is built locally, already behind a firewall. What Is HTML Smuggling?

Firewall

Firewall Ransomware Banking Malware

Machine Identities are Essential for Securing Smart Manufacturing

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Every item in the inventory gets an RFID tag, and each tag has a unique identification number (UID) with encoded digital information about the item. After RFID readers scan the tags, the data extracted gets transmitted to the cloud for processing. Take control of your machine identities now with Venafi. "> Off. UTM Medium.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing IoT Authentication Artificial Intelligence

Zero-day in popular Yuzo Related Posts WordPress Plugin exploited in the wild

Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

” reads the blog post published by WordFence. Once deobfuscated, the script will create a new script tag with a source of [link] which will be injected into the head of the page. “Cases like this underscore the importance of a layered security approach which includes a WordPress firewall.”

Scams

Scams Advertising Authentication Firewall

French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

“It is possible that an infected computer is beaconing, but is unable to egress to the command and control due to outbound firewall restrictions.” ” A review of Majidi’s Facebook profile shows that phrase as his tag line, and that he has signed several of his posts over the years as “Fatal.001.”

DNS

DNS Penetration Testing Malware Hacking

Data Loss Prevention: Best Practices for Secure Data Management

Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Automated classification tags enable the institution to enforce stringent access controls and encryption measures, ensuring the utmost protection for sensitive financial data. User Education and Training: Building a Resilient Human Firewall The human element is the castle’s first line of defense.

Encryption

Encryption Education Risk Healthcare

How to Start a Secure Online Business from Home

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Then you can set up a business email address, develop high-level messaging for your business like a tag line, and design a logo or hire someone to do it for you. A web application firewall (WAF) to keep hackers out. Start a store blog with how-to videos, interviews, gift guides and other content to attract customers.

Marketing

Marketing eCommerce Internet Internet

6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. Beyond these daily handlers, ISC benefits from other users who willingly share performance data from their firewalls and intrusion detection systems.

Internet

Internet Internet Cybersecurity Malware

Lab Walkthrough?—?The WannaCry Ransomware

Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

cp -rf /root/Desktop/tools/html-templates/* /var/www/html/ls /var/www/html/ Modify the index.html file and paste the below code under the HTML <body> tag. <script> Commands: Step 4: Copy the HTML template files to the web server’s root folder. Originally published at [link].

Ransomware

Ransomware Encryption Cryptocurrency Banking

How a Web Application Firewall Benefits Your Website

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A web application firewall , or WAF, is like a bouncer for your website. And if you have a blog on your website, the WAF/CDN tag team can prevent hackers from filling your blog with irritating spam massages and comments. It acts as a filter to make sure the visitors to your online store don’t mean you any harm.

Firewall

Firewall Engineering Technology Malware

CIS 20 Controls: Utilizing CIS 20 Critical Controls for Vulnerability Prioritization

NopSec

JULY 18, 2017

With that in mind, in this blog post we’re covering 13 out of the 20 controls. Web application security testing could determine the effectiveness of Web Application Firewall guarding Internet-facing applications. The CIS 20 controls are also known to be relatively difficult to implement fully.

Wireless

Wireless Penetration Testing Software Authentication

Node.js Vulnerability Cheatsheet

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But the SOP does not limit javascript code, and the HTML <script> tag is allowed to load Javascript code from any origin. For instance, you can deploy a firewall that offers DoS protection, and prevent logic-based DoS attacks by setting limits on file sizes and disallowing certain file types. security issues. The post Node.js

Authentication

Authentication Encryption Engineering Firewall

The Ups and Downs of 0-days: A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022

Google Security

JULY 27, 2023

Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild [ 2021 , 2020 , 2019 ] and builds off of the mid-year 2022 review. Project Zero wrote about one of these cases in November 2022 in their “Mind the Gap” blog post.

Spyware

Spyware Manufacturing Internet Internet

Black Hat USA 2022: Creating Hacker Summer Camp

Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat USA NOC (Network Operations Center) blog, you will find: Adapt and Overcome. The NOC team continued the investigation on the spoofed MAC addresses, using syslogs, firewall logs, etc. As mentioned elsewhere in this blog, this was a conference of APIs.

Engineering

Engineering Wireless Malware DNS

Fighting API Bots with Cloudflare's Invisible Turnstile

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 21, 2023

Over the years, I've played with all sorts of combinations of firewall rules based on parameters such as geolocations with incommensurate numbers of requests to their populations, JA3 fingerprints and, of course, the parameters mentioned above. It happens.

Firewall

Firewall Authentication Internet Internet

Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, an IP tried AndroxGh0st Scanning Traffic against the Registration server, blocked by Palo Alto Networks firewall. In addition to the SPAN, we requested that Palo Alto send NetFlow from their Firewalls to CTB. The same script was then copied and amended to add tags to devices. However, it didn’t work.

Wireless

Wireless DNS Mobile Technology

Achieving SANS top 20 Critical Security Controls with Unified VRM

NopSec

JUNE 18, 2013

We will address one control on each blog post. Unified VRM has also a specific navigation tag called “Assets” to help visualize graphically the assets under management, including detailed OS fingerprinting, asset fingerprinting, asset tags and business impact, open ports and latest risk score.

Wireless

Wireless Penetration Testing Risk Architecture

Password Hash Cracking, User Cloning, and User Impersonation: Three Risks Every SAP Customer Should Know

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The vulnerability is tagged with a CVSS score of 9.6 Details about the report can be found in our blog post How Do You Check Old Hashes in Your ABAP System? This should be secured in general, e.g. by using firewalls. The most recent one was patched with SAP Security Note #3239152 in SAP’s October 2022 Patch Day.

Passwords

Passwords Risk Phishing Architecture

Black Hat Asia 2022: Building the Network

Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat Asia NOC blog, you will find: . While the Cisco Meraki Dashboard is extremely powerful, we happily supported exporting of logs and integration in major event collectors, such as the NetWitness SIEM and even the Palo Alto firewall. Meraki MR, MS, MX and Systems Manager by Paul Fidler .

Wireless

Wireless Mobile Engineering Firewall

Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. In line with our predictions, we released two blog posts in 2022 introducing sophisticated low-level bootkits.

Firmware

Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications

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Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw

Information stealer compromises legitimate sites to attack other sites

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Cyber Playbook: An Overview of PCI Compliance in 2022

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The WordPress 4.2 XSS Vulnerability

HTML Smuggling Techniques on the Rise: Microsoft

Machine Identities are Essential for Securing Smart Manufacturing

Zero-day in popular Yuzo Related Posts WordPress Plugin exploited in the wild

French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Data Loss Prevention: Best Practices for Secure Data Management

How to Start a Secure Online Business from Home

6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

Lab Walkthrough?—?The WannaCry Ransomware

How a Web Application Firewall Benefits Your Website

CIS 20 Controls: Utilizing CIS 20 Critical Controls for Vulnerability Prioritization

Node.js Vulnerability Cheatsheet

The Ups and Downs of 0-days: A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022

Black Hat USA 2022: Creating Hacker Summer Camp

Fighting API Bots with Cloudflare's Invisible Turnstile

Black Hat USA 2023 NOC: Network Assurance

Achieving SANS top 20 Critical Security Controls with Unified VRM

Password Hash Cracking, User Cloning, and User Impersonation: Three Risks Every SAP Customer Should Know

Black Hat Asia 2022: Building the Network

Advanced threat predictions for 2023

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