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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – October 16, 2023 – DDoS, Microsoft, Apple & Linux Lead a Busy Week

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The past week has been an eventful one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, from record DDoS attacks and three Microsoft zero-days to vulnerabilities in Linux, Apple, Citrix, and other widely used technologies. The botnet compromises these devices and enlists them in its DDoS swarm by exploiting several vulnerabilities in them.

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What Is DNS Security? Everything You Need to Know

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in the DNS cache for more efficient delivery of information to users. This additional and unsecured traffic can cause traditional DNS servers to struggle to meet the security standards for any organization to prevent attacks.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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DNS communicates in plain text and, without modification, DNS assumes that all information it receives is accurate, authentic, and authoritative. Organizations that manage their own servers will need to isolate, harden, maintain, and audit DNS servers the same as they would any other high-risk server managing sensitive information.

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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

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Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Migration challenges result in incomplete transfers, which expose critical information to risk. Collaborate with external cloud security specialists or managed service providers to enhance internal capabilities.

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October 2023 Patch Tuesday Includes Three Zero-Days Flaws

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for October 2023 covers a total of 103 CVEs, including three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting WordPad, Skype and the HTTP/2 “ Rapid Reset ” DDoS vulnerability. ” In some cases, the company advised, the information exposed could provide the attacker with access to internal networks.

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What Is Stateful Inspection in Network Security? Ultimate Guide

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This important feature uses header information from established communication connections to improve overall security. An understanding of how stateful inspection works, the key pros and cons, and its use cases provides important insight into how stateful inspection can be used successfully in a security stack.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – October 2, 2023 –  WS_FTP, Exim, Cisco and Other Exploited Vulnerabilities

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This shared certificate is then abused to bypass Cloudflare DDoS security and launch DDoS attacks against known server IP addresses. Exim Mail Server Critical RCE & Five Other Zero-Days Type of attack: Attackers can cause software crashes or remote code execution (RCE), or read information from vulnerable Exim mail servers.

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