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Vulnerability Recap 4/15/24 – Palo Alto, Microsoft, Ivanti Exploits

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Threats range from severe weaknesses in Ivanti’s VPN appliances to zero-day exploits in popular software such as Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS and Telegram’s Windows client. Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security.

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Vulnerability Recap 3/19/24 – Microsoft, Fortinet & More

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March 8, 2024 150,000 Fortinet Secure Web Gateways Remain Exposed Type of vulnerability: Arbitrary code execution (ACE). The problem: The FortiOS SSL VPN feature vulnerability, CVE-2024-21762, disclosed February 8th , remains exposed to attack on nearly 150,000 devices according to the ShadowServer Foundation website.

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Vulnerability Recap 7/15/24 – Industry Patches vs Flaw Exploits

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Within 24 hours, exploits began attacking honeypot servers with remote access trojans, bitcoin miners, and DDoS botnets. This resulted in defenses being disabled and ransomware being deployed, as demonstrated by the EstateRansomware group’s attack on a failover server using FortiGate SSL VPN and RDP connections.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

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Anti-spam services focus on eliminating dangerous and annoying SPAM messages from inboxes through configuration and monitoring of email security and similar tools. Email security deploys tools , uses techniques, and implements protocols such as SPF , DKIM , and DMARC to prevent threats delivered via email and attachments.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Implement rate limiting to harden against DDoS and DNS tunneling attacks. Anti-DDoS configurations can enhance server architecture DDoS to protect DNS. Firewalls should be hardened to close unneeded ports.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

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Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks. DDoS protection services are offered by third-party vendors to combat these types of attacks.

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Cloudflare One SASE Review & Features 2023

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Cloudflare also stands out with ZTNA by default, IoT Isolation, and automated traffic controls and anti-DDoS capabilities. However, organizations looking to secure remote users for the first time will certainly be satisfied with the capabilities in the lower tiers.

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