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3 ways DNS filtering can save SMBs from cyberattacks

Malwarebytes

That’s where DNS filtering comes in. But first, DNS in a nutshell. So normally, every time your customer types in your web address, their computer makes a request to a DNS server. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go. But which web-based cyberthreats in particular does DNS filtering stop, you ask?

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 418 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 370 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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The Zero Click, Zero Day iMessage Attack Against Journalists

SecureWorld News

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. His phone did not set the SNI in the HTTPS Client Hello message and it did not perform a DNS lookup for bananakick.net. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect.

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Is Your Small Business Safe Against Cyber Attacks?

CyberSecurity Insiders

All businesses online and brick-and-mortar must have a cyber security plan in place because it is crucial for keeping your user data including passwords, and credit card numbers, secure and protected. . Some key points in a cyber security plan that you must consider are as follows: Strong passwords . Two-factor authentication .

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. “This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems. Rezvesz appears to have a flair for the dramatic , and has periodically emailed this author over the years.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 210 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading. Analyzing OilRigs malware that uses DNS Tunneling. Facebook admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users passwords in plaintext. Ecuador suffered 40 Million Cyber attacks after the Julian Assange arrest. Code execution – Evernote.