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Why Small and Medium Sized Businesses Need More Than Just an AntiVirus Solution

Security Boulevard

Thankfully, nearly all malware depends on DNS at some point in their kill chain, making the protocol a critical vector for shutting down these threats. Some of the common forms these DNS-based attacks can take include: DNS spoofing: A malicious actor alters DNS records to redirect traffic to a fake website or server.

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7 Best Attack Surface Management Software for 2024

eSecurity Planet

per year Tenable Tenable One, an exposure management platform Identifies assets using DNS records, IP addresses, and ASN, and provides over 180 metadata fields Tenable Attack Surface Management, Add-on for Splunk ISO/IEC 27001/27002 $5,290 – $15,076.50

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Top Microsegmentation Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Improved threat detection and response times. DxOdyssey (DxO) is a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) solution that enables secure, available, per-application connectivity between remote users, edge devices, sites, and clouds. Express Micro-Tunnels have built-in failover and don’t require DNS resolution.

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Who’s Hacking You?

Webroot

DNS (Domain Name System) is especially vulnerable. One of the most common methods of infiltration includes internet-based attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and DNS poisoning. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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Detecting Targeted Attacks on Public Cloud Services with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics

Cisco Security

Denonia is a cryptocurrency mining software that is specifically designed to run on AWS Lambda, recently discovered by Cado Security on April 6th, 2022. Continuous Monitoring and Threat Detection in the Public Cloud using Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics. Analyzing Denonia. Domains: denonia[.]xyz. ctrl.denonia[.]xyz. gw.denonia[.]xyz.

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Threat Protection: The REvil Ransomware

Cisco Security

We looked at REvil, also known as Sodinokibi or Sodin, earlier in the year in a Threat Trends blog on DNS Security. In it we talked about how REvil/Sodinokibi compromised far more endpoints than Ryuk, but had far less DNS communication. Figure 1-DNS activity surrounding REvil/Sodinokibi. Creating a mutex.

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Palo Alto Networks latest security giant accused of patent infringement

SC Magazine

billion in damages, ruling the company copied at least four of Centripetal’s patented software and network security designs in their switches, routers and firewalls. Many of the innovations deal with specific methods for filtering network traffic data and rule-based network threat detection.

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