Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Very important files and documents can be encrypted or stored in password protected folders to keep them safe from prying eyes. Use a firewall and VPN A firewall protects an entry point to a network while a VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between two networks. Both can be used to protect your network.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

iLnkP2p is bundled with millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including security cameras and Webcams, baby monitors, smart doorbells, and digital video recorders. Many IoT devices can punch holes in firewalls using a feature built into hardware-based routers called Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A large cache of more than 500 documents published to GitHub last week indicate the records come from i-SOON , a technology company headquartered in Shanghai that is perhaps best known for providing cybersecurity training courses throughout China. A marketing slide deck promoting i-SOON’s Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) capabilities.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

(a.k.a “ZyXEL”) is a maker of networking devices, including Wi-Fi routers, NAS products and hardware firewalls. A snippet from the documentation provided by 500mhz for the Zyxel 0day. Zyxel’s advice for those users is simply “do not leave the product directly exposed to the internet.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

“Our Litigation Firewall isolates the infection and protects you from harm. Thousands of documents, emails, spreadsheets, images and the names tied to countless mobile phone numbers all could be viewed or downloaded without authentication from the domain theblacklist.click.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Related: How PKI could secure the Internet of Things If that sounds too complicated to grasp, take a look at the web address for the home page of this website. For websites, it does this by distributing digital certificates – electronic documents – which are issued by companies known as certificate authorities , or CAs.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Chances are strong that your corporate website uses a CMS, and perhaps you have a separate CMS for documents and other files shared by your employees, partners, and suppliers. As every computer security professional knows, if anything is on the Internet, it’s subject to increasingly sophisticated attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A DoS attack that caused disruptions at a power utility in the United States exploited a flaw in a firewall used in the facility. The incident took place earlier this year, threat actors exploited a known vulnerability in a firewall used by the affected facility to cause disruption. ” states the NERC document. and 7 p.m.,

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Be sure to secure server rooms, document archives, and other sensitive areas that could be involved in the incident. When creating a BCP, the following guiding questions can serve as a starting point: How would the organization function if critical systems such as computers, laptops, servers, email, and the Internet were unavailable?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's the right approach?

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Cisco Security

MAY 27, 2021

The remote is a virtual appliance that you run behind your firewall to broker requests from the cloud. The remote also requires outbound connectivity to the internet over TCPS port 8883 to the SecureX cloud. 0031 – Secure Firewall – Microsoft Online Dynamic Object Update.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

Privilege and other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, Excel, Office, PowerPoint, Malware Protection Engine, Internet Explorer and more (27 in all). Here’s some of the advice detailed in the document. The Linux Kernel and Apache Tomcat. Oracle Java SE and VirtualBox. Network Architecture and Design.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Deploy DDoS Monitoring : Watch for signs of an attack and document attacks for future improvements. For effective DDoS defense, priority for patching and updates should be placed on devices between the most valuable resources and the internet such as firewalls, gateways , websites, and applications. User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2021

Its XGS Series Firewall appliance does a Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection that is 5 times faster than what the other models offer. Sophos XStream FireWall Architecture appliance is offered with a feature of zero day protection, identification that block the most advanced threats lurking in the threat landscape.

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DoublePulsar

OCTOBER 22, 2024

At the time, it turned out no patches were available, no CVE had been allocated, and they hadn’t decided to publicly document what was happening. FortiManager is a product you sit centrally to manage a load of FortiGate firewalls. How common are FortiGate firewall vulnerabilities, you ask? But, well, it’s been a while.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 22, 2023

External Vulnerability Scan An external vulnerability scan tests assets outside your network and targets IT infrastructure, such as websites, ports, services, networks, systems, and applications exposed to the internet.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The documents appeared to be associated with internal invoices, communications, and customer’s stored CRM files. Cloud-based customer relationship management systems allow a business or another organization to manage interactions with customers, store documents or other important business data and allow them to access it from anywhere.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

However, when your DMZ network includes a proxy server, administrators also have the option to filter all internal internet usage through the DMZ. The DMZ should be set up with at least one gateway device (typically a firewall ) that will filter external network packets through to the DMZ and monitor for unusual traffic or activity.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

There’s even illegal pornography and leaked classified documents. The philosophy behind Bitcoin traces to the earliest days of the open internet. Two distinct forks would soon emerge, one behind China’s Great Firewall and one outside. There are advertisements, and several prayers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

To perform the experiment, we used Internet of Things (IoT) search engines to search for open devices that utilized common printer ports and protocols. After filtering out most of the false positives, we were left with more than 800,000 printers that had network printing features enabled and were accessible over the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Documenting and Implementing Procedures. Citrix recommends that organizations have fully documented and implemented procedures for all activities that may create cybersecurity risks. Also read : Thousands of Data Center Management Apps Exposed to Internet. Just being on the Internet exposes an enterprise to cybersecurity risk.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Let us start with the abbreviations that define the categories of information security products: WAF stands for Web Application Firewall , NGFW stands for Next Generation Firewall. NGFW (or Next Generation Firewall) is an evolution of traditional firewalls and serves to delimit access between network segments.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

An application gateway, also known as an application level gateway (ALG), functions as a critical firewall proxy for network security. Understanding ALGs involves knowing how they work, their pros and cons, and how they integrate with or differ from other types of firewalls.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

Network diagrams should document all connections to systems that store, process, or transmit information. Firewalls should be implemented between any wireless networks and the organization’s internal network. Firewall rules should be audited, verified, and updated at least semi-annually. Protect the exchange of information.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Court documents depict in some detail how Thompson misused authenticated and authorized credentials to perform her attack. Many organizations, for instance, continue to rely heavily on legacy firewalls and WAFs, which, of course, is precisely where Capital One went wrong. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

Follina , is a vulnerability in Microsoft Diagnostics Tool (MDST), exploited by persuading victims to open Word documents, which can enable the attacker to execute arbitrary code. “This activity continues China’s pattern of exploiting internet-facing devices, especially those used for managed security purposes (e.g.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K. billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After opening the URL distributed on the email body, a ZIP file is then downloaded from the Internet. By opening an URL it downloads from the Internet (Cloud services) a ZIP file with an MSI executable inside ( 1, 2 ). GetAddrInfoW ” call, we can observe the moment the malware downloads the next stage from the Internet (AWS S3 bucket).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Doctor Chaos

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Created in 2013, the framework documents in detail countless cyberattack strategies. When employees aren’t protected by office firewalls, they are at the mercy of whatever defenses their Internet and devices have. MITRE ATT&CK stands for Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Policies typically will be written documents that detail the requirements that will be enforced, such as password complexity. Unauthorized devices may be blocked or quarantined.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. Passwords can be found in p roduct documentation and compiled lists available on the Internet.”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 11, 2022

It uses specific methods for each browser to exfiltrate the data stored in the target browsers: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge. Spyware.FFDroider creates an inbound whitelisting rule in the Windows Firewall to allow itself to communicate, which requires administrative privileges. cn/eg/fr/de/in/it/co.jp/nl/pl/sa/sg/es/se/ae/co.uk/com/com.au/com.br/mx/tr

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2024

To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker just needs to create a malicious printer configuration, but in order to run the code, the user must be persuaded to print any document on that printer. It stems from being able to create a malicious.url file that bypasses Microsoft Edge and runs an old version of Internet Explorer.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Aside from the antivirus feature, it offers features like a Windows firewall, smart app control, device health, family options, browser control, and robust security settings. Firewall and network protection : Microsoft Defender’s built-in firewall actively monitors private and public network traffic, preventing unauthorized connections.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 18, 2022

There is, however, a next step: Documenting policies. IT practitioners sometimes become confused about the definition of a security policy because security practitioners use the word “policy” as terminology for two very different purposes: Implemented IT policies incorporated into operating system, firewall, or network rules.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s important to prepare the network and firewalls in advance, then follow seven major steps to configure your DMZ’s protocols and rules. We recommend determining in advance every service you want to host, how many firewalls you plan to implement, and which traffic you want to allow and block.

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