Cisco Security

MAY 17, 2021

We’ve increased throughput by up to 30%—across enabled AVC, IPS, and VPN services—for the majority of Cisco Secure Firewalls. Today, we’re also announcing a new way forward: NetWORK security. It’s our vision for simplifying network, workload, and multicloud protection, by: Translating intent into action.

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The Hacker News

JULY 12, 2023

SonicWall on Wednesday urged customers of Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network reporting engine software to apply the latest fixes to secure against a set of 15 security flaws that could be exploited by a threat actor to circumvent authentication and access sensitive information.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2022

In April of 2013, CNN introduced the world to Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices, by publishing an article titled, Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet. The post Shodan: Still the Scariest Search Engine on the Internet?

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2022

Release Engineering, covered in Ch 8 of the SRE book (and related workbooks too ). Namely, people who hear about “release engineering” and say: my SOC neither releases nor engineers. In fact, back in 2016 we were creating a modern SOC model at Gartner and “detection engineering” was very much part of the SOC model.

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Hackology

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In an era of escalating cyber threats, enhancing network security is paramount. This article explores a comprehensive approach to network protection, encompassing network scanning, vulnerability and patch management, user access controls, network segmentation, and employee training.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2022

The post What Security Engineers Hate About SIEM appeared first on Security Boulevard. As an industry, we have reached a point where the SIEM platforms of yesteryear are too difficult to deploy, too slow to react and too expensive to meet the.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Kali Linux actually contains forensic tools, but the distro is meant for pentesting, and you usually have to install additional resources to perform malware analysis and reverse engineering correctly. The post REMnux: The Linux Toolkit for Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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SecureList

APRIL 19, 2021

On top of that, Ivan and Denis introduced the new Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering online self-study course, into which they have squeezed 10 years of their cybersecurity experience. With steganography they are trying to fool the network security systems like IDS/IPS: bitmaps are not too suspicious for them.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2022

In 2001, I joined a global retailer based in the Pacific Northwest as a network engineer. The post Confessions of a Network Engineer – Remote Access VPNs appeared first on Security Boulevard. My first task was to build out a remote access VPN. Little did I know that the.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The numbers never made sense to me, and Ben Rothke has dug in and explained the reality : …there is not a shortage of security generalists, middle managers, and people who claim to be competent CISOs. They are not looking for someone interested in security. In fact, security roles are often not considered entry-level at all.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The post BSidesPDX 2022 – Devin Gaffney’s ‘Reverse Engineering: How WAFs (Fail To) Identify Bots’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our sincere thanks to BSidesPDX 2022 for publishing their outstanding conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

As RSAC 2024 gets ready to open next week, the practicality of embedding advanced security tools in company-sanctioned web browsers is in the spotlight. I had a wide-ranging discussion about this with Uy Huynh, vice president of solutions engineering at Island , a leading supplier of enterprise browsers.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

He says he wrote Evading EDR to help experienced and up-and-coming security analysts grasp every nuance of how EDR systems work, from a vendor-agnostic perspective, and thus get the most from them. LW: From a macro level, do security teams truly understand their EDRs? Hand: I don’t believe so.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 6, 2023

This week: New research points to a trend in the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT with an increase in social engineering attacks. The post The Week in Security: Social engineering-attacks up with the rise of AI tools, Genesis Market seized appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2022

Our sincere thanks to Security BSides San Francisco for publishing their outstanding conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel. The post BSidesSF 2022 – Jackie Bow’s ‘Keynote: We Need More Mediocre Security Engineers’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

Cloud Alliance Engineering. Check Point is thrilled to announce support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s new Flexible Network Load Balancer with CloudGuard Network Security. This post was originally published by Jeff Engel. . Read more here: [link].

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identity-based and social engineering attacks still take center stage, according to the CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The shift to a Zero Trust security model has become a top priority for many organizations, driven by record levels of ransomware attacks and a rapidly expanding attack surface stemming from the move to remote work and accelerated cloud adoption. The post Zero Trust Race is On: Do You Have the Right Engine?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The post BSidesLV 2022 Lucky13 Proving Ground – Andrew Lewton’s ‘Reverse Engineering A DOS PC FMV Game From 1994’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Our sincere thanks to BSidesLV for publishing their outstanding conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2024

The OpenJS Foundation, which oversees multiple JavaScript projects, thwarted a takeover attempt of at least one project that has echoes of the dangerous backdoor found in versions of the XZ Utils data compression library that failed only because a Microsoft engineer incidentally discovered it.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2024

A beleaguered health care industry that already is a top target of cybercriminals is under attack again, with bad actors recently using social engineering techniques in calls to IT helpdesks to gain access into the systems of targeted organizations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

The vulnerability CVE-2024-3159 is an out of bounds memory access in V8 JavaScript engine. The flaw was demonstrated by Edouard Bochin (@le_douds) and Tao Yan (@Ga1ois) of Palo Alto Networks during the Pwn2Own 2024 on March 22, 2024. The exploitation can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information or a crash.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2022

Our sincere thanks to Security BSides San Francisco for publishing their outstanding conference videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Digital twins enable simulations to be run without risking harm to the physical entity; they help inform efficiency gains made in factories and assure the reliability of jet engines, for instance. Jetliner engines today very rarely fail catastrophically. Here are a few key takeaways: Triangulating heart failure.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s Help|About Time: Chrome’s “V8” JavaScript engine has high-severity vuln. The post Drop Everything: Update Chrome NOW — 0-Day Exploit in Wild appeared first on Security Boulevard. Scrotes already exploiting it.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

Network Security: Study network protocols, such as TCP/IP, and analyze common network attacks like DDoS, phishing, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Research network security mechanisms, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and virtual private networks (VPNs).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Nonprofits can bolster their network security by insisting on strong login credentials. Ransomware: This attack involves criminals holding a network and its precious data hostage until the enterprise pays the demanded amount. Strengthen authentication. Lack of proper staff training is the biggest culprit in this case.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2024

The post Threat Groups Rush to Exploit JetBrains’ TeamCity CI/CD Security Flaws appeared first on Security Boulevard. Those reports followed.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 18, 2023

Experts are worried that ChatGPT’s ability to source recent data about an organization could make social engineering and phishing attacks more effective than ever. The post When ChatGPT Goes Phishing appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Given how enterprise networks have become atomized, and how traditional network security technologies have been engineered, we’re dealing with far too many blind spots. The post Raise your hand if you have a pervasive view of your network…anyone? appeared first on Netography.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Social Engineering It’s been found that almost one-fourth of the data breach is carried out by using social engineering. method used for social engineering is phishing, wherein cybercriminals send legitimate- looking malicious emails intended to extort sensitive financial data. One common.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and the muPDF/Subliminal Recording software installer have been backdoored to perform a wide range of social engineering campaigns that started in April 2022. Admins and security teams can use them to assess potential attacks and block inbound traffic from listed IPs.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

Palo Alto Network’s cybersecurity recently outlined two vulnerabilities it found in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that, individually, don’t represent much of a threat.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The consistent implementation of firewall best practices establish a strong defense against cyber attacks to secure sensitive data, protect the integrity and continuity of business activities, and ensure network security measures function optimally. Why It Matters By restricting access, this strategy mitigates potential damage.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Researchers have reverse engineered NSO group’s recent zero-click iPhone exploit. The post NSO Zero-Click Exploit: Turing-Complete CPU in Image File appeared first on Security Boulevard. And it’s a doozy.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

11, 2018 – NetSecOPEN , the first industry organization focused on the creation of open, transparent network security performance testing standards, today announced that 11 prominent security vendors, test solutions and services vendors, and testing laboratories have joined the organization as founding members. Founding members.

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