Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Bill Hagestad examines how China's culture and troubled history of western colonialism influenced its government views and actions regarding the global internet and its interactions with western technology companies such as Google and Nortel - check it out. Colonel (Ret.)

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies linked a small office/home office (SOHO) router botnet, tracked as KV-Botnet to the operations of China-linked threat actor Volt Typhoon. ” reads the report published by Lumen Technologies. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The order aims at preventing threat actors could exploit the vulnerability in attacks against government systems. Log4j is very broadly used in a variety of consumer and enterprise services, websites, and applications—as well as in operational technology products—to log security and performance information.” beta9 to 2.14.1.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 14, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to update the Privacy Framework to Version 1.1. However, in response to recent developments in information technology, including the release of NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) and the initiation of an update to NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to Version 2.0,

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

In the early 1990s, the Internet industry needed to move packets as fast as possible because some marketing genius came up with the idea that everyone could have “Unlimited Internet Access” for $9.95 Those people belong in the Internet Hall of Fame. Truth be told, AOL made the Internet, the Internet.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. This activity results in a rich matrix of overlapping threat feeds that, if all of the slices could somehow be combined, would present a heat map of an Internet throbbing with malicious traffic that unceasingly changes and steadily intensifies.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Related: Lessons learned from Capitol One breach Most of the promising new technologies I’ve had the chance to preview this year validate this notion. Containerized firewall Cleaning up traffic at the router level makes good sense. Companies are diving off the cliff into hybrid cloud networks and Internet of Things systems.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

This could be those without antivirus protection, young internet users or, unfortunately, your elderly loved ones. While a handful of common scams against older citizens are conducted in person, the majority are enabled or made more convincing by the use of technology. Use reputable anti-virus software and firewalls.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today, technological advances have seen a rise in cyber security threats globally. Besides, cybercriminals are becoming craftier with sophisticated technology. The Internet network is vulnerable as cybercriminals are lurking online, waiting to intercept loopholes for hacking systems. Security Systems.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

Firewall rules are preconfigured, logical computing controls that give a firewall instructions for permitting and blocking network traffic. This includes protecting data from internet threats, but it also means restricting unauthorized traffic attempting to leave your enterprise network.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Rather than doors, locks and vaults, IT departments rely on a combination of strategies, technologies, and user awareness training to protect an enterprise against cybersecurity attacks that can compromise systems, steal data and other valuable company information, and damage an enterprise’s reputation. What is Cybersecurity Risk Management?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

The Industry Information technology's ability to connect and communicate has become integral to our society here in the digital age. We rely on it for communication between individuals, businesses, governments, and organizations. Encryption, Patches, and Firewalls: Let’s start with protection. What can be done?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Technology oversight is a common mandate across IT and security frameworks and compliance specifications, but achieving that oversight is difficult. First, technology and operational intelligence, across the myriad of users, endpoints, applications and infrastructure, is siloed and fragmented. By Scott Gordon, CISSP, Oomnitza .

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed this week in a letter that better cyber hygiene – specifically, blocking SolarWinds Orion servers from outbound internet traffic – could have helped prevent the supply chain attack. (“SolarWinds letters” by sfoskett at [link] is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In general, contractors must be prepared to divulge details about the people, technology, facilities and external providers — just about anything that intersects with their position in the supply chain. is the stick the federal government is using to hammer cybersecurity best practices into the defense department’s supply chain.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

government that specializes in conducting large-scale cyber attacks on other countries. Evidence related to cyber attacks and data theft on the Internet, involving 13 people who directly launched cyber attacks against China in the United States, as well as more than 60 contracts signed by the NSA with U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. Volt Typhoon targets internet-facing Fortinet FortiGuard devices to achieve initial access to targeted organizations.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 7, 2022

government has connected to the GRU. The DOJ discusses the operation in a recent statement: "The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet. How was Cyclops Blink shutdown? Back in February, the U.K.'

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. Traditional firewalls protect the network perimeter, enforcing security standards by regulating incoming and outgoing traffic according to rules and traffic analysis. Why Is There a Need for FWaaS?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

This article will explore the nature of MSSPs and how they can help businesses, nonprofits, governments, and other organizations have better security with less effort. Managed firewall services setup, configure, and maintain physical or virtual firewall appliances and then monitor alerts to respond to threats detected by the firewall.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Reports that the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used by governments to spy on Apple iPhones used by journalists, activists, government officials and business executives is becoming a global controversy for NSO, Apple and a number of governments at the center of the scandal. Journalists, Government Officials Targeted.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? million and grown to 42 employees, winning customers in leading media firms, financial services companies and government agencies in the Nordics. That’s improved as MSSPs incorporate advanced services.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

million current, former and prospective US government employees and their family members. The Latest Security Law Illustrates The Chinese Government’s Love-Hate Relationship with The Internet. Other sections reflects the government’s focus on tightening policies for China’s internet companies.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. CISA refers to any malicious cyber activity from the North Korean government as Hidden Cobra.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2021

Two years from now, 5G technology is predicted to host 25 billion device connections. There is, however a seriousness consideration to this new technology; data security. One solution is a “shared responsibility” model, which, by its name alone, infers how complex this new technology is; simply too big for one security custodian.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

government announced the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. government announced that it had dismantled the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. “The Russian government has recently used similar infrastructure to attack Ukrainian targets.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Further, all computers shared the same password for remote access and appeared to be connected directly to the Internet without any type of firewall protection installed,” the report continued. When people’s health and safety are at risk, government will feel compelled to step in.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2021

The reliability of their services can be impaired by cyberattacks on the IT and operational technology (OT) systems that support their operations. But this separation has narrowed as the industry incorporates new grid management systems, and utilities install millions of smart meters and other internet-enabled devices. A recent U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. In Silicon Valley, the initial technology seeds were planted in World War II, when the U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The proliferation of cloud computing, mobile device use, and the Internet of Things has dissolved traditional network boundaries. The protocols for a Zero Trust network ensure that specific rules are in place to govern the amount of access granted and are based upon the type of user, location, and other variables. The answer is simple.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

The Industry Information technology's ability to connect and communicate has become integral to our society here in the digital age. We rely on it for communication between individuals, businesses, governments, and organizations. Encryption, Patches, and Firewalls: Let’s start with protection. What can be done?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2022

For IT professionals and facility administrators, it is a term that governs the common features, technology, consumables, and security present in an office environment. First, what is the best way to provide technology management for users in our new COE? COE stands for Common Office Environment. So how does this affect the COE?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. This bill demonstrates that governments can, and will, be involved in regulating IoT devices. Attacks that infect a high volume of devices with a direct internet interface (i.e.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

One in four internet users use a VPN regularly, but how much does the average user know about what goes on behind the software? Pulling back the curtain, a VPN runs on various VPN protocols that govern the way a VPN client communicates with a VPN server. Firewalls can easily block it because it only communicates over UDP.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

Some people think that VPNs are only useful for doing things like torrenting, accessing geo-locked content, or getting around work/school/government firewalls. VPNs will slow down my internet connection. The technology has improved over the years and VPNs have become faster and more efficient.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

VPNs and RDP both enable remote access that can put an intruder deep inside the firewall. The attackers targeted defense contractors, financial institutions and governments from around the globe and stole account credentials that could be used in deeper attacks. Conversely, Zero Trust has gained some material traction.

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