The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free. However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Astoundingly, some 68 percent of phishing attempts have never been seen before and phishing is 45 times more dangerous than having data exposed, according to research presented by Google and University of Florida professor Daniela Oliveira at Black Hat USA 2023. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

It also eliminates the need for full VPN and avoids exposing those applications directly to the internet. Untrusted remote users need a secure way to navigate the internet and corporate firewalls to establish trust and gain access. No more firewall, no more AAA or whatsoever complicated thing. How does DNG for SMB work?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

CISA mentions that firewalls could have been used to neutralize the malware, limiting the impact of the breach. Does CISA agree that the SolarWinds malware could have been neutralized had victim agencies placed firewalls in front of the servers running SolarWinds Orion and configured them to block outgoing connections to 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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SecureList

JUNE 28, 2021

This post offers a condensed version of his presentation alongside the video, which you can view below. Deployed publicly on the Internet, honeypots mimick real devices, and, in essence, function like traps for the attackers targeting such devices. What are honeypots? However, from our experience, these mechanisms might not be enough.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

CISA mentions that firewalls could have been used to neutralize the malware, limiting the impact of the breach. Does CISA agree that the SolarWinds malware could have been neutralized had victim agencies placed firewalls in front of the servers running SolarWinds Orion and configured them to block outgoing connections to the internet?".

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

The development of the Internet and the distributed processing of information over shared lines has certainly made security a necessary duty. Network communication on the Internet follows a layered approach, where each layer adds to the activity of the previous layer according to the TCP/IP implementation paradigm.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

This requires a robust connection to the Internet (Lumen and Gigamon), firewall protection (Palo Alto Networks), segmented wireless network (Commscope Ruckus) and network full packet capture & forensics and SIEM (RSA NetWitness); with Cisco providing cloud-based security and intelligence support. From Russia With Love. urlscan.io.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

Leighton, who will present the closing keynote, "Cyber World on Fire: A Look at Internet Security in Today's Age of Conflict," at SecureWorld Chicago on June 8, said the targeting of Guam should be viewed as a key threat. Then by using tools present in the environment, they are aiming to remain persistent and evasive.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A next generation firewall (NGFW) performs deep packet inspection to check the contents of the data flowing through the firewall. Unlike more basic firewalls that only check the header of data packets, NGFWs examine and evaluate the payload data within the packet. Presentation 4. Internet 2. Application 4.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2020

Pitt maintains that machine learning needs to be trained to do things that are repeatable, so that once those frameworks are in place, it can be presented with more complex tasks. Pitt points out that a big challenge for businesses today is that more than 80 percent of Internet traffic is encrypted.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

And that’s certainly borne itself out in the IoT report where you have a 62%, greater flaw density, observable flaw density and environments where they are operating IoT devices on the internet. Let’s say you had a printer operating on the internet. If you have that IoT device, what had to go wrong?

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Webroot

MARCH 29, 2021

A firewall with the right threat intelligence embedded could have blocked communications with the command-and-control server thus preventing a Trojanized Orion install from connecting back to the attackers and stopping them from furthering the attack. Outside of the corporate firewall, it is the Wild West.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2021

Since the vulnerable DNS clients are usually exposed to the internet this creates a huge attack surface. Basically, you could say DNS is the phonebook of the internet. FreeBSD is widely used in firewalls and several commercial network appliances. Together they are used by over 100 Million devices. Some background.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 23, 2024

More remote management Has the vendor punched a hole through your firewalls to allow them to remotely support your systems? It’s now the go-to search engine for finding internet-connected devices. We then use Shodan to see how many similar devices are exposed to the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IaaS is a cloud computing model that uses the internet to supply virtualized computer resources. Security Misconfigurations Inadequately designed security settings, such as open ports, lax access restrictions, or misconfigured firewall rules, might expose infrastructure vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from SentinelOne have discovered a critical vulnerability ( CVE-2021-45608 ) in KCodes NetUSB component that is present in millions of end-user routers from different vendors, including Netgear, TP-Link, Tenda, EDiMAX, D-Link, and Western Digital. ” reads the report.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

To defend its web applications, the bank chose to go with an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF), called ModSecurity, along with an open-source Apache web server. Twenty years ago it was deemed sufficient to erect a robust firewall and keep antivirus software updated. Hunting vulnerabilities. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Criminal hackers recognized the golden opportunity presented by hundreds of millions employees suddenly using a company VPN to work from home and remotely connect to an array of business apps. VPNs and RDP both enable remote access that can put an intruder deep inside the firewall. RPD presents a similar exposure.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Continuing our #AskSecPro DDoS series where we last discussed Application Layer Attacks , today we’ll focus on some of the most popular protocol-based DDoS attacks we’ve seen hit our customers’ web application firewall , SiteLock TrueShield™ , over the years. Protocol-Based DDoS Attacks.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

There are personal stashes of data breaches all over the place and they're usually presented like this one: You'll recognise many of those names because they're noteworthy incidents that received a bunch of press. Ashley Madison. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 22, 2024 It's like I've seen it all before!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

These developments have made the perimeter so porous that the old approach of simply hiding behind a firewall and keeping the rest of the world at bay is no longer feasible. However, this reconnaissance or dwell period also presents an opportunity to stop the malware before it has activated. So where do we go from here?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2021

He added that “while being a man-in-the-middle is a frequently sought position for an attacker, when a company attains the same position, similar risks present themselves.”. Top Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors for 2021. Further reading: Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was a great look back at the beginnings of the WordPress and a look into the future of the open source software that powers over 30% of the internet. His presentation focused on the state of the Gutenberg editor project. If you didn’t know, WordPress celebrated it’s 15 year anniversary on May, 27th, just weeks before this event.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

“Although this attack chain presents a complete method to modify critical pump data, it is important to recognize the conditions required for this attack to be successful. “Could this attack take place over the internet? These pumps are designed to be network connected to a local internal network.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Lastly, Flash isn’t available on most mobile devices, which comprise the current majority of Internet users. More and more internet traffic comes through mobile devices and this means that mobile users won’t be served on equal footing with laptop or workstation users. Microsoft Internet Explorer. Lack Of Support On Mobile.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2023

As of 7 June 2023, there were roughly 2,500 instances of MOVEit Transfer exposed to the public internet. The Internet facing MOVEit Transfer web applications were infected with a web shell named LEMURLOOT, which was then used to steal data from the victim's machine and underlying MOVEit Transfer databases.

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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. The malware also plans to steal saved VPN/dial up credentials from the AppdataMicrosoftNetworkConnectionsPbkrasphone.pbk and Pbkrasphone.pbk phonebooks if present. Social media.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Beyond failing to meet audit specifications, there is the risk of attack and data leakage –upwards of 69% of cyberattacks started with an exploited mismanaged internet-facing assets [3]. Protection mechanisms incorporates a wide variety of cyber defenses such as malware, encryption, vulnerability management and firewall technologies.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

What seems “way back when” in 1994, when the Internet was the next big thing in technology, I was part of the team that set up the national Internet backbone in India. Clearly, they must have known the importance of this “information superhighway,” and its necessity in evolving the country’s communications and access.

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 27, 2020

The Host Error message above shows "RedShield" which appears to be a security service remarkably similar to a Web Application Firewall (although the company claims to be producing something far better). DDoS is just one of several 'real and present dangers' for any Internet connected business.]

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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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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

No matter how many firewalls or network controls you have in place, the risk of insider threat will always be present. So it should go without saying that enterprise security programs should be built with this in mind !

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Firewall supplier Check Point Software Technologies has reported a massive surge in the registration of coronavirus-related domains, since Jan. Sadly, coronavirus phishing and ransomware hacks already are in high gear.

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