The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Related :Promise vs. pitfalls of IoT For small- and mid-sized businesses, firewalls, antivirus suites and access management systems represent the entry stakes for participating in today’s digital economy. CyCognito’s bot network actively crawls the Internet identifying and mapping all exposed IP assets, fingerprinting each asset.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

Microsoft declared that an Emotet attack took down an organization’s network by overheating all the computers and bringing its Internet access down. “He’d been told the organization had an extensive system to prevent cyberattacks, but this new virus evaded all their firewalls and antivirus software. .

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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. As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. VPNs will slow down my internet connection.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

Targeting Firewalls and IPS/IDS Appliances In the case of CVE-2022-42475, a flaw in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN, Mandiant observed a Chinese state-sponsored group exploiting the vulnerability in late 2022. firewalls, IPS/IDS appliances, etc.),” the researchers wrote.

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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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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

DECEMBER 15, 2024

CISA adds Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog German agency BSI sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices infected with BadBox U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the government to cut internet traffic from the global Internet. This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the Russian government to disconnect the country from the global Internet.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Anyone and everyone is at risk, and even technology giants like Apple are ill-equipped to deal with the massive scale of surveillance at hand.”. Accepting processing messages from anyone is the equivalent of running a network connected to the internet with no firewall.”. Thousands of iPhones have potentially been compromised.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

By embedding malware in firmware, threat actors are able to slip pass legacy firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. The Chinese are all over this. I’ll keep watch.

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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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Hacker Combat

JUNE 3, 2021

Surveillance. According to Weber, he only identified a few affected gadgets as being vulnerable across the internet. In theory, the Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) limitations can come in handy to facilitate direct attacks from the internet. Attackers can leverage these vulnerabilities to seize control of a device. Automation.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

The fix: To eliminate malware infections, perform a factory reset, upgrade to the latest firmware, change all default usernames and passwords, and adjust firewall rules to block exposure to unwanted remote management services. The fix: Disconnect printers from internet access until a patch becomes available. and a medium (CVSS 4.3)

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In one case, ExtraHop tracked a made-in-China surveillance cam sending UDP traffic logs , every 30 minutes, to a known malicious IP address with ties to China. One might look at Capital One as an indication of just poor hygiene or issues with how they configured their web application firewalls or their S3 buckets.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

This RAT allows an attacker to surveil and harvest sensitive data from a target computer. It simulated the isolated system without access to the internet. “PivotHost” was located inside the network, but it had internet access. DinodasRAT is a multi-platform backdoor written in C++ that offers a range of capabilities.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cyber-offense ecosystem still appears to be shaken by the sudden demise of NSO Group; at the same time, these activities indicate to us that we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to commercial-grade mobile surveillance tooling. Drone hacking!

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

DX is the wider context, here, in the sense that DX is made possible because of the rise of “datafication” — the processes by which we’ve come to rapaciously collect and store mind-boggling amounts of data from web forms, social media, mobile apps, surveillance cameras, IoT sensors and the like. And that’s a good thing, indeed.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The most commonly used preemptive tactic is adding firewall rules that block incoming connection attempts. For example, despite their primary function not being related to video surveillance, most smart pet feeders on the market can capture real-time audio and video footage. Therefore, we did not issue a certificate.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Security Solutions ICS systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks, so security solutions, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption protocols, are vital to protect these critical infrastructures from unauthorized access and malicious activities. What is the Importance of Cybersecurity in an Industrial Control System (ICS)?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2024

July 3, 2024 Threat Actors Exploit MSHTML Flaw to Deploy MerkSpy Surveillance Tool Type of vulnerability: Remote code execution. The problem: A Microsoft MSHTML vulnerability, CVE-2021-40444 , was exploited to distribute the MerkSpy surveillance program. To minimize risks, patch your systems as soon as possible.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

These attacks aim to overwhelm a server, service, or network with a flood of internet traffic, rendering it unusable for legitimate users. Protocol Attacks : These target server resources or intermediate communication equipment like firewalls and load balancers.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. Insight Partners.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. The course consists of four modules: Hackers Exposed: You will find out methods that stop hackers, block tracking, and prevent government surveillance. The list will save your time and make a choice easier.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. Vamosi: There's also a need with social media for a clear firewall. He also gives a preview of his new YouTube series on the sudo vulnerability. These were chat-based communities that sprang up around various interests.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. Vamosi: There's also a need with social media for a clear firewall. He also gives a preview of his new YouTube series on the sudo vulnerability. These were chat-based communities that sprang up around various interests.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2020

Learning about how hackers were able to intercept drone feed video from CIA observation drones during the war in Iraq, for instance, tells us a lot about how tenuous sophisticated surveillance technology really can be, out in the Internet wild. But not with that old, firewall-to-death approach.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These include scrutinizing network device configurations, implementing advanced monitoring solutions, and restricting internet exposure of management traffic. Strong segmentation with firewalls and DMZs, securing VPN gateways, and ensuring encrypted traffic with TLS v1.3 are essential for protecting data. “For

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A VPN provides a secure channel for users to send and retrieve sensitive data using public infrastructure – the Internet. This avoids the cost of leasing dedicated secure lines between branch offices and allows employees the flexibility to work anywhere with an Internet connection. Five protocols are predominant.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet. Programs being opened or accessing the Internet without your permission. Unusually high network activity. Missing or corrupted programs.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 13, 2025

Uncategorized China-Nexus Threat Actor Scanning the Internet for CVE-2025-31324 and Upload Webshells EclecticIQ analysts assess with high confidence that, a very likely China-nexus threat actor is conducting a widespread internet scanning and exploitation campaign against SAP NetWeaver systems.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. Come sit next to me.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

government has already imposed new restrictions on intrusion software, surveillance tools, and AI-driven security technologies, making it harder for companies to collaborate on global cybersecurity research. Beyond tariffs, export restrictions on cybersecurity tools and software are tightening. RELATED: AI Diffusion Rule to Protect U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free Internet as we know it. This would be an enormous change in how the Internet works in the United States. Unlike authoritarian states such as China, the US has a free, uncensored Internet. Today, data surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

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