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5 common VPN myths busted

Malwarebytes

Virtual Private Networks ( VPN s) are popular but often misunderstood. VPNs are for illegal activity. Some people think that VPNs are only useful for doing things like torrenting, accessing geo-locked content, or getting around work/school/government firewalls. I don’t need a mobile VPN.

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Building a scalable RAVPN architecture in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Cisco Secure Firewall

Cisco Security

With Cisco Secure Firewall, organizations are able to build a scalable RAVPN architecture on OCI, providing employees secure remote access to their organization’s resources from any location or endpoint. Design 1 – Load balance RAVPN sessions to multiple firewalls using OCI DNS service. DNS provides an FQDN (example.vpn.com).

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Cisco Secure Firewall: Sometimes, updates are great news

Cisco Security

I distinctly remember my desktop and mobile updates that slowed my systems to a crawl. Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.0 Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.0 For Cisco Secure Firewall 1000, 2100, 4100 and 9300 series, updating your firewall to Threat Defense 7.0 and Snort 3 : The upgrade you definitely want to make.

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Exclusive: SonicWall Hacked Using 0-Day Bugs In Its Own VPN Product

The Hacker News

SonicWall, a popular internet security provider of firewall and VPN products, on late Friday disclosed that it fell victim to a coordinated attack on its internal systems. The San Jose-based company said the attacks leveraged zero-day vulnerabilities in SonicWall secure remote access products such as NetExtender VPN client version 10.x

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Okta warns of unprecedented scale in credential stuffing attacks on online services

Security Affairs

From March 18, 2024, to April 16, 2024, Duo Security and Cisco Talos observed large-scale brute-force attacks against a variety of targets, including VPN services, web application authentication interfaces and SSH services. ” continues the advisory.

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What is the WireGuard VPN protocol?

Malwarebytes

In layman’s terms, a VPN uses encryption to create a private online connection between a device and a VPN server. With a good VPN service, you can shield your data from curious eyes. The type of VPN protocol that you use can affect the speed, stability, ease of use, security, and privacy of your connection.

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VPN protocols explained and compared

Malwarebytes

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) creates a safe “tunnel” between you and a computer you trust (normally your VPN provider) to protect your traffic from spying and manipulation. Any VPN worth its money encrypts the information that passes through it, so in this article we will ignore those that don’t use encryption.

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