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Phorpiex botnet sent millions of phishing emails to deliver LockBit Black ransomware

Security Affairs

Email Filtering : Implement email filtering solutions such as spam filters to block malicious messages. Reference the provided resources for establishing DMARC authentication. Ransomware Mitigation : Refer to available resources for ransomware mitigation techniques and strategies.

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What Is Packet Filtering? Definition, Advantages & How It Works

eSecurity Planet

Packet filtering is a firewall feature that allows or drops data packets based on simple, pre-defined rules regarding IP addresses, ports, or protocols. Once a type of firewall, packet filtering now provides a fundamental feature of nearly all firewalls and some network equipment (routers, smart switches, etc.).

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Don’t Bother Using The “Device Filter” Security Feature Offered By Your Home Network Router

Joseph Steinberg

The MAC address “device filtering” feature of your LAN’s router is unlikely to provide you with any significant security benefits – and, if you enable the feature, it may cause you heartaches. MAC address filtering is a pain to manage. Keep in mind that: 1.

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How a YouTube Content Filter Can Give Your District More Control

Security Boulevard

Beyond a place to share creative videos, it can be a great educational resource. The post How a YouTube Content Filter Can Give Your District More Control appeared first on Security Boulevard. However, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows.

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The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization

Schneier on Security

Publishers work as gatekeepers, filtering candidates and then amplifying the chosen ones. Technology companies developed automated models to take on this massive task of filtering content, ushering in the era of the algorithmic publisher. To understand why, you must understand publishing. Long term, this will be destructive.

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What Is a Circuit-Level Gateway? Definitive Guide

eSecurity Planet

A circuit-level gateway (CLG) is a firewall feature that acts as a proxy and filters packets based on session information. CLGs are important because they provide specialized security filtering and prevent the discovery of IP addresses and open ports on CLG-protected devices.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: How a well-placed ‘NGWAF’ can staunch the flow of web, mobile app attacks

The Last Watchdog

We discussed why filtering web and mobile app traffic remains as critical as ever, even as cloud migration intensifies; for a full drill down, please give the accompanying podcast a listen. They must make ongoing assessments about IT infrastructure increasingly spread far and wide across on-premises and public cloud computing resources.

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