Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748 in BIG-IP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The attackers chain the vulnerability with another flaw in BIG-IP’s configuration utility tracked as CVE-2023-46748 (CVSS score of 8.8). states the advisory.

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The State of Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

Configuration states change. Organizations commonly respond to this dynamism by investing in asset discovery and secure configuration management […]… Read More. Organizations commonly respond to this dynamism by investing in asset discovery and secure configuration management […]… Read More.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2022

This is how Apple describes it: Lockdown Mode offers an extreme, optional level of security for the very few users who, because of who they are or what they do, may be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats, such as those from NSO Group and other private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The company states that the two flaws are due to insufficient CSRF protections for the web-based management interface of an affected system. If the affected user has administrative privileges, these actions could include modifying the system configuration and creating new privileged accounts.” ” reads the advisory.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

It aims to prevent unauthorized access, manage data movement, and guard against potential security threats. There are key components to consider, main types of firewall policies and firewall configurations to be aware of, and sample policies to review that offer valuable context in creating your own effective firewall policy.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “Or stated another way, SIEMs are only covering around 50 techniques out of all the techniques that can potentially be used by adversaries.”

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The State of Security

JULY 4, 2022

This lesson Vito Corleone taught his son Michael is just as applicable to IT security configuration management (SCM). The post Why Security Configuration Management (SCM) Matters appeared first on The State of Security. Faster breach detection Today’s cyber threat […]… Read More.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

Initial estimates were that Russia sent its probes only into a few dozen of the 18,000 government and private networks they gained access to when they inserted code into network management software made by a Texas company named SolarWinds. There is also no indication yet that any human intelligence alerted the United States to the hacking.

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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. Beyond event logging, where is no established way to aggregate, correlate, and analyze this data, which exists within different departments, divisions, and management tools.

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The State of Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Tripwire Configuration Manager allows for user created configuration and compliance management content via a new Policy Management capability. The post User Created Content with Tripwire Configuration Manager appeared first on The State of Security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2024

” The company did not attribute the targeted attacks to “any specific state-sponsored attacker” “Initially, Apple explicitly referred to “state-sponsored attacks.” Configuration profiles cannot be installed, and the device cannot enroll into mobile device management (MDM), while Lockdown Mode is turned on.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Automated patch management can help prevent security breaches by automatically identifying, downloading, testing, and delivering software and firmware updates to devices and applications through the use of specialized software tools. Software updates are critical for keeping a system’s integrity and security intact.

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NetSpi Technical

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This in-between space allows users of the service to spin up pools that have the necessary resource power, without the overhead of creating and managing a dedicated virtual system. When the pools are created, there are multiple components you can configure that the worker nodes will inherit.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Organizations are overwhelmed by the choice of cyber security tools in the market. They need to balance prioritizing and remediating vulnerabilities with managing their secure configurations. The post Using Strategic Choices to Ensure Continuous and Effective Cyber Security appeared first on The State of Security.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

million MySQL servers are publicly exposed on the internet, security researchers noted this week. The countries with the most accessible servers on IPV4 are the United States (740,100), China (296,300), Poland (207,800) and Germany (174,900). MySQL is a an open source relational database management system that runs as a server.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2023

The software company Ivanti released urgent security patches to address a critical-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38035 (CVSS score 9.8), in the Ivanti Sentry (formerly MobileIron Sentry) product. Successful exploitation can be used to change configuration, run system commands, or write files onto the system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed critical zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2023-20198 ) to compromise thousands of Cisco IOS XE devices, security firm VulnCheck warns. To disable the HTTP Server feature, use the no ip http server or no ip http secure-server command in global configuration mode.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Three Easy Ways to Improve DevSecOps with Thales and Red Hat divya Tue, 10/17/2023 - 14:47 For many DevOps enthusiasts, the need to insert security considerations directly into the development cycle was often overlooked. In these environments, data is stored in persistent volumes for stateful applications.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 21, 2024

They found 916 websites from organizations that set their Firebase instances up incorrectly, some with no security rules enabled at all. In this case we can consider it a blessing that these researchers managed to get a lot of those instances correctly configured.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2021

Determining the security posture for an increasing quantity of cloud accounts and services used by many organizations can feel overwhelming, but Tripwire Configuration Manager can help you find, fix, and even enforce settings for common security problems in cloud services.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2021

So many times, we hear companies say, “Our tools are just like Tripwire’s,” “We do configuration management just like Tripwire” and “We can push out policy just like Tripwire.” You might be able to do configuration management using a “Tripwire-like” tool. You might configure it and […]… Read More.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Tripwire Configuration Manager allows for user created configuration and compliance management content via a new Policy Management capability. The post User Created Content with Tripwire Configuration Manager appeared first on The State of Security.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As cybersecurity professionals, we are always impressing the importance of patch management as one of the best ways to protect systems against vulnerabilities. Regardless of the threat possibility, patching is one of the easiest ways to ensure the minimum level of security in an organization. The best part […]… Read More.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2021

VMware has released security updates to address multiple flaws in its products, including a critical issue that could allow an attacker to access confidential information. ” states the report. reads the security advisory published by the company. ” states the advisory. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In today’s security climate, NetOps and SecOps teams are witnessing increased attack surface area as applications and workloads move far beyond the boundaries of their data center. In the multi-cloud world, the SecOps teams use a distributed security model that is expensive, difficult to deploy, and complex to manage.

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The State of Security

JANUARY 13, 2021

In a previous blog, I discussed securing AWS management configurations by combating six common threats with a focus on using both the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Amazon Web Services Foundations benchmark policy along with general security best practices.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 7, 2023

Malwarebytes Security Advisor, a transformation of the Nebula customer experience, enables organizations to visualize and improve their organization's security posture in just a few clicks. “If you’re not fully configured, you aren’t fully protected,” says Jonny Rivera, Director, Customer Experience Strategy.

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 19, 2022

Cloud security is the umbrella that holds within it: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Gartner created the SaaS Security Posture Management ( SSPM ) category for solutions that continuously assess security risk and manage the SaaS applications’ security posture.

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The State of Security

APRIL 28, 2021

There’s a common misconception that cloud providers handle security, a relic leftover from hosting providers of previous decades. The truth is, cloud providers use a shared responsibility model, leaving a lot of security up to the customer. Luckily, The Center […]… Read More. Luckily, The Center […]… Read More.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

There’s a common misconception that cloud providers handle security, a relic leftover from hosting providers of previous decades. The truth is, cloud providers use a shared responsibility model, leaving a lot of security up to the customer. Luckily, The Center […]… Read More. Luckily, The Center […]… Read More.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 24, 2022

Cybersecurity authorities from the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom have released a joint Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CIS) on PowerShell that attempts to answer that question. The CIS discusses some security features available in PowerShell which can reduce abuse by threat actors. ” PowerShell.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

Drupal development team released security updates to fix multiple issues, including a critical code execution flaw. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory for the above vulnerabilities. . SecurityAffairs – Content Management System, critical code execution flaw). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

It is a subsidiary of the partially state-owned Chinese company Wingtech Technology. 30 Gb user data - production line settings - repository with equipment configures - 26 Gb machine operation logs - 1.2 30 Gb user data - production line settings - repository with equipment configures - 26 Gb machine operation logs - 1.2

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

Tripwire Configuration Manager is an easy-to-use service that allows you to monitor and enforce secure configuration policies across your multi-cloud environment. The post Getting Started with a Tripwire Configuration Manager Free Trial appeared first on The State of Security.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 17, 2021

You may already know that Tripwire Configuration Manager can audit your cloud service provider accounts like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, but did you know it also has capabilities to monitor other cloud based software services such as Salesforce?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

It seems that many continue to struggle to keep up with patching and updating backlogs, which suggests that more organizations need outside help from patch management as a service or managed service providers (MSPs) to catch up. Many of this week’s disclosures involve new aspects of old vulnerabilities. The problem: The CVSS 10.0/10.0

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

This week the software company Ivanti released urgent security patches to address the critical-severity vulnerability CVE-2023-38035 impacting the Ivanti Sentry (formerly MobileIron Sentry) product. The vulnerability could be exploited to access sensitive API data and configurations, run system commands, or write files onto the system.

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