The Parallax

DECEMBER 3, 2019

RCS data is sent using an Internet address, which means that consumers whose mobile network providers support RCS (available on all four major U.S. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. READ MORE ON PHONE SECURITY AND PRIVACY. Android Q adds privacy, fragmentation. Get a new phone?

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

CVE-2019-1653. CVE-2019-2725. CVE-2019-7609. CVE-2019-9670. CVE-2019-10149. CVE-2019-11510. CVE-2019-19781. This is why these government agencies stress that CDCs “maintain constant vigilance for software vulnerabilities and out-of-date security configurations, especially in internet-facing systems.”.

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The Parallax

MAY 14, 2019

Google’s move to turn Androids themselves—the ones already in consumers’ hands—into the physical keys needed to unlock accounts is a “game changer,” Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist and director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy and Technology , said in an email. “It Android Q adds privacy, fragmentation.

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The Parallax

MAY 10, 2019

—Google’s Android mobile operating system has long been criticized for fragmentation , as millions of older devices no longer receiving regular security and feature updates continue to connect to the Internet. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY AND PRIVACY.

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Tenable

MAY 28, 2020

during 2019 — 1,115 out of 1,473 — stemmed from hacking, intrusion or unauthorized access, exposing more than 157 million sensitive records. Malware: This catch-all term encompasses a number of different cybersecurity threats, including everything from viruses and worms to banking trojans, adware, spyware and ransomware.

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Tenable

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2019, an FBI Flash Briefing 5 listed a dozen vulnerabilities, including low and medium severity flaws (mainly information disclosure vulnerabilities), used by a Chinese APT actor referred to as “APT10,” targeting governments and cloud computing providers both in the U.S. CVE-2020-11023 , CVE-2019-11358 , CVE-2020-11022 , CVE-2015-9251.

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Kaseya

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In fact, the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found that 43 percent of security breaches affect small businesses — that’s a pretty big number. Taking another stat from the Verizon 2019 DBIR, 15 percent of breaches were the result of “misuse by authorized users.” million, on average.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Connected medical devices, also known as the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT, are revolutionizing healthcare, not only from an operational standpoint but related to patient care. Many connected devices ship with inherent vulnerabilities.

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Tenable

APRIL 8, 2021

Recent research has borne out that the odds of a small or medium-sized business (SMB) undergoing a cyberattack or data breach are more than 50-50: About 66% of SMBs experienced at least one cyberattack in 2019. Certain parts of your network won't be connected to the internet (public or otherwise) at all times. 14, 2021 4.

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Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The quickest method to check for the presence of malware on your iPhone, iPad or macOS devices is to look for the presence of an unknown configuration profile within the Settings > General > VPN & Device Management settings. Email server and Exchange settings. LDAP directory service settings. CalDAV calendar service settings.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A vulnerability could also be a host on the network that lacks modern protections like next-generation firewalls or anti-malware features. Keep in mind that “vulnerability” isn't a synonym for words like "malware," "virus," "trojan" or any of the other words that describe common cyberthreats. Try Nessus Free for 7 Days.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

On September 2, Censys, a search engine for discovering internet devices, published a blog post analyzing the number of hosts vulnerable to CVE-2021-26084. BleepingComputer reports they’ve reviewed a separate active exploit that attempts to install the Kinsing malware, which Trend Micro analyzed in November 2020.

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Tenable

JANUARY 14, 2020

On January 14, Microsoft released its first Patch Tuesday of 2020 , which contains an update for a critical vulnerability in the cryptographic library used in newer versions of Windows, including Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019. Proof of concept. Users can create scans that focus specifically on this vulnerability.

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Ivanti

APRIL 13, 2021

A 364% increase in phishing attacks was reported from 2019 to 2020, and 1 in 25 apps downloaded from the public app stores leaked your personal credentials. Ransomware is malware whose sole purpose is to extort money from you. MTD provides additional protection from app threats like browser-based attacks, leaky apps and malware.

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AlienVault

MARCH 6, 2019

We were surprised to find EarthWorm also packed into malware - presumably to provide packet relay functionality. We’ve previously investigated this server when it was hosting Android malware known as Xsser. The Xsser malware communicates with a familiar hostname apache2012.epac[.]to You can view indicators in OTX.

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Tenable

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to the advisory, Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 version 1809 do not have the HTTP Trailer Support feature enabled by default, however this mitigation does not apply to other affected versions of Windows. Internet Explorer 11 Upcoming End Of Life. Patching affected servers should be prioritized immediately.

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Kaseya

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This means implementing a layered defense including firewalls with malicious site blocking, segmented networks, deploying antivirus and anti-malware clients, keeping software up-to-date with the latest security patches, and last but not least, security awareness training for employees. The Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap. Cryptojacking.

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Tenable

MARCH 30, 2020

In addition to helping employees avoid falling prey to the plethora of coronavirus-related malware campaigns and scams currently circulating, organizations would do well to closely monitor the tools being used to enable a suddenly remote workforce. Scams and malware: COVID-19: Coronavirus Fears Seized by Cybercriminals.

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Kaseya

APRIL 20, 2020

This leaves companies to fend for themselves when it comes to updating these so-called third-party applications, web browsers and security solutions, like antivirus, anti-malware and more. According to an article on DarkReading , “Eight out of the 10 most exploited vulnerabilities in 2019, in fact, impacted Microsoft products.

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Kaseya

JUNE 24, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) and unsecured IoT devices are also proving to be a huge risk for SMBs. In 2017, 50,000 cyber-attacks were targeted at IoT devices, an increase of 600 percent from 2016 and the number of IoT-driven malware attacks surpassed 121,000 in 2018. — for monitoring and managing the security of the IT infrastructure.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 17, 2020

Layer 7 inspection and threat protection – Use full layer-7 network security and threat protection capabilities delivered by NGFWs to protect the allowed connections from threats, exploits, malware and data exfiltration. Layer 7 NGFW capabilities round out complete container security stack.

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Kaseya

OCTOBER 9, 2019

This means implementing a layered defense including firewalls with malicious site blocking, segmented networks, deploying antivirus and anti-malware clients, keeping software up-to-date with the latest security patches, and last but not least, security awareness training for employees. The Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap. Cryptojacking.

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Firemon

MARCH 12, 2019

Perhaps one of the biggest news items was the United States’ National Security Agency’s release of Ghidra – a reverse engineering malware tool. The post That’s a Wrap – RSA 2019 appeared first on FireMon. Perhaps most interesting of all, the NSA also announced it was going to open source the tool. Until next year….

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Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our innovative Incident Management feature, introduced in 2019, alleviates alert fatigue by grouping related alerts from multiple data sources into incidents, cutting the number of individual events to review by 98%. Incident Scoring Lets You Focus on What Matters. In Cortex XDR 2.7,

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Ivanti

MARCH 9, 2022

At the beginning of 2019, we set up a completely new infrastructure for our end-users. The end-users are prevented from running executables that they might receive through e-mail or the Internet. This prevents potentially dangerous executables containing viruses, spyware, and malware from contaminating the corporate network.

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Tenable

AUGUST 27, 2019

. — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) August 22, 2019. The first part of the blog series, published on July 17, 2019, detailed CVE-2019-1579 , a critical pre-authentication vulnerability they discovered in the Palo Alto Networks (PAN) GlobalProtect SSL VPN, which Tenable blogged about. . Orange Tsai (@orange_8361) August 27, 2019.

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Tenable

JANUARY 17, 2020

On January 10, Tenable Security Response observed exploit scripts for CVE-2019-19781, a critical vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway (formerly known as NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway) had been published to GitHub. Background. Attacks Increase After Exploit Scripts Released. cve201919781 [link] pic.twitter.com/WDN6wUm4Km.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 29, 2021

To defend RDP, ensure you’re staying up-to-date and patching or mitigating vulnerabilities like BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708), which is still a favorite among attackers. Also ensure you’re following best practices when configuring RDP; the Center for Internet Security has released a guide for securing RDP. The guidance is similar for VPNs.

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Kaseya

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The Threat: Malware. Malware – short for malicious software, is a term used to represent computer viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, adware, spyware, etc. Any computer connected to the internet is at risk of a malware attack. Protect your devices from malware attacks by installing AV/AM software.

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Ivanti

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Will 2019 be better than 2018? You don’t need a fortune teller to know that 2019 can be better than 2018. . Because MobileIron’s Technology Ecosystem team spent our 2018 making sure your 2019 would be safer and more secure. Here are three things you can do right now to take the mystery out of creating a better 2019. .

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Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Get the latest on the anniversary of the Log4j crisis; OWASP’s top CI/CD risks; a surge of infostealer malware; the fund transfer fraud — business email compromise connection; and more! . 3 - Attackers boost use of infostealer malware. Infostealers Malware Advertisements and Pricing from July to October 2022.

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CableLabs

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

A version of this blog post was published on February 21, 2019, on the S&P Global Market Intelligence site. . These are the simple components of what it is commonly called the “Internet of Things” (IoT). We are surrounded by embedded sensors and devices with more processing power than many of the computers standing on our desks.

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Artificial Inteligence Systems Review Artificial Intelligence Internet 63

Tenable

JULY 14, 2020

The updates this month include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft ChakraCore, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Windows Defender, Skype for Business, Visual Studio, Microsoft OneDrive, Open Source Software,NET Framework and Azure DevOps.

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PowerSchool

MARCH 3, 2020

According to Norton, 2019 saw a 54% increase in reported breaches from the year before. In 2019, ransomware delayed or closed schools in multiple districts, impacting 72 districts nationwide. Use your anti-malware software to monitor and respond. Use of Internet of Things (IoT) device usage will continue.

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Tenable

MARCH 8, 2021

As Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has said , organizations that exposed Exchange Server to the internet should assume compromise and begin hunting for known indicators. If your organization runs an OWA server exposed to the internet, assume compromise between 02/26-03/03.

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Tenable

AUGUST 3, 2023

The joint CSA recognizes this as well, adding that these malicious attackers have targeted “older software vulnerabilities rather than recently disclosed vulnerabilities,” while also highlighting the significance of vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems. CVE-2019-11510 Pulse Connect Secure Arbitrary File Disclosure 10 8.1

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Authentication Data Center Software Review Windows 52

Tenable

JUNE 19, 2019

Throughout the course of 2019, the Tenable team has been talking about the benefits of Predictive Prioritization — the process of re-prioritizing vulnerabilities based on the probability they will be leveraged in an attack. . The Tenable team offers some best practices. Vulnerability Priority Rating: Practical Results .

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