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CVE-2024-8260: SMB Force-Authentication Vulnerability in OPA Could Lead to Credential Leakage

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. This exploration led us to discover an SMB force-authentication vulnerability (CVSSv3 6.1) affecting all existing versions of OPA for Windows at that time.

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It's 2022. Why do you keep using SMB?

Ivanti

During the last 25 years, companies have relied on SMB protocol to allow them to collaborate and centralize corporate documents. The history of SMB (and why it's no longer relevant). The initial goal was to provide shared access to files and printers across nodes on a network. The latest iteration, SMB 3.1.1, Windows 10?and?Windows

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

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Once a compromised USB drive was inserted into a system, Stuxnet was executed automatically via the vulnerability, infecting the host machine, propagating to other systems through network shares and additional USB drives. This flaw, along with several other Flash vulnerabilities, highlighted Flash’s risks, accelerating its eventual phase-out.

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Leverage Two-Factor Authentication for Maximized Security

Kaseya

Phishing, social engineering and unsecured networks have made password based authentication insecure for some time. In today’s age where security breaches have become an everyday occurrence, password-only authentication is not sufficient. Increase Security with Two-Factor Authentication. In fact, PCI DSS Requirement 8.1

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Palo Alto Networks Recognized in Critical Capabilities Report

Palo Alto Networks

Highest Scores for Enterprise Edge and Distributed Enterprise Use Cases In December 2022, for the eleventh consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls. And on May 16th, Gartner published its Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls report.

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Maximize Your Vulnerability Scan Value with Authenticated Scanning

Tenable

Start doing authenticated scanning. Performing authenticated scans of your environment offers essential benefits and is a practice widely recognized as valuable. The scan configurations we observe in Tenable’s SaaS products are telling: our customers run unauthenticated scans 20 times more than authenticated ones.

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Microsoft’s June 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 129 CVEs Including Newly Disclosed SMBv3 Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1206)

Tenable

This flaw can be exploited on an authenticated server or against an SMB client. An authenticated attacker would need to send a specially crafted packet to exploit this vulnerability against a vulnerable SMB server. CVE-2020-1301 | Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Tenable solutions.

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