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Correct bad network behavior to bolster application experience
Legacy hardware-based applications existed happily in isolation, untethered from a network. The thing that really mattered was the speed of the hard drive and having enough …
EOL Sophos firewalls get hotfix for old but still exploited vulnerability (CVE-2022-3236)
Over a year has passed since Sophos delivered patches for a vulnerability affecting Sophos Firewalls (CVE-2022-3236) that was being actively exploited by attackers, and now …
Bridging the gap between cloud vs on-premise security
With the proliferation of SaaS applications, remote work and shadow IT, organizations feel obliged to embrace cloud-based cybersecurity. And rightly so, because the corporate …
Juniper networking devices under attack
CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch five vulnerabilities used by attackers to compromise Juniper networking devices, and to do so by Friday. Most of these bugs are …
Collaborative strategies are key to enhanced ICS security
In this Help Net Security interview, Marko Gulan, Cyber Security Consultant at Schneider Electric, discusses the complexities of safeguarding industrial control systems (ICS). …
Rising OT/ICS cybersecurity incidents reveal alarming trend
60% of cyberattacks against the industrial sector are led by state-affiliated actors and often unintentionally enabled by internal personnel (about 33% of the time), according …
Juniper Networks fixes flaws leading to RCE in firewalls and switches
Juniper Networks has fixed four vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-36844, CVE-2023-36845, CVE-2023-36846, CVE-2023-36847) in Junos OS that, if chained together, could allow attackers …
Zyxel firewalls under attack by Mirai-like botnet
CVE-2023-28771, the critical command injection vulnerability affecting many Zyxel firewalls, is being actively exploited by a Mirai-like botnet, and has been added to …
Vulnerability in Zyxel firewalls may soon be widely exploited (CVE-2023-28771)
A recently fixed command injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-28771) affecting a variety Zyxel firewalls may soon be exploited in the wild, Rapid7 researchers have warned, after …
Is human threat hunting a fool’s errand?
We all have witnessed automated advances creep into our modern threat hunting processes – and with good reason. As the rate of cyberattacks steadily increases, automated …
Auth bypass bug in FortiOS, FortiProxy is exploited in the wild (CVE-2022-40684)
After privately warning customers last week that they need to patch or mitigate CVE-2022-40684, a critical vulnerability affecting FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager, …
RCE in Sophos Firewall is being exploited in the wild (CVE-2022-3236)
Sophos has patched an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-3236) in its Firewall solutions, and has pushed the fix to customers who have automatic …
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