network security

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15454, is related to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection engine used in the company’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause an affected device to reload or consume CPU resources, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS)…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO

What is an RDP attack? 7 tips for mitigating your exposure

Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is used for remotely connecting to Windows systems. In an RDP attack, criminals look for unsecured RDP services to exploit and access enterprise networks. It’s frighteningly easy to do so because many organizations fail to secure RDP services against improper access. Over the past year, RDP has become the top…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO

How to make cybersecurity incidents hurt less

You take time with your staff to regularly review what they should do in a fire (where are the exits? Don’t use the elevator. Where is the muster point? Is the fire department called automatically, or will someone have to call when they are safely out of the building? Who is responsible for doing a…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Intelligence

What Are the Seven Biggest Social Media Scams of 2018?

The massive rise in popularity of social platforms has led to a huge upswing in social media scams — putting a growing pool of users at risk. Facebook had 2.23 billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2018, while photo-sharing site Instagram hit 1 billion monthly active users by June 2018, according…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

DDoS Attacks Less Frequent But Pack More Punch: Report

There were seven times more distributed denial (DDoS) attacks larger than 300 Gbps (gigabit per second) observed during the first six months of 2018 compared to the first half of 2017, NETSCOUT Arbor reveals. According to the security company’s latest threat intelligence report, the number of large DDoS attacks jumped from 7 to 47 year-over-year…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO

Cybersecurity – how confident (complacent?) are you?

Attention all cybersecurity professionals! We all know that today’s cybersecurity landscape is an ever-changing one. So how often should organizations review their cybersecurity strategy? If it’s a question that hasn’t been asked in a while, chances are that in this world of constant threat, you’re probably at risk. For despite the near constant stream of…

Network Security

Issued by: Symantec Blog

Cloud-Delivered Network Security No Longer Optional

The adoption of the public cloud is driving a fundamental change in the way organizations connect remote users and distributed sites to their networks and applications. But as we’ve seen during other great times of change, tech transitions are tricky and always raise new security concerns. These are the security concerns of the Cloud Generation….

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Over a Million Dasan Routers Vulnerable to Remote Hacking

Researchers have disclosed the details of two unpatched vulnerabilities that expose more than one million home routers made by South Korea-based Dasan Networks to remote hacker attacks. In a blog post published on Monday, vpnMentor revealed that many Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) routers, which are used to provide fiber-optic Internet, are affected by critical…