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Fortinet Enhances Network Security OS, Adds AI-based Threat Detection

Issued by: Security Week

Two major new product announcements were made at Fortinet’s Accelerate 18 conference this week, including a new machine learning (ML) threat intelligence and detection offering, along with a major upgrade to the Fortinet Security Fabric (FortiOS). Accelerate 18, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, is Fortinet’s annual global partner and user conference, attended by around 2,000…

Network Security

IDG Contributor Network: You can’t protect what you can’t see

Issued by: CSO

How many of us would hire a home security company that sent a representative to our house to tell us to remove all our lightbulbs so that it was pitch black inside? Sure, it would make it much more difficult for the burglars to find their way around. But with no way to turn the…

Malware & Threats

Cisco Aware of Attacks Exploiting Critical Firewall Flaw

Issued by: Security Week

Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has become aware of malicious attacks attempting to exploit a recently patched vulnerability affecting the company’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software. No other information has been provided by the networking giant, but it’s worth noting that aproof-of-concept (PoC) exploit designed to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on devices running…

Network Security

Asus Router Flaws Disclosed by Several Researchers

Issued by: Security Week

Several security researchers and companies have recently disclosed the details of potentially serious vulnerabilities they discovered in the past months in various Asus routers. Fortinet reported on Tuesday that its researchers had found a vulnerability in some Asus routers that allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

Network Security

Data Encryption: 4 Common Pitfalls

Issued by: Dark Reading

To maximize encryption effectiveness you must minimize adverse effects in network performance and complexity. Here’s how. Employing data encryption is a no-brainer, as it supports the defense-in-depth strategy that organizations must embrace to stop bad actors from accessing sensitive network files. However, outside of the extra layers of protection data encryption can provide, there are also tradeoffs…

Vulnerabilities

Cisco Patches Critical Code Execution Flaw in Security Appliances

Issued by: Security Week

Cisco informed customers on Monday that updates released for its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software patch a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to gain full control of devices or cause them to reload. The security hole, tracked as CVE-2018-0101 and assigned a CVSS score of 10, allows a remote and unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code…

Network Security

IoT Devices Fuel Complex DDoS Attacks: Report

Issued by: Security Week

The continuous use of compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has helped cybercriminals increase the complexity of their assaults, NETSCOUT’s Arbor Networks says. According to the company’s 13th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR), attackers focused on increasing complexity in 2017, and the exploitation of IoT devices…

Network Security

Gemalto Licensing Tool Exposes ICS, Corporate Systems to Attacks

Issued by: Security Week

A significant number of industrial and corporate systems may be exposed to remote attacks due to the existence of more than a dozen vulnerabilities in a protection and licensing product from Gemalto. Gemalto Sentinel LDK is a software licensing solution used by many organizations worldwide on both their enterprise and industrial control systems (ICS) networks….

Vulnerabilities

Nissan Canada Informs 1.1 Million Customers of Data Breach

Issued by: Security Week

Nissan Canada revealed on Thursday that the personal information of some customers may have been compromised as a result of a data breach discovered by the company on December 11. The incident affects individuals who have financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance (NCF) and INFINITI Financial Services Canada. The exact number of impacted customers…

Malware & Threats

Hackers Target Security Firm Fox-IT

Issued by: Security Week

Fox-IT, the Netherlands-based cybersecurity firm owned by NCC Group, revealed on Thursday that it had been the victim of a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack made possible by DNS records getting changed at its third-party domain registrar. The incident took place back in September and Fox-IT decided to disclose it now after conducting a detailed analysis. A…