New WatchGuard Firebox M400 and M500 NGFW and UTM appliances outperform the competition by 61 percent, delivering uncompromised security to meet the rise of encrypted traffic head-on. Rising Network Traffic Leads to Compromised Security Encrypted network traffic growth is exploding! Enterprises and service providers are adopting data encryption as a security precaution – … [Read more...]
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How to Neuter POODLE (New SSL Vulnerability)
Surprise, surprise... Researcher's have found yet another OpenSSL vulnerability. They've named this one POODLE. Silly name, I know, but at least it stands for something—Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. In short, POODLE is a protocol level cryptography flaw in Secure Sockets Layer version 3 (SSLv3), which is one of the many encryption protocols available … [Read more...]
Windows Updates Include .NET and MSXML Fixes
Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of Windows and components that often ship with it (like XML Core Services and the .NET Framework). Some vulnerable components also affect Office and Server Software products. How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including sending malicious print jobs to luring victims to … [Read more...]
Cybersecurity News: LastPass Incident Revealed, White House Issues Cybersecurity Strategy, FBI Purchases Leaked USHOR PII Data, and a Slew of Other Breaches
It's Monday, and there's no better way to start a new week than with some cybersecurity-related news. So, if you need an excuse to procrastinate a bit more, allow us to fill that void. For this iteration, we made a few minor improvements, as always. In addition to the table of contents from last time, we've added more granularity by categorizing all the stories by type. For … [Read more...]
HTML Basics That We Often Miss
By now you have probably heard of Missouri governor Mike Parson tweet threatening to prosecute a journalist for responsibly disclosing a data breach. If you missed it though, according to the tweet and the governor’s ensuing press conference, a journalist from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found teachers’ SSNs embedded in a public web page by accessing the HTML of the … [Read more...]