Veeam Software has rolled out patches for four severe security vulnerabilities that expose users of its Veeam ONE product to remote code execution attacks The Ohio company issued an urgent advisory to document the flaws, which include a pair of critical issues with CVSS severity scores of 9.9 out of 10. An IT monitoring and ..
Tag : Network Security
There has been an ongoing debate in the security industry over the last decade or so about whether or not deep packet inspection (DPI) is dead. In fact, some have even playfully referred to it as a “dead piece of investment.” This debate has intensified more recently as the modern network has become increasingly dispersed, ..
Cyberthreats are growing in their pervasiveness, stealth, and severity, and the potential consequences of a breach are more severe than ever before. With increasing skepticism and wariness among security teams, it makes sense to embrace the “never trust, always verify” principle, also known as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). ZTNA aims to authenticate and authorize ..
Major tech companies and other organizations have rushed to respond to the newly disclosed HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks seen to date. The existence of the attack method, named HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, and the underlying vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-44487, were disclosed on Tuesday by Cloudflare, ..
Cloudflare, Google and AWS revealed on Tuesday that a new zero-day vulnerability named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ has been exploited by malicious actors to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in internet history. Cloudflare started analyzing the attack method and the underlying vulnerability in late August. The company says an unknown threat actor has exploited ..
The US cybersecurity agency CISA and the NSA have issued new guidance on addressing the most common cybersecurity misconfigurations in large organizations. Impacting many organizations, including those that have achieved a mature security posture, these misconfigurations illustrate a trend of systemic weaknesses and underline the importance of adopting secure-by-design principles during the software development process, ..
Synqly, a Silicon Valley startup with ambitious plans to fix the way security and infrastructure products are integrated, announced its debut Tuesday with an early stage $4 million venture capital bet. Synqly said the $4 million seed round included investments from SYN Ventures, Okta Ventures, and Secure Octane. The brainchild of tech veterans Joel Bauman ..
The widely believed notion that the network and the cloud are two different and distinct entities is not true. While it may have been so 10 to 15 years ago that the network was an on-prem architecture that operated independently and required different solutions or protections separate from the cloud, that is no longer the ..
Identity protection provider Silverfort has announced the open source release of a lateral movement detection tool. Called LATMA (Lateral Movement Analyzer), the tool was designed to collect authentication logs from domain and Active Directory (AD) environments and to deliver a report on the identified patterns. The tool consists of two modules, namely a collector, which ..
The lights have flickered shut at IronNet, the once-promising network security company founded by former NSA director General Keith Alexander. Bankrupt and out of financing options, IronNet said it would file for Chapter 7 protection while its assets are liquidated. “Given the unavailability of additional sources of liquidity…IronNet ceased all activities of the company and ..