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Organizations can no longer rely on edge firewalls alone to provide network security. Once attackers get past an edge firewall, they can move laterally to high-value assets.

A new attack method can be used to circumvent web application firewalls of various vendors and infiltrate systems, potentially enabling attackers to gain access to sensitive business and customer information. Web application firewalls are a key line of defense to help filter, monitor, and block HTTP(S) traffic to and from a web application, and safeguard against attacks such as cross-site forgery, cross-site-scripting, file inclusion, and SQL injection.

Lack of transparency, systemic risks weaken national cybersecurity preparednessBob Kolasky, SVP for Critical Infrastructure at Exiger, previously served as Assistant Director for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and in this Help Net Security interview talks about protecting critical infrastructure, the importance of information-sharing, national cybersecurity preparedness, and more. Weakness in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption could expose email contentsWithSecure researchers are warning organizations of a security weakness in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption that could be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Ai researchers have released a PoC exploit for CVE-2022-40684, the authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Fortinet's firewalls and secure web gateways, and soon after exploitation attempts started rising. " , the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team began tracking exploit attempts targeting CVE-2022-40684 on our network of over 4 million protected websites," Wordfence threat analyst Ram Gall shared.

China appears to have upgraded its Great Firewall, the instrument of pervasive real-time censorship it uses to ensure that ideas its government doesn't like don't reach China's citizens. Great Firewall Report, an organization that monitors and reports on China's censorship efforts, has this week posted a pair of assessments indicating a crackdown on TLS encryption-based tools used to evade the Firewall.

A critical code-injection vulnerability in Sophos Firewall has been fixed - but not before miscreants found and exploited the bug. While it hasn't been issued a CVSS severity score, Sophos deemed it "Critical" and noted that it allowed for remote code execution.

Sophos has patched an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability in its Firewall solutions, and has pushed the fix to customers who have automatic installation of hotfixes enabled.CVE-2022-3236 is a code injection vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin of Sophos Firewall.

Security software company Sophos has warned of cyberattacks targeting a recently addressed critical vulnerability in its firewall product.The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-3236, impacts Sophos Firewall v19.0 MR1 and older and concerns a code injection vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin components that could result in remote code execution.

Sophos warned today that a critical code injection security vulnerability in the company's Firewall product is being exploited in the wild. The company says it has released hotfixes for Sophos Firewall versions affected by this security bug and older) that will roll out automatically to all instances since automatic updates are enabled by default.