Security News
A threat actor - likely a state-sponsored cyberespionage group - has used a sophisticated technique to allow a piece of malware hosted on a server to communicate with command and control servers through a firewall. It's unclear exactly how the attackers planted the malware, but researchers believe they may have accessed the server through a dictionary attack on an exposed SSH port.
Zyxel Communications launched the ZyWALL VPN1000 VPN Firewall, an all-in-one security solution for small and medium businesses. The flagship of the growing Zyxel family of ZyWALL VPN firewalls, VPN1000 is an integrated security solution that combines a powerful firewall with high-performance VPN tunnel capabilities to protect the local network against threats and safeguard data communications between multiple locations or hybrid clouds.
Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR platform, announced its new Firewall Traffic Analysis Application, which supercharges firewalls by analyzing their data to spot undetected anomalies. With this new App, security analysts get an automated assistant to detect firewall misconfigurations, malicious users and abnormal traffic to gain new value from firewall data, improving analyst productivity typically over 20x. The FTA Application supports firewalls from many vendors including Cisco, Check Point, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Sophos.
Despite the inevitability of security-related incidents, few organizations currently protect against the spread of breaches with segmentation – only 19 percent of the 300 IT professionals surveyed...
By 2022, more than two-thirds of new cars on American roads will have online connections to their safety-critical system, putting them at risk of deadly hacks to vehicles’ “head” system, used...
Firewall Maintenance Needs Automation to Prevent Misconfiguration read more
A majority of IT staffers polled by firewall management service FireMon said they still use manual processes to manage changes.
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Leading domain name registrars suffered data breach Web technology company Web.com and its subsidiaries – domain name...
More details have emerged on the March denial-of-service (DoS) attack that disrupted firewalls and caused interruptions to electrical system operations at a power utility in the United States. read more
Zyxel Communications, a leading provider of secure broadband networking, Internet access and connected home products, announced the launch of the ZyWALL ATP100 Firewall, an advanced firewall...