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NSA shares tips on mitigating 5G network slicing threats

The National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), have published a joint report that highlights the most likely risks and potential threats in 5G network slicing implementations.
- Bill Toulas
- December 14, 2022
- 11:02 AM
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Microsoft Defender network protection generally available on iOS, Android

Microsoft announced that the Mobile Network Protection feature is generally available to help organizations detect network weaknesses affecting Android and iOS devices running Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint (MDE) enterprise endpoint security platform.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 11, 2022
- 03:01 PM
- 2
Chase UK's app-only bank hit with 24-hour ongoing outage

Chase UK's ongoing outage has been impacting British customers with a mobile-based current account for well over 24 hours.
- Ax Sharma
- October 05, 2022
- 01:59 PM
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Ethernet VLAN Stacking flaws let hackers launch DoS, MiTM attacks

Four vulnerabilities in the widely adopted 'Stacked VLAN' Ethernet feature allows attackers to perform denial-of-service (DoS) or man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks against network targets using custom-crafted packets.
- Bill Toulas
- September 28, 2022
- 11:05 AM
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New PsExec spinoff lets hackers bypass network security defenses

Security researchers have developed an implementation of the Sysinternals PsExec utility that allows moving laterally in a network using a less monitored port.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 13, 2022
- 09:37 AM
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How Conti ransomware hacked and encrypted the Costa Rican government

Details have emerged on how the Conti ransomware gang breached the Costa Rican government, showing the attack's precision and the speed of moving from initial access to the final stage of encrypting devices.
- Ionut Ilascu
- July 21, 2022
- 10:20 AM
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Microsoft Defender adds network protection for Android, iOS devices

Microsoft has announced the introduction of a new Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) feature in public preview to help organizations detect weaknesses affecting Android and iOS devices in their enterprise networks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 03, 2022
- 10:09 AM
- 0
Microsoft Defender now isolates hacked, unmanaged Windows devices

Microsoft has announced a new feature for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) to help organizations prevent attackers and malware from using compromised unmanaged devices to move laterally through the network.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 09, 2022
- 12:35 PM
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Get started in networking with this Cisco training bundle deal

Network design and security are becoming fundamental to every IT role. The 2022 Cisco Certified Technician Training Prep Bundle helps you get up to speed for $34.99, a 95% discount off the $800 MSRP.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- May 18, 2022
- 07:11 AM
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iPhone bug breaks WiFi when you join hotspot with unusual name

A new iPhone bug has come to light that breaks your iPhone's wireless functionality by merely connecting to a certain WiFi hotspot.. Once triggered, the bug would render your iPhone unable to establish a WiFi connection, even if it is rebooted or the WiFi hotspot is renamed.
- Ax Sharma
- June 19, 2021
- 12:01 PM
- 2
StackOverflow, Twitch, Reddit, others down in Fastly CDN outage

Major websites around the world are either completely down or not loading properly in a global outage.
- Ax Sharma
- June 08, 2021
- 06:33 AM
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ARIN will take down its RPKI for 30 minutes to test your BGP routes

ARIN plans on performing unannounced maintenance of its RPKI, sometime in July, for about thirty minutes to check if networks are adhering to BGP best practices.
- Ax Sharma
- June 03, 2021
- 02:40 AM
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Comcast now blocks BGP hijacking attacks and route leaks with RPKI

Comcast, one of America's largest broadband providers, has now deployed RPKI on its network to defend against BGP route hijacks and leaks. Left unchecked, a BGP route hijack or leak can cause a drastic surge in internet traffic that now gets misdirected or stuck, leading to global congestion and a Denial of Service (DoS).
- Ax Sharma
- May 20, 2021
- 03:16 PM
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Python also impacted by critical IP address validation vulnerability

Python 3.3 standard library 'ipaddress' suffers from a critical IP address vulnerability (CVE-2021-29921) identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year.
- Ax Sharma
- May 01, 2021
- 09:16 AM
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Major BGP leak disrupts thousands of networks globally

A large BGP routing leak that occurred last night disrupted the connectivity for thousands of major networks and websites around the world. Although the BGP routing leak occurred in Vodafone's autonomous network (AS55410) based in India, it has impacted U.S. companies, including Google, according to sources.
- Ax Sharma
- April 17, 2021
- 03:33 AM
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Critical netmask networking bug impacts thousands of applications

Popular npm component netmask has critical networking bugs, CVE-2021-28918 and CVE-2021-29418. netmask is frequently used by hundreds of thousands of applications to parse IPv4 addresses and CIDR blocks or compare them. The component gets over 3 million weekly downloads, and as of today, has scored over 238 million total
- Ax Sharma
- March 28, 2021
- 04:20 PM
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NSA, Microsoft promote a Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity

The National Security Agency (NSA) and Microsoft are advocating for the Zero Trust security model as a more efficient way for enterprises to defend against today's increasingly sophisticated threats.
- Ionut Ilascu
- February 27, 2021
- 12:03 PM
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LinkedIn is down for many, and we are not sure why

LinkedIn is inaccessible for both web and mobile users around the world in what appears to be an outage.
- Ax Sharma
- February 23, 2021
- 02:14 PM
- 2
Hackers ask only $1,500 for access to breached company networks

The number of offers for network access and their median prices on the public face of hacker forums dropped in the final quarter of last year but the statistics fail to reflect the real size of the initial access market.
- Ionut Ilascu
- February 11, 2021
- 04:21 AM
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Trickbot malware now maps victims’ networks using Masscan

The Trickbot malware has been upgraded with a network reconnaissance module designed to survey local networks after infecting a victim's computer.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 02, 2021
- 12:52 PM
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