SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Defending against DDoS attacks has long depended on traditional measures like firewalls and rate limiting. The attackers place themselves between the user and the legitimate website, intercepting session data and bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) by relaying the authentication process in real time.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 20, 2023

In a Friday blog post, Microsoft blamed a battery of service outages of its Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive platforms in early June on "access to multiple virtual private servers (VPS) in conjunction with rented cloud infrastructure, open proxies, and DDoS tools." The Russian intelligence services are most likely behind KillNet.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

"Volt Typhoon," a state-sponsored cyber actor associated with the People's Republic of China (PRC), has been identified by Microsoft, the United States, and international cybersecurity authorities as the party responsible for recent activity affecting networks across U.S. Here is a CNBC report on the warning from Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient to protect against sophisticated attacks that can easily bypass firewalls and other boundary defenses. Verify, don't trust This principle emphasizes continuous authentication and authorization based on all available data points.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

His job history includes major companies such as Microsoft, McAfee, and Foundstone. These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. Grimes has worked in the cybersecurity industry for more than 30 years, authoring 13 books and more than 1,300 articles.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It all started with an earlier discussion about the massive Crowdstrike and Microsoft outage the world experienced in July 2024. A clear example of friction is the additional step introduced by multifactor authentication (MFA) in a standard authentication process.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 2, 2025

You can manage data streams without compromising performance with the right platform, like AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure IoT, or Google Cloud IoT. Because the platform manages everything from device connectivity to data streams and security, a poor choice can lead to scalability issues, low performance, and increased operational costs.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2022

Multifactor authentication (MFA) is not enforced. Cyber actors send emails with malicious macros—primarily in Microsoft Word documents or Excel files—to infect computer systems. These are the 10 most commonly exploited initial attack vectors, according to the Five Eyes: 1. Strong password policies are not implemented.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 30, 2019

This is part of the reason that Microsoft went so far as to incorporate a security firewall into the Windows 10 operating system. The best ways to make antivirus solutions more effective is to either combine them with additional security methods such as two-factor authentication or simply by adding additional antivirus solutions.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

For instance, Microsoft provides up to 10 free licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Premium to qualifying nonprofits, which include advanced cybersecurity features. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2023

An endpoint web application firewall (WAF) can closely monitor incoming traffic and works wonders in forestalling zero-day incursions. Crude authentication The long-time mantra about strong passwords makes a whole lot of sense in the WordPress context. This quirk makes it possible to reproduce such attacks and automate their execution.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Install Apache Web Server and Perform the Initial Firewall Configuration. Configuring Key-Based Authentication. Initial Firewall Configuration. Configure Directory and File Access and Add Basic Authentication. Using Client Authentication with Kafka. AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design – FINAL EXAM.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s about how they started with a deliberately misconfigured version of CosmosDB and ended up with complete unrestricted access to the accounts and the databases of thousands of Microsoft Azure customers. In Episode 28 I talked with Ophir Harpaz and Peleg Hadar about fuzzing the Hypervisor used in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. First, that there is a CLI for Microsoft 365. More details are available in this article.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

IAM offers fine-grained access for AWS resources, offers multi-factor authentication for highly privileged users, and can integrate with corporate directories. Finally, AWS also offers a directory service in three different flavors (Microsoft Active Directory, Simple AD [Microsoft-compatible; leverages Samba], and AD Connector).

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To view it, the unsuspecting person has to go through a rabbit hole of authentication steps. Enable a firewall and use reliable enterprise-grade internet security software equipped with anti-phishing controls. To evoke a victim's curiosity, this document is claimed to contain important business information.

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 3, 2012

To do this I simply: Logged into the Home Server Clicked Start , then Run , and ran the wf.msc firewall configuration utility I clicked on New Rule In the wizard that opened, I selected Port , and clicked Next. Hi Dave, My guess is you've somehow managed to add some authentication to who can print. Microsoft Office 2007. (10).

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Dataconomy

MARCH 20, 2023

CodeRed: A worm that first appeared in 2001 and infected tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft’s IIS web server software. Cyberpsychology: The psychological underpinnings of cybersecurity risks Firewall protection Firewalls are another important tool in preventing computer worms.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Microsoft Research has also published a paper on how to emulate a blockchain using a conventional database, enabling the two models to coexist. NFTs use a digital ledger to provide a public certificate of authenticity or proof of ownership, but do not restrict the sharing or copying of the underlying digital files.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 20, 2023

CodeRed: A worm that first appeared in 2001 and infected tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft’s IIS web server software. Cyberpsychology: The psychological underpinnings of cybersecurity risks Firewall protection Firewalls are another important tool in preventing computer worms.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

You need some form of authentication to access it that might be through a login and password or through a paywall or other sorts of authentication methods. Everyone from Microsoft to your local deli is talking about it. That is intended to detect this malware and flag it in firewalls or other similar systems.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Back in 1996, a Microsoft, Ascend, and 3Com developed the peer-to-peer tunneling protocol (PPTP). This is accomplished using a three-layered approach involving tunneling, authentication and encryption. Due to the physicality of VPN firewalls, similar scalability is more expensive, more time consuming and decidedly less secure.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Here we were in the 21st century, and the lab was using an operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft. Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. Number two, put up some shields, some guards, whether it be a firewall and so on and so forth. Put some shields up.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Here we were in the 21st century, and the lab was using an operating system that was no longer supported by Microsoft. Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. Number two, put up some shields, some guards, whether it be a firewall and so on and so forth. Put some shields up.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Network-as-a-service startup Nile has added new zero-trust capabilities and tapped Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks to bolster its enterprise security services. The new security features include built-in access control for basic authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

VAMOSI: This latest book is structured along the lines of STRIDE , a threat framework which is derived from a 1999 paper from inside Microsoft called “threats to our products” If you haven’t heard of haven't heard of STRIDE before, Adam explains SHOSTACK: Sure. How does he authenticate? SHOSTACK: Yeah.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

Once inside, they will use legitimate credentials and access to do real damage, especially if the organization uses legacy architecture involving firewalls and VPNs. Threat actors distributing these proxy kits favor imitating commonly trusted brands such as Microsoft and Gmail due to the widespread frequent use of these familiar formats.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

Some expected implications include rising prices for firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and network security appliances; some vendors may delay major hardware refreshes or product launches; and increased costs for cloud security providers could trickle down to enterprises in the form of higher subscription fees. The new 25% U.S.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 20, 2025

OpenAI’s ChatGPT API shows vulnerability to DDoS attacks A write-up from security researcher Benjamin Flesch, shared this month via Microsoft’s GitHub, details how a single HTTP request to the ChatGPT API can instigate a flood of network requests from the ChatGPT crawler, specifically the ChatGPT-User agent.

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