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Kein Radar für App-Traffic: die Probleme von Firewalls – und wie sie zu lösen sind

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:21:05 +0000

Die Entwicklungen von Firewalls steht vor ganz neuen Herausforderungen. Verschiebungen in der Bedrohungslandschaft, ein dramatischer Anstieg in Anzahl und Komplexität von Technologien, mit denen System-Administratoren sich auseinandersetzen müssen, und nicht zu vergessen: eine Flut an Daten. Die modernen Firewalls können zwar heute weitaus mehr, doch auch viele sogenannte Next-Gen-Lösungen haben eine Problem: App-Traffic. Eine kürzlich [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=45084&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/k0903I6KczQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Bitcoin-Hype ruft kriminelle „Goldgräber“ auf den Plan

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:40:11 +0000

Immer mehr Akteure wollen am Bitcoin-Hype mitverdienen – und ahnungslose Webseitenbesucher sind in diesem Fall die Leidtragenden:  Seit September 2017 beobachten wir, dass bei dem Besuch vieler Webseiten die Prozessorlast des eigenen Rechners aus zunächst unerfindlichen Gründen auf 100% hochschnellt. Der Grund dafür ist, dass beim Besuch der Webseite eine in JavaScript geschriebene Anwendung des [&#8230;]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&#038;blog=834173&#038;post=44640&#038;subd=sophos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/qdKSYPassl4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Virus Infectors : A Perpetual Attack Vector – A report by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Amar Patil| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:51:57 +0000

2017 was the year of ransomware and cryptocurrency miners but we are still seeing infectors posing a prominent attack vector. Although old, infectors still remain a significant threat to users. In 2017, we observed a few old infector families making new versions of their old code, though no new prominent…

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Meltdown and Spectre fallout: patching problems persist

Credit to Author: Jérôme Boursier| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0000

In the days since Meltdown and Spectre have been made public, we’ve tracked which elements of the design flaw, known as speculative execution, are vulnerable and how different vendors are handling the patching process.

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Securing the Three Families of IoT

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:01:44 +0000

Securing the Internet of Things is difficult. One reason is the Internet of things consists of three different groups of technology. Each group has radically different architectural constraints. Securing each group requires a distinct approach. IoT 0.9  The primitive group contains all legacy Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that use some form…

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Do You Want an SD-WAN with Basic Security or Robust Secure SD-WAN

Credit to Author: Nirav Shah| Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:45:59 +0000

As network leaders assess their SD-WAN options, however, what is often missing from their deliberations is how to adequately address security risks. SD-WAN vendors are increasingly embedding security features into their offerings, but these tend to be basic, Layer 3 network controls and not the robust security functions that these environments require.

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