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CISA Order Highlights Persistent Risk at Network Edge

June 15, 2023 admin adam boileau, barracuda networks, cisa, cve-2023-27997, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, fortinet, fortra, goanywhere, Latest Warnings, Mandiant, moveit transfer, Patrick Gray, progress software, Risky Business podcast, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:40:09 +0000

The U.S. government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal civilian agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

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Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways

June 8, 2023 admin barracuda networks, caitlin condon, cve-2023-2868, email security gateway, International Computer Science Institute, Latest Warnings, Mandiant, Nicholas Weaver, Rapid7, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:17:06 +0000

It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission an entire line of affected hardware — as opposed to just applying software updates. But experts say that is exactly what transpired this week with Barracuda Networks, as the company struggled to combat a sprawling malware threat which appears to have undermined its email security appliances in such a fundamental way that they can no longer be safely updated with software fixes.