A new research has demonstrated a technique that allows an attacker to bypass firewall protection and remotely access any TCP/UDP service on a victim machine. Called NAT Slipstreaming, the method involves sending the target a link to a malicious site (or a legitimate site loaded with malicious ads) that, when visited, ultimately triggers the gateway to […]
Many businesses are currently looking at how to bolster security across their organization as the pandemic and remote work situation continues to progress towards the end of the year. As organizations continue to implement security measures to protect business-critical data, there is an extremely important area of security that often gets overlooked – passwords. Weak passwords […]
You’ve probably run into a major problem when trying to scrape Google search results. Web scraping tools allow you to extract information from a web page. Companies and coders from across the world use them to download Google’s SERP data. And they work well – for a little while. After several scrapes, Google’s automated security […]
Google has patched a second actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser in two weeks, along with addressing nine other security vulnerabilities in its latest update. The company released 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which it said will be rolling out over the coming days/weeks to all users. <!–adsense–> The zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-16009, was […]
A week after the US government issued an advisory about a “global intelligence gathering mission” operated by North Korean state-sponsored hackers, new findings have emerged about the threat group’s spyware capabilities. The APT — dubbed “Kimsuky” (aka Black Banshee or Thallium) and believed to be active as early as 2012 — has been now linked to […]
The Secure Access Service Edge (or SASE) has been a very hot buzzword in the past year. A term and category created by Gartner 2019, SASE states that the future of networking and security lies in the convergence of these categories into a single, cloud-based platform.The capabilities that SASE delivers aren’t new and include SD-WAN, threat prevention, […]