Continue Clean-up of Compromised SolarWinds Software

Last week, the United States Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advised on initial steps to take in response to the SolarWinds software that was compromised by advanced persistent threat actors. While federal agencies were under … Continue reading Continue Clean-up of Compromised SolarWinds Software

Why do routers manufacturer tend to encrypt the router config even though it would be helpful if customers could view and modify it on the go? [closed]

If they are doing that to stop threat actors then they only halted the normal users …. and if they are doing that to hide secrets and hard coded passwords then they are only obstructing the pentesters and security researchers.
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pfSense Firewall Configuration Audit with pfAudit

pfSense is a very popular free and open source firewall solution. It does not only provide classic firewall services but has plenty of features like VPN server or can offer DNS, DHCP, proxy services… and many more. pfSense is also proposed by some companies as a commercial service with support.

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Shared Responsibility and Configuration Management in the Cloud: SecTor 2020

A number of high-profile data breaches have resulted directly from misconfigured permissions or unpatched vulnerabilities. For instance, the 2017 Equifax breach was the result of exploiting an unpatched flaw in Apache Struts allowing remote code execut… Continue reading Shared Responsibility and Configuration Management in the Cloud: SecTor 2020

Podcast Episode 9 – Cloud Misconfigurations: Simple Mistakes, Big Consequences

Tripwire’s Brent Holder and Stephen Wood discuss recent study findings that provide a snapshot of what organizations are doing (and not doing) to secure their cloud. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wXKv9DiQjfsZNf6heXg67 Stitcher: https://www… Continue reading Podcast Episode 9 – Cloud Misconfigurations: Simple Mistakes, Big Consequences

What, if anything, are the consequences of temporarily enabling and then disabling WebRTC in Firefox?

For security and privacy purposes, it’s best to keep WebRTC disabled if you aren’t using it. Firefox makes this easy by simply setting media.peerconnection.enabled to false.
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