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F5 Networks has released hotfixes for three vulnerabilities affecting its BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules, including a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-46747) that could lead to unauthenticated remote code executio… Continue reading F5 fixes critical BIG-IP vulnerability (CVE-2023-46747)
Organizations now create and move more data than at any time ever before in human history. Network traffic continues to increase, and global internet bandwidth grew by 29% in 2021, reaching 786 Tbps. In addition to record traffic volumes, 95% of traffi… Continue reading The role of streaming machine learning in encrypted traffic analysis
F5 Networks‘ BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules are vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution attacks via CVE-2022-1388. “This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system thr… Continue reading Critical F5 BIG-IP flaw allows device takeover, patch ASAP! (CVE-2022-1388)
25% of internet traffic on any given day is made up of bots, the Kasada Research Team has found. In fact, there is a synthetic counterpart for almost every human interaction online. Bot mitigation tactics These bots work to expose and take advantage of… Continue reading What analytics can unveil about bot mitigation tactics
Since Edward Snowden’s revelations of sweeping internet surveillance by the NSA, the push to encrypt the web has been unrelenting. Bolstered by Google’s various initiatives (e.g., its prioritizing of websites that use encryption in Google Search result… Continue reading What is flowing through your enterprise network?
Distil Networks analyzed over 100 million mobile devices on its networks. The findings suggest that sophisticated cybercriminals and bot operators now implement a new technique—leveraging mobile devices – to avoid detection and execute a number o… Continue reading Mobile is the new frontier for malicious bots
Could we detect compromised consumer IoT devices participating in a DDoS attack in real-time and do someting about it? A group of researchers Princeton University have presented some encouraging results showing that the first part of that equation can … Continue reading Real-time detection of consumer IoT devices participating in DDoS attacks
TLS 1.3 promises great improvements for the encrypted Web, both in terms of security and performance. However, its adoption has been held back for the past year by SSL/TLS proxies and other load balancing and traffic monitoring middleboxes that break c… Continue reading You Can Now Help Identify Middleboxes Holding Back TLS 1.3 Adoption
How to make sure that your malware will be able to communicate with its C&C servers even if the infected machine sits behind a company firewall and traffic to and from the corporate network is regularly inspected? Pack the needed information into DNS traffic. For one thing, DNS traffic is very rarely blocked, as it is needed to allow users to access network resources by name (instead by IP addresses). Secondly, DNS traffic monitoring and … More → Continue reading DNSMessenger backdoor/RAT uses DNS queries to communicate with C&C server