Category: security
Russia to invest over half a billion US dollars in its battle against VPN usage
Russia wants to boost its censorship infrastructure and plans to spend almost 60 billion rubles (around $650 million) over the next five years to update its internet-blocking system. This is the strategy outlined in the federal project ‘Cybersecurity Infrastructure’ as reported by Forbes. The Russian censor body, Roskomnadzor, aims to…
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Quad7 botnet expands, adding SOHO and VPN routers, media servers
The operators of the Quad7 botnet have been busy, adding new features and expanding their attack surface, according to multiple security researchers who have been keeping tabs on the malware’s recent evolution. Quad7 was first spotted by a researcher alias Gi7w0rm, and experts from Sekoia, when it was only observed…
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SonicWall devices are coming under attack from major assault
A recently discovered bug in SonicWall SonicOS firewall instances is being used in ransomware attacks, multiple researchers have confirmed. SonicWall recently reported finding, and patching, an improper access control vulnerability affecting its Gen 5, Gen 6, and Gen 7 firewalls, as well as the firewalls’ SSLVPN feature. The bug is…
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Serve your country through cyber, White House says
Earlier this week, the United States White House unveiled a new initiative, called Service for America. This initiative, created together with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), aims to get more people interested in cybersecurity, and thus help bolster the overall cybersecurity posture…
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VPN demand is on the rise worldwide – the US calls on Big Tech to step in
As the likes of Russia, Iran, Myanmar, and other authoritarian states keep heavily censoring the internet, the demand for VPN services has never been higher. This is why the US now urges Big Tech to better support circumvention software. On Thursday, September 5, the White House met with representatives of…
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Veeam patches multiple critical remote code execution flaws
Data backup and cloud data management company Veeam said it released multiple patches which fix more than a dozen flaws impacting different products. In a security advisory published earlier this week, Veeam said that it fixed a total of 18 bugs, five of which were deemed critical in severity. The…
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