Security
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Use PowerShell to Create Palo Alto EDL for Dynamic DNS Clients
One of the really cool things you can do with the Palo Alto firewall is create external dynamic lists which allow dynamically aggregating a number of different resource types to allow the Palo Alto firewall to dynamically act on the…
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Create Dynamic Firewall Rules Based on MineMeld Threat Feeds
Some time ago I posted an article covering the installation of MineMeld which is a community driven threat feed project that was released to the community by Palo Alto. The product is an extremely cool appliance that allows aggregated various…
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New Intel Vulnerability Foreshadow L1 Terminal Fault VMware Affected
Yet another security vulnerability has been discovered that is based on the Spectre and Meltdown attacks found in Intel processors. The new exploit is called Foreshadow and exploits Intel’s SGX technology which is ironically designed to protect sensitive data such…
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Untangle NG Firewall v14.0 Released with New Features
In being in many different production environments and labbing for several years now, you see and get to try various types of networking solutions and products. Around the 2008 era of time, I downloaded and tried the Untangle UTM software…
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MineMeld Threat Intelligence Installation in VMware vSphere
Threat intelligence and threat “hunting” in today’s enterprise datacenter is one of the top priorities among IT engineers. Security is an ever growing concern that organizations are spending major money on. In order to prevent cyberattacks from affecting their environments,…
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Windows 10 RDP CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation Error Fix
For those of you who may have recently installed security updates on Windows 10 workstations in the past few days, you may notice that you receive a peculiar error when trying to establish a remote desktop connection to a server…
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Critical bugs of Intel Processors revealed. AMD and ARM chips are also affected.
What’s All the Fuss About the Intel Bugs? At the beginning of this year, Google’s Project Zero made a bombshell of an announcement: they had discovered critical security flaws affecting Intel central processing units (CPUs) produced since 1995. Due to…
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New Intel Design Flaw is VMware Affected?
Update 1.11.2018 – Script from William Lam to check VMs and Hosts/Clusters ***Update 1.9.2018 – VMware releases CPU microcode update as part of hypervisor-assisted guest remediation with VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004, new Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation for branch target injection (52085) ***Update 1.6.2018 with…
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Sophos Home Edition Installation and Configuration
If you are looking for an enterprise class virus scan package for home for multiple pcs that is free, you may want to take a look at Sophos Home edition. With Sophos Home, you can secure 10 MAC & Windows…
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Enhance Security with Backup Technology
Malware infections and particularly Ransomware, can account for some of the costliest disaster recovery scenarios that your enterprise environment today may face. When it comes to backup software, many organizations are considering backup software purchases as an investment in security…
