This week in cybersecurity: zero-day exploits, advanced malware, and the latest hacking tricks you need to know about.

With cyber threats everywhere, it’s not enough to protect just your devices. You also have to protect your entire network with a firewall, which scans for potential invasions. Fortunately, many ...

Enabling UPnP on your NetGear router Among other things, UPnP can also adjust router settings to open ports into a firewall, allowing devices outside of a network to connect. This solution simplifies ...

Then I have a suggestion: Build your own router/firewall. With a router running a more advanced operating system on more powerful hardware than standard consumer routers, a whole world of new ...

Palo Alto Networks is warning that hackers are exploiting the CVE-2024-3393 denial of service vulnerability to disable firewall protections by forcing it to reboot. Leveraging the security issue ...

"A denial-of-service vulnerability in the DNS Security feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated attacker to send a malicious packet through the data plane of the ...

When the Shields Up mode is active, Windows Firewall blocks all incoming connections, including those in the list of allowed apps to prevent further damage from the attack. When the attack is over ...

SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

Windows Firewall Notifier extends the default Windows embedded firewall by allowing to handle and notify about outgoing connections, offers real time connections monitoring, connections map, bandwidth ...

The next generation of Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi 8, is currently being developed behind closed doors. This time, the emphasis isn’t on pure speed, but instead on improving the user experience. Wi-Fi 8, known ...

In December 2023, Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs reported that Volt Typhoon had been using a botnet mostly powered by outdated Cisco, Netgear and Fortinet devices for covert communications and ...

One of the zero-days, tracked as CVE-2020-12271 and affecting Sophos’ XG Firewall, was exploited in April 2020 to deploy the Asnarök malware. Working with European law enforcement, the company took ...