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App Stores OK’ed VPNs Run by China PLA
Richi Jennings | | 360 Security Technology, App Store, App Stores, Apple, CCP, china, china espionage, China-nexus cyber espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese cyber espionage, chinese government, free vpn app, google, Google Play Store, Peoples Republic of China, Privacy, Qihoo 360, SB Blogwatch, Signal Secure VPN, Snap VPN, Tech Transparency Project, Thunder VPN, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Turbo VPN, VPN, VPN Proxy Master
Bad Apple: Chinese firm banned by the U.S. is the shady entity behind a clutch of free VPN apps—with over a million downloads ...
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New VPN Backdoor
A newly discovered VPN backdoor uses some interesting tactics to avoid detection: When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard ...

The Growing Risks of Traditional VPNs and Firewalls
Lawrence Pingree | | Cybersecurity, Dispersive Stealth Networking, Network Security, stealth networking, threat prevention, VPN
The traditional Virtual Private Network (VPN) has long been considered the gold standard for secure remote access, serving as a cornerstone of cybersecurity strategies for decades. However, as cyber threats evolve and ...

5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid With Zero-Trust
Implementing zero-trust is not straightforward — security teams can overlook critical items that impact zero-trust initiatives and limit their effectiveness ...
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More Than Two Million Stolen VPN Passwords Discovered
More than 2.1 million stolen VPN passwords have been compromised by malware in the past year, highlighting a growing risk for unauthorized access to secure networks, according to a Specops Software report ...
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Web-Connected Industrial Control Systems Vulnerable to Attack
Half of the 40,000 internet-connected industrial control systems (ICS) devices in the U.S., more than half of which are associated with building control and automation protocols, run low-level automation protocols found in ...
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How Using a VPN May Benefit Your Privacy
In the title of this post, keep in mind the keyword is may; as a forewarning, this is not a post that definitively says you must use a VPN regardless of the ...
Emulating the Prickly Cactus Ransomware
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by the Cactus ransomware since the beginning of its activities in March 2023. Cactus has targeted a wide variety of ...

Hard Truths about Remote Access Hardware VPNs
Hardware VPNs are the primary method the enterprise uses to connect remote, or what we now call the hybrid workforce, to the IT tools that power our digital economy ...
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Next-Generation VPN Security Needs To Be Quantum Safe
Ganesh Gopalan | | Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQC algorithm, PQC solutions, PQC VPN, Quantum Computers, VPN
Everytime you connect to the internet, cryptography keeps your communication safe and secure. The digital age thrives on the secure exchange of information. But how safe is your communication? According to the ...