Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. The table of contents has changed since I last blogged about this, and it now looks like this: Introduction: Everything is Becoming a Computer Part 1: The Trends 1. Authentication and Identification are Getting Harder 6. Conclusion: Technology and Policy, Together.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. There was another warning from the U.S. And those incidents may only be increasing.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 8, 2021

Mandiant notified Kaseya after hearing about it from Alex Holden , founder and chief technology officer of Milwaukee-based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security. “This is worse because the CVE calls for an authenticated user,” Holden said. The Kaseya customer support and billing portal. Image: Archive.org.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

This blog was written in collaboration with Jean-Paul Truong. The worldwide number of IoT-connected devices is projected to increase to 43 billion by 2023 , an almost threefold increase from 2018 , demonstrating the pace at which the world is becoming more connected.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In 2018, LinkedIn rolled out a way to automatically detect fake accounts. Whether you are deciding to accept an invitation, learning more about a business opportunity, or exchanging contact information, we want you to be empowered to make decisions having more signals about the authenticity of accounts.". What's new? Source: LinkedIn).

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Yet, according to the study by the Ponemon Institute, the number of insider leaks has increased by 47 percent in 2020 compared to 2018. The technology uses the steganography method. But that would be falsification of documents, and a fake document without any marks of its authenticity loses its value and acquires the quality of gossip.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It reinforces the fact that PKI provides important core authentication technologies for a wide variety of enterprise applications – and that the IoT is the next major use case on the horizon. And, respondents indicate that they expect 42 percent of their IoT devices will use digital certificates for authentication within two years.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

And one of the few security technologies that is specifically called out by the FTC is multi-factor authentication (MFA). Multi-factor authentication helps security teams control access to sensitive data. For companies that are new to this technology, it can seem intimidating. What is the FTC’s Safeguards Rule?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In this blog, and in and accompanying interview with our colleague Daniel Hjort from Nexus Group, we discuss the challenges that industry faces to ensure safe deployment and management of IoT technologies. Injecting digital birth certificates to enable device identification and authentication. 1 priority in the enterprise.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

27, 2018, Cisco’s Talos research division published a write-up outlining the contours of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign it dubbed “ DNSpionage.” 25, 2019, when security firm CrowdStrike published a blog post listing virtually every Internet address known to be (ab)used by the espionage campaign to date.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2019

trillion in 2018 to $5.8 It: Provides a consistent, simpler approach to digital commerce; Reduces risk of PAN compromise; Supports dynamic data for higher security; Leverages other technologies such as 3DS and payment tokenization; and, Provides consumer confidence via SRC Mark. Digital payments growth. trillion in 2022. 3-D Secure 2.X.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2018

This article was originally featured as a guest post on Venafi’s blog. Thales eSecurity and Venafi are technology partners. Because machines increasingly talk to each other and exchange important data that they collect, strong mutual authentication and trust between these is critical. Or follow me on Twitter @asenjojuan.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, digital criminals are also closely following the buzz surrounding this tournament.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It ensures provenance, authenticity, and integrity. So why would we allow our applications and devices to install a software update, if we cannot verify the update’s provenance, authenticity, and integrity? Read Malin’s blog “ Avoid Managing a Myriad of Code Signing Solutions ” to get the complete picture of this important topic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In previous years, we have discussed the efforts of businesses to digitally transform their processes to maintain or gain a competitive advantage and many of these transformative technologies involves moving to the cloud. Besides complexity, data security in the cloud faces two more challenges – one cultural and one technological.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Three topics that piqued my interest at the 2017 show included authentication, blockchain and digital payments. Authentication. Authentication was a key theme among several sessions, as well as interoperability. Blockchain is a rapidly advancing technology , and more and more companies are moving into the implementation phase.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The malicious module is actually designed to log credentials of users that successfully authenticated on the OWA authentication web page. Successful authentication is verified by checking that the OWA application is sending an authentication token back to the user.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 5, 2018

Fast forward to 2018 when the average consumer is able to invest and has a pick of over 1,800 different kinds of cryptocurrencies to choose from. Cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically blockchain, which is essentially a public financial transactional database. dollars via crypto hacks and scams.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 23, 2022

Students explored policy-as-a-code, governance, authentication, and authorization in machine identity management open-source projects. The Development Fund is sponsoring innovative new ways to apply intelligence and automation to challenges in governance, authentication, and authorization of machine identities. Containerization.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As convenience technologies evolve, look for more risks to consumers and retailers. In our 2018 Data Threat Report-Retail Edition , we found 50% of respondents reported a data breach this past year, so it goes without saying that the holiday shopping season is a prime time for cyber criminals to target both retailers and consumers alike.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2018

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. Almost all (96%) of U.S.

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Webroot

AUGUST 18, 2021

For many within cybersecurity, the SolarWinds attack by what are widely believed to be state-sponsored cybercriminals was the most significant supply chain attack since the Cleaner attack of 2018 and a worrying reminder of the damage made possible by the tactic. Mandating two-factor authentication (2FA) wherever possible. Protecting.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

Malware deliveries Upon reviewing Android usage data for all of 2018, Google identified a rise in the number of “potentially harmful apps” that were preinstalled or delivered through over-the-air updates. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Here are a few key developments everyone should know about.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Retailers must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which mandates the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to help protect customers from data breaches. Defense-in-depth is the concept of building layers of different technology solutions to secure your IT infrastructure. million to $4.24

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). In this blog post, and in one by my colleague Sandy Carielli from Entrust Datacard, we discuss big data analytics and how it is enabling the evolution of new behavior-based authentication for easier and more robust identity management.

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Pentester Academy

MARCH 16, 2023

Lab Walkthrough — Drupalgeddon 2 [CVE-2018–7600] In our lab walkthrough series, we go through selected lab exercises on our INE Platform. Technical difficulty: Beginner Introduction In late March 2018, a critical vulnerability was uncovered in Drupal CMS. The target is running Drupal 7.57, 2018–02–21 version. x before 8.3.9,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In the digital transformation era, companies across all sectors are using next-generation technologies to streamline their operations, deliver value to customers, and gain a competitive edge. Authentic, secure patching ensures that manufacturers can mitigate security issues before cyber criminals can act.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

In June 2018, Visa payment systems crashed throughout Europe , preventing millions of customers from using POS devices to pay for goods. Lack of strong authentication to protect the wide array of distributed IoT devices leaves the door open to adversaries to penetrate the corporate network and literally wreak havoc. UTM Medium.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

Cyber Crime in 2020 I predicted, with money still being the top motivating factor for crime, criminals would blend techniques and technologies into new unforeseen attacks. However, a Google search turned up such proclamations for 2018, 2019, 2020, and even 2021. Here’s a look back at those predictions. Well, it was. But then it wasn’t.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. I invite you to read Juan’s blog to learn more about the challenges and approaches to protecting the big data behind the analytics. Aite Group estimates U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

I suggested some form of mobile-based multi-factor authentication option would prevent stolen credentials from turning into instant access. He said the company does use app/mobile based authentication for several of its new products and some internal programs, but allowed that “the legacy ones probably did not have this feature.”

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

According to Purplesec, ransomware attacks have increased by 350% since 2018, zero-day attacks were up by 55% in 2021, and out of the 30 million SMBs in the USA, over 66% have had at least 1 cyber incident between 2018-2020. Cybercrime is on the rise at a startling rate. Another reason to have a great system in place!

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2022

Australia adopted backdoor laws in 2018, with mixed results. In the UK, lawmakers struggled between implementing backdoors and using technologies without them to secure their own private communications. Arguably, allowing backdoors into encrypted data begs the question: “is it encrypted after all?” Venafi can help you out. "> Off.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

The routine named “StartBrut” has the purpose to prepare the credentials retrieved from the C2, then subroutine “TryLogin” connects to the target host, tries to authenticate using provided credentials and waits for the server response. Thus, the bots is instructed of which are the current active campaigns and technologies to be targeted.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” As Technology Evolves New Vulnerabilities Arise. The Threat Level Is Rising. Regulations. Interested in learning more?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

With more than 65,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales is a global leader in technology solutions for the aerospace, transport, defence and security markets. to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. I think it’s worth further expanding on our cloud technology findings.

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