Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2019

“According to Microsoft, at least two of these vulnerabilities ( CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182 ) can be considered ‘wormable’ and [can be equated] to BlueKeep,” referring to a dangerous bug patched earlier this year that Microsoft warned could be used to spread another WannaCry-like ransomware outbreak.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the IC3 Annual Report released in April 2019 financial losses reached $2.7 The total cost of cybercrime for each company in 2019 reached US$13M. According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. Financial losses reached $2.7 billion in 2018.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 4, 2022

Data Protection Bill, that was presented in the Indian Parliament in 2019, has now been officially withdrawn by the government led by Prime Minister Shri Narender Modi. If we verify the facts, the Data Protection Bill of 2019 was giving more rights to the government to access sensitive information generated by the public.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. billion and authorities observed an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019 (+69%). ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2023

Despite a very slim browser market share, Internet Explorer (IE) is still being exploited by exploit kits like the RIG exploit kit (EK). According to Malwarebytes’ Senior Director of Threat Intelligence Jérôme Segura: “RIG EK is probably one of the last exploit kits targeting Internet Explorer still around.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. The post Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We are excited to announce that SiteLock ® INFINITY ™ was recently recognized as a winner of the 2019 Cloud Computing Excellence Product of the Year Award by TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine. Since 2008, we’ve remained dedicated to “protecting every website on the internet,” and SiteLock INFINITY helps us deliver on this mission.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 that address 77 flaws, including an Internet Explorer issue that has been exploited in attacks. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for February 2019 that address 77 flaws, 20 critical vulnerabilities, 54 important and 3 moderate in severity. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Critical CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway could be exploited to access company networks, 80,000 companies at risk worldwide. The CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability was discovered by Mikhail Klyuchnikov from Positive Technologies. SecurityAffairs – Citrix, CVE-2019-19781). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2019

Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Experts earned $35,000 and a Tesla Model 3 after hacking the vehicle’s web browser. Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Hackers focused their efforts on car hacking, two teams participated in the competitions but only one of them reached the goal. SecurityAffairs – Pwn2Own 2019, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S.,

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2024

At the close of 2019, API security was a concern, though not necessarily a top priority for many CISOs. We discussed how enterprises in 2019 were deep into making the transition from on-premises networks to cloud-centric, edge-oriented operations when the global pandemic hit. Securing them has become paramount.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

Related: Why proxies aren’t enough Microsoft had used illegal monopolistic practices to crush Netscape Navigator thereby elevating Internet Explorer (IE) to become far and away the No. I bring all this up, because in 2019 Microsoft ditched its clunky browser source code and launched its Edge browser, based on open-source Chromium.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace. Three IoT Attack Avenues for 2019. IoT Attacks in 2018.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2022

The infection chain starts with the installation of a tainted program downloaded from the Internet. The post Nitrokod crypto miner infected systems across 11 countries since 2019 appeared first on Security Affairs. The attackers used a scheduled tacks mechanism to implement delays between each stage of the infection chain.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2020

The NetBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, reported that yesterday (March 1, 2020) a massive power outage across Venezuela that knocked out a large part of the country’s connectivity to the Internet. Venezuela suffers major power outage knocking out internet connectivity. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We are excited to announce that SiteLock ® INFINITY™ has been recognized as a WINNER of the 2019 Cloud Computing Security Excellence Awards ! At SiteLock, we believe all businesses should be able to safely leverage the power of the internet – no matter their size or budget.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Iran – After the announcement of the government to cut fuel subsidies, protests erupted in the country and the authorities blocked Internet access. Initially, mobile networks stopped working in large areas of the country, the government blocked any access to the Internet. ” reported the NetBlocks website.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. In 2019 alone, attacks on IoT devices increased by 300%. Are You Secure?

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Adam Shostack

APRIL 5, 2019

The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong. As a summary of the problems and challenges of the internet, it’s aged sadly well since 2015. Shows how guerrilla marketing works in the age of Twitter, and outlines techniques now being used to screw up elections and people’s lives. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 8, 2021

The information released in the FBI 2020 Internet Crime Report is staggering when it comes to the sheer scope of the crimes committed. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) provides information to the public regarding cybercrime and allows citizens to report crimes directly to the government. Record Number of Complaints.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2019 address over 70 flaws, including an Internet Explorer issue (CVE-2019-1429) that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. The CVE-2019-1429 zero-day is a scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability that affects Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox browser that address a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-17026) that has been exploited in targeted attacks. Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox browser that address a zero-day flaw (CVE-2019-17026) that has been exploited in targeted attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2019

Microsoft has released the January 2019 Patch Tuesday updates that address 51 vulnerabilities in Windows OSs and other products. A close look at the list of issues addressed with the Microsoft January 2019 Patch Tuesday reveals that 7 flaws are rated critical, none was exploited in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Patches for Internet Explorer Zero-Day Causing Problems for Many Users. Microsoft released a new set of patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer recently fixed due to problems reported by users with the previous patch. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-1367 , hacking). reads the security advisory published by Microsoft. “To

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

Shodan IoT search engine announced the launch of a new service called Shodan Monitor designed to help organizations to maintain track of systems connected to the Internet. Shodan Monitor is a precious tool for organizations that can determine their surface of attack assessing their Internet-exposed systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. IBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report analyzes the threat landscape in 2019, the experts observed a spike in the number of OT attacks. “ OT attacks hit an all-time high. ” continues the report.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Cybercriminals double down on successful internet scams, with a focus on phishing, BEC and other defrauding schemes that have proven to work.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Microsoft October 2019 Patch Tuesday addressed a total of 59 vulnerabilities. Microsoft addressed two critical remote code execution flaws , tracked as CVE-2019-1238 and CVE-2019-1239, in the VBScript engine, both tie the way VBScript handles objects in memory. ” reads the security advisory for the CVE 2019-1166.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The Exim development team has addressed a vulnerability in Exim mail server, tracked as CVE-2019-15846, that could be exploited by local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. According to Shodan , over 5 million Exim mail servers are exposed on the Internet, most of them the United States.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

” Between 2018 and 2019 the researchers assessed 28 telecom operators in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America and verifies the presence of the vulnerabilities in the GTP protocol. phone number) of a real subscriber and impersonate him to access the Internet. Faults in the GTP protocol directly impact 5G networks.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. Another tech industry consultancy, IDC, forecasts worldwide IoT spending will hit a record $745 billion in 2019 , some 15.4% This is coming. Talk more soon.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 rated as Critical, 62 as Important, and only 1 as Moderate in severity. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 that address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 rated as Critical, 62 as Important, and only 1 as Moderate in severity.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

Microsoft Patches Over 90 Vulnerabilities With August 2019 Updates. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2019 address more than 90 flaws, including two new ‘ wormable ‘ issues in Windows Remote Desktop Services. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2019-1181, CVE-2019-1182, CVE-2019-1222 and CVE-2019-1226.

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