Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since the dawn of the Internet, the digital world has continued to evolve, offering users unlimited access to information, entertainment and ways of connecting with people around the globe. Despite these benefits, going online can expose users to multiple risks to their safety and privacy. How to ensure safe digital encounters.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to learn to live with what we have and make better choices from here on out. The Social Media we should have had. The Social Media we truly have.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2022

TikTok moms have started a movement: Calling out potential creeps who follow child influencer accounts on the platform. The latest account in the spotlight is @wren.eleanor, a TikTok account with a massive 17.3 Keep your children off the internet! Take your social media accounts private. million followers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

Weaponizing social media How did we get here? Mainstream news media gravitates to chasing the political antics of the moment. This tends to diffuse sober analysis of the countless examples of Russia, in particular, weaponizing social media to spread falsehoods, interfere in elections, target infrastructure and even radicalize youth.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Importantly, if the Internet were to achieve such a promise, then everyone, no matter their gender, race, income level, education, or age, could feel as safe and as private online as they deserve. Teenagers were, perhaps understandably, twice as likely as those aged 65 and up to have their social media accounts hacked.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election. As a security expert , I believe it’s a tool uniquely suited to Internet-era propaganda. This is all very new.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. Images from Punchmade Dev’s Twitter/X account show him displaying bags of cash and wearing a functional diamond-crusted payment card skimmer. Punchmade Dev’s shop.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram in Russia to prevent the spreading of info related to the Ukraine invasion. Russia will ban Instagram, the decision was announced by Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor. “As you know, on March 11, Meta Platforms Inc. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to learn to live with what we have and make better choices from here on out. The Social Media we should have had. The Social Media we truly have.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Worried about this lack of transparency, users and privacy watchdogs put pressure on technology companies. DNT (disabled by default) is part of Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Total Security, and Kaspersky Security Cloud. That service, too, accounts for a fairly large share of DNT detections across the world.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Employees and executives are often oversharing personal details on social media and even in automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages. Of course, OOO instructions serve an important business communications function, and a strong strong social media profile is a great way to network with your peers and brand yourself. Social media.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2024

On Monday, the computing giant unveiled a new line of PCs that integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to promise faster speeds, enhanced productivity, and a powerful data collection and search tool that screenshots a device’s activity—including password entry—every few seconds. The consequences of such a system could be enormous.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At issue is whether candidates using AI to create deepfaked media for political advertisements should be considered fraud or legitimate electioneering. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has reportedly already started using OpenAI’s technology to handle text message replies to voters. Let’s start with the platforms.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great. Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least). Is it unique to their generation?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

Passwords are a hot topic on social media at the moment, due to the re-emergence of a discussion about good password management practices. There’s one password management tool which experiences more than its fair share of derision—the oft-maligned Internet password book. Some include online syncing alongside web browser extensions.

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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. Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. This is coming. Likewise, the U.S.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 5, 2020

The NSA has issued a cybersecurity advisory about the use of location data on personal devices, social media accounts, mobile applications, as well as Internet of Things-enabled devices. The advisory, titled “Limiting Location Data Exposure,” was released August 4.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Large language models—the technology undergirding modern chatbots—allow users to interact with computers through natural conversation, an innovation that introduces some baggage from human-to-human exchanges. ” Other computing technologies have been shown to shape our cognition. This is beginning to change.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. ” A month prior on Cracked, Everlynn posted a sales thread, “1x Government Email Account || BECOME A FED!,”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2024, that’s changed, as the uses for fake IDs have become enmeshed with the internet. Last month, the technology reporting outfit 404 Media investigated an online service called OnlyFake that claimed to use artificial intelligence to pump out images of fake IDs. In short, it did. You don’t need that anymore.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

To identify negligent behavior, security teams should look for indicators of poor data hygiene like storing passwords in text files, databases exposed to the external internet, questionable Wi-Fi connections, unsanctioned application use, and sidestepping security restrictions. Technology: Work smarter, not harder. Lucia Milic?,

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. com include privnode[.]com

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate. In 2016, this consisted of creating social media accounts run either by human operatives or automatically by bots, making them seem legitimate, gathering followers.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially , upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. The risk arises from two separate threads coming together: artificial intelligence-driven text generation and social media chatbots.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. “InfraGard is a social media intelligence hub for high profile persons,” USDoD said.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

Visitors arrive at the cloud pavilion of Amazon Web Services at the 2016 CeBIT digital technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany. A confidential informant passed along an email associated with the account, which the FBI used to issue a subpoena to obtain subscriber records for Dionysus’ email account and unmask Pendley’s identity.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

We have on average 67 applications on our mobile phones, seven social media accounts and more than 120 online accounts. But these accounts are not all about networking and games. More than 96% of all internet users have never read a single privacy policy text. What technologies should the tool use?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. Related: Make it costly for cybercriminals.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own. Everything.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Training employees is a crucial part of fighting back against this kind of attack and can complement other technological security solutions. It also ensures that your account credentials won’t be used for as long. Data discovery technologies can scan data stores and label sensitive and regulated data by purpose and type.

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