Daniel Miessler

MARCH 22, 2020

Just yesterday I tweeted that the COVID-19 situation was going to finally make large-scale video surveillance endemic to our society. Watching people en masse for terrorism, when people can easily that there isn’t that much terrorism actually happening, is a harder fight. The Real Internet of Things, January 2017.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

Se ha reportado un fuego significativo en la subestación Monacillos. El fuego provocó apagones significativos en toda la isla. LUMA descubrió un ataque de denegación de servicio distribuido (DDoS, por sus siglas en inglés) dirigido al portal de clientes y la aplicación móvil Mi LUMA. ” reported NPR. ” Pierluisi said.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Web-phishing targeting various online services almost doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic , it accounted for 46 percent of the total number of fake web pages. The precise elaboration of these separate attacks affected the ransomware share in the top threats distributed via email en masse. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

It’s unclear if APT41 scanned the Internet and attempted exploitation en masse or selected a subset of specific organizations to target, but the victims appear to be more targeted in nature,” continues FireEye. The paused coincides with the Chinese Lunar New Year holidays which occurred between January 24 and January 30, 2020.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 29, 2020

However, despite COVID-19, we had some amazing successes. . The team and I are also extremely excited about the progress with our Endpoint portfolio across ENS , EDR and momentum behind MVISION Insights. . Our latest Endpoint protection product, ENS 10.7, January brought McAfee our new CEO – Peter Leav.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

According to a criminal complaint published by Argentina’s Unidad Fiscal Especializada en Ciberdelincuencia, the agency started receiving numerous tech support calls from checkpoints at approximately 7 AM on August 27th. “Being approximately 7 a.m. ” reads the criminal complaint.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As part of BEC, phishing emails can target particular people within an organization or sent out en masse. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a type of email phishing attack that relies on social engineering. Often disguised as money transfer requests, HR-communications or business proposals they aim to steal confidential data.

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SC Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

COVID-19 threatened lives, livelihoods and companies security as employees migrated en masse to a work-from-home model. But the COVID-19 crisis was very different in that it also affected all of us personally. Following COVID, HR teams are stepping up more, Corll believes. And that really helped.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2022

KMS is a legitimate way to activate Windows licenses in client computers, especially en masse (volume activation). We attributed this to the sudden change in work life due to many moving to a work-from-home (WFH) set up during the COVID-19 pandemic. How does it work?

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SC Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

For instance, some might be interested in a very particular document, such as a COVID-19 vaccine formula, or perhaps the schematics of a jet prototype. Whoever decided to scan and infect thousands of companies en masse, it’s quite possible they implemented this tactic once news of the zero-days became public knowledge.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

Israel is using emergency surveillance powers to track people who may have COVID-19, joining China and Iran in using mass surveillance in this way. A program that collects, en masse, identifiable information about people must be scientifically justified and deemed necessary by public health experts for the purpose of containment.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The level of cybersecurity after the pandemic and the initial adoption of remote work by organizations en masse has become better. As predicted, with the lift of COVID-19 restrictions, attackers have stepped up their activities again in 2022.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Especialmente en Latinoamérica una región donde el espíritu de supervivencia prevaleció y muchas …. Si bien la historia de la humanidad está plagada de años difíciles, el 2020 nos presentó desafíos únicos debido a una pandemia que nos dejó muchas lecciones. The post Un año de resiliencia con espíritu latino.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

Más allá del trabajo en la distancia, la nueva normalidad exige una serie de elementos que debemos coordinar para contar con una óptima estrategia, según revela Gartner en un reciente …. Trabajo remoto, desarrollo de la nube, ¿qué podría salir mal?

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This is a surprising trend, as one would expect COVID-19 and the move to remote working to have prompted more computer incidents. Many operators specialize solely in infecting networks en masse via botnets or through exploiting 1-day vulnerabilities. But our visibility showed otherwise. Key trends.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

At the conclusion of the conference, we employed one of the strongest use cases for leveraging Meraki SM: en masse remote wiping before being returned to the contractor. While analyzing the file, I noticed the PDF file appeared to be a negative COVID-19 test. This was easily accomplished remotely and registration was a breeze.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Wholescale student populations are now being sequestered at home long-term and are receiving their schooling via remote classroom access due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Raising a Cyber-Savvy Village: Remote Learning Security in the Age of COVID-19 appeared first on Herjavec Group.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For posting comments en masse, cybercriminals can use bots. Scam site demands urgent payment of “COVID-19-related expenses” for delivery of a parcel. Recently, many channels have appeared on Telegram promising prizes or get-rich cryptocurrency investment schemes. An appeal to pity. Lucrative offers.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

2022 will likely be remembered for several reasons; notably the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world recovering from the worst of the COVID pandemic, and of course, a global financial crisis. Pertinent events that cause global attention, as seen with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, are likely to galvanize hacktivists en masse.

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McAfee

AUGUST 4, 2021

The samples where the delayed execution was configurable, equal nearly 19% of the total. McAfee’s Endpoint Security (ENS) and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) detect the CyaX-Sharp loader every step of the way, including the common techniques it uses. On average, a 4 second delay is used.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

What will the global economy look like post Covid-19? I’m referring to how the youthful users of the TikTok and K-pop social media sites registered en masse for tickets to attend a Trump rally last June in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Is social injustice and skewed wealth distribution destined to carry on, as usual?

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