Bleeping Computer

JUNE 15, 2022

An international law enforcement operation, codenamed 'First Light 2022,' has seized 50 million dollars and arrested thousands of people involved in social engineering scams worldwide. [.].

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Naked Security

JUNE 20, 2022

Friends don't let friends get scammed. Not everyone knows how typical scams unfold, so here are some real-world examples.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 13, 2023

I wrote about this kind of thing in 2000, in Secrets and Lies (page 318): My favorite example is a band of California art thieves that would break into people’s houses by cutting a hole in their walls with a chainsaw. Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 21, 2023

The Center for Internet Security, founded in 2000 to address growing cyber threats and establish a set of cybersecurity protocols and standards like CIS Critical Security Controls and. Google Cloud and The Center for Internet Security, Inc.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The post Study shows connections between 2000 malware samples used by Russian APT groups appeared first on Security Affairs. . ~ Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Russian APT, hacking).

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The Hacker News

APRIL 30, 2021

Perhaps due to the nature of the position, the InfoSec leadership roles tend to be solitary ones.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 28, 2023

The issues impact the Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in the Illumina MiSeqDx, NextSeq 550Dx, iScan, iSeq 100, MiniSeq, MiSeq, NextSeq 500, NextSeq 550, NextSeq 1000/2000, and NovaSeq 6000 DNA

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Cybersecurity Software 102

Dark Reading

JUNE 16, 2020

Only a handful have controls against domain-name hijacking, DNS modifications, and other threats, a new CSC study finds.

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DNS 107

Heimadal Security

MAY 2, 2023

The flaws affect the Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in the Illumina MiSeqDx, NextSeq 550Dx, iScan, iSeq 100, MiniSeq, MiSeq, NextSeq 500, NextSeq 550, NextSeq 1000/2000, […] The post CISA Issues Warning About Serious Flaws in Illumina DNA Sequencing Systems appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2021

I have 80 copies of my 2000 book Beyond Fear available at the very cheap price of $5 plus shipping. Note that there is a 20% chance that your book will have a “BT Counterpane” sticker on the front cover. Order your signed copy here.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A high-severity vulnerability has been disclosed in the SQLite database library, which was introduced as part of a code change dating all the way back to October 2000 and could enable attackers to crash or control programs. Tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), the 22-year-old issue affects SQLite versions 1.0.12 through 3.39.1,

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The State of Security

JUNE 16, 2022

Law enforcement agencies around the world appear to have scored a major victory in the fight against fraudsters, in an operation which has seized tens of millions of dollars and seen more than 2000 people arrested. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Social Engineering Scams Engineering 134

The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Attackers exploited over 2000 servers belonging to one of the top three cloud providers worldwide and targeted a client who was using a free CDN plan. At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650 Gbps.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2023

Now, imagine what will happen if the intensity of such attacks increases by 2000 times if/when hackers exploit a vulnerability to amplify the attack resulting in a high scale denial of service attack. now that’s interesting!

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DDOS Cybersecurity Internet Internet 122

Heimadal Security

MARCH 14, 2023

The report started in May 2000 and is one of the most significant sources of information in […] The post FBI’s Report Shows: Investment Fraud Caused Loses of Over $3 Billion in 2022 appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. billion paid by victims increased from $1.45 billion in 2021, which is a 127% jump.

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Internet Internet Cybersecurity 78

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

However, according to a research study carried out by the SANS Institute, the most commonly used PIN on mobile phones is 1234.

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Cyber Risk Risk Mobile Cybersecurity 137

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The study found the majority of Global 2000 companies continue to lag in the adoption of domain security. The post Companies Failing to Protect Domain Registrations appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2021

Cybereason is excited to announce a partnership with South Korean multinational conglomerate and Global Fortune 2000 leader the Doosan Corporation (Doosan Digital Innovation, or DDI) to protect enterprises from sophisticated cyberattacks on endpoints and across their networks. .

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As we shared fond memories, I captured some of their ideas and thinking from 2000 to help make the connection with what CIS is doing today. Over the years, CIS brought together three major components for the cybersecurity industry, starting in 2000 when our nonprofit company was founded: To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The security expert Andreas Kellas detailed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the SQLite database library, which was introduced in October 2000. The CVE-2022-35737 flaw is an integer overflow issue that impacts SQLite versions 1.0.12 through 3.39.1. on July 21, 2022. “SQLite 1.0.12

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2023

Hackers and advertising agencies are always on a hunt for such details as they can sell the data to interested parties for a fair price that could go up to $2000 for info of just 1000 contacts.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

The first CIS Benchmark was released in 2000. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) recently celebrated 20 years of bringing confidence to the connected world with consensus-based security guidance. Today, there are more than 100 CIS Benchmarks configuration guidelines across 25+ product vendor families.

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Adam Shostack

JUNE 22, 2020

When I comment that “how attackers get access” is underserved, what I mean is that its insufficiently well addressed in 2000 reports to have emerged or been noticed by the NLP and manual analyses. I am grateful for their work, and how it shines a light on where we are.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 27, 2023

A similar survey conducted by NordVPN showed that almost one in four adults in the United States have been targeted by romance scams, and among them, nearly 29% lost between $400 to $2000 due to these criminals.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It is used for authentication in early Windows systems, leading up to Windows 2000. One such protocol that receives a lot of focus from attackers is NT LAN Manager (NTLM ). NTLM has been around for over 20 years. It uses a challenge-response mechanism to authenticate clients.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2022

This month, the experts noticed that the number of infected hosts passed from 2000 to around 30,000. “While the group has operated for years, by mid 2021, the botnet was observed operating with roughly 2000 hosts globally.

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

Taiwan-based NAS maker Synology was founded in January 2000 and now its products are distributed worldwide and localized in several languages. The […]. The post Synology Recently Noticed a Rise in Brute-force Attacks on NAS Devices appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 5, 2021

This now notorious cyber threat rose to global fame in 2000 with the infamous Love Bug virus spread. Phishing has been around since the mid-nineties, with the first-ever malicious email of this kind being discovered in 1995. The email it came in contained an attachment claiming to be a love letter, which tricked a lot […].

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

I remember the infamous email-based computer worm , the “ILOVEYOU virus,” that infected fellow IT friends back in 2000. Since the day we started receiving email, we have failed at protecting recipients from scams, phishes and other email messages that they don’t want.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The campaign lasted from May to Sept’20 and was carried out after compromising over 20 accounts of employees, leading to the leak of information from over 2000 accounts and 40k financial transactions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

1/3 pic.twitter.com/pMij9lpU5J — ESET Research (@ESETresearch) January 27, 2023 The Sandworm group has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The #SwiftSlicer wiper is written in Go programing language.

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Malware Telecommunications Ransomware Hacking 93

Dark Reading

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the shipping industry's cyber posture was better than companies in the Forbes Global 2000, the industry performed lower in key risk group factors.

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Risk 75

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The analysis of the sources of the attack revealed that they were devices with open ports 2000 and 5678 (2000 “Bandwidth test server” and port 5678 “Mikrotik Neighbor Discovery Protocol”), a combination that suggests the involvement of Mikrotik systems. ris botnet. million RPS.

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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Internet Information Services (IIS) is Microsoft Windows web server software included with all Windows versions since Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003. Windows IIS servers were compromised by threat actors to add expired certificate notification pages asking visitors to download a malicious fake installer.

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Internet Internet Software Cybersecurity 81

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And it later paved the way to the spread of file encrypting malware onto the networks of over 13 firms, out of which 2 victims paid $2000 in BTC to regain access to their locked out systems. More details about the ransomware group involved in the incident will be updated after confirmation!

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When the Center for Internet Security (CIS) was formed in 2000, the IT and cybersecurity industries identified a clear need to understand how to secure IT systems and data. This need highlighted a lack of hardening recommendations, particularly prescriptive and industry-recognized standards.

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InfoWorld on Security

MAY 28, 2021

In addition to its other benefits, the cloud offers more modern security measures than on-premises platforms, so the Global 2000 made a quick push to public clouds. Today the pandemic has us working at home, which makes us all more dependent on cloud computing.

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