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3.4 Million user records from LiveAuctioneers hack available for sale

Security Affairs

LiveAuctioneers is one of the world’s largest art, antiques & collectibles online marketplace that was founded in 2002. ” According to the company, attackers accessed personal details of the users, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and also encrypted passwords. million users.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. New encryption and anonymity tools may arise to counter the advancement of law enforcement and government monitoring tools. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

Most recently, the company used phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication for advertising and networking purposes. On the other hand, WhatsApp -- purchased by Facebook in 2014 -- provides users with end-to-end encrypted messaging. Facebook needs to be both explicit and detailed about how and when it shares user data.

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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

The company got its start in 2002 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, as a two-man operation that set out to help small firms filter the early waves of email spam. Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. There are so many more ways to subvert authentication.

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Exploiting Kerberos for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation

NopSec

Introduction Within most enterprise environments, authentication is handled by a central system known as the domain controller. Active Directory implements two (2) primary protocols for authentication — NTLM and Kerberos. The challenge is then encrypted by a hash of the user’s password, and sent to the server.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

TRIA was passed in 2002 to provide financial assistance to the insurers who were reeling from covering the costs of the Sept. As for the motive behind NotPetya, the program was initially transmitted through Ukrainian accounting software , which suggests that it was intended to target Ukrainian critical infrastructure.

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Identity-based Cryptography

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The most common mistake that repeatedly occurred in all of these studies [13,14,15] was to encrypt a message with the sender’s public key. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])