Scary Beasts Security

AUGUST 4, 2010

For background reading, see my Dec 2009 original post and an update that notes Firefox fixing the issue. It turns out that Internet Explorer is not compliant in either of these aspects, leaving it more vulnerable that the other browsers. I don't think it would be productive to share any PoCs at this time.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 29, 2023

During the attack, the cybercriminals may have had access to names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of current and former OHC employees (from 2009 to 2023). Create a plan for patching vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems quickly; and disable or harden remote access like RDP and VPNs. Prevent intrusions.

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Ransomware Data breaches Passwords Phishing 78

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows slap Internet giants on the face”. You may not remember your MySpace password from 2008, but the Internet does: 360 million email addresses and passwords were allegedly offered for sale last year.

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Passwords Internet Internet Data breaches 99

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

.” The malware was able to steal data from both office IT networks and a restricted network (one containing mission-critical assets and computers with highly sensitive data and no internet access). Next, the attackers logged in to the web interface using a privileged root account.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. Founded in 2009, FBS is an international online forex broker with more than 400,000 partners and 16 million traders spanning over 190 countries.

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Passwords Accountability Media Identity Theft 124

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Knowing them, a threat actor could be able to hijack the session and therefore the account. If attackers had access to this key, they could create an admin account and have privileged access to a website. The unidentified hackers allegedly attempted to map the company’s computer system between 2009 and 2010.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

” Threat actors accessed to files stored in the Literacy Works Information System that are dated back 2009, 2010, and 2014. The Department is notifying the impacted customers, potentially affected users have to carefully monitor their accounts. ” reads the data breach notice published by the Maryland Department.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Since 2009, IDIQ has offered the IdentityIQ product for industry-leading identity theft protection and credit report monitoring. This benefit includes identity monitoring; dark web and internet monitoring; Social Security number monitoring; application monitoring; and more. 1 in the industry. What is IdentityIQ?

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The 2009 study at?Shippensburg An internet sensation, Karen?is is a slang term used as an antagonistic female character widely across internet?memes. Ease of pronunciation accounted for about 40 percent of off-the-cuff likability. Shippensburg University ?found found that, regardless of race, young people?with

Social Engineering 75

Social Engineering Engineering Internet Internet 75

Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% PayPal users maintained their position as the most frequently targeted payment system users, with phishing pages mimicking this payment system accounting for 37.8%

Banking 95

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 95

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

The APT3 cyberespionage group had been active since at least 2009 and its last operation was uncovered in mid-2017. In 2010, security vendor FireEye identified the Pirpi Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which exploited a then 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8.

Advertising 76

Advertising Hacking Cyber threats Malware 76

SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Number of data leaks from medical organizations, 2009–2020. For the user, this means that if the wearable device is openly connected to the internet, then attackers can easily intercept the data it sends. The HIPAA Journal , which is focused on leaks in the U.S. Source: HIPAA Journal. In 2021, the situation did not improve.

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Phishing Healthcare IoT Authentication 118

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2022

In 2014, Wazawaka confided to another crime forum member via private message that he made good money stealing accounts from drug dealers on these marketplaces. “I used to steal their QIWI accounts with up to $500k in them,” Wazawaka recalled. That last domain was originally registered in 2009 to a Mikhail P.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 105

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, you know, now you had to be one of the privileged millions who can freely create a Peloton account so even though it was authenticated then that was not super helpful I guess. So, at a very high level, we do use an application on a mobile device that connects to the internet and sends some data to the server.

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Hacking Mobile Authentication Internet 52

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

So, you know, now you had to be one of the privileged millions who can freely create a Peloton account so even though it was authenticated then that was not super helpful I guess. So, at a very high level, we do use an application on a mobile device that connects to the internet and sends some data to the server.

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Authentication Internet 52

eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. Internet security best practices mandate unique credentials for each online account; doing so would be impossible without a solid password manager like Dashlane. Your employees will love the unique bonus features Dashlane offers as well.

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Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 97

Malwarebytes

APRIL 12, 2023

We can account for the difference in the size of countries' economies by dividing the number of known ransomware attacks by a country's nominal GDP , which gives us an approximate rate of attacks per $1T of economic output. In other words, on this measure, ransomware gangs appear to make no distinction between the UK and the USA.

Ransomware 74

Ransomware Education Accountability Backups 74

Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. But having them on the record about their intentions would at least provide a baseline for accountability. Political scientist Amy McKay coined the term.

Energy and Utilities 298

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I, therefore, enlisted at the age of 18 and began my career as a Communications Computer Systems Controller, which was converted to Cyber Transport Systems in 2009. I used to love to encrypt email messages and exchange keys with dial-up internet friends I had at the time. What is it about the job that you love?

Computers and Electronics 52

Computers and Electronics Architecture Education Cybersecurity 52

SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

RiskIQ was founded in 2009 by Lou Manousos, Chris Kiernan and David Pon, all three of whom continue to lead over 200 RiskIQ employees today, with Manousos at the helm as CEO. RiskIQ is well known for its threat intelligence capabilities and massive database of Internet-related artifacts. Company background. Product summary. Conclusion.

Marketing 58

Marketing DNS Internet Internet 58

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

For users who want to hide their activity from their Internet Service Provider, VPNs can encrypt and obscure their traffic. First conceived in 2007 by the Council of Europe (as National Data Protection Day), the United States later adopted this annual public awareness campaign in 2009. Privacy is core to a safer Internet.

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Data privacy Internet Internet Advertising 65

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

As most databases use web servers to connect to the internet, an organization’s data is inherently vulnerable to web-based attacks. With several attacks in the last year due to a breach of an administrator or personnel’s account, organizations must take a zero trust approach to protect data security.

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Firewall Encryption Computers and Electronics Software 106

Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. An analysis of the webpage reveals it would check any submitted credentials at the real Microsoft website, and return an error if the user entered bogus account information.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

However, the only actors that deliver the entire narrative of a cyberattack – discussing accountability and international law – are nation states. Cyber attribution is a necessary step to accountability in cyberspace. [2] within network activity logs collected by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), etc.).

Energy and Utilities 85

Energy and Utilities Data collection Malware Cybersecurity 85

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. 1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

presidential election interference (2016) The personal accounts of Clinton staffers get hacked; disinformation supporting Trump gets widely disseminated via social media. and Israel, 2005 – 2010,) Operation Aurora (China, 2009,) the Sony Pictures hack (North Korea, 2015,) and WannaCry (North Korea, 2017.) It’s not just Russia.

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Cybersecurity Cyber Attacks Hacking Government 312

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Founded in 2009, a16z already has an extensive track record of success, investing in over 500 companies and producing 160 exits. Formerly located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Greylock migrated headquarters to Menlo Park, California, in 2009. Insight Partners. Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Cybersecurity Technology Marketing Healthcare 122

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site launched in 2009. And with good reason — sex sells (the second most-read piece here was my 2015 scoop about the Ashley Madison hack ).

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Phishing Scams Passwords Password Management 141

Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put the risk and incredible rate of advancement in Russian cyberattacks front and center – with much of the internet (and the world) caught in the crossfire. Currently, the Duke malware strains are APT29’s weapons of choice, their collective use being known as Operation Ghost.

Social Engineering 72

Social Engineering Backups Malware Ransomware 72

The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

And, in fact, cyber ops tradecraft has advanced in sophistication in lock step with our deepening reliance on the commercial Internet. Fresh attack vectors are springing out of mobile and cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. State-sponsored cyber operations have been an integral part of global affairs for decades.

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