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Hacking Pickleball

Schneier on Security

Sports are filled with hacks, as players look for every possible advantage that doesn’t explicitly break the rules. My latest book, A Hacker’s Mind , has a lot of sports stories. I don’t understand pickleball at all, so that explanation doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. (I But it looks like an excellent example.

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A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack

Krebs on Security

Here’s a brief timeline of what we know leading up to last week’s mass-hack, when hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Exchange Server systems got compromised and seeded with a powerful backdoor Trojan horse program. When did Microsoft find out about attacks on previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange?

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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group

Krebs on Security

” Only one of the men sanctioned today is known to have been criminally charged in connection with hacking activity. Secret Service determined that he ran a massive “money mule” scheme, which used phony job offers to trick people into laundering money stolen from hacked small to mid-sized businesses in the United States.

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Easy Hacks on Telephone Entry Systems

Security Boulevard

Here’s my Channel 2600 recording from the Next HOPE (2010): Telephone entry systems are practically everywhere in the city. This presentation explains how the common keypad box will grant full access to a building … Continue reading Easy Hacks on Telephone Entry Systems ?.

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How China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data

Schneier on Security

Interesting analysis of China’s efforts to identify US spies: By about 2010, two former CIA officials recalled, the Chinese security services had instituted a sophisticated travel intelligence program, developing databases that tracked flights and passenger lists for espionage purposes. The capability was there and was being utilized.”

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RSAC insights: SolarWinds hack illustrates why software builds need scrutiny — at deployment

The Last Watchdog

By patiently slipping past the best cybersecurity systems money can buy and evading detection for 16 months, the perpetrators of the SolarWinds hack reminded us just how much heavy lifting still needs to get done to make digital commerce as secure as it needs to be. Related: DHS launches 60-day cybersecurity sprints.

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. Intel 471 found that Kerens used the email address pepyak@gmail.com , which also was used to register Kerens accounts on the Russian language hacking forums Verified and Damagelab. The WHOIS records for autodoska[.]biz

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