Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. A records search at Domaintools for “Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co” returns 11 domains, including blazefire[.]net, com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO.,

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Meanwhile, the chairman of China's technology giant Huawei has pointed to NSA spying disclosed by Edward Snowden as a reason to mistrust US technology companies. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. China denied having done so , of course.

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Anton on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

despite “output-driven SIEM” concept having been invented before 2012 (to be honest, I stole the idea from a Vigilant consultant back in 2012). What data do we collect?” tends to predate “what do we actually want to do?” As a result, it then poses a real challenge of reconciling internal and external rule tracking.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Never in history have companies had access to so many technologies and tools to defend themselves. This has created what the Center for internet Security calls the “fog of more,” where a deluge of choices make decisions difficult to manage. So how should one choose?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. One such site — sun-technology[.]net

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Mark of the Web (MOTW)—the technology that ensures Windows pops a warning message when trying to open a file downloaded from the Internet—is back in the news, but unfortunately not in a good way. MOTW was originally an Internet Explorer security feature. So somewhere between 2012 and 2016 it broke.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Bloomberg, Vodafone identified hidden backdoors in software that could have handed Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy used to connect to the internet. ” Wait a moment … the flaws in the Huawei technology were discovered by Vodafone a decade ago. . ” said Huawei.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Technological advancements have come a long way – from when internet utility was very limited to when internet connection was achieved only through internet protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) addresses to this modern age where IPv6 is the next big thing. And several technologies have been built and designed in its wake.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bushnell first joined IDIQ in 2012 as the senior vice president for product, project and development. Most recently, Bushnell helped oversee the company’s partnership with Bitdefender® Total Security with Premium VPN to add award-winning internet security software to the IdentityIQ suite of benefits. Temecula, California, Nov.

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Daniel Miessler

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers. In 2012 they had tens of thousands of servers doing this, 24/7, comprising over 50 trillion transactions per year. Among those, Acxiom is particularly interesting.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

Craig Newmark Philanthropies has historically committed funds to cybersecurity causes and signed a letter this month calling for large philanthropic foundations and internet billionaires to consider doing the same. Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images). percent (or $15.2 million) of the $376.8

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2012 a group of 250+ security vendors formed the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance to combat authentication challenges "with a focused mission: authentication standards to help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords”, and Web Authentication API, or WebAuthn for short, was born. How do users enroll? What is WebAuthn?

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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”. Then, like Premier League transfers, the numbers went up and household names began to appear: 2012, LinkedIn, 178 million records, unsalted SHA-1 hashes. 2013, Adobe, 153 million, home-made obfuscation.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014. The campaign was uncovered by FireEye , threat actor targeted many organizations worldwide the world by exploiting vulnerabilities in Citrix, Cisco and Zoho ManageEngine products.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bushnell first joined IDIQ in 2012 as the senior vice president for product, project and development. Most recently, Bushnell helped oversee the company’s partnership with Bitdefender® Total Security with Premium VPN to add award-winning internet security software to the IdentityIQ suite of benefits. Temecula, California, Nov.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? I am less trusting of communications technology. They were leaked in 2013, but most of them were from 2012 or before.) We technologists did a lot to help secure the Internet, for example. Are NSA agents listening in on my calls back to the US?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

In this post, I will expand on why ForAllSecure’s Mayhem for Code is being recognized as a finalist in the Best Enterprise Security Solution and how a next-generation fuzz testing technology -- a decade in the making -- came to be a contender alongside names such as Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and Darktrace.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

In this post, I will expand on why ForAllSecure’s Mayhem for Code is being recognized as a finalist in the Best Enterprise Security Solution and how a next-generation fuzz testing technology -- a decade in the making -- came to be a contender alongside names such as Checkmarx, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and Darktrace.

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Elie

JULY 13, 2017

in Internet Explorer and. This post analyzes the results of this survey and, whenever possible, contrasts the responses received in June 2017 with the ones from April 2012 and the. As of 2017, almost two out of three Internet users (61%) think they know what private browsing is, as reported in the pie chart above. also known as.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

SAP already patched an SQL Injection vulnerability of the affected function module in 2012 with SAP Security Note #1673713. affects the standalone SAP Web Dispatcher, SAP Web Dispatcher embedded in the ASCS instance, and Internet Communication Manager (ICM) in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

despite “output-driven SIEM” concept having been invented before 2012 (to be honest, I stole the idea from a Vigilant consultant back in 2012). What data do we collect?” tends to predate “what do we actually want to do?” As a result, it then poses a real challenge of reconciling internal and external rule tracking.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 7, 2020

The global use of debit and credit cards (combined) grew from 5 percent to 9 percent between 2012 and 2017. About 47 percent of all European card transactions involve NFC technology. The Chinese electronic payments market is among the fastest – it increased 10x between 2012 and 2017. 2 Electronic Payments Are Rising.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

Here are key takeaways: Middle East motivation Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states of the Middle East, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. SyncDog, it should be noted, supplies such mobile device containerization technology.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Securing the platforms that power so much of the internet is critical, and the open source community has long been in need of a powerful, time-saving solution. which has not received security updates since 2012. By doing so, many website owners unintentionally put their sites at a higher risk of attack. are still using version 1.5,

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I had the chance to meet with Randy Watkins, Critical Start’s chief technology officer at Black Hat USA 2019. Since its launch in 2012, the company has operated profitably, attracting customers mainly in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas and growing to 131 employees. and really help companies coast to coast.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in cyber-criminal campaigns, to modern cyber arsenal like the Sofacy one. Figure 4: Bot’s registration on the C2. Conclusion.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Fake Louis Vuitton store on Instagram As new and more secure, authentication technologies appear, scammers find ways to evade these, too. Kaspersky antiphishing technologies prevented 5 838 499 attempts to follow a cryptocurrency-themed phishing link, which is 16% more than in 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In order to capture malware and monitor cyberattacks across the internet in real-time, we run multiple honeypot systems that are contained in isolated execution environments, otherwise known as containers. They’re relatively easy to take down and there are far larger botnets powered by newer technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT).

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

The internet and, now, cloud computing transformed the way we conduct business. Enter VPN technology. Since its launch in 2012, Los Angeles, California’s IPVanish has garnered over 1,600 servers in 75 locations and 40,000 IPs. Started in 2012, NordVPN has long been a consumer-first vendor. for encryption.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Call it ancient history—2012. SaaS solutions make the enterprise agile, whether via collaboration tools like Slack or Box, relationship management and marketing automation technologies like Salesforce, or technical management from companies like ServiceNow. When sanctioned apps ruled the day. Shadow IT lurked, well, in the shadows.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. The malware can also get proxy settings from Internet Explorer.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s worth noting that web browser support for credential harvesting extends beyond well-known browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, and includes such lesser-known browsers as Nichrome, Xpom, RockMelt, Vivaldi, SaMonkey, Epic Privacy, and Brave. In the Linux version, it also gathers OpenSSH keys stored in $HOME/.ssh

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