Zero Day

JUNE 18, 2025

Also: How new Facebook policies incentivize spreading misinformation For the first time this year (the RISJ has released a media report every year since 2012), the No. 1 spot, or the largest proportion of respondents who used a particular source in the past week, went to social media, with 54%. 2 spot with 50%.

Media

Zero Day

JULY 17, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence

Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I am happy (and proud) to announce that SecureMySocial, a cybersecurity company that I co-founded, has been issued its fifth United States patent for social media security. The patent was issued by the United States Patent Office on September 6th, 2022, with a priority date going back over a decade, to June of 2012.

Media

Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

That's because the feature only shows up when Chrome thinks the page has a media element that Lens can act upon. As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. You can follow my day-to-day project updates on social media. But Lens makes it oh so much faster.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

That's because the feature only shows up when Chrome thinks the page has a media element that Lens can act upon. As far back as 2011 or 2012, you could go into Google Image Search, upload an image, and get search results. You can follow my day-to-day project updates on social media. But Lens makes it oh so much faster.

Password Management

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. One of the men indicted as part of APT41 — now 35-year-old Tan DaiLin — was the subject of a 2012 KrebsOnSecurity story that sought to shed light on a Chinese antivirus product marketed as Anvisoft. Image: FBI.

Antivirus

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

” The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). According to the media, hackers gained access to the networks of around 14 company departments, including sales and the head administrative office. ” reported Kyodo News. Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

BHProxies has authored 129 posts on Black Hat World since 2012, and their last post on the forum was in December 2022. BHProxies initially was fairly active on Black Hat World between May and November 2012, after which it suddenly ceased all activity. The website BHProxies[.]com

Accountability

Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

Malware

Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

Optinrealbig’s CEO was the spam king Scott Richter , who changed the name of the company to Media Breakaway after being successfully sued for spamming by AOL, Microsoft , MySpace , and the New York Attorney General Office, among others. Adconion was acquired in June 2014 by Amobee , a Redwood City, Calif.

Government

Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

But for one group, in particular, across the world, the impact of smartphones and constant social media may be causing an unprecedented mental health crisis: Young people. Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least). Don’t give a smartphone as the first phone.

Media

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The report makes several recommendations to mitigate the systemic vulnerabilities, most of them widely recognized best cybersecurity practices including multi-factor authentication, increased video surveillance at facilities, securing server racks and placing tighter controls on removable media such as USB keys.

Risk

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A New Jersey grand jury indicted Kovalev in 2012 after an investigation by the U.S. The 2012 indictment against Kovalev relates to cybercrimes he allegedly perpetrated prior to the creation of Trickbot. A copy of the now-unsealed 2012 indictment of Kovalev is here (PDF). The prosecution of Kovalev is being handled by the U.S.

Hacking

CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The power of social media to influence elections has now been thrust into the spotlight again with the whistleblower allegations of Twitter’s former CISO. History of social media influence on U.S.

Media

Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 7, 2021

Likewise, I inform such vendors that even if every device sent to me were amazing, I have the bandwidth to write about only a small percentage of the devices sent to me.

Artificial Intelligence

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the email address used by a cybercriminal actor who offered to sell the stolen ICRC data also was used to register multiple domain names the FBI says are tied to a sprawling media influence operation originating from Iran. and other western audiences. policies favorable to Iran.” com, sachtimes[.]com,

Hacking

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

According to the media, these are the largest penalties imposed by the Kremlin on Western IT firms under internet use laws since 2012. On Thursday, a court in Moscow fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles (roughly $63,000) each for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on servers that are located in Russia.

Telecommunications

Krebs on Security

APRIL 19, 2019

media revealed him as the “accidental hero” who inadvertently halted the global spread of WannaCry , a ransomware contagion that had taken the world by storm just days before. The government says between July 2012 and Sept. Image: twitter.com/malwaretechblog. The plea agreement is here (PDF).

Banking

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Flushed with venture capital funding in 2012, Norse’s founders started hiring dozens of talented cybersecurity professionals. Known locations results are based on social media profiles and metadata where, for example, there was an image posted that showed GPS location, or the profile mentions locations among its comments.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. But with the release of each new LLM, social media sites buzz with new AI jailbreaks that evade the new restrictions put in place by the AI’s designers. So why were scammers still sending such obviously dubious emails?

Phishing

Malwarebytes

JULY 14, 2021

Vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, besides PrintNightmare, are: CVE-2021-34448 Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10. CVE-2021-33771 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability for Windows Server 2012, Server 2016, Windows 8.1, Windows Media Foundation.

DNS

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. The website’s copyright suggests the ExE Bucks affiliate program dates back to 2012. “all promotion methods allowed”). A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net

VPN

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

This update fixes issues related to VPN connectivity, Windows Server domain controller restarts, virtual machine startup failures, and ReFS-formatted removable media that fails to mount.”. Windows Server 2012 R2: KB5010794 Windows Server 2012: KB5010797.

VPN

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). According to local media, the latest cyber attack was likely orchestrated by an APT group because of the major role of Mitsubishi Electric in supporting Japan’s national security and infrastructure.

Banking

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

2012, referring to “dumps and PINs,” the slang term for stolen debit cards with the corresponding PINs that would allow ATM withdrawals. Ivanov appears to have little to no social media presence, but the 40-year-old woman he lives with in St. This batch of some five million cards put up for sale Sept.

Cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). According to the media, hackers gained access to the networks of around 14 company departments, including sales and the head administrative office.

Antivirus

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

This week, several media reported that agents of the Russian intelligence reportedly went to Ireland to inspect the undersea cables. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013.

Wireless

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The news was reported by German media on Sunday, citing government sources. According to an investigation conducted by broadcaster ZDF, Schoenbohm was in contact with Russia through an association that he co-founded in 2012, the Cyber Security Council of Germany.

Government

Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

. “The ministry suspects the information might have been stolen from documents sent from several defense equipment makers as part of a bidding process for the project, Mitsubishi Electric did not win the bid, Japanese media reports said.” China, and Russia. Pasco Corp. and Kobe Steel Ltd.

Media

Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2021

Most of our readers are well aware of the fact that the big tech corporations, especially those that run social media know a great deal about us and our behavior. The US-based photo and video sharing social networking Instagram was acquired by Facebook in 2012. Could they even have scared users away from commercial social media?

Advertising

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

According to the media, these are the largest penalties imposed by the Kremlin on Western IT firms under internet use laws since 2012. On Thursday, a court in Moscow fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles (roughly $63,000) each for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on servers that are located in Russia.

Encryption

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2022

NOTE- Founded in April 2012 by Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi is being used in applications such as weather monitoring, retro gaming, media usage, print servers, time-lapse cameras, FM Radio stations, robot controlling machines, drone control systems, AI-driven cameras and almost all smart-home devices of today’s generation. .

Authentication

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In 2012, when the program started, the agency received more than 3,000 tips. More recently, a new investigative reporting site called Hunterbrook Media and partner hedge fund Hunterbrook Capital, have churned out 18 investigative reports in their first five months of operation and disclosed short sales and other actions alongside each.

Marketing

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Though Durov holds citizenship in France and the United Arab Emirates—where Telegram is based—he was born and lived for many years in Russia, where he started his first social media company, Vkontakte. The Facebook-esque platform gained popularity in Russia, not just amongst users, but also the watchful eye of the government.

Encryption

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s been a busy time for data breaches in the social media world with Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter all experiencing them. In 2012, LinkedIn was hit with a breach and more than 6.5 Peace, the same Russian hacker responsible for the Myspace data breach, put the stolen LinkedIn data from 2012 up for sale on the dark web.

Data breaches

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Since July this year, media speculations were rife that the former is deeply interested in acquiring the latter and the deal would have been completed by September last week of this year. If the deal would have gone through, Thoma Bravo would have gained £6 billion, thus culminating in a significant merger and acquisition deal in 2022.

Marketing

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

” reads a statement issued by the company to the media. Skynet was first discovered in 2012 and has since grown to become one of the largest botnets in the world. Cloudflare’s website is deliberately hosted on separate infrastructure and cannot impact Cloudflare services.

DDOS