Notice Bored

JUNE 5, 2022

The organisation cannot adopt a generic suite of information security controls simply on the basis that they have been recommended or suggested by someone - not even if they are noted in Annex A. Justification for including a control is its effect on modifying information security risk. Subclause 6.1.3 Subclause 6.1.3

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Polish police, as part of the international law enforcement operation PowerOFF, dismantled a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. An international operation codenamed PowerOff led to the shutdown of a DDoS-for-hire service that has been active since at least 2013. user accounts, 76 thousand.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Twitter with a $150 million penalty for " deceptively using account security data for targeted advertising.". Twitter, like many other social media websites, asks users to provide their phone number and email address to better protect their account.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. We join in Prime Minister Rama’s call for Iran to be held accountable for this unprecedented cyber incident. The United States will take further action to hold Iran accountable for actions that threaten the security of a U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2022

In November 2019, the former Twitter employees Abouammo and the Saudi citizen Ali Alzabarah have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. The two former Twitter employees operated for the Saudi Arabian government with the intent of unmasking dissidents using the social network.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there's Dun & Bradstreet's NetProspex which leaked 33M records in 2017 , Exactis who had 132M records breached last year and the Apollo data breach which exposed 126M accounts, one of which was my own. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 3, 2021

Mandia will become CEO of Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004 and sold to FireEye in late 2013. Products accounted for $795 million of the company’s $941 million in revenue in 2020. FireEye Products EVP Bryan Palma will take the helm of the new products company.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

The hacker who brought offline with massive DDoS attacks online gaming networks between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson (23) from Utah hit the principal gamins networks in 2013 and 2014, including Sony Online Entertainment. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Threat actors are using emails sent from compromised accounts with the subject “bill/payment” with an attachment in the form of a ZIP archive. CERT-UA attributed the campaign to the financially motivated threat actor UAC-0006 which has been active since at least 2013.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. platform since October 2013. international financial and corporate data, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and compromised user accounts from many U.S. store ACCOUNTS-MARKET.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and the content of messages collected on accounts,” reads a statement published by the company. Customers can use the app by paying a monthly subscription of $6 for a standard license or $12 for a Pro license. “As India, and Africa.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

.” In November 2019, the former Twitter employees Abouammo and the Saudi citizen Ali Alzabarah have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. The man opened a bank account in the name of his father in Lebanon and used it to receive $200,000 in two transfers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2020

which is a Shopify-like platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops used for the sale of hacked accounts and stolen user data. platform since October 2013. store used by hackers to offer for sale thousands of compromised accounts, including gamer accounts and PII files containing user names, passwords, U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA) The post CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 15, 2022

For example: In 2017, the Center for Cyber Safety and Education (Center) and (ISC)² released The Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS). To date, this has been the largest study ever conducted, with responses from 19,641 information security professionals in 170 nations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2021

SonicWall also provides recommendations to customers that can’t update their installs, the vendor suggests disconnecting devices immediately and reset their access passwords, and enable account multi-factor authentication, if supported. Continued use of this firmware or end-of-life devices is an active security risk,” states the alert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. million for the settlement of 3 billion hacked accounts. million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

Keys was accused of providing Anonymous login credentials that allowed the group to deface access and deface the website of the Los Angeles Times in 2013. When Keys left Tribune Company-owned Sacramento KTXL Fox 40 in 2010, he shared login credentials of the CMS used by the website with members of Anonymous. ” states the Sacramento Bee.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

The analysis of the submissions times in VirusTotal for the artifacts employed in the Nazar campaign allowed the expert to date the campaign between 2010 and 2013. Somehow, this operation found its way onto the NSA’s radar pre-2013, as far as I can tell, it’s eluded specific coverage from the security industry.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” The defendants are accused to have defrauded the victims between December 2013 and August 2019, they operated with other co-conspirators residing in Estonia, Belarus, and Switzerland. . “In reality, Polybius was never actually a bank, and never paid out the promised dividends. Polybius never formed a bank or paid any dividends.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

. “The types of sites used to distribute these malicious apps and the information exfiltrated suggests that the ultimate goal is extortion or blackmail.” These sites advertise account IDs for secure messaging apps such as KakaoTalk or Telegram that could allow to communicate with the escorts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

million) were provided before 2013. million records include some, but not all of the following personal information: name, address, telephone, and date of birth. “We urge all our customers to be vigilant and on the look-out for suspicious behaviour relating to their accounts. 94% of these records (5.7

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

In 2013 Group-IB was licensed by the Russian FSB, required to process state-secret data. Meanwhile, the company has recovered Sachkov’s SIM card and continues to manage his social media accounts. Government. The license was issued by the Moscow FSB Department with registration number “?? ?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013. At the end of October 2020, the US-CERT published a report on Kimusky’s recent activities that provided information on their TTPs and infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. “The targeted accounts are associated with a U.S. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2023

According to the security measure, any repository with more than 100 clones at the time its user account is renamed is considered “retired” and cannot be used by others. They were founded in 2013, launched their app in 2016 under this name, and acquired by Google on 2018)” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Security experts at ClearSky analyzed attacks recently uncovered by Microsoft that targeted a US presidential candidate, government officials, journalists, and prominent expatriate Iranians. The messages include a link and claim to inform the recipient of an attempt to compromise their email account.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Today the company published a security notice to disclose the incident. “We recently were alerted by a third party regarding a security matter that may have affected the Zendesk Support and Chat products and customer accounts of those products activated prior to November of 2016.” ” reads the security notice.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Screenshot from the latest forum discussion about RepWatch in 2013: The CSV files appear to have included the same set of 350 million unique emails, separated into three groups: hashed, hashed and salted, and unencrypted files. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for as many of your online accounts as possible. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Security, Privacy and Compliance Can Conflict.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2021

Early this month, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. reads the advisory published by Microsoft.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Back in 2013, it had been reported that hackers gained access to Target's payment card system through a third-party HVAC vendor. According to the class action lawsuit, the data breach affected between 70-110 million customers who shopped at Target stores between November 27 and December 18, 2013.

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Notice Bored

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

One of the recurrent (zombie) threads on the ISO27k Forum concerns the status of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Annex A. Typically the zombie is prodded from its slumber by a relatively inexperienced member naively suggesting that certain security controls from Annex A are essential, implying that they are mandatory for certification.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

The 110th Research Center conducted cyber campaigns targeting networks worldwide, in 2013 it carried out a hacking campaign, tracked as DarkSeoul , which destroyed thousands of systems of organizations in the financial sector. correspondent or payable-through account sanctions.” ” continues the announcement.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. “One tool, a VBA macro targeting Microsoft Outlook, uses the target’s email account to send spearphishing emails to contacts in the victim’s Microsoft Office address book.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The Ukrainian government has publicly attributed this group to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).” The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine.

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