Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Data provided in the reports are disconcerting, British telecommunications firms supported GCHQ in collecting a large volume of internet data from undersea cables, the overall amount of information from 2007 to 2012 registered a 7,000-fold increase, meanwhile, the spying system monitored nearly 46 billion private communications “events” every day.

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Wireless Surveillance Telecommunications Advertising 126

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

Here are my big takeaways: Prevention vs. detection In 2013, Gartner analyst Anton Chuvakin coined “EDR” to classify an emerging set of tools designed to go beyond signature-based antivirus software which was designed primarily to identify specific malicious binary files. For a full drill down, give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

Antivirus 147

Antivirus Digital transformation Firmware Software 147

Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2023

Meta has run into yet another bout of court related issues—two subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $14 million regarding undisclosed data collection. The subsidiary Onavo, acquired in 2013 by Facebook, was supposed to be keeping the VPN a separate brand from the main flagship company.

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Data collection VPN Advertising Mobile 94

Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

And in 2013, the FTC won a nearly $5 million judgment against a Kentucky company purporting to offer such services. In that 1998 case, the defendants behind the scheme were taking out classified ads in newspapers. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. com was legitimate or a scam.

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Marketing Advertising Scams Telecommunications 266

BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

The incident shows that not all hackers’ motives are financial or data collection. Here’s another example of hackers wanting to cause reputational damage: in February 2013, Burger King’s Twitter account was hijacked and rebranded with the logo of arch-rival McDonald’s.

Media 52

Media Accountability Authentication Passwords 52

SC Magazine

APRIL 22, 2021

Originally founded in 2005 as Stach & Liu and rebranded in 2013, Bishop Fox is one of most widely recognized security services firms. Here, however, the data isn’t nearly as detailed as it is in ASM vendors that focus more on comprehensive data collection than risk analysis and prioritization.

Penetration Testing 87

Penetration Testing Technology Marketing Engineering 87

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

million victims of identity theft in 2013, which works out to around one new victim every two seconds. But what was most troubling was that one in three consumers who were notified that their personal information was exposed in a breach in 2013, ended up falling victim to identity theft. Keep data collection to a minimum.

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Identity Theft Accountability Data collection Firewall 52

Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. CVE-2013-0229 , a vulnerability found MiniUPnPd before 1.4, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. •

Cyber Attacks 81

Cyber Attacks Advertising Firmware Data collection 81

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 lobbying strategies are not always so blunt, and the interests involved are not always so obvious.

Energy and Utilities 294

Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Technology Government 294

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The Red Cross Blood Service breach gave us our largest ever incident down here in Australia (and it included data on both my wife and I). CloudPets left their MongoDB exposed which subsequently exposed data collected from connected teddy bears (yes, they're really a thing).

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Data breaches Education Passwords Penetration Testing 186

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

For larger organizations, the PRTG Enterprise Monitor can monitor thousands of devices for a distributed environment offering auditable data collection and service-based SLA monitoring through the ITOps Board. Read more : Best Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems for 2022. ManageEngine.

Marketing 110

Marketing DDOS Threat Detection DNS 110

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

Company Product Est HQ Exabeam Exabeam Fusion 2013 Foster City, CA IBM Security QRadar SIEM 1911 Armonk, NY LogRhythm LogRhythm SIEM Platform 2003 Boulder, CO Securonix Next-Gen SIEM 2008 Addison, TX Splunk Splunk Enterprise Security 2003 San Francisco, CA. Long-term search capabilities for slower threats spanning historical data.

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Software Small Business Marketing Firewall 108

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Based on the data collected by the Post-Validator, it is most likely that: The Post-Validator is deployed to ensure that the infected victim is the intended one. The C2 server operator manually analyzes data received from the victim and commands to either remove the Post-Validator or infect the machine with the Trojan.

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Encryption Malware Spyware Architecture 142

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

For those who are unfamiliar, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework was created in 2013 as an attempt to standardize practices and give guidance on common, high-level security and privacy risks. The proliferation of connected devices offers enormous business benefit, across industries as diverse as manufacturing, healthcare and automotive.

IoT 98

IoT Cybersecurity Digital transformation Manufacturing 98

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Wiz Cloud security 2020 Private Evervault Developer encryption 2019 Private Verkada Security surveillance 2019 Private Armis IoT network security 2015 Private Sumo Logic Threat intelligence 2014 Nasdaq: SUMO Okta Identity management 2013 Nasdaq: OKTA Barracuda Enterprise security 2006 Private. Accel Investments.

Cybersecurity 122

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2018

Section 702 was secretly used as a way to paper over that illegal collection, but nothing in the text of the later amendment gives the NSA this authority. We didn't know that the NSA was using this law as the statutory basis for this surveillance until Edward Snowden showed us in 2013. Don't save data longer than absolutely necessary.

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Surveillance Internet Internet Government 166