Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2016, DARPA ran a similarly styled event for artificial intelligence (AI). The researchers have since commercialized the technology, which is now busily defending networks for customers like the U.S. AIs would improve every year because all of the core technologies are continually improving. People train for months.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. Then and now: a comparison of how cybercrime groups looked in 2016 vs 2021. Change of targets. million USD) monthly.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The commission said it took action in response to a May 2018 story broken by The New York Times , which exposed how a company called Securus Technologies had been selling location data on customers of virtually any major mobile provider to law enforcement officials.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Blockchain technology in 2019 may prove to be what the internet was in 1999. Blockchain, also referred to as distributed ledger technology , or DLT, is much more than just the mechanism behind Bitcoin and cryptocurrency speculation mania. However, cryptocurrencies are only one small part of blockchain technology.

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

He is also the inventor of several information-security technologies widely used today; his work is cited in over 500 published patents. Sepio’s hardware fingerprinting technology discovers all managed, unmanaged and hidden devices that are otherwise invisible to all other security tools. ” About Sepio Systems.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

“In October 2016, a Pakistan district judge acquitted 24 Axact officials at trial due to ‘not enough evidence’ and then later admitted he had accepted a bribe (of $35,209) from Axact,” reads a history (PDF) published by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election. It’s not clear how these technologies will change disinformation, how effective they will be or what effects they will have.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. In 2016, financial reality once again would catch up with the company’s leadership when Norse abruptly ceased operations and was forced to lay off most of its staff. Remember Norse Corp. ,

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh was incorporated in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2016. Edwards said Pushwoosh began as Arello-Mobile , and for several years the two co-branded — appearing side by side at various technology expos. Around 2016, he said, the two companies both started using the Pushwoosh name. THE PINCER TROJAN CONNECTION.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The social media giant has been under investigation by the FTC since March 2018 in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which affected 87 million users and may have been a pivotal influence in the 2016 election campaign. The post Facebook May Be Fined for Billions for Cambridge Analytica Scandal appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 10, 2025

Yesterday, we reported that the April 2025 cumulative security update KB5002700 for Microsoft Office 2016 has triggered widespread application crashes. Initially, it was assumed that Microsoft would resolve the […] The post Microsoft Releases Emergency Fix for Office 2016 Update Crashes appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration," said Robert Hickey, aviation program manager within the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. Last month, the DHS announced that it was able to remotely hack a Boeing 757: "We got the airplane on Sept.

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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. com — were seen as early as 2016 as distribution points for the Hummer Trojan , a potent strain of Android malware often bundled with games that completely compromises the infected device.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Their ransom notes share stylistic similarities with SenSayQ ransomware, and their TOR websites use similar technologies. Deloitte discovered the hack in March 2017, and according to The Guardian, the attackers may have had access to the company systems since October or November 2016.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 22, 2025

As AI technology advances, attackers are shifting their focus from technical exploits to human emotions using deeply personal and well-orchestrated social engineering tactics. He holds a 2015 – 2016 Masters Degree in Security Technologies (MSST) @ Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Senator Ron Wyden asked, and the NSA didn’t answer : The NSA has long sought agreements with technology companies under which they would build special access for the spy agency into their products, according to disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and reporting by Reuters and others. government agency, since only the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 15, 2018

In the wrong hands, the technology could be used to unlock doors , wire money or buy stuff online ­-- simply with music playing over the radio. Inside university labs, the researchers have been able to secretly activate the artificial intelligence systems on smartphones and smart speakers, making them dial phone numbers or open websites.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. -based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

The first concern was over high numbers: in both 2016 and 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 40 orders for collection, but the NSA collected hundreds of millions of CDRs, and the agency provided little clarification for the high numbers. For a time, the new program seemed to be functioning well.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since the 2016 US presidential election, there have been an endless series of ideas about how countries can defend themselves. In 2016, this consisted of creating social media accounts run either by human operatives or automatically by bots, making them seem legitimate, gathering followers. Governments will have to disclose.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Way back in 2016, security firm Fortinet blogged about LinkedIn’s redirect being used to promote phishing sites and online pharmacies. 26 sample from Urlscan shows a LinkedIn link redirecting to a Paypal phishing page. Let me be clear that the activity described in this post is not new.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Passwordless technology is certainly ready for prime time; innovative solutions from suppliers like Cisco’s Duo, Hypr, OneLogin and Veridium have been steadily gaining traction in corporate settings for the past few years. For a full drill down on our wide-ranging discussion, please give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

This is the same technology that now flirts with people online for you and automatically writes heartfelt consolatory emails on behalf of heartless administrators. But in its 2025 Bad Bot Report , application security company Imperva claimed this is the first time traffic from bots became more prevalent than human traffic.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2020

Because all of the candidates still in play are essentially survivors from the initial group of submissions from 2016, there will also be future consideration of more recently developed ideas, Moody said. NIST has now begun the third round of public review.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2016 Time and time again since that poll, a pulse check of subscriber sentiment has returned similar results. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations. coordinates":[.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 22, 2024

ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the notorious Cobalt Gang," Positive Technologies researchers Vladislav Lunin and Alexander Badayev said in a technical report

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The IP address of one of the C2 servers used by the surveillance tool has been linked to Wuhan Chinasoft Token Information Technology Co., a Chinese tech company founded in 2016 with fewer than 50 employees. “EagleMsgSpy is a lawful intercept surveillance tool developed by Wuhan Chinasoft Token Information Technology Co.,

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially , upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. The best analyses indicate that they did not affect the 2016 US presidential election. Future technological improvements will make it all even more affordable.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

This process has been going on since 2016, and since that time there has been a huge increase in quantum technology and an equally large increase in quantum understanding and interest. I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS. National Association ; Viacom International ; and Walgreens. .

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

To help the world achieve such an objective, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been running a competition since 2016 to develop new quantum-proof standards for cryptography – winners are expected to be announced sometime in the next year, and multiple approaches are expected to be endorsed.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2023

But do we really want to entrust this revolutionary technology solely to a small group of US tech companies? Facebook lied about how it enabled Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and paid a public relations firm to blame Google and George Soros instead.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Surrounded by the invisible hum of electromagnetic energy, we’ve harnessed its power to fuel our technological marvels for decades. Often overlooked, the SIM card —short for Subscriber Identification Module—acts as the nexus between our identity and technology, illuminating the thin line between connection and surveillance.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. Mellen: Big initiatives like these are good for the security industry, but technology is not a silver bullet when it comes to consumer security. Technology can only go so far when protecting individuals, and we must, to the best of our ability, learn to recognize manipulative or dangerous behavior online.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai — a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., WNK Security Technology.

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