The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2024

Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2, 2024, CyberNewsWire — LayerX , pioneer of the LayerX Browser Security platform, today announced $24 million in Series A funding led by Glilot+, the early-growth fund of Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and other investors.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” “And then they just keep coming back and opening new cloud accounts.” Neculiti registered multiple online accounts under the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For instance, the 2017 cyber attack that took place on government funded network cameras operating in the Washington Area. Thus, it can be concluded that IT services, Internet of Things, Operational Technology (OT) and IoMT in Healthcare have witnessed a rise in attack surface in recent past.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

based Imperva sells technology and services designed to detect and block various types of malicious Web traffic, from denial-of-service attacks to digital probes aimed at undermining the security of Web-based software applications. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Earlier today, Imperva told customers that it learned on Aug.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

2017 was another year of continuous progress and achievement for Spinbackup. The Cloud has proved to be a crucial force for growth and innovation across multiple technology industries in the world. According to Gartner analysts, SaaS market is projected to grow to 75 billion dollars by 2022 at a 19.2% compound annual growth rate.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2024

Alexander Vinnik , a Russian national, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his involvement in operating the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. In July 2017 law enforcement shut down the virtual currency exchange.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released NIST Special Publication 800-63B Digital Identity Guidelines to help organizations properly comprehend and address risk as it relates to password management on the part of end users.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

WaPost : Depriving rivals of American-made technology also threatens the future global prospects of an industry that has driven U.S. Russia has been working on creating its own isolated Internet for some time—tests have been conducted since at least 2017. It makes sense for companies to cut off Russia.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017. All the subsequent reasons given for why it’s necessary have technology solutions which provide traceability back to individual, identifiable users. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) December 2, 2017. — Nick Boles MP (@NickBoles) December 3, 2017.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource was advertised on a number of popular cybercrime forums as a service that could help hackers break into valuable or high-profile accounts. Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). Abusewith[.]us Abusewith[.]us

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

An undergraduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology named Bill Demirkapi discovered the most recent security failure. Equifax, 2017: A data breach impacted almost 150 million Equifax customers, who subsequently reported identity-related crimes using that data. Takeaways .

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The rapid advancement of technology has woven a complex fabric of wireless networks, each interwoven with vulnerabilities waiting to be exposed. It endeavors to elucidate the underlying methodology, a comprehensive array of tools employed, and the typical vulnerabilities that security experts strategically target (Anderson & White, 2017).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3 There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. billion in 2016, for instance.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 11, 2023

As the maritime sector has become extremely dependent on technology tools, it is also attracting the attention of cyber criminals who are finding it as a lucrative target to mint money. Adding fuel to this are the vulnerabilities being observed in the system visibility tools that are being deployed because of OT/IT convergence.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. Audit user accounts with administrative privileges and configure access controls with least privilege in mind, and use multifactor authentication. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2021

Interestingly, the compromise of the telecom equipment was carried out after compromising Microsoft Exchange Servers in between 2017 to 2021. Mr. Lior Div released a public statement yesterday via his social media account that the digital compromise was so much that it can shut down a portion or the entire section of network.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). In December, Kyivstar , the largest Ukraine service provider went down after a major cyber attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

A few of them reported on various technology forums that Google seems to block the number as the Biden administration disallowed it from seeking the government services- a completely false and baseless misinformation that also trended on Twitter for few hours on December 23rd,2021.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. The hacker used that access to send tweets from a variety of popular and trusted accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, as part of a mundane scam -- stealing bitcoin -- but it's easy to envision more nefarious scenarios. There is no accountability.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Marriott added that customer payment card data was protected by encryption technology, but that the company couldn’t rule out the possibility the attackers had also made off with the encryption keys needed to decrypt the data. In October 2017, Hyatt Hotels suffered its second card breach in as many years.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2019

Street thieves who specialize in cashing out stolen credit and debit cards increasingly are hedging their chances of getting caught carrying multiple counterfeit cards by relying on Fuze Cards , a smartcard technology that allows users to store dozens of cards on a single device, the U.S. Secret Service warns. Image: Fuzecard.com.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 11, 2024

Zendesk 2017 The scenario: The helpdesk ticketing platform Zendesk was exposed to attackers thanks to a SQL injection vulnerability in a GraphQL endpoint. A second flaw would allow attackers to, “steal data from any table in the target Zendesk account’s RDS, no SQLi required.” Here they are.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2021

“Essentially all modern assets are network connected, so our technology leverages existing network connections and mobile networks to fulfill our customers’ challenging accuracy requirements without being subject to typical GPS/GNSS failure modes. We make sure that people and things can get to where they need to be, accurately and on time.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2024

Dell, one of the world's largest technology companies, has just disclosed a major data breach that may have compromised the personal information of tens of millions of current and former customers. If you notice any suspicious activity related to your Dell accounts or purchases, please immediately report concerns to security@dell.com."

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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. energy facilities. and international companies and entities, including U.S. federal agencies like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter Bitcoin Scam In July of 2020, a number of high-profile celebrity and brand accounts tweeted out messages stating that all Bitcoin sent to their wallets for a period of time would be returned twofold—if someone sent $1000, they would receive $2000 back. million court settlement reached in 2017. In the end, it cost Cisco $1.4

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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. Those sources say the attackers stole administrative credentials that PCM uses to manage client accounts within Office 365 , a cloud-based file and email sharing service run by Microsoft Corp.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In one recent engagement, a client of Nick’s said they’d reached out to an investor from Switzerland — The Private Office of John Bernard — whose name was included on a list of angel investors focused on technology startups. Also, we asked to see an investment portfolio.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

There is a now-dormant Myspace account for a Matthew Philbert from Orleans, a suburb of Ottawa, Ontario. The information tied to the Myspace account matches the age and town of the defendant. The Myspace account was registered under the nickname “ Darkcloudowner ,” and to the email address dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Hinds said in a statement that technology companies that collect and store vast amounts of user data must protect that data and alert customers and authorities if it’s stolen. When Dara Khosrowshahi took over as Uber’s new CEO in August 2017, the U.S. United States Attorney Stephanie M.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A 2017 study by Lastpass of its business users found that the average employee maintained 191 passwords in their account. The adoption of so-called “two factor” authentication has helped with that problem, but even that technology has its limitations, as the recent hack of ride sharing firm Uber showed. Passwordless?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

“Here is what we know about the situation today: On August 20, 2019, we learned from a third party of a data exposure that impacts a subset of customers of our Cloud WAF product who had accounts through September 15, 2017. Elements of our Incapsula customer database through September 15, 2017 were exposed.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com and rurimeter[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised. 911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. In a 2017 discussion on fl.l33t[.]su in the British Virgin Islands. su between 2016 and 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security.

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