Schneier on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. Forty major music festivals pledged not to use the technology, and activists are calling for a nationwide ban. Many Democratic presidential candidates support at least a partial ban on the technology.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2020

While the proposed privacy initiative was initially met with significant opposition, particularly from large technology companies, some of that opposition faded in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Mark Zuckerberg's April 2018 testimony before Congress.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018. Only when we demand it, will the Internet of Things achieve a level of trust that makes it stable. This is coming.

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SecureBlitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here’s the internet safety rules checklist. billion data breaches in 2018 alone. As technology and life online take over, protecting ourselves and our information on the internet and social media has become more critical than ever. Are you one of those people who worry about online data security? There were around 1.2

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 15, 2018

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies might change things.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies set up to obtain more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the nonprofit organization that leases the digital real estate to entities in North America. ”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

Spy”-type cyberspace race as both criminals and defenders vie to gain the upper hand using new and emerging technologies. Every technology that enables our cyber teams to pinpoint and resolve threats and prevent attacks more quickly and accurately also benefits cybercriminals.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Transportation Command in 2017, after learning that their computerized logistical systems were mostly unclassified and on the internet. A 2018 GAO report expressed concern regarding the lack of secure and patchable U.S. Gone are the days when we can pretend that our technologies will work in the face of a military cyberattack.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link]. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018. A live Paypal phishing site that uses [link] (has the green padlock).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies Security have discovered several vulnerabilities in communication protocol GPRS Tunnelling Protocol ( GTP ), that is used by mobile network operators (MNOs). phone number) of a real subscriber and impersonate him to access the Internet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. In 2018, Dr.Web expanded its research when it discovered the Triada malware installed on 40 different models of Android devices. com is the domain name for Shanghai Qianyou Network Technology Co.,

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If you’re into this sort of thing, it’s pretty much the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet without committing multiple felonies. The researchers have since commercialized the technology, which is now busily defending networks for customers like the U.S. People train for months. Winning is a big deal. Department of Defense.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

By Jayakumar (Jay) Kurup, Global Sales Engineering Director at Morphisec Securing operational technology (OT) creates unique challenges. Sometimes this is due to cultural reasons (management’s fear of even the slightest chance of disruption); other times, it is technological.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. What a Secure Internet+ Looks Like 8. How We Can Secure the Internet+ 9. How to Engender Trust on the Internet+. Conclusion: Technology and Policy, Together. I'm using the word "Internet+," and I'm not really happy with it.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. based Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.8 billion in earnings last year.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. The number of leaked cards increased in 2018 by 56%. The total underground market value of Singaporean banks’ cards compromised in 2018 is estimated at nearly $640 000.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“And Norse’s much-vaunted interactive attack map was indeed some serious eye candy: It purported to track the source and destination of countless Internet attacks in near real-time, and showed what appeared to be multicolored fireballs continuously arcing across the globe.” Now the top executives behind Norse Corp.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Today, the internet is the glue for areas like communication, commerce, healthcare, entertainment, and pretty much everything in between. Assistive technologies such as screen readers, magnifiers, and voice assistants are terrific, but these tools are cold comfort when a website's design doesn't support them.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 Use access control lists for applications, Internet traffic and monitoring.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” The security breach poses a major national security risk.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

SiteLock (@SiteLock) August 12, 2018. Guillaume Hamel (@guihamel) August 12, 2018. Longtime WordCamp speaker and president of the Canadian Internet Marketing Association Brian Rotsztein dropped a whole lot of new insights into the current state of SEO this weekend. wcmtl pic.twitter.com/NooWoTcKlg.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., ” If you get a hit, chances are excellent you’ve got a device built on Xionmai’s technology. WNK Security Technology.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Other domains and Internet addresses included in those screenshots pointed to Miracle Systems LLC , an Arlington, Va.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

As of 2018, more than 2 million people were working abroad for U.S. Similarly, different nations exercise varying amounts of authority over internet traffic. Consequently, workers in other countries may have slower internet speeds, which can interfere with security. Restricted Internet Access. companies in China alone.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

At issue is a well-known security and privacy threat called “ namespace collision ,” a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet. Alas, in 2018, the.llc TLD was born and began selling domains. SSL/TLS certs).

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate. I started with the seven commandments , or steps, laid out in a 2018 New York Times opinion video series on "Operation Infektion," a 1980s Russian disinformation campaign.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies provide intriguing opportunities for immersive and interactive experiences in cybersecurity training. Related: GenAI’ impact on DevSecOps Here’s how these technologies can bridge learning gaps in cybersecurity awareness and enhance the overall training experience.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Proximus declared it made its choice “on the basis of technological, operational, financial and environmental criteria,”but the decision, according to sources cited by the Reuters, is the result of political pressure. The Chinese giant was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. I had an eye-opening conversation about all of this with Steve Hanna , distinguished engineer at Infineon Technologies , a global semiconductor manufacturer based in Neubiberg, Germany.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

The traction Cequence has gained since its official launch in late 2018 is yet another piece of evidence that technology is not the problem — we have plenty of efficacious security technology, with terrific innovations coming to market in a steady flow. Only then will leading-edge technologies make their fullest impact.

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