Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Talking about those systems, I said: Now, add into this mix the risks that arise from new and dangerous technologies such as the internet or AI or synthetic biology. AI and intelligent robotics are the culmination of several precursor technologies, like machine learning algorithms, automation, and autonomy.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. I had a fascinating discussion about this with Sri Sundaralingam, vice president of cloud and security solutions at ExtraHop , a Seattle-based supplier of NDR technologies. trillion by 2026, up from $190 billion in 2018. We spoke at RSA 2020. I’ll keep watch.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 22, 2023

On January 1, 2023, the Internet in Louisiana looked a little different than the Internet in Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas—its next-door state neighbors. But the large problem with all these proposals is not that they would make a new Internet only for children, but a new Internet for everyone.

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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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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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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

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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Internet Internet IoT Energy and Utilities 189

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The standard enables email security solutions and internet service providers (ISPs) to filter in “good” emails and improve their ability to filter out “bad” emails. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2018

The North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT group is leveraging the recently patched CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability in the VBScript engine in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11, it was first disclosed last month by Trend Micro and affected all supported versions of Windows. net/stack/ov[.]php?

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Engineering Internet Internet Advertising 58

The Security Ledger

APRIL 24, 2019

billion to Internet-enabled theft, fraud and exploitation in 2018, with business e-mail compromise scams resulting in the highest of these financial losses, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). in Losses in 2018 appeared first on The Security Ledger. Organizations lost $2.7

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Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2022

The Paris Call for Trust and Stability in Cyberspace is an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron during the 2018 UNESCO’s Internet Governance Forum. It’s a major milestone for global Internet security and safety. It’s not an international treaty, but it does impose obligations on the signatories.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

DKIM Fundamentals The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes full information on the DKIM and its standards, which were last updated in 2011. Message-signing protocols such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) andSecure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) enable users to authenticate the message body of an email.

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Technology DNS Encryption Authentication 92

Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year. in 2022 to 39.6%

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Internet Internet Accountability Retail 62

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

As we close in on the final few days of the year and look ahead to the clean slate that 2019 represents, I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on 2018 – specifically, what tech innovations and predictions held true, which fell a bit flat and which were entirely unexpected. Looking back at 2018, something that no one could have predicted?

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 25, 2022

The encouraging news is that API security technology has advanced quite a bit over the past five years or so. Traceable launched in 2018, the brainchild of tech entrepreneurs Jyoti Bansal and Sanjay Nagaraj; it provides deep-dive API management capabilities — as software is being developed and while it is being used in the field.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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Internet Internet Scams Cybercrime 53

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year. in 2022 to 39.6%

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Internet Internet Digital transformation Accountability 71

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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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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Banking Government Passwords Marketing 78

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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NopSec

APRIL 23, 2018

To do so, it’s necessary to closely watch and understand the latest technologies, socio-economic trends, legal/privacy trends and even political climates. Ransomware Ransomware dominated the news cycles in 2017 and we don’t expect that to change in 2018. IoT The technology market is in full swing with IoT.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This aptly describes the Internet of Things (IoT), where many small things are coming together to shape what we all hope will deliver a great leap in the way we live and do business. According to Maciej Kranz, Cisco VP for strategic innovation, writing for IoTechExpo.com , “[In 2018] IoT security will become the No.

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Manufacturing Internet Internet IoT 89

Cisco Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

When the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) announced the TLS 1.3 standard in RFC 8446 in August 2018, plenty of tools and utilities were already supporting it (even as early as the year prior, some web browsers had implemented it as their default standard, only having to roll it back due to compatibility issues.

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Encryption Engineering Technology Firewall 140

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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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 27, 2023

Google’s AI push in its search engine algorithms has made Bernstein the wealth management company downgrade the technology giant’s parent company Alphabet. This resulted in a downgrade of buy, hold, and sell ratings and forced the tech giant witness a lowest downfall for the first time since April 2018 with only 4.655 out of 5 points.

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Artificial Intelligence Marketing Internet Internet 92

Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2020

A new email scam is making the rounds, warning recipients that someone using their Internet address has been caught viewing child pornography. Also, the IP address cited in the email does not appear to have anything to do with the actual Internet address of the recipient. This is violation of Information Technology Act of 1996.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 29, 2019

On December 11, 2018, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) released its final report “Democracy Under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of Disinformation and Data Monopoly” The Report calls for increased regulation on the Internet.

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Internet Internet Surveillance Encryption 40

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since 2018, access to an exhaustive report commissioned by the U.S. The data at issue refers to communications traversing the Domain Name System (DNS), a global database that maps computer-friendly coordinates like Internet addresses (e.g., The first page of Alfa Bank’s 2020 complaint. trump-email.com).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies uncovered an updated version of “ TheMoon ” bot targeting end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices. sox,” which is used to proxy traffic from the bot to the internet on behalf of a user.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This isn’t the first time the concept of a frontier has been used as a metaphor for AI, or technology in general. As early as 2018, the powerful foundation models powering cutting-edge applications like chatbots have been called “frontier AI.” America’s experience with frontiers is fraught, to say the least.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The list includes Amazon (banned in 2018), Google (2018), Microsoft (2022), and Cloudflare (2015). As I explained in the blog DNS hijacks: what to look for , DNS is the phonebook of the internet to the effect that the input is a name and the output is a number. They are also known as content distribution networks.

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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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Internet Internet VPN Marketing 294

The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this week’s podcast: as 2018 winds down, we invited David Aitel, the Chief Security Technical Officer at Cyxtera Technologies, to talk about the biggest stories of the year, including the supply chain attack on Super Micro, China's continued attacks on western firms, U.S. Read the whole entry. » 2019: A New Hope?!?

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Social Engineering Software Technology Internet 40

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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