Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. That's IT in 2020 -- it's not under your control, it's doing things without your knowledge and consent, and it's not necessarily acting in your best interests. I think I did pretty well. Security can only be defined in relation to something else.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The surge gives further credence to the idea that cybercrime is less about tech know-how and more about social engineering, according to its fraud report.

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The Hacker News

MAY 10, 2023

national has pleaded guilty in connection with the July 2020 Twitter attack affecting numerous high-profile accounts and defrauding other users of the platform. Department of

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC. “Activities using CVE-2023-23397 were first discovered by CERT-UA[2] and publicly described by Microsoft[3].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election.

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The State of Security

JUNE 22, 2021

Back in September 2020, I configured a SonicWall network security appliance to act as a VPN gateway between physical devices in my home lab and cloud resources on my Azure account. The post Analyzing SonicWall’s Unsuccessful Fix for CVE-2020-5135 appeared first on The State of Security.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 Contact us to lose your money or account! In 2020, Bitcoin blackmailers stuck to their old scheme, demanding that their victims transfer money to a certain account and threatening adversity for failure to meet their demands. Figures of the year.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family. Key findings. to 13.21%.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

Data from major cyber security firms revealed that tens of billion records have been exposed in data breaches exposed in 2020. Below a list of top incidents: There were a number of major data breaches that took place in 2020, in many cases stolen records flooded the cybercrime underground and were used credential stuffing attacks.

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Google Security

MARCH 17, 2021

We also announced that we would reward the top 6 submissions in 2020 and increased the total prize money to $313,337. 2020 turned out to be an amazing year for the Google Vulnerability Reward Program. The bug discovered by Ezequiel allowed him to make requests to internal Google services, authenticated as a privileged service account.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 15, 2021

In 2020, ransomware was the most widely-used method of delivering cyber attacks, accounting for 23% of security events handled by the IBM Security X-Force. Scan-and-exploit threats knocked phishing from the top spot, which accounted for 33% of attacks, up 31% from the previous year. Finance and insurance were at the top.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Threat actors are attempting to hack Zyxel devices exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability CVE-2020-29583, security researchers warn. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has recently addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 , related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Twitter account of NASA Director Parimal Kopardekar (@nasapk) was hacked by the Powerful Greek Army group. The Twitter account of the NASA Director and Sr Technologist for Air Transporation Sytem Mr. Parimal Kopardekar ( @nasapk ) was hacked by the Powerful Greek Army group. NASA Director account hacked by PGA!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. Data that emerged from the report are worrisome, in 2020 the reported losses exceeded $4.2 ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report. billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. In H2 2020, 39.3%

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 1, 2023

A previously unknown campaign involving the Hotabot botnet malware has targeted Spanish-speaking users in Latin America since at least November 2020, infecting them with a banking trojan and spam tool. [.]

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Heimadal Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to the cloud-based hosting service provider GitHub, as of August 13th, 2021, account passwords are no longer accepted for validating Git operations. The announcement is not new as in July 2020 GitHub declared that all authenticated Git operations will necessitate the use of a private access token, OAuth token, or SSH key.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Security teams were under siege last year, according to research analyzing 2020 NIST data on common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that found more security flaws – 18,103 – were disclosed in 2020 than in any other year to date. The post Vulnerabilities hit record high in 2020, topping 18,000 appeared first on SC Media.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. Analysts predict that mobile gaming will account for $90.7 Most of the statistics presented in the report were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

VMware addressed CVE-2020-4006 zero-day flaw in VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector. VMware has finally released security updates to fix the CVE-2020-4006 zero-day flaw in VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Bitdefender this week has published its annual Consumer Threat Landscape Report for 2020 underscoring some of the most prevalent cyber threats targeting regular users today. A key stat: cybercrime in 2020 was marked by a visible and aggressive targeting of the human layer. Aligned efforts to capitalize on COVID-19.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Parliament of Finland confirmed that threat actors had access to email accounts of multiple members of parliament (MPs). . “Parliament of Finland has been subjected to a cyberattack in the fall of 2020. Foreign hackers broke into the internal IT system and accessed email accounts for some MPs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Nearly three years ago, chaos descended upon Twitter when a small group of hackers successfully breached the accounts of some of the platform's most high-profile users. RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 19, 2021

Since December 2020, Vermont Health Connect, a leader in healthcare reform, received multiple complaints from its customers reporting logging in to find someone else’s information on their account. At […].

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Now News Corp revealed that the threat actor behind the security breach first gained a foothold in the company infrastructure in February 2020. Exposed data include name, date of birth, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, financial account information, medical information, and health insurance information.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As 2020 draws to a close, we're highlighting our Top 10 ACT Posts of 2020 to recap the year in cybersecurity! The Top Cybersecurity Blogs We're Reading in 2020. You’re probably annoyed with everyone telling you to have a long, complex, unique password for every website, device, and account you own. The numbers don’t lie!

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Data breaches stole numerous headlines this year, including the notable Capital One breach that exposed more than 100 million customers’ accounts. According to SiteLock researchers and cybersecurity experts, the threat landscape will only continue to grow in 2020 and will likely bring even more new challenges with it.

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The Hacker News

JULY 22, 2021

citizen has been arrested in the Spanish town of Estepona over his alleged involvement in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, resulting in the compromise of 130 high-profile accounts.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 27, 2023

The culprits gained unauthorized access to the company's accounts and computer systems, subsequently laundering the stolen funds through numerous transfers and transactions. O'Connor also engaged in unauthorized access to a prominent TikTok account, leveraging it for self-promotion and making threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Mozilla and Google have already fixed the critical flaws in Firefox and Chrome exploited by bug bounty hunters at 2020 Tianfu Cup hacking contest. Mozilla and Google have already addressed the critical Firefox and Chrome vulnerabilities that were recently exploited by white hat hackers at the 2020 Tianfu Cup hacking contest.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2021

McAfee released an ‘MVISION’ Cloud User Report on Tuesday stating that the year 2020 witnessed over 3.1 million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts. And most of them were malware related followed by account hijackings and targeted attacks against vulnerabilities. The post Over 3.1

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 Edition has arrived. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cyber Defense Magazine November 2020 ). The post Cyber Defense Magazine – November 2020 has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with over 150 pages of excellent content. Always free, no strings attached.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Microsoft October 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates address 87 vulnerabilities, including 21 remote code execution (RCE) issues. Microsoft October 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates address 87 vulnerabilities, including 21 remote code execution (RCE) issues. The most severe vulnerability is an RCE issue tracked as CVE-2020-16898.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

There has probably been a time in your life when you created a new account for a website or service and chose a password that was less than ideal. NordPass, a password manager company, recently released its list of the worst passwords of 2020. The 20 worst passwords of 2020. You are note alone—clearly.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2021

Back in September 2020, I configured a SonicWall network security appliance to act as a VPN gateway between physical devices in my home lab and cloud resources on my Azure account. The post Analyzing SonicWall’s Unsuccessful Fix for CVE-2020-5135 appeared first on The State of Security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Researchers discovered an ElasticSearch database exposed online that contained data for over 100000 compromised Facebook accounts. Researchers at vpnMentor discovered an ElasticSearch database exposed online that contained an archive of over 100.000 compromised Facebook accounts. ” reads the analysis published vpnMentor.

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