Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. ARIN says the 5-year sentence handed down by the South Carolina judge “sends an important message of deterrence to other parties contemplating fraudulent schemes to obtain or transfer Internet resources.”

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

From smart homes that enable you to control your thermostat from a distance to sensors on oil rigs that help predict maintenance to autonomous vehicles to GPS sensors implanted in the horns of endangered black rhinos , the internet of things is all around you. Source: DZone’s Edge Computing and IoT, 2020 .

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McAfee

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Everyone deserves a break after surviving this past year and I cannot think of better way to celebrate than to share some of our greatest accomplishments from 2020. January 2020 Gartner Peer Insights VOC Customers’ Choice for CASB. 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice VOC for Secure Web Gateways.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2020

I’ve written about the how SIEMs ingest log and event data from all across hybrid networks, and about how UEBA and SOAR technologies have arisen in just the past few years to help companies try to make sense of it all, even as catastrophic breaches persist. launch at RSA 2020. I’ll keep watch.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

A universe of devices and technology has fallen into our laps at a speed that organizations struggle to manage effectively. billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In May 2020, NIST released two foundational documents that serve as a foundation for the newly created guidelines. In 2019, there were an estimated 9.9

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Back in November 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, I gave a virtual talk at the International Symposium on Technology and Society: “ The Story of the Internet and How it Broke Bad: A Call for Public-Interest Technologists.”

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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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Google Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Their diligence helps us keep our users, and the internet at large, safe, and enables us to fix security issues before they can be exploited. The incredibly hard work, dedication, and expertise of our researchers in 2020 resulted in a record-breaking payout of over $6.7 This decreased to just 6% in 2020. across 300 bugs.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. As consumers relied increasingly on digital payment products during 2020, identity fraud scams kept pace with this shift in behavior, the report reveals.

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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. We spoke at RSA 2020. And fantastic new IoT-enabled services will spew out of the other end.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Threat actors have started exploiting a critical vulnerability in Oracle WebLogin, tracked as CVE-2020-14882, in attacks in the wild. Threat actors have started scanning the Internet for servers running vulnerable installs of Oracle WebLogic in the attempt of exploiting the a critical flaw tracked as CVE-2020-14882.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

Cisco fixed CVE-2020-3452 high-severity path traversal flaw in its firewalls that can be exploited by remote attackers to obtain sensitive files from the targeted system. The CVE-2020-3452 flaw was independently reported to Cisco by Mikhail Klyuchnikov of Positive Technologies and Abdulrahman Nour and Ahmed Aboul-Ela from RedForce.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

Microsoft July 2020 addressed 123 security flaws across 13 products, including a 17-year-old wormable issue for hijacking Microsoft Windows Server dubbed SigRed. Microsoft July 2020 addressed 123 security vulnerabilities impacting 13 products, none of them has been observed being exploited in attacks in the wild. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Most of the statistics presented in the report were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

The FBI just released its annual Internet Crime Report, and it is truly a sign of the times. The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. The IC3 received 791,790 complaints from the American public in 2020, the most ever in one year, with reported losses exceeding $4.1

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020, as the world grappled with a fast-spreading global pandemic, the FBI received more than 2,000 complaints each day, totaling 791,790 for the year. billion in losses, according to data collected by the FBI’s The Internet Complaint Center (IC3). The COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in cybercriminal activities in 2020.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The state of stalkerware in 2020 (PDF). Kaspersky’s data shows that the scale of the stalkerware issue has not improved much in 2020 compared to the last year: The number of people affected is still high. In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. Main findings.

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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. DMARC builds upon the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and the DomainKeys Identified Message (DKIM) technologies to add security and instructions for a specific domain.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is already researching methods to deal with the effects of quantum power, and for good reason: hackers may access quantum computers as they become commercial. National Initiatives in 2020. National Initiatives in 2020.

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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 28, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its annual report, providing the public with specific details on how cybercrime has evolved in the last five years, what threats were the most persistent, and what groups were the most targeted, along with a flurry of other information and statistics.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2021

Flash was once the dominant platform for rendering multimedia content in web browsers, but, as Adobe has terminated support for Flash as of the end of 2020, and, as Flash has created serious security problems in the past, now is the time to get rid of Flash once and for all. Flash’s death was not unexpected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Today’s innovations and technologies provide tremendous opportunities for enterprises. Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. In addition, malicious actors can and will adopt technologies such as AI and machine learning faster than security leaders can.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

2020 ends a decade, and the new year prompted me to think “Wow it’s been two decades since we started Vormetric.” Vormetric and the technologies and products we built over the years solved a lot of those low level security problems in the old “operating system” world. However, technology and governance have. Technology.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

ai , a San Francisco-based supplier of “autonomous” vulnerability assessment technology. ai Since its launch in 2020, Horizon3 has run more than 24,000 automated pentests — with a singular focus on building out advanced decision-making algorithms, Antani told me. Guest expert: Snehal Antani, CEO, Horizon3.ai

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2023

By one estimate, companies are on track to spend $77 billion on MSSP services by 2030, up from $22 billion in 2020. e I covered Microsoft as a USA TODAY technology reporter when Bill Gates suddenly ‘got’ cybersecurity , so this part of our discussion was especially fascinating. Meanwhile, I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

A 2020 Ponemon Institute study found that the average cost of insider threats rose 31 percent in just two years to $11.45 Stopping insider incidents requires a comprehensive strategy strongly focused on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) followed by people, processes, and technology. Technology: Work smarter, not harder.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 — The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) launched the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) in 2020 to establish a baseline for how virtual private network (VPN) providers should operate. We protect innovation and the continued growth of the Internet’s infrastructure which is essential to the global economy.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2020

When technology companies close the support door on their old systems and software, it opens the gates for cybercriminals. As the FBI puts it: "As of May 2019, an open source report indicated 71 percent of Windows devices used in healthcare organizations ran an operating system that became unsupported in January 2020.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The post Episode 198: Must Hear Interviews from 2020 appeared first on The Security Ledger. Let’s face it, 2020 was a terrible year. 2020 yielded a crop of great interviews for our podcast. One of the big cyber security themes of 2020 was of the security implications of changes forced by the COVID virus.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2021

The agency also noted the resilience and adaptability of serious and organized crimes (oddly labeled as “SOCs,” despite the same acronym meaning “security operation center” in the cybersecurity field) in their use of technology and well-established tools to avoid detection. Organized crime: Online fraud.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

In March 2020, the DOJ unsealed two criminal hacking indictments against Kislitsin, who was then head of security at Group-IB , a cybersecurity company that was founded in Russia in 2003 and operated there for more than a decade before relocating to Singapore. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 5, 2021

These were among the findings of WatchGuard Technologies’ Internet Security Report for Q4 2020, which found fileless malware and cryptominer attack rates grew by nearly 900% and 25%, respectively, The post Fileless Malware, Endpoint Attacks on the Rise appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The internet of things (IoT) is widening the sphere of physical security as smart devices connected to business systems via the internet may be located outside of established secure perimeters. Muthukrishnan Access control, surveillance , and testing are the three major components that comprise the physical security of a system.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

ai , a San Francisco-based startup, which launched in 2020. Horizon3 supplies “autonomous” vulnerability assessment technology. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Co-founder Antani previously served as the first CTO for the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 3, 2021

Every year data shows us that technology is advancing faster than ever. billion people around the world use the internet: a 316 million increase since 2020. Now, with global internet penetration standing at 59.5%, it’s clear our world has changed, and application security is no exception.

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