The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

As technology has rapidly exceeded all historical imaginings, opportunities for fraudsters to exploit their victims abound. Digital exploitation refers to the abuse and manipulation of technology and the internet for illegal and unethical purposes, including identity theft, sextortion, cyberbullying, online scams, and data breaches.

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Jane Frankland

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s run by the United Nation’s and this year, their theme was ‘DigitALL: Innovation & Technology for Gender Equality.’ This blog post will explore why more people need to know about the importance of the United Nation’s IWD ‘DigitALL’ theme.

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But to expand on the conversation and share more of his experiences and expertise, Enric has kindly returned to the hotseat for our latest blog. . The following is a guest blog authored by Enric Cuixeres Saez, Head of IT at Leng-d’Or. Seamless integration across security technologies.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

While you might think that these actors are interested in government and defense information, their operations prove they are interested in much more – including software development and information technology, data analytics, and logistics. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

We appreciate the contributions of ethical hackers who help us uphold high privacy and security standards for our users and technology. ” In March, 2023, OpenAI addressed multiple severe vulnerabilities in ChatGPT that could have allowed attackers to take over user accounts and view chat histories.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

." Here’s what customers are saying about their experience with Duo: Enhanced Protection: “Duo has helped solve our issues with compromised accounts. This implementation has been key in improving security measures here. My only issue is that we did not do it sooner.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 10, 2023

Often, when considering this, people immediately turn their attention to educators of Computer Science at schools, colleges, and universities. In this blog I’ll be taking a closer look at higher education efforts, specifically for Computer Science at UK universities. This appeared at odds with demand for technology skills.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

Upon discovery, we took steps to lock down impacted systems, notified federal law enforcement authorities, worked with leading digital forensics and restoration teams to investigate and recover from the incident, and deployed enhanced 24/7 detection and monitoring technology.” ” reads the data breach notification letter.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2024

This blog post was written based on research carried out by Jérôme Segura. Only then it becomes apparent that the real advertiser is not CNN, but instead a company called Yojoy Network Technology Co., A campaign using sponsored search results is targeting home users and taking them to tech support scams.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 4, 2023

Hackers are increasingly targeting schools as technology is being integrated more deeply into teaching. Educational institutions own many sensitive data, such as personnel and financial information, as well as intellectual property. Cybercriminals use these weaknesses to break into school networks and compromise critical data.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Internet un accountability policy a root cause of Internet in security? Specifically, how is U.S.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M No amount of investment in the latest technology can provide 100% protection because technology alone is not enough. Continuously educating your workforce. dollars to remediate per incident.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The tools can also be used to implant webshells, perform brute-force attacks on CPanel or AWS accounts and send SMS messages to a list of dynamically-generated US mobile numbers. Typically, this type of tool would be used to hijack said services and use the infrastructure for mass spamming or opportunistic phishing campaigns.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. The group targeted multiple sectors, including government, defense, energy, transportation/logistics, education, and humanitarian organizations.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

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). The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

“It appears likely that the X_Trader supply chain attack is financially motivated, since Trading Technologies, the developer of X_Trader, facilitates futures trading, including energy futures.” The executable file is digitally signed by “Trading Technologies International, Inc.” and the other in Europe.”

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

It’s hard to tell a hacker from a legitimate user’s behavior using regular security procedures and technologies. The assessment takes into account governance, security, and identity management challenges. Your IAM security strategy should consider current technologies and any IAM systems you want to adopt.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

An attacker could exploit this data to hijack the victim’s account. Attackers could have used the information about the website’s structure to identify the technologies employed in its development and streamline a lengthy list of techniques to potentially compromise the website.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

In 2022, it partnered with NVidia, an American multinational technology company, to build the industrial metaverse. Having access, they could exfiltrate a treasure trove of sensitive data, given that Siemens manufactures and maintains a lot of technologies and machines used by critical infrastructure.”

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In addition, educating employees about cybersecurity issues can help to reinforce the security-minded culture of the organization and change employee behaviour. Training employees is a crucial part of fighting back against this kind of attack and can complement other technological security solutions. Change passwords regularly.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The APT group is using almost exclusively living-off-the-land techniques and hands-on-keyboard activity to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

German government warns that technology to regulate power consumption in Huawei network appliances could be used for sabotage purposes. The United States , Australia , New Zealand , Romania , and Japan announced the exclusion of Huawei technology from their 5G internet networks.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

Thanks to technology and social media, impersonation scams have grown exponentially. Impersonators create fake social media accounts that include the names, images, logos, or other identifying information, of a person, brand, or organization. billion fake accounts in 2021. This enabled him to cash nearly $2.5

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. This is how the scammers “fatten the pig” until the right time to “butcher it,” when they take all the money out of the account. Stay educated, implement security recommendations, stay safe. What You Can Do. Update your software. Rosa Rowles.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

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). ” reads the report published by Mandiant.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

The passwords of some of your online accounts changed without your intervention. Keep yourself updated with the latest Pharming techniques used by cybercriminals by following the cybersecurity blogs , magazines, and news portal. Enable multi-factor authentication on all your accounts. You can also find him on Quora. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

technology endangered citizens in both Ukraine and the United States. Shevlyakov’s elaborate web of deceit allowed him to allegedly procure sensitive American-made electronics on behalf of the Russian military,” said FBI Houston Special Agent in Charge James Smith. His illegal acquisitions of sophisticated U.S.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 23, 2021

In our Threat Trends blog series , we attempt to provide insight into the prevalent trends on the threat landscape. So, without further ado, and in no particular order, here are the industry trends: Technology. These two categories alone accounted for 70 percent of the traffic for organizations in this sector. Manufacturing.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google Chromebook devices could rightly be called a game-changer for education. According to Google, 40 million students and educators were using Chromebook computers for learning as of last year. The respected technology blog TechRadar has even referred to 2021 as “the year of the Chromebook.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

The software is used by organizations in almost every industry, including automotive, food & beverage, hospitality, Managed Information Technology Service Provider (MSP), and manufacturing. The impact of the attack could be devastating because the company claims that 3CX has 600,000 customer companies with 12 million daily users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The ‘update.exe’ is digitally signed with a valid certificate from Sichuan Niurui Science and Technology Co., . “During the installation, basic system information is sent to the attacker, and the backdoor is made persistent via scheduled/on-boot registry entries.” ” added the expert. Who is behind the attack?

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Jane Frankland

JUNE 15, 2022

In 2020 , Accenture released a blog called ‘ Jumping the Hurdles: Moving women into cybersecurity’s top spots.’ In it, they reported that half of all women with a technical education left the workplace in the middle of their careers. The report said women accounted for 11% of the workforce. DATA SOURCE.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. .” reads the joint report. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

JCDC will map systemic risk and response by accounting for the following: Understanding inherent risks posed by open-source software used for industrial controls Reduce supply chain risk in critical infrastructure by employing remote monitoring, managed service, and managed security providers.

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Centraleyes

MAY 14, 2024

Maria is a data scientist working for a healthcare technology company. One example is the AI Bill of Rights in the United States which asserts that AI systems must be accountable, transparent, and secure. Prioritizing accountable AI governance communicates a clear message to all employees: utilize AI responsibly and ethically.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. With a growing dependency on technology and cyber security, most organizations rely heavily on email communications both internally and externally. While the growing use of technology has seemingly increased convenience and efficiency, it also results in increased security risks.

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