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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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

In a report released May 20, the Government Accountability Office looked at how the private cybersecurity insurance market has developed over the past five yearsRich Baich is global chief information security officer for insurance giant AIG. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

It is astounding that billions of online accounts have been breached over the past 18 years and that US consumer accounts are by far the most compromised. It’s in findings of a deep dive data analytics study led by Surfshark , a supplier of VPN services aimed at the consumer and SMB markets. accounts have been breached so far.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Since you almost certainly missed the memo (because there was never a public one), demographic data is gleaned from your browsing history and paired with your social media accounts to form a working biography of your likes and dislikes. After all, Google helped to standardize the technologies and languages of the web.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. Those outages were enough to prevent Sharp’s Surfshark VPN connection from functioning properly — thus exposing his Internet address as the source of the downloads.

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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. Meanwhile, IoT device makers and IoT service providers remain consumed with being first to market with fresh functionalities. This is coming. Likewise, the U.S.

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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. Social Responsibility: VPN providers will promote VPN technology to support access to the global Internet and freedom of expression.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2021

Technology advancements have made it relatively easy for many employees to carry out their regular job duties from the comfort of their home. It is essential to ensure that all accounts are protected with strong passwords. A VPN encrypts all internet traffic so that it is unreadable to anyone who intercepts it. Set up firewalls.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Large language models—the technology undergirding modern chatbots—allow users to interact with computers through natural conversation, an innovation that introduces some baggage from human-to-human exchanges. The market for AI companions, ranging from friends to romantic partners, is already crowded.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

The cybersecurity industry loves to talk up the risks of new technology. In a properly functioning market, it’s straightforward. The security team could then make an informed decision and be accountable for it. But all too often we’re dealing with a broken market – the new so-called “ Market for Lemons.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. NortonLifeLock and Avast appear to be betting on the next iteration of the huge and longstanding consumer antivirus market. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. billion in 2016, for instance.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They must take into account a widely scattered workforce and somehow comprehensively mitigate new and evolving cyber threats. Managed security service providers are rising to meet a need that’s clearly out there,” observes Elizabeth Jimenez, executive director of market development at NeoSystems, an MSP and systems integrator. “We

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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 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. According to Group-IB, the online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has increased by 23% in a year and totaled more than $1.5 billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 billion in 2016.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Like many people, over the last couple of years, my main real interaction with people outside of my immediate family and Amazon delivery drivers has been via the internet. The beauty of the internet is that you don’t need to shower, put on decent clothes, or worry about offending anyone. Going back to another Mikko tweet, .

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The investigators used INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments (I-GRIP) to detect online fraudulent transactions, and then froze the associated bank and virtual asset service provider (VASP) accounts. Police in member countries froze the assets and investigations are ongoing.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security is not a problem the market will solve. The primary reason computers are insecure is that most buyers aren't willing to pay -- in money, features, or time to market -- for security to be built into the products and services they want. Facebook account data might be important, but again, nobody dies when it's stolen.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

I had the chance to discuss this with Matt Keil, director of product marketing at Cequence Security , a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based they then began to use the stolen credentials to launch automated account takeovers. “So We were able to stop the account takeovers that would then sometimes lead to these romance scams.”

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. A review of the Internet addresses historically used by Super-socks[.]biz Image: Spur.us.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet. LW: Can you frame the separate issue of securing service accounts? So these accounts must be secured.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Datacenter Proxies: this blog post examines the contours of each type and provides info on how to choose the perfect proxy option In the robust landscape of the digital era, our need for privacy, security, and accessibility on the internet has never been more acute.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2023

This means, at a minimum, the technology needs to be transparent. It could act as your tutor, answering questions interactively on topics you want to learn about—in the manner that suits you best and taking into account what you already know. For AI to truly be our assistant, it needs to be trustworthy.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com and rurimeter[.]com

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Reuters also learned that the company’s address in California does not exist, and that two LinkedIn accounts for Pushwoosh employees in Washington, D.C. Pushwoosh admitted the LinkedIn profiles were fake, but said they were created by a marketing firm to drum up business for the company — not misrepresent its location.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

Icons are loaded from the Internet which are related to the victim’s domain name, where the domain itself is essentially the key word used in a search request to load icons. Code with the URL of a loaded icon corresponding to the victim’s domain. The randomization of tag attribute values which then have no further use in the code.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

In the early 1990s, the Internet industry needed to move packets as fast as possible because some marketing genius came up with the idea that everyone could have “Unlimited Internet Access” for $9.95 Those people belong in the Internet Hall of Fame. Truth be told, AOL made the Internet, the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

government agency in charge of improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used security and networking appliances.

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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., and a handful of other Chinese tech firms that seemed to have a history of placing product market share and price above security. no password).

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Because of PrivX’s modern technology, it is also one of the easiest solutions to deploy in large environments. Often, organizations are not implementing PAM comprehensively, leaving some of their privileged user accounts under a risk of being compromised for criminal purposes. This organization is a highly demanding customer.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Technology continues to improve our lives – but at the same time the risks continue to grow. Encryption, data sovereignty, multifactor authentication and website cookies are all vital ideas and technologies to keep consumers’ personal data safe – but research released this month reveals widespread confusion.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2021

Côté outlined how and why many SMBs are in a position to materially improve their security posture – by going back to a few security basics, in particular by paying closer attention to privileged account management , or PAM. Some context: privileged accounts first arose 20 years ago as our modern business networks took shape.

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