Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to learn to live with what we have and make better choices from here on out. The Social Media we should have had. The Social Media we truly have.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. He acknowledged that the purloined account had the ability to add or modify the advertising creatives that get run on customer ad campaigns.

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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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Employees and executives are often oversharing personal details on social media and even in automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages. Of course, OOO instructions serve an important business communications function, and a strong strong social media profile is a great way to network with your peers and brand yourself. Social media.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great. Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least). Is it unique to their generation?

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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. Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. This is coming. Likewise, the U.S.

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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. ” Other computing technologies have been shown to shape our cognition. This is beginning to change.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 5, 2020

The NSA has issued a cybersecurity advisory about the use of location data on personal devices, social media accounts, mobile applications, as well as Internet of Things-enabled devices. The advisory, titled “Limiting Location Data Exposure,” was released August 4.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. com include privnode[.]com

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SC Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

To identify negligent behavior, security teams should look for indicators of poor data hygiene like storing passwords in text files, databases exposed to the external internet, questionable Wi-Fi connections, unsanctioned application use, and sidestepping security restrictions. Technology: Work smarter, not harder. Lucia Milic?,

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. “InfraGard is a social media intelligence hub for high profile persons,” USDoD said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. bank accounts. w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. Related: Make it costly for cybercriminals.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Training employees is a crucial part of fighting back against this kind of attack and can complement other technological security solutions. It also ensures that your account credentials won’t be used for as long. Data discovery technologies can scan data stores and label sensitive and regulated data by purpose and type.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Passwordless technology is certainly ready for prime time; innovative solutions from suppliers like Cisco’s Duo, Hypr, OneLogin and Veridium have been steadily gaining traction in corporate settings for the past few years. For a full drill down on our wide-ranging discussion, please give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But Reuters found that while Pushwoosh’s social media and U.S. 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. that was also connected to email addresses and account profiles for over a dozen other Pushwoosh employees.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 31, 2021

We juggle with apps and websites from morning till dawn to check the weather, social media channels, email, pay the bills, shop online, chat via video, access a school portal or workspace, read the news or watch a movie. Keep your accounts safe with strong, unique passwords and two-factor authentication. Use it and stay safe!

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Trustwave developed Social Mapper an Open Source Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different social networks. Security experts at Trustwave have released Social Mapper, a new open-source tool that allows finding a person of interest across social media platform using facial recognition technology.

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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. Media contact : Teemu Tunkelo, CEO, tel.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

This could be those without antivirus protection, young internet users or, unfortunately, your elderly loved ones. While a handful of common scams against older citizens are conducted in person, the majority are enabled or made more convincing by the use of technology. The most common types of online elder fraud.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This effectively allows the internet researcher to “hide within the noise” of normal IP traffic. The addition of PCoIP® technology, a highly secure no data transfer multi-codec display protocol, allows for the highest performance CPU or GPU throughput regardless of bandwidth, connection, or locale.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Technological Tactics.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Findings released this week by ReversingLabs show 87 percent of security and technology professionals view software tampering as a new breach vector of concern, yet only 37 percent say they have a way to detect it across their software supply chain. It’s encouraging that the technology to do that is available. Implementing SBOM.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

The group released sensitive documents and contracts about an IoT botnet, codename Fronton, built by the contractor 0day Technologies. The botnet provides a web-based dashboard known as SANA that allows operators to spread trending social media events, called ‘newsbreaks,’ en masse. ru to 0day[.]llc.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 2, 2022

This network used fake accounts and operated fictitious personas and brands across the internet — including on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Odnoklassniki and VK — to appear more authentic in an apparent attempt to withstand scrutiny by platforms and researchers.”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The larger the subscription base, the greater the number of fraudulent key-selling schemes and attempts at stealing accounts. In-game items and money are some of the prime goals for attackers stealing players’ accounts. Social media and the metaverse. New social media will bring more privacy risks.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

Although there were no signs of financial compromise of users, ShareThis did deactivate accounts and prompt customers to change associated passwords so that malicious actors couldn’t access user accounts. Also, according to the privacy policy, email addresses of internet users who chose to share content via email are not collected.

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

6 Ways Parental Controls Help Protect Your Child IdentityIQ In today’s modern world of social media, online gaming with games like Fortnite and Roblox, and online shopping, the internet is easily one of the most valuable assets a child can have. Keeping your kids from getting addicted to technology.

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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. “We have not been informed about a risk related to an energy management component by any authority,” Patrick Berger, Huawei’s head of media affairs told POLITICO.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. Brookfield, Wisc.-based based Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.8

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2021

According to a report published in Yahoo News, USPS is holding the program to track citizens who are indulging in criminal activities on the dark web and various social media platforms using fake accounts. Zignal Labs is supplying the related Nfusion software to iCOP. .

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