Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Most of the infection attempts started with a particular email attachment: a compressed archive containing stealthy JavaScript code, most of the times able to avoid antivirus detection during the initial stages of the attack campaigns. Stage 1 – The Attached Javascript. Conclusion.

Malware 107

Malware Advertising InfoSec Passwords 107

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

Cryptocurrency 237

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 237

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

In particular, the interest of both infosec experts and cybercriminals was piqued by vulnerabilities in the popular Microsoft Exchange Server: CVE-2021-26855 — a service-side request forgery vulnerability that allows remote code execution (RCE). So, once again, we remind you of the importance of regular updates.

Mobile 96

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SecureList

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the current state of the art, however, their performance is quite limited: in our experience, they tend to hallucinate quite a lot when questions and tasks go beyond a very basic level, and most of the hacking guidance they give can be found more efficiently using a search engine. Since the debut of GPT-3.5

Cybersecurity 108

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Technology Risk 108

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

It’s always interesting for me to hear how different people are approaching the same problems in infosec. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. They need input from vendors and users to build up a common database that in turn will be useful to the larger infosec community.

InfoSec 40

InfoSec Firewall Engineering System Administration 40

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Vamosi: That talk focused on the fact that there are InfoSec hackers openly working to address this problem.

Technology 52

Technology Software Surveillance Media 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living.

Software 52

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. Well, why hack your way through a complicated backdoor method when you can waltz right in the front door as a fully credentialed user and then escalate individual privileges from the inside. And we’ll learn how we can better detect these APTs.

Software 40

Software Phishing Passwords Authentication 40

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

These were companies spanning all sorts of different industries; big tech, general infosec, antivirus, hosting, finance, e-commerce, cyber insurance - I could go on. The point is the net was cast very wide. We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post.

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