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Security Affairs newsletter Round 377

Security Affairs

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5%

Spyware 121
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Jumpstart your adoption of Zero Trust with these three steps

SC Magazine

Zero Trust requires that all users are authenticated, authorized, and continuously assessed for risk to access corporate applications and data. Legacy VPN, and related technologies, aren’t just slow, they’re characteristic of technologies that rely on implicit trust. Cerillium CreativeCommons CC BY 2.0.

VPN 64
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What is Shoulder Surfing?

Identity IQ

Use Two-Factor Authentication Two-factor authentication helps protect your accounts by requiring you to prove your identity with two different authentication components. The two-factor authentication process is quite effective in online banking. Remember that if you do this, ensure to protect your master password.

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Thales High Speed Encryptors - Delivering on the Promise of 5G

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data injection, misdirection and capture are real threats, and the more data that flows through the network the more likely we are to see large scale surveillance and collections programs. The more data we push, the more harvest and decrypt attacks become worthwhile to hackers. layer 2, layer 3 or 4).

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. adpvpn.adpolice.gov.ae: VPN service for the Abu Dhabi Police. Use 2-factor authentication, and require it to be used by all relevant users and subcontractors. -In That’s the reality today.

DNS 268
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Cell Phone Location Privacy

Schneier on Security

It protects users from fake cell phone towers (IMSI-catchers) and surveillance by cell providers. Monthly: The user pays their bill to the MVNO (credit card or otherwise) and the phone gets anonymous authentication (using Chaum blind signatures) tokens for each time slice (e.g., It’s a clever system. All MVNO SIMs are identical.

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Overview of IoT threats in 2023

SecureList

Its capabilities include smart brute-forcing by analyzing the initial request for authentication data it receives from a Telnet service. They can be made to serve as routers (proxies or VPN servers) to anonymize illicit traffic. Various ways exist to monetize Illicit access to webcams. Some hackers even use them as, well, web cameras.

IoT 93