The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Most of the people I know professionally and personally don’t spend a lot of time contemplating the true price we pay for the amazing digital services we’ve all become addicted to. We’re content with all the cool digital services we enjoy. Related: Blockchain’s role in the next industrial revolution.

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Internet Internet Cryptocurrency Software 223

Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

” About the only French critical infrastructure vertical not touched by the Kasbah hackers was the water management sector. With the exception of water management, when looking at the organizations involved, each fell within one of the verticals in France’s critical infrastructure strategic plan. ‘FATAL’ ERROR.

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DNS Penetration Testing Malware Hacking 253

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates address 56 CVEs in multiple products, including Windows components,NET Framework, Azure IoT, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Edge for Android, Exchange Server, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, Skype for Business and Lync, and Windows Defender.

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DNS IoT Backups Mobile 98

Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What happens when several risks carry the same “medium” tag, leaving decision-makers pondering where to focus their attention and allocate precious resources? ISO 27001: This international standard outlines the requirements for an information security management system (ISMS) and is widely used for risk management.

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Risk Cyber Risk Cybersecurity Penetration Testing 52

CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This blog was jointly written with Santiago Cortes. The group operates with a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) business model, where the ransomware authors are entitled to 10-20% of the ransom payment, while the rest is kept by the affiliates deploying the payload. Blog BotenaGo. Executive summary.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 119

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With so many of us relying on the internet now for delivery of food, medicine and other services, starting your own online business from home may be the right solution to help generate income. Using this list as guide, you can focus on growing your home business instead of fighting off security threats. In fact, it can be quite simple.

Marketing 98

Marketing eCommerce Internet Internet 98

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Three brute-force methods could be selected: EWS (Exchange Web Service), OAB (Offline Address Book) or both (All). Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. Jason Project GUI.

Computers and Electronics 82

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Passwords 82

SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. The attackers registered accounts with a public email service, making sure the sender’s email addresses looked similar to the medical center’s real email address. We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In this blog, we describe two separate incidents. After decrypting the payload, the loader finds the Service Host Process (svchost.exe) with winmgmt, ProfSvc or Appinfo parameters and injects the payload into it. Using this utility, the threat actor extracted a list of the victim’s users and computers. hxxps://www.kne.co[.]kr/upload/Customer/BBS.asp.

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Malware Cryptocurrency Encryption Passwords 76

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Denial of service attacks (DoS). But the SOP does not limit javascript code, and the HTML <script> tag is allowed to load Javascript code from any origin. Preventing these session management pitfalls requires multiple layers of defense. Host header poisoning. Sensitive data leaks or information leaks. Mass assignment.

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Authentication Encryption Engineering Firewall 104

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The very next day I published a blog post about how I made it so fast to search through 154M records and thus began a now 185-post epic where I began detailing the minutiae of how I built this thing, the decisions I made about how to run it and commentary on all sorts of different breaches. And then ensured could never happen again.

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Data breaches Passwords Internet Internet 363

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

That's pretty much XSS 101 - just get an alert box to fire - and reflecting a script tag is one of the most fundamental techniques attackers use to run their script on your website. Its very purpose is to block content which hasn't explicitly been white listed either by a host name, nonce or hash.

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Hacking Risk 220

Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat USA NOC (Network Operations Center) blog, you will find: Adapt and Overcome. I heard a comment that the Wi-Fi service in the Expo Hall was “the worst I’ve ever experienced at a conference.” Building the Hacker Summer Camp network, by Evan Basta. The Buck Stops Here. Full stop.

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Engineering Wireless Malware DNS 70

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Many of the services that HIBP runs on are provided free by the likes of Cloudflare. I'm sure I speak for him as well when I say we couldn't be happier that other companies have taken the model we pioneered and applied it to their own services too because at the end of the day, that's in everyone's best interests.

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Passwords Architecture Data breaches Internet 364

Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Every time this very blog loads Font Awesome from Cloudflare's CDN, for example, it's verified against the hash in the integrity attribute of the script tag (view source for yourself). The 1 hash that won't yield any search results (until Google indexes this blog post.) is the middle one. Why the first 5 bytes?

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Passwords Identity Theft Consumer Services Password Management 309

Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

We can't add a meta tag. It also had a massive impact on HIBP subscribers; I sent over 1 million emails to individuals using the notification service which made it the single largest corpus of notification emails we'd ever sent by a significant margin. We don't have any of those 4 aliases on our domain.

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Accountability Small Business InfoSec DNS 233

SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The list of targeted individuals includes 14 world leaders. MVT is further boosted by a list of IoCs (indicators of compromise) collected from high profile cases and made available by Amnesty International. The company’s Orion IT, a solution for monitoring and managing customers’ IT infrastructure, was compromised.

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Malware Mobile Spyware Surveillance 101

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Logging on to Report URI and being greeted with something like this: This blog post is about how add-ons and extensions in browsers cause CSP violations like the ones above and how they should be dealt with. We already filter all sorts of unnecessary noise and benign reports, it'd be simple to add Honey to the list. into the pages.

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Media Accountability Technology 214

Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

XDR (eXtended Detection and Response) Integrations At Black Hat USA 2023, Cisco Secure was the official Mobile Device Management, DNS (Domain Name Service) and Malware Analysis Provider. Typically, a CTB deployment requires a broker node and a manager node. We also deployed ThousandEyes for Network Assurance.

Wireless 60

Wireless DNS Mobile Technology 60

Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). in August last year.

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Data breaches Government Passwords Media 183

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with. This is implemented by IP address which means 2 things: Many legitimate Indian residents would not be able to access the service if they were outside of India (i.e. Geo-Blocking is (Almost) Useless. travelling).

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Hacking Government Risk Encryption 279

Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat Asia NOC blog, you will find: . Meraki MR, MS, MX and Systems Manager by Paul Fidler . Seven Meraki MS cloud-managed stackable access switches. Cisco Meraki Systems Manager mobile device management and security. Meraki MR, MS, MX and Systems Manager by Paul Fidler.

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Wireless Mobile Engineering Firewall 79

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

One of the most important function is the aa_AdrGen_bb which is the communication manager. This is a TXT request to list the waiting commands (or, if you wish “kind of jobs”). The first command that is executed after the registration phase is the command tagged as 10100 having as a content: “whoami&ipconfig /all” D.

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DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 88

NopSec

JUNE 18, 2013

Obviously, Unified VRM is a Vulnerability Risk Management solution and not a silver bullet covering every single control in the 20 critical security controls list. However, a lot of Unified VRM functionality can be easily mapped to that list. We will address one control on each blog post.

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Wireless Penetration Testing Risk Architecture 40

Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In this blog we will take a look at AvosLocker a solid, yet not too fancy new ransomware family that has already claimed several victims. Looking at the log, we can see that the ransomware first “maps” the accessible drives by listing all their files. Behavioral Analysis.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 133

Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In this blog we will take a look at AvosLocker a solid, yet not too fancy new ransomware family that has already claimed several victims. Looking at the log, we can see that the ransomware first “maps” the accessible drives by listing all their files. Behavioral Analysis.

Ransomware 87

Ransomware Encryption Malware Backups 87

Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

It was not the best way to manage or maintain packages. As we were scrapping it all and starting from scratch when starting with Kali, we moved to Git and used GPG to tag releases, at the same time, published all our build-scripts allowing anyone to build Kali on any platform. The lack of FHS was hurting us in many different ways.

InfoSec 52

InfoSec Penetration Testing Architecture Software 52

Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

And perhaps most importantly, have they changed their password (yes, almost always singular) across the other services they use? haveibeenpwned You guys are awesome, thank you so much for your services! <just deleted account> Would never have known if not for your eagle eyes and #totallyawesome service. +10

Data breaches 279

Data breaches Passwords InfoSec Accountability 279

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

This tag was in the source code over at secure.donaldjtrump.com/donate-homepage yet it was pulling script directly off Igor Escobar's GitHub repository for the project. And the UK's National Health Service. I know, we're all shocked but bear with me because it's an important part of the narrative of this post. It was the US Courts too.

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