Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

When you boil it down, what do those three things have in common? This is part of the opening monologue of the Ozark series and when I first heard it, I immediately stopped the show and dropped it into this blog post. It's also up there with the highest paying industries around. Those are choices.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the most successful and lucrative online scams employ a “low-and-slow” approach — avoiding detection or interference from researchers and law enforcement agencies by stealing small bits of cash from many people over an extended period. And they seem particularly focused on stealing gift card data.

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Fox IT

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The main features in ERMAC are related to sending SMS messages, displaying a phishing window on top of a legitimate app, extracting a list of installed applications, SMS messages and accounts, and automated stealing of recovery seed phrases for multiple cryptocurrency wallets. We will dive deeper into this feature later in the blog.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2021

When I attended the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Conference in September, the SolarWinds cyberattack was the elephant in almost every room. It was understood the attack left many in cybersecurity with a looming feeling of dread, exhaustion, and burnout, and a sense of urgency around ramping up defense.

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The crash is of course deterministic and it would be possible to code the exploit to cater for arbitrary glibc binaries; this is left as an exercise for the reader. This exploit works against what I would consider the “default” install. During Ubuntu install, there’s a question along the lines of “hey, do you want mp3s to work?”

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

To prevent the attack techniques noted in this blog post, disable the “Allow connection fallback to NTLM” client push installation setting, which is enabled by default in SCCM. A site server that receives client configuration data and responds to client requests for policy and service locations. Background. Site Server.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. This has the double pronged effect of crippling an organization, whilst also resulting in the significant impact that accompanies a data breach.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2022

This blog post provides a high-level explanation of how to implement security boundaries in an on-prem AD and Azure environment to protect your critical assets based on the principle of tiered administration, including how BloodHound Enterprise can help you in the process. They recommend tiered administration with dedicated admin accounts.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

-based supplier of fraud management technology, documented how iFunny distributed data-stealing malware and, in doing so, actually targeted smartphone users in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. These security weaknesses happen to align seamlessly with the spreading of disinformation. But guess what?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

president, with the world struggling to recover from a global pandemic, there are nuanced lessons we can learn from the Twitter Bitcoin hack. Here’s what all consumers and companies should heed going forward. What will the global economy look like post Covid-19? There’s really no excuse for this.

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