SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

On the other hand, if it appears that your company ignored “prevalent red flags like public chatter, online blogs” or attributions when paying a ransomware group, then “you’re getting awfully close to” an aggravating factor, because you acted “in willful disregard of these warning signs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It’s sarcastic, it’s comical, but it’s also real. For most individuals who have come inured to breaches, the latest breach victim isn’t new or shocking. appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales e-Security. Another day, another breach. Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach.

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

million American children were victims of identity fraud last year? This blog sheds light on the intricacies of family identity theft protection. Children can be targeted for synthetic identity theft that occurs when identity thieves use a combination of real and fake information to create a made-up person, or synthetic identity.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

After answering every question, the victim was told that they were almost there, but there was a small commission to be paid before they could get their gadget. Vast selection of available seats should have alarmed visitors: real tickets would have been largely gone. Of course, no prize ensued after the fee was paid.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 24, 2019

link] — Amit Serper (@0xAmit) December 23, 2019 I thought that was the end of it, but then Andrew Thompson showed up and dropped a blog post of his that sent my brain into Cognitive Dissonance Level 7—which is a good sign that an opportunity for learning may be in the area. SO WHY ARE YOU UPDATING IT? Having data on it.

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McAfee

MAY 17, 2021

So, when the police show up, the victim can accurately name the perpetrator. In this extended example, the victim can run a report monthly showing that the microchip pressure sensor triggered 5 times this month, while the others may have triggered only once or twice.

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McAfee

JUNE 12, 2020

Because we can always count on adversaries to be persistent and increasingly sophisticated, cyber defense cannot stand still. That sounds good, but how does it work in the real world? The post Time to Move from Reactive to Proactive Endpoint Security appeared first on McAfee Blogs. If so, which one?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Let’s examine how each of these strategies works and why both working together stands the best chance of solving the problem. Most people have a pretty good idea how phishing emails and BEC use social engineering to trick their unwitting victims. Even harnessing both side by side has not proven 100 percent effective. Leveraging AI/ML.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

Once that trust is lost, it’s difficult to regain it, which can impact your business and standing within the industry. Other times, well-intentioned employees fall victim to attacks like phishing, legitimate-looking emails that trick employees into giving attackers their credentials or other sensitive information—like patient data.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2021

Apple’s Protecting data at multiple layers article briefly describes SSV, but Howard Oakley has an even more detailed write-up on his blog , with illustrations; a must-read. In the name of the function, the “_np” suffix stands for “non-portable”: A customary way to mark OS-specific extensions to posix_spawn(2).

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SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In fact, by analyzing the number of victims on ransomware groups’ various leak sites, it is easy to visualize the growth in “Ransomware 2.0” From January to November 2021, the number of victims was 30% higher than that in all of 2020, affecting a total of 1,500 organizations. ” in 2021. Targeting Linux.

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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). Sometimes, endorsement even extends through to the real media!

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

The attackers carefully study potential victims, sometimes monitoring them for months. The attackers study their victims carefully and use the information they find to frame social engineering attacks. One approach they take is to manipulate popular browser extensions for managing crypto wallets. Roaming Mantis reaches Europe.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 21, 2021

However, this approach is the greatest victim of the pesticide paradox. Read this blog on, “ Beginning Fuzz Cycle Automation: Improving Testing and Fuzz Development with Coverage Analysis ” ]. Standing up a MVP solution is manageable. Below is an pesticide-immune graph of new defects over time: Protocol Fuzzing.

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NopSec

MARCH 29, 2023

With this blog post, I would like to shed light on the components of cryptocurrency infrastructure and how to threat model these various elements. STRIDE – created by Microsoft – stands for: Spoofing – a malicious user masquerades as a legitimate user Tampering – deleting or changing stored data, such as transactions.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

How do you use digital to find a real world criminal? That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. You find clues. It’s not graphic.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. In line with our predictions, we released two blog posts in 2022 introducing sophisticated low-level bootkits. And now, we turn our attention to the future.

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Fox IT

MAY 4, 2021

But if you would like to understand the rather tortured history of this particular malware a little better, the research and blog posts on the subject by Check Point are a good starting point. Around 2018/2019, Sagrid actively spread malware in Australia and New Zealand, using advanced techniques to deliver it to their victims.

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