Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. And yet almost every Internet account requires one.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 31, 2023

and Xerox Corporation provide a facility to export the contents of their Address Book encrypted, but the encryption strength is insufficient. I navigated away from the Address Book section of the device and clicked it again. This led him to reverse engineering the firmware to identify how the CipherValue (AKA the password) was derived.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

Vincent (Vince) Moore, Senior Network Engineer at OPSWAT, has dabbled in the IT field since he took computer programming classes in high school (COBOL, Fortran, GWBASIC, and Pascal). I have read articles and books and done research papers on Fromm. employees,?and and customers from cyber-driven disruption.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Riccardi engagingly chronicles how company leaders raced down the path of Internet-centric operations, and then cloud-centric operations, paying far too little attention to unintended data security consequences. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

In response to the incident, the company disconnected the affected systems from the internet to prevent the threat from spreading. 18 Gb.dwg - 38295 pcs - drawings and schematics of chips, microchips, transistors, etc. The chipmaker confirmed it became aware of the unauthorized access to certain Nexperia IT servers in March 2024.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

The agency’s ninth Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 report gives a law enforcement perspective on current cybercrime techniques. Her book, “The Privacy Leader Compass” is available to pre-order from 1 November. Its findings are valuable for security professionals too.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is just one reason why we have an entire month devoted to internet awareness and staying safe online, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM). While usernames and passwords can be brute forced or gathered in social engineering attacks; MFA, when used properly, helps ensure that it really is YOU who is logging in.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated. A refrigerator is now a computer that keeps things cold; a car is now a computer with four wheels and an engine. But that computer with four wheels and an engine?

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We speak with John Shegerian of ERI about his new book: “The Insecurity of Everything” and how our e-waste may be exposing sensitive data to other nations. Related Stories Episode 224: Engineering Trust In The Cyber Executive Order Episode 222: US Rep. and other nations.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Since then Hash started a reverse engineering wiki site called Recessim and created dozens of YouTube videos in a channel of that same name to chronicle his adventures. And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. We need to install Smart Meters now to make this happen. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2022

In order to extract value from the Internet, data sprawl first must get reined in. Jeff Bezos solved data sprawl for selling books and gave us Amazon. This included financial, human resources, sales and marketing, and engineering records and documents. This has always been the case. Related: Equipping SOCs for the long haul.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Conclusion This vulnerability highlights the broader challenges in securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, especially those linked to critical infrastructure like electric vehicle charging stations. ChargePoint’s fast response to patching these vulnerabilities is a testament to the importance of securing critical infrastructure.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to follow along and find out everything the internet knows about… you! Along the way, as you get familiar with the tools and tactics of internet sleuths, you’ll get a better idea of your current internet footprint as well as know what tracks you leave in the future.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. Friday launched the Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4 Kids (SECTF4Kids). Christina is a psychologist, a social engineer and an open-source intelligence analyst.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate?

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2024

The social engineering techniques used by fraudsters are growing in complexity. This conclusion matches that of the 2022 Internet Crime Report produced by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which attributed almost $84 million dollars to BEC and over $75 million to investment fraud. Make sure to read the fine print.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are many forms this could take, such as a hairdresser losing access to their diary booking system, a construction company losing access to their subcontractor database, or a small manufacturer losing their production line and communication with customers. It can also include operating systems, and other internet-facing applications.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. When commercialization first came to the internet, there was no easy way for users to make micropayments to do things like viewing a web page. This has been true for social media, and it will similarly hold true for AI.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” To determine the level of risk, the AI risk engine is tuned to get better and better at recognizing the normal pattern of behaviors of specific users, as well as ‘communities’, and be on the alert for anomalies.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

Adam Shostack has a new book, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars. that uses both Star Wars and STRIDE to help engineers under vulnerabilities and threats in software development. So are there other things that every engineer should know from watching Star Wars? STRIDE provides an easy mnemonic.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

Sometimes you don’t even need this level complexity as people often provide their full name and email (and other details) when booking tickets for example. These are common con techniques and used by social engineers. This could give scammers a head start, allowing them to gather information days or weeks in advance.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I am writing to you from an old desktop computer in the tent of the chaplain who works on behalf of a refugee agency, because here there is no internet point or effective means of communication. […]. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

A lot of people are thinking about the security of their home network right now, and as one of the project leaders on the OWASP Internet of Things Security Project , I wanted to provide three levels of security you can do at home. Do you have internet-connected lights, appliances, gaming systems, media systems, etc?

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 23, 2024

It’s so easy to make a system available on the internet to facilitate remote management down the line, without appreciating the risk of doing so Yes, some vendors are actively training their installer networks to ‘do cyber’ but, based on bitter personal experience, I would put nothing to chance.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And all of that is on a computer, on a network, and attached to the Internet. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been working with Internet security. I wrote this in my book, Data and Goliath : The problem is that encryption is just a bunch of math, and math has no agency.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 27, 2022

networks and the internet. Security teams often include detection engineers responsible for creating, testing and tuning detections to alert the team of malicious activity, and minimize false. Detection engineering has been evolving to adopt workflows and best practices from. For network events, it’s about. hardening detections.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone else who keeps airlines operating. I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet. This is how the Internet works.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

No Fly List exposed on the Internet, the sensitive data were hosted on a server run by US airline CommuteAir. The Swiss researcher claims to have discovered the server while searching for Jenkins servers using the Zoomeye search engine. A researcher discovered a U.S. Researchers Maia Arson Crimew discovered a U.S.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The idea was that it’d be some massive blast that would take out the country’s power grid, or disable the entire internet, along with what they used to call e-commerce. This doesn’t mean it can’t still happen. That moment hasn’t happened (yet), but I think we’ve become the frog in the boiling cyber-water.

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Notice Bored

MAY 14, 2022

Engineering utterly depends on information integrity, and trust is a major part of almost everything. Measuring 'the stuff that really matters' trumps all other approaches, in my book. Then think carefully about all the humdrum routine operational things that also depend on information security.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Call it decentralization : our email, photos, books, music, and documents are stored somewhere, and accessible to us through our consumer devices. Others, like Internet-enabled game machines or digital cameras, are truly special purpose. Similarly, connecting objects to the Internet will soon be cheap enough to be viable.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 22, 2020

Rather than predicting the exact form, of the exact tech, in the exact order that it’ll emerge, I’m taking a reverse engineering approach. The Real Internet of Things, January 2017. Specifically, instead of starting with tech and seeing where it’s going, I’m starting with humans and what they seek, need, and desire.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. It's a comprehensive book, and it's an important topic.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The company also recently partnered with Bitdefender® to add the award-winning internet security and online privacy software to its plan offerings. IDIQ offers the IdentityIQ® and MyScoreIQ® brands for identity theft and credit report monitoring and the DataBreachIQ® brand for business data breach preparation and response support.

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