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Victims risk AsyncRAT infection after being redirected to fake Booking.com sites

Malwarebytes

According to Malwarebytes research , 40% of people book travel through a general online search, creating a lot of opportunities for scammers. Even if you think youre looking at an actual booking website, this is not the kind of instructions youre expected to follow. com (booking.)badgustrewivers.com[.]com com (booking.)property-paids[.]com

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LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Schneier on Security

Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Key Arguments: Analyze risks empirically using evidence, statistics, and probability rather than intuition. It’s interesting.

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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

Krebs on Security

MasterCard.com relies on five shared Domain Name System (DNS) servers at the Internet infrastructure provider Akamai [DNS acts as a kind of Internet phone book, by translating website names to numeric Internet addresses that are easier for computers to manage]. “This typo has now been corrected.”

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Risk Talk at JPL

Adam Shostack

The first part of the talk puts threat modeling in context for engineering secure systems, while the second part considers why we do what we do and asks some questions about how we think about risk. The biggest of those questions starts from the observation that many of the ways weve learned to use math in risk involve iteration.

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Digital nomads and risk associated with the threat of infiltred employees

Security Affairs

Companies face the risk of insider threats, worsened by remote work. The insider threat, or the risk that an employee could harm the company, is a growing concern. The insider threat, or the risk that an employee could harm the company, is a growing concern. North Korean hackers infiltrate firms via fake IT hires, stealing data.

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Author’s Q&A: It’s high time for CISOs to start leading strategically — or risk being scapegoated

The Last Watchdog

This is the backdrop for The CISO on the Razors Edge , a new book by Steve Tout , longtime identity strategist and advisor to Fortune 500 security leaders. I spoke with Steve to explore what pushed him to write this book now, how GenAI changes the game, and what security leaders must do to escape the scapegoat cycle. Tout: Thank you.

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Public Hearing on IoT Risks

Schneier on Security

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission is holding hearings on IoT risks: The U.S. The information received from the public hearing will be used to inform future Commission risk management work. The information received from the public hearing will be used to inform future Commission risk management work.

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