Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If you’re into this sort of thing, it’s pretty much the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet without committing multiple felonies. It came in last overall, but it didn’t come in last in every category all of the time. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. People train for months.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology Software Hacking 276

Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides. This includes internet bills, cell phone plans, Microsoft Office subscriptions, payments to Managed Service Providers (MSPs), laptops, monitors, servers, and more. We’ve identified six categories of IT that will help frame the initial categories of your IT budget. Risk Level.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

There are newer, more sophisticated techniques on the table, such as combinations of attacks that can do what one brute force thing can’t. You can say such things about almost any technology, of course – the personal computer, the internet, and the smartphone – they all became much more versatile than their inventors ever foresaw.

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Technology Encryption Hacking Internet 116

Google Security

APRIL 15, 2021

Posted by Brooke Davis and Eugene Liderman, Android Security and Privacy Team With all of the challenges from this past year, users have become increasingly dependent on their mobile devices to create fitness routines, stay connected with loved ones, work remotely, and order things like groceries with ease.

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Mobile VPN IoT Internet 143

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Last Watchdog followed up with Braunberg to ask him, among other things, what RBVM solutions signal about the ramping up of proactive security. Something simply must be done to slow, and ultimately reverse, attack surface expansion. I heard a cogent assessment of the shift that must take at the Omdia Analyst Summit at Black Hat USA 2023.

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Risk Marketing Software Network Security 222

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every two months, experts at AV-Test evaluate Windows antivirus software across three categories: Protection against malware infections such as viruses, worms or Trojan horses. All products can achieve a maximum of 6 points each in of the three categories, making 18 points the best possible test result. Industry-leading performance.

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Malware Software Antivirus Internet 74

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Consider that PCI-DSS alone has over 250 complex requirements that include things like endpoint protection, password management, anti-virus, border security, data recovery and awareness training. There is no shortage of innovative cybersecurity tools and services that can help companies do a much better job of defending their networks.

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eCommerce Cybersecurity B2B Marketing 235

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

All that changed was the specific things they watched and played. If the site falls into one of 14 undesirable categories, the product sends an alert to Kaspersky Security Network. However, anonymous statistics are collected for all the 14 categories. Internet communication. How we collect our statistics. Videogames.

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Accountability Mobile Media Banking 106

Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Privacy Risk Level Cookies help enhance our browsing experience, but what are the risks? Your internet browser remembers and reflects what we like, but the question remains - how does the browser store those memories? Sounds like cookies are a good thing. What are cookies?”

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Internet Internet Risk Advertising 59

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Companies have come to depend on Software as a Service – SaaS — like never before. Related: Managed security services catch on. From Office 365 to Zoom to Salesforce.com, cloud-hosted software applications have come to make up the nerve center of daily business activity. Security teams ultimately were caught flat-footed, he says.

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Cloud Migration CISO Technology Security Awareness 229

Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

6 Ways Parental Controls Help Protect Your Child IdentityIQ In today’s modern world of social media, online gaming with games like Fortnite and Roblox, and online shopping, the internet is easily one of the most valuable assets a child can have. Using the internet for educational purposes. What Are Parental Controls?

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Identity Theft Internet Internet Media 64

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Technical solutions fall into two basic categories, both currently beyond our reach. The company is based in China and subject to the rules and dictates of the Chinese government. Since the United States will rely on those routers for all of its communications, we become vulnerable by building our 5G backbone on Huawei equipment.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 1, 2024

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Privacy Risk Level Cookies help enhance our browsing experience, but what are the risks? Your internet browser remembers and reflects what we like, but the question remains - how does the browser store those memories? Sounds like cookies are a good thing. What are cookies?”

Internet 52

Internet Internet Risk Advertising 52

Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 9, 2023

Category Awareness, News, Case Study As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, telecommunication has become a highly vulnerable target for cybersecurity threats. Internet of Things (IoT) : The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the telecom sector is a double-edged sword.

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Telecommunications IoT Firewall Encryption 105

Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 17, 2023

Category Awareness, Guides. We need access to the internet wherever we go here in the digital age. Our reliance on the internet means we tend to look for convenient ways to connect our electronic devices to the internet when we aren’t home - usually relying on public Wi-Fi at coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, airports, etc.

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Encryption Internet Internet VPN 98

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? The business equivalent of the toaster probe might well be two categories of automated attacks: Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks and SQL injection ( SQLi ) hacks.

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DDOS Internet Internet Digital transformation 171

Approachable Cyber Threats

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Category Awareness, News, Vulnerabilities. As things return to their pre-COVID levels, crowds at malls are returning to their claustrophobic norms, parking is a nightmare, and you can see the panic in people’s eyes again as they search for the perfect gift. Risk Level. Ready to log-in and shop?” Bring on Black Friday and Cyber Monday!”

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Scams Passwords Banking Accountability 98

SecureList

JUNE 1, 2021

Nor do we need to leave the house to buy things like food or household cleaning products. But one thing is clear: no matter what happens, people are unlikely to give up existing technologies. If the site falls into one of 14 undesirable categories, the product sends an alert to Kaspersky Security Network. Internet communication.

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Mobile Internet Internet Software 82

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Along with Richard Stiennon , I belong to a small circle of journalists and tech industry analysts who’ve been paying close attention to cybersecurity since Bill Gates curtailed commercial work on Windows to rivet Microsoft’s attention on defending its software code. Related: The role of PKI is securing digital transformation That was in 2002.

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Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Digital transformation Firewall 149

Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Category News, Awareness Risk Level With hackers having easy access to AI, we can never be sure whether what we are seeing is true or not. Most people with internet access can create deepfakes with little effort. So what are Deepfakes?” Recent headlines have included deepfakes of musical artists’ likeness and the music itself.

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Social Engineering Media Cyber Attacks Phishing 106

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Cyber Risk Risk Financial Services Banking 147

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law that’s been the foundation of the way we have used the Internet for decades. Section 230 has frequently been referred to as a key law, which has allowed the Internet to develop to what it is now. The implications of removing that protection could be huge.

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Internet Internet Media Telecommunications 82

The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent holding company, told Bloomberg News in Davos. “AI AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent holding company, told Bloomberg News in Davos.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released , researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to solving physics equations to controlling the TV in your living room—into a compendium that would be made accessible to large language models (LLMs).

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Banking Risk Accountability Government 247

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

Vulnerability management improves the security posture of all IT systems by locating vulnerabilities, implementing security controls to fix or protect those vulnerabilities, and then testing the fixes to verify vulnerability resolution. Table of contents: Key Differences: Patch Management vs Vulnerability Management What Is Patch Management?

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Penetration Testing IoT Firmware Software 109

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. billion in reported losses.

Social Engineering 120

Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 120

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Hours after the bill was signed into law in September 2018, the Department of Justice announced that it would file a lawsuit against the state for “ attempting to subvert the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach ” to the internet. What California does definitely impacts the national conversation ,” says state Senator Scott Wiener.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2022

Innovations from 5G networks to Internet of Things (IoT) devices are transforming how we connect and assemble data networks, in turn enabling new medical solutions. Technology in healthcare has the potential to make all the difference in terms of safety outcomes. But technology isn’t always safe. billion in value by 2025.

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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Computers and Electronics Technology 136

Elie

DECEMBER 12, 2019

This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information uncovered by queries containing the name of the requester. “Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF). transparency report. transparency report.

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Media Government Internet Internet 118

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 22, 2021

If you’re currently storing data on individuals that haven’t given their consent and it doesn’t fall into one of the appropriate use categories, you need to give those people the option of withdrawing their consent. PIPL provides a protection framework for the data of Chinese citizens. Who Does PIPL Affect? PIPL Compliance Checklist.

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Data privacy Unstructured Data Software Government 142

SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

The report aims to look at where things went wrong while being able to grow and learn from the patterns it tracks. Verizon has released its 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the 16th annual publication providing an analysis of real-world data breaches and security incidents. So what did they find?

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Data breaches Social Engineering Engineering Cryptocurrency 85

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Apps and software, when not designed with proper threat modelling, can lead to bad things for a business and the consumers. With more shifts into highly configurable software, it's not surprising to see this category move up,” said OWASP. But what are the biggest vulnerabilities to apps and software in particular this year?

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Software Architecture Engineering Authentication 69

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win. National Security Agency.

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Computers and Electronics Internet Internet Technology 204

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In doing so, CASBs became the fastest growing security category ever , as declared by Gartner. For one thing, the top cloud services providers, namely Amazon, Google and Microsoft, imposed a “shared responsibility” model for cybersecurity. For a drill down, give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Risk Cloud Migration Engineering Cyber Risk 200

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We will make a fundamental category error. Morals and reputation are person to person, based on human connection, mutual vulnerability, respect, integrity, generosity, and a lot of other things besides. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely. And the pilot of the plane I flew.

Government 354

Government Surveillance Artificial Intelligence Marketing 354

IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

There are five specific companies that fall under the category of ‘Prohibited Technology’. One of the largest security threats that countries face is the breach of sensitive government systems and data. Department of Defense (DoD) took a step toward combating this threat by issuing an interim Rule. government and industry. .

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Telecommunications Surveillance Government Manufacturing 101

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Venafi Trust Protection Platform was recognized as the only solution on the market that provides full lifecycle machine identity management for all machine identity types from the data center to the cloud at internet scale. There are two actors on every network: people and machines. To learn more about Venafi, visit www.venafi.com.

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