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Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity

Schneier on Security

There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. But the campaign won’t do much to improve cybersecurity. ” was an awareness campaign from 2016, by the Department of Homeland Security—this was before CISA—and the National Cybersecurity Alliance. First, the advice is not realistic.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Edition

Krebs on Security

Satnam Narang , senior staff research engineer at Tenable , says the danger with stolen NTLM hashes is that they enable so-called “pass-the-hash” attacks, which let an attacker masquerade as a legitimate user without ever having to log in or know the user’s password.

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Crooks bank on Microsoft’s search engine to phish customers

Malwarebytes

We identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft’s search engine. While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share , crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. We have reported the fraudulent sites to Microsoft already. net xxx-ii-news[.]com

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MY TAKE: Securing the Internet of Everything: why self-healing devices are the next frontier

The Last Watchdog

Were just getting started down the road to the Internet of Everything (IoE.) Related: IoT growing at a 24% clip To get there to fully tap the potential of a hyper-interconnected ecosystem where devices, data, AI and humans converge to benefit humankind cybersecurity must first catch up.

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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

Krebs on Security

In the United States, when federal, state or local law enforcement agencies wish to obtain information about an account at a technology provider — such as the account’s email address, or what Internet addresses a specific cell phone account has used in the past — they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena.

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Threats in space (or rather, on Earth): internet-exposed GNSS receivers

SecureList

Internet-exposed GNSS receivers and attacks on them In 2023, at least two black hat groups conducted multiple attacks against GNSS receivers. Cybersecurity firm Cyble analyzed the attack surface against satellite receivers from five major vendors, and found out that as of March 2023, thousands of these receivers were exposed online.

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Streamlining detection engineering in security operation centers

SecureList

Triage and investigation The most typical issues at this stage are: Lack of a documented triage procedure analysts often rely on generic, high-level response playbooks sourced from the internet, especially from unreliable sources, which slows or hinders the process of qualifying alerts as potential incidents.