Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. Super Bowl Sunday watchers are treated to no fewer than a half-dozen commercials for cryptocurrency investing. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Former NSA white hat hacker Patrick Wardle reported last week that Trend Micro apps were also collecting users’ personal data including their browsing history and then uploaded that data in a password-protected archive to a server. And what do you think that might be? ” wrote Wardle.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

While the cloud presents a wealth of opportunity for increased productivity, connectivity and convenience, it also requires a new set of considerations for ensuring safe use. Don’t reuse passwords. Password reuse is a common problem, especially in consumer cloud services. One password…. potentially) many breaches.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

The extent of the flaw is wide, according to data collected by Krstic during the study, the vulnerabilities could impact up to 10 million people and 30,000 doors at 200 facilities. Krstic presented the findings of his study at SecurityWeek’s ICS Cyber Security Conference held in Singapore.

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Centraleyes

MAY 20, 2024

SAML streamlines web-based SSO for compliance and security by using digital signatures rather than passwords. IAM technologies ease regulatory compliance by automating regulations and tracking access to sensitive data throughout the IT infrastructure. PAM will limit access to patient data based on the concept of least privilege.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

Maryland Takes the Lead in Privacy Legislation with Comprehensive MODPA The Maryland legislature enacted two comprehensive privacy bills to limit how big tech platforms can acquire and utilize customers’ and children’s data. Maryland has taken one of the strictest positions among U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, the complexity of ADCS presented challenges in creating simple-to-use BloodHound edges for covering ADCS domain escalations. For example, consider the ForceChangePassword edge: The Service Desk group has permission to force change the password of Bob without knowing Bob’s current password.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

This is why it is essential to your device performance to make sure any endpoints include flexible, secure, default-settings and, in particular, optional mechanisms like password complexity, password expiration, and account lock-out, which forces users to modify the default credentials when setting up the device.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2022

Thanks to some phenomenal work by Simon Décosse , BloodHound now includes attack paths where a principal can read the clear-text password for a computer by having both the DS-GetChanges and DS-GetChangesInFilteredSet privileges. Filtering your data collection by tenant, management group, or subscription. SyncLAPSPassword.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating the SOC 2 Audit Welcome to SOC 2 compliance , a crucial certification for safeguarding data security and trustworthiness in today’s digital landscape. This comprehensive guide, presented by Centraleyes, will walk you through the intricacies of SOC 2 certification, from understanding the audit process to achieving compliance.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here, we present some of our ideas about what key forces will shape the privacy landscape in 2022. Governments are wary of the growing big tech power and data hoarding, which will lead to conflicts – and compromises. While we hope 2022 will be the last pandemic year, we do not think the privacy trends will reverse.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Here we had a situation where an attacker could easily control moving parts within a car from a remote location.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

A victim who clicks a link in a message that promises, say, 1,000 likes in TikTok will be presented with a login form that looks like the real thing. We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The loader starts its activities by loading an encrypted payload from another file that should be present in the same directory. The loaded data are then decoded using XOR, where the XOR key is generated using an unusual technique. The malware uses a static seed to generate a 256-byte XOR_KEY block using shuffle and add operations.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 14, 2024

In addition, merchants at this level will need to present a quarterly network scan by an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) and an attestation of compliance (AoC) form. In addition, merchants at this level will need to present a quarterly network scan by an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) and an attestation of compliance (AoC) form.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The traffic originated from a suspicious library loaded into the memory of a domain controller server and registered as a Windows password filter, which has access to plain-text passwords to administrative accounts. Because many parties might be interested in targeting these regions, it is not easy to attribute the threat.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

As businesses continue to accelerate to the cloud, there’s no better time to review all aspects of cloud data collection, use, storage, transfer and processing. In a non-SSO service, users often call the helpdesk team when they’ve forgotten their passwords , so SSO has the added benefit of reducing call volume.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

From banking to personal data collection, schools must ensure that their systems come with security features and that their employees comply with those security features. In July, poor password hygiene led to another ransomware attack. Whitworth University compromised.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 15, 2023

Enter Mystic Stealer, a fresh stealer lurking in the cyber sphere, noted for its data theft capabilities, obfuscation, and an encrypted binary protocol to enable it to stay under the radar and evade defenses. Together with our colleagues at InQuest, we present a deep dive technical analysis of the malware. Trojan.Mystic.KV

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Chrome browser data collected from infected system: [C:UsersUserAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefaultNetworkCookies] [C:UsersUserAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefaultHistory] [C:UsersUserAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefaultLogin Data] [C:UsersUserAppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataLast Version] 2. org mvd-k-tula[.]ru

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2022

With other vulnerabilities such as sharing devices and Wi-Fi access with family members or lax password hygiene, security becomes a real challenge. These evaluations, presented in an easy-to-understand format, allow IT teams to handle security risks such as data parameter pollution, SQL injection , and memory buffer overflows.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

XDR is a category of a security technology stack that brings together data from multiple sources and provides a comprehensive view of an organization’s security posture. This may include data collected from endpoints, SIEMs, network devices, cloud services, and threat intelligence feeds.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If the PowerShell is not present, the malware generates a hidden file with MZ-PE loader with a randomized name located in % APPDATA % directory. If administrative rights are present, its ether executes a PowerShell script that creates two task scheduler entries with GUID-like names and with different triggers.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation. HIBP only needs an email address because that's all I'm looking for when someone appears in a data breach. Report URI needs a password as well because you need to be able to login. We don't even collect a name on either of those services because what good would it do?

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In an era where data breaches and cybersecurity threats loom, a systematic and organized approach to SOC 2 preparation is necessary. To usher you through this multifaceted and rigorous process, we present a step-by-step checklist with valuable tips. Automation. A great compliance platform will automate the processes.

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Spinone

JULY 16, 2019

They include: Disabling access to G Suite services Backing up employees’ data Collecting all devices that had been given to employees Reviewing all apps and add-ons they installed Second, use third-party backup and cybersecurity tools for G Suite like Spinbackup. Mostly, it is designed to steal your business data or damage it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

The final ZIP archive may be encrypted and in some cases also protected by a password – credits ESET. An interesting point is that one day after data collection, on 2020/05/21, most of the samples were removed from the server by the malware operators, but the sample targeting Portugal was kept available for the next days.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Cybercriminals decided to take advantage of that exclusivity, creating phishing pages that assured visitors their verified status had been approved and all they needed to do was to enter their account logins and passwords. This increased usage meant the users’ risk of losing personal data was now higher, too.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

The implant allows attackers to browse and modify device files, get passwords and credentials stored in the keychain, retrieve geo-location information, as well as execute additional modules, further extending their control over the compromised devices. These attacks are occasionally motivated by activist factors or financial gain.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Andreeson Horowitz Battery Ventures Data Collective Venture Capital (DCVC) Foundation Capital Gula Tech Adventures Index Ventures Lytical Ventures RRE Venture Softbank Sorenson Ventures. When accepting VC funding, entrepreneurs are giving up some level of control over the present or future of their company. Business Data.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

They typically involve presenting users with a task that is easy for a human to solve but difficult for a bot, such as identifying jumbled letters or selecting correct images from a set of options. There are different ways to implement a bot protection solution at different levels, which includes the network, application, and user levels.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape. To gain insights into the financial threat landscape, we analyzed data on malicious activities on the devices of Kaspersky security product users.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well. Here is the crux of their presentation at SecTor.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

If the victim actually calls the specific number, the cybercriminals could pose as Microsoft technical support personnel and dupe the victim into revealing their username and password for accessing the company’s internal systems. Example e-mail message initiating a phone phishing attack.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Best of all, there is no incremental cost based on the volume of data collected. Radio frequency (RF) network and device data collected by Bastille Networks are available in SecureX threat response as an integrated source. brings endpoint vulnerability data found by TVM into the Kenna.VM Read more about MISP here.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

You know, I did a job once where we had a customer and involved compromises at different servers right in and, you know, we literally had a whole team just to do data collection. And it took us a month to collect that data, like a month like meanwhile, there's an ABD group running around the network causing havoc.

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