Schneier on Security

JUNE 3, 2024

A piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review : Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human experts.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 5, 2024

Digital rights management ( DRM ) has come a long way since Hollywood first recognized in the 1990s that it needed to rigorously protect digital music and movies. By the mid-2000s a branch called enterprise digital rights management ( EDRM ) cropped up to similarly protect sensitive business information. Today, businesses amass vast amounts of business-critical data – at a pace that’s quickening as GenAI takes hold.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 2, 2024

What a week! It was Ticketmaster that consumed the bulk of my time this week with the media getting themselves into a bit of a frenzy over a data breach that at the time of recording, still hadn't even been confirmed. But as predicted in the video, confirmation came late on a Friday arvo and since that time we've learned a lot more about just how bad the situation is.

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Lohrman on Security

JUNE 2, 2024

Some call it spam. Others call it marketing. Recipients want it to stop, while senders are looking to perfect their “art.” But both sides agree on one thing: Email communication is still broken in 2024.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 4, 2024

Interesting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password. Grand and Bruno spent months reverse engineering the version of the RoboForm program that they thought Michael had used in 2013 and found that the pseudo-random number generator used to generate passwords in that version­and subsequent versions until 2015­did indeed have a significant flaw that made the random number generator not so random.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 6, 2024

Both the promise and the risk of "human-level" AI has always been part of OpenAI’s makeup. What should business leaders take away from this letter?

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Javvad Malik

JUNE 6, 2024

Another year another Infosec EU. So, how did it go down? I must admit, I grumble whenever I have to attend an event at the soulless warehouse that is ExCel, located in what can only be described as the appendix of London. However, it is a nice ride on the motorbike to get there, and parking is free (for motorbikes, not cars, but other bikers don’t like it if you park too close ).

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 3, 2024

Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control nature and build large, complex human societies, and the more we employed and mastered technology, the better things got. We don’t live in that world anymore. Not only has technology become entangled with the structure of society, but we also can no longer see the world around us without it.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 3, 2024

Here are 5 reasons why you should consider using a password manager to protect your data and improve password management.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2024

Business data today gets scattered far and wide across distributed infrastructure. Just knowing where to look – or even how to look – much less enforcing security policies, has become next to impossible for many organizations. At RSAC 2024 , I visited with Pranava Adduri , co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Security which has just rolled out its AI Reasoning (AIR) Engine to help solve this problem in a bold new way.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 7, 2024

After weeks of withering criticism and exposed security flaws, Microsoft has vastly scaled back its ambitions for Recall, its AI-enabled silent recording feature, and added new privacy features.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2024

The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 7, 2024

Anthropic opened a window into the ‘black box’ where ‘features’ steer a large language model’s output. OpenAI dug into the same concept two weeks later with a deep dive into sparse autoencoders.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2024

When Log4J came to light in 2021, Kinnaird McQuade , then a security engineer at Square , drew the assignment of testing endpoints at some 5,000 users of the popular mobile payments service. Related: The big lesson from Log4J “It took us eight hours to run the scan and I was sweating it because these were all small family businesses that depended on Square, and if any of them got popped, it would be real people that were affected,” McQuade told me.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 6, 2024

A new discovery that the AI-enabled feature's historical data can be accessed even by hackers without administrator privileges only contributes to the growing sense that the feature is a “dumpster fire.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 7, 2024

This week, I hosted the seventeenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior at the Harvard Kennedy School. This is the first workshop since our co-founder, Ross Anderson, died unexpectedly. SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects of the human side of security. The fifty or so attendees include psychologists, economists, computer security researchers, criminologists, sociologists, political scientists, designers, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, geo

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 5, 2024

Are password managers safe to use? Find out if they are really secure and discover the benefits and risks of using password managers.

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Penetration Testing

JUNE 4, 2024

Security researcher Mykola Grymalyuk published the technical details and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a vulnerability (CVE-2024-34331) in Parallels Desktop for Mac, a popular virtualization software. The flaw could allow attackers to escalate... The post CVE-2024-34331: Parallels Desktop Vulnerability Gives Root to Hackers, PoC Published appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 4, 2024

Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 7, 2024

The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide. These devices were associated with more than 19 million unique IP addresses, including 613,841 IP addresses located in the United States.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 5, 2024

The observability suite is the first major overhaul for Splunk products since the Cisco acquisition. Plus, Mistral AI makes a deal with Cisco’s incubator.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

Personal information of hundreds of British and EU politicians is available on dark web marketplaces. According to research conducted by Proton and Constella Intelligence, the email addresses and other sensitive information of 918 British MPs, European Parliament members, and French deputies and senators are available in the dark web marketplaces. 40% of 2,280 official government email addresses from the British, European, and French Parliaments were exposed, including passwords, birth dates, an

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 6, 2024

The number of alleged hacks targeting the customers of cloud storage firm Snowflake appears to be snowballing into one of the biggest data breaches of all time.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2024

Microsoft’s Recall feature has been criticized heavily by pretty much everyone since it was announced last month. Now, researchers have demonstrated the risks by creating a tool that can find, extract, and display everything Recall has stored on a device. For those unaware, Recall is a feature within what Microsoft is calling its “Copilot+ PCs,” a reference to the AI assistant and companion which the company released in late 2023.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 4, 2024

What are the top VPNs in the U.K.? Here are the best U.K. VPNs users should be looking at and the key features they should consider during VPN selection.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 1, 2024

Kaspersky has released a new virus removal tool named KVRT for the Linux platform, allowing users to scan their systems and remove malware and other known threats for free. [.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 5, 2024

A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2024

Cisco addressed vulnerabilities that were exploited to compromise the Webex meetings of the German government. In early May, German media outlet Zeit Online revealed that threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in the German government’s implementation of the Cisco Webex software to access internal meetings. In March, the German authorities admitted the hack by Russia-linked actors of a military meeting where participants discussed giving military support to Ukraine. “In early May 2024, Ci

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 6, 2024

1Password’s top-tier security and sleek user interface make it a solid password manager to try this year. Read our hands-on 1Password review to learn more.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2024

Live Nation Entertainment has confirmed what everyone has been speculating on for the last week : Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. In a filing with the SEC , Live Nation said on May 20th it identified “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing Company data (primarily from its Ticketmaster L.L.C. subsidiary)” and launched an investigation.

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