Schneier on Security
AUGUST 19, 2019
Influence operations are elusive to define. The Rand Corp.'s definition is as good as any: "the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as the dissemination of propaganda in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent." Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 22, 2019
On Tuesday of this week, one of the more popular underground stores peddling credit and debit card data stolen from hacked merchants announced a blockbuster new sale: More than 5.3 million new accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states. Multiple sources now tell KrebsOnSecurity that the card data came from compromised gas pumps, coffee shops and restaurants operated by Hy-Vee , an Iowa-based company that operates a chain of more than 245 supermarkets throughout the Midwestern United S
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Adam Levin
AUGUST 19, 2019
The local governments and agencies from twenty-three Texas towns were hit by a coordinated ransomware campaign last week. . The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) became aware of the ransomware campaign after being contacted by the municipal governments of several towns that were unable to access critical files. The DIR has yet to identify the affected government entities and is currently working with the Texas Military Department as well as the Texas A&M Cyberresponse and Secur
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2019
A faked Rolex or Prada handbag is easy enough to acquire on the street in certain cities, and you can certainly hunt one down online. Now add high-end counterfeit smartphones to the list of luxury consumer items that are being aggressively marketed to bargain-hungry consumers. Related: Most companies ignorant about rising mobile attacks While it might be tempting to dismiss the potential revenue lost by Apple, Samsung, HTC and other suppliers of authentic phones, this counterfeit wave is particu
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Schneier on Security
AUGUST 21, 2019
There's no indication that this vulnerability was ever used in the wild, but the code it was discovered in -- Microsoft's Text Services Framework -- has been around since Windows XP.
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The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 22, 2019
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 23, 2019
There was a DefCon talk by someone with the vanity plate "NULL." The California system assigned him every ticket with no license plate: $12,000. Although the initial $12,000-worth of fines were removed, the private company that administers the database didn't fix the issue and new NULL tickets are still showing up. The unanswered question is: now that he has a way to get parking fines removed, can he park anywhere for free?
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 19, 2019
Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Traditionally, those connections have been mainly hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this story is about so-called “bulletproof residential VPN services” that appear to be built by purchasing or otherwise acquiring discrete chunks of Internet addresses from some of the world’s largest ISPs and mobile data providers.
Adam Levin
AUGUST 23, 2019
MoviePass confirmed a data breach that exposed customer data on an unprotected database. The incident included credit card numbers. Researchers discovered the database online on a subdomain of MoviePass with no password protection. The subdomain contained 161 million records. At least 58,000 records on the database contained customer card and credit card information, as well as names, email addresses, and what appears to be password data from failed login attempts. .
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Many cybersecurity awareness platforms offer massive content libraries, yet they fail to enhance employees’ cyber resilience. Without structured, engaging, and personalized training, employees struggle to retain and apply key cybersecurity principles. Phished.io explains why organizations should focus on interactive, scenario-based learning rather than overwhelming employees with excessive content.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 19, 2019
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 22, 2019
From DefCon : At the Defcon hacker conference today, security researcher Truman Kain debuted what he calls the Surveillance Detection Scout. The DIY computer fits into the middle console of a Tesla Model S or Model 3, plugs into its dashboard USB port, and turns the car's built-in cameras -- the same dash and rearview cameras providing a 360-degree view used for Tesla's Autopilot and Sentry features -- into a system that spots, tracks, and stores license plates and faces over time.
Elie
AUGUST 18, 2019
In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol whereby a client can query a centralized breach repository to determine whether a specific username and password combination is publicly exposed, but without revealing the information queried.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 20, 2019
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 22, 2019
A core security challenge confronts just about every company today. Related : Can serverless computing plus GitOps lock down DX? Companies are being compelled to embrace digital transformation, or DX , if for no other reason than the fear of being left behind as competitors leverage microservices, containers and cloud infrastructure to spin-up software innovation at high velocity.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 20, 2019
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy technology like biometrics is built on a number of unproven assumptions, such as, technology solutions can fix deeply embedded political problems. And that auditing for fraud requires entire populations to be tracked using their personal data.
Adam Shostack
AUGUST 21, 2019
If you needed more reasons to move away from using SMS-based authentication, and treating phone companies as trusted, “ AT&T employees took over $1 million in bribes to plant malware and unlock millions of smartphones: DOJ “ Abuse reporting systems are being abused. You need to threat model and play the chess game. “ How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book “ My conflict modeling work is a first draft of how to threat model such systems.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 23, 2019
Hackers are exploiting recently disclosed flaws in enterprise virtual private network (VPN) products from Fortinet and Pulse Secure. The popular cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has observed threat actors attempting to exploit the CVE-2018-13379 in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal and CVE-2019-11510 flaw in Pulse Connect Secure. Fortigate Fortinet SSL VPN is being exploited in the wild since last night at scale using 1996 style././ exploit – if you use this as a security boundary, you wan
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 23, 2019
The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands of miles beyond its front.
Threatpost
AUGUST 21, 2019
Backdoor was intentionally planted in 2018 and found during the DEF CON 2019 security conference when researchers stumbled upon malicious code.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 20, 2019
Most CISOs see the risk of cyberattacks growing and feel they're falling behind in their ability to fight back, a new survey finds.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 23, 2019
The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryp tocurrency. The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) launched an investigation after employees at a local nuclear power plant connected some systems of the internal network to the Internet to mine cryptocurrency. The incident was first reported by the Ukrainian news site UNIAN.
Speaker: Sierre Lindgren
Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 19, 2019
Twitter and Facebook say they’ve taken down misinformation campaigns from China that cast pro-democracy activists as ISIS members and cockroaches.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 22, 2019
Originally published in Dark Reading on Aug. 13, 2019. The 10th anniversary of the US Cyber Command is an opportunity to prepare for unknowns in the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape. Ten years ago, GPS on phones was just becoming available. Self-driving cars were secretly making their way into traffic, and most people hadn’t even heard of 3D printing.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 19, 2019
Social media giant also launches invitation-only bug bounty program for 'Checkout on Instagram'.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 22, 2019
A new zero-day vulnerability in the for Windows impacting over 96 million users was disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. A news zero-day flaw in the Steam client for Windows client impacts over 96 million users. The flaw is a privilege escalation vulnerability and it has been publicly disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. Kravets is one of the researchers that discovered a first zero-day flaw in the Steam client for Windows, the issue was initially addressed by Valve, but the researcher Xia
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 20, 2019
"Off-Facebook Activity" will give users more control over their data, but Facebook needs up to 48 hours to aggregate your information into a format it can share with advertisers.
Elie
AUGUST 17, 2019
Protecting accounts from credential stuffing attacks remains burdensome due to an asymmetry of knowledge: attackers have wide-scale access to billions of stolen usernames and passwords, while users and identity providers remain in the dark as to which accounts require remediation. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving protocol whereby a client can query a centralized breach repository to determine whether a specific username and password combination is publicly exposed, but without reve
Dark Reading
AUGUST 20, 2019
Financial institutions interacting with customers online must prepare for a broader, more sophisticated variety of threats.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 19, 2019
Apple accidentally unpatched a vulnerability it had already fixed, making current versions of iOS vulnerable to hackers. A public Jailbreak for iPhones in was released by a hacker, it is an exceptional event because it is the first in years. According to Motherboard, that first reported the news, Apple accidentally unpatched a flaw it had already fixed allowing the hacker to exploit it.
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