Schneier on Security

MARCH 10, 2021

Nick Weaver has an excellent post on the Microsoft Exchange hack: The investigative journalist Brian Krebs has produced a handy timeline of events and a few things stand out from the chronology. The attacker was first detected by one group on Jan. 5 and another on Jan. 6, and Microsoft acknowledged the problem immediately.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2022

This is a fun story, detailing the hack a group of high school students perpetrated against an Illinois school district, hacking 500 screens across a bunch of schools. A spokesperson for the D214 school district tells WIRED they can confirm the events in Duong’s blog post happened. It has a happy ending: no one was prosecuted.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

That sucks for you because you end up both missing out on events and sooner or later, suffering from cabin fever (I've always found that difficult across many years of remote work). It also sucks for companies like NDC Conferences whose entire livelihood is running the very events that people are now avoiding at all costs. Crisitunity!

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers. ’ But how are they securing their non-cloud products?

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Schneier on Security

MAY 8, 2023

The DEF CON event will rely on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI, a California company that produces training for AI applications. At DEF CON this year, Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI will all open up their models for attack.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2024

So, Martin taught herself ethical hacking skills and then founded Black Girls Hack to guide others down the trail she blazed. What’s more, it is putting on a content-rich conference, SquadCon 2024 , in parallel with Black Hat, at The Industrial Event Space in Vegas mid next week.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

million records containing employee data on the hacking forum BreachForums. Amazon and AWS systems remain secure, and we have not experienced a security event. We were notified about a security event at one of our property management vendors that impacted several of its customers including Amazon. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

One reason may be that these facilities don’t have to disclose such events when they do happen. “Some utilities are afraid that if their vulnerabilities are shared the hackers will have some inside knowledge on how to hack them,” Arceneaux said. “There’s no business case for hacking these types of systems.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On day two of Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 , hackers demonstrated attacks against 51 zero-day vulnerabilities, earning a total of $358,625, prizes that we have sum to the $516,250 earned by participants on the first day of the event. ” reads the announcement published by ZDI. ” reads the announcement published by ZDI. CONFIRMED!!

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Capture the Flag Events (CTFs) and electronic Sports (eSports) are good examples of a relatively new trend. Capture the Flag events, a collective obsession In the hacking communities, CTF events have always been the practitioner's favorite. The more you successfully hack, the more you get flags that gives points.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently laid down the hammer charging and fining four prominent cybersecurity vendors for making misleading claims in connection with the SolarWinds hack. Scott Kannry , CEO, Axio Kannry The SEC is serious about companies disclosing the details of an event if it is relevant to investors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Mongolian Skimmer captures final data entries using the beforeunload event, ensures cross-browser compatibility with various event-handling techniques, and employs anti-debugging tactics by monitoring formatting changes to detect and evade debugging attempts.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

As the dust settles following the recently disclosed hack of NewsCorp , important lessons are emerging for the cybersecurity and journalism communities. Related: How China challenged Google in Operation Aurora. The Chinese government is well known for its censorship– and frequent harassment and intimidation of foreign journalists.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The SEC fined Unisys, Avaya, Check Point, and Mimecast for misleading disclosures about the impact of the SolarWinds Orion hack. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, SEC) The SEC fined the four companies for having downplayed the impact of the attack. .

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events located at the Las Vegas Convention Center ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 32 – AppSec Village – Hacking Corporate Banking for Fun and Profit appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Google Security

MARCH 7, 2025

We hosted two editions of bugSWAT for training, skill sharing, and, of course, some live hacking in August, we had 16 bug hunters in attendance in Las Vegas, and in October, as part of our annual security conference ESCAL8 in Malaga, Spain , we welcomed 40 of our top researchers. workshops ( Las Vegas , So Paulo , Paris , and Malaga ).

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 14, 2024

Researchers have discovered a way that would allow anyone with a few hundred dollars to hack into a wireless gear-shifting systems used by the top cycling teams for events like the Tour de France.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These days, dozens of teams from around the world compete in weekend-long marathon events held all over the world. In 2016, DARPA ran a similarly styled event for artificial intelligence (AI). There was a traditional human–team capture-the-flag event at DEFCON that same year. Inexplicably, DARPA never repeated the event.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 1, 2022

These techniques are not new, but they’re increasingly popular : …some forms of MFA are stronger than others, and recent events show that these weaker forms aren’t much of a hurdle for some hackers to clear.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2024

” FakeCall relies on the Monitoring Dialer Activity service to monitor events from the com.skt.prod.dialer package (the stock dialer app), potentially allowing it to detect when the user is attempting to make calls using apps other than the malware itself. Upon detecting specific events (e.g.,

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2025

Originating from the conferences events located at the Las Vegas Convention Center ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 32 – War Stories – Hacking Millions Of Modems And Investigating Who Hacked My Modem appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2025

Forensics showed rapid version changes, installer file use, and event log entries tied to EDR tampering. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,BYOI) Once disabled the EDR agent, the attackers deployed the Babuk ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2025

” DoubleClickjacking exploits timing differences between mousedown and onclick events to hijack user actions. “By exploiting the event timing between clicks, attackers can seamlessly swap out benign UI elements for sensitive ones in the blink of an eye. ” concludes the post.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 30, 2025

Originating from the conferences events located at the Tuscany Suites & Casino ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSidesLV24 – Ground Truth – Hacking Things That Think appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 12, 2022

Researchers have figured how how to intercept and fake an iPhone reboot: We’ll dissect the iOS system and show how it’s possible to alter a shutdown event, tricking a user that got infected into thinking that the phone has been powered off, but in fact, it’s still running. ” It’s a complicated hack, but it works.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 14, 2024

As cyberattacks and malicious campaigns grow increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, the event underscored the urgent need for robust defensive strategies across both the public and private sectors. They emphasized the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2025

” Amnesty International said that a 23-year-old student activist (named Vedran to preserve his privacy) was attending a ruling party event in Serbia on December 25, 2024. Timestamp (Local Time) Event 2024-12-25 18:36:10 Vedran turned his phone off. 2024-12-25 20:01:14 Phone turned on for the first time in police station.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

notifies customers of credit card data breach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce providerBigCommerce. ” concludes the notification.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This widespread geographical distribution of “Free Leaksmas” event highlights the extensive global reach and severe impact of these cybercriminal activities.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Originating from the conference’s events located at the Las Vegas Convention Center ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. The post DEF CON 32 – The Hack, The Crash And Two Smoking Barrels appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2025

The backdoor can drop additional payloads, block input, clear event logs, wipe clipboard, delete browser data, and erase profiles for apps like Skype and Telegram. Google researchers provided event rules within Google Security Operations to dete ctPLAYFULGHOST activity.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“[Leonardo Maria del Vecchio] eagerly awaiting the completion of preliminary investigations to be able to prove he has nothing to do with the events in question and that charges laid against him have no basis.” ” reads a statement from a lawyer for Del Vecchio.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Proactive monitoring of Windows event logs, specifically from the “Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker-API/Management” source, can help organizations detect early stages of BitLocker attacks, such as when attackers test encryption capabilities. ” concludes the report.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Trojan has been linked to a China-aligned hacking group tracked as GREF. Both apps were built on open source code available from Signal and Telegram. Interwoven into that code was an espionage tool tracked as BadBazaar. BadBazaar has been used previously to target Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic minorities.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 5, 2025

Originating from the conferences events located at the Tuscany Suites & Casino ; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSidesLV24 – HireGround – Tracking And Hacking Your Career appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. The Facebook ad blitz was paid for by Hodson Event Entertainment , an account tied to Chris Hodson , a deejay based in Chicago. On the evening of Monday, Nov. EST today (Nov. Image: Chris Hodson.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

LastPass reports that 80% of all hacking-related breaches leveraged either stolen and/or weak passwords. Tip 2: Implementing Strong Password Policies Weak passwords can be easily compromised, giving attackers access to sensitive systems and data.

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