Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Meanwhile, the chairman of China's technology giant Huawei has pointed to NSA spying disclosed by Edward Snowden as a reason to mistrust US technology companies. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. That's an easier, and more fruitful, attack path.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

officials responsible for national security and telecommunications were meeting their peers in Britain ahead of the final decision on Huawei 5G technology. officials responsible for national security and telecommunications were meeting their peers in Britain in the attempt to convince U.K. Bronze President, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

Patricio Real, Ecuador’s deputy minister for information and communication technologies, revealed that the attacks had “principally come from the United States, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria and the United Kingdom,” as well as from the South American country itself. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. The Chinese giant Huawei was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Huawei). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

Demchak and Yuval Shavitt published a paper that detailed how China Telecom has been misdirecting Internet traffic through China over the past years. The term BGP hijacking is used to indicate the illegitimate takeover of groups of IP addresses by corrupting Internet routing tables maintained using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2020

The United States always highlighted the risks to national security in case of adoption of Huawei equipment and is inviting internet providers and telco operators in allied countries to ban Huawei. The US regulators consider the Chinese equipment in US telecommunications networks a threat to homeland security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Security researchers from ESET revealed that the infamous Russian hacker group known as Energetic Bear is behind the hack of two San Francisco International Airport (SFO) websites. The SFO ITT urges anyone who even visited either website using the Internet Explorer web browser to change the device’s password. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. United Nations, hacking). ” states the p ress release p ublished by the Russian watchdog. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This means that in addition to the traditional telecommunications business, the company is increasingly attentive to sectors like the cloud, the Internet of Things and cybersecurity. And this challenge is set to become even more important with the introduction of new technologies. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Red Team).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. com , postaljobscenter[.]com com and usps-jobs[.]com.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Today’s innovations and technologies provide tremendous opportunities for enterprises. Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. In addition, malicious actors can and will adopt technologies such as AI and machine learning faster than security leaders can.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. The phishers will explain that they’re calling from the employer’s IT department to help troubleshoot issues with the company’s virtual private networking (VPN) technology.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

KA-SAT, run in cooperation with French satellite operator EUTELSAT, supplies Europe and the Mediterranean with satellite internet connection and, due to its independence from terrestrial infrastructure, connects endpoints in remote areas. EclecticIQ is a global provider of threat intelligence, hunting and response technology and services.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Large-scale attacks are threatening the global Internet infrastructure, the alarm was launched by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). After an emergency meeting, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) confirmed that the global Internet infrastructure is facing large-scale attacks.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to the same article, another such attack took place in the late 1990s when the American military attacked a Serbian telecommunications network. The Viasat “cyberevent” On the 24 th of February , Europeans who relied on the ViaSat-owned “ KA-SAT ” satellite faced major Internet access disruptions.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The idea of connecting your entire home to the internet was once a mind-blowing concept. However, this technological advancement aimed at making our lives more convenient—not to mention very cool and futuristic!—has Thanks to smart devices, that concept is now a reality. has also opened a wide door for potential cybercriminals.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. What are the benefits of cyber security awareness trainings?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. When it comes to what can you do today?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. The telecommunications sector: Are providers ready for 5G?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. When it comes to what can you do today?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. When it comes to what can you do today?

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InfoSec Artificial Intelligence Computers and Electronics Software 40

Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft confirmed that Lapsus$ extortion group has hacked one of its employees to access and steal the source code of some projects. Microsoft confirmed that Lapsus$ extortion group has hacked one of its employees to access and steal the source code of some projects. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Microsoft). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

As with many inventions of the 20th century, the internet has drastically changed using the phone. Once a vital necessity in every building, PBX boxes are driven towards extinction by devices supporting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). However, as with everything connected to the internet, beware of vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is putting consumers and companies in harm’s way through yet another attack vector – one which gives professional hacking collectives another means to compromise online accounts and break into company networks. Their conclusion was if you used one of these phones, you’d already be hacked. The smartphone industry knows this.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2021

private sector defense, technology, and telecommunications companies, according to Reuters. NSA Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce says this move will help develop deeper ties and detect active hacking campaigns on U.S. companies. "I Establishing this Center is just a part of the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2021

private sector defense, technology, and telecommunications companies, according to Reuters. NSA Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce says this move will help develop deeper ties and detect active hacking campaigns on U.S. companies. "I Establishing this Center is just a part of the U.S.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

No vulnerable code is hacked, and no employee is phished or infected with malware – yet these bots can create a lot of angry, dissatisfied customers and hurt a company’s bottom line. Major health care groups telecommunications companies and law enforcement organizations have also anonymously reviewed the framework, Grace-McMinn noted.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These include the adoption of hyper automation and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven decision making, where organisations will increasingly use automation technologies and artificial intelligence to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. which already account for 73% of Internet traffic will surge.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies. FinFly Web is, in essence, a suite of tools and packages that implement a web-based exploitation server.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

within network activity logs collected by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), etc.). By covert means, we refer to signals intelligence, illegal wiretapping and sometimes even plain hacking. How the pie gets made: steps in conducting technical attribution.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

In a survey of more than 2,400 security technology decision-makers conducted by Forrester in 2020, improving application security capabilities and services was listed as the top tactical IT security priority over the next 12 months, a sign that businesses are starting to confront the growing threat head on.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It may be the most complete picture we've ever had of North Korean hacking campaigns. The unsealed documents highlight a number of attack targets and motives in an effort to hack, digitally intrude, and defraud. The hacking indictment filed in the U.S. North Korean hacking methods and attack vectors. global targets.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

telecommunications providers from using government subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei or ZTE. this means that the economic impact on US telecommunication firms could be severe. The Chinese giant Huawei was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. Potential victims were invited to download programs to hack video games, gain access to Telegram 18+, get free virtual currency or sign a petition. The new followers did not materialize.

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