Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Wade and the associated Constitutional right to choose to have an abortion redefined personal privacy, as individual states can now treat previously benign health data as possible evidence in a criminal investigation. ” The US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. BK: Right, the Trusted Foundry program I guess is a good example.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

That includes social security and social insurance numbers, bank account numbers, phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and self-reported income; in short, just about everything on an identity thief’s wish list. Capital One’s mea culpa coincided with the FBI’s early morning raid of a Seattle residence to arrest Paige Thompson.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Over the last decade, K–12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning—especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. While students have long since returned to the classroom, digital platforms for instruction, collaboration, and homework continue as a mainstay.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So you’ve been hit with ransomware and, for whatever reason, you paid the bitcoin but now the decryptor doesn’t work. Locard’s forensic science works pretty well for blood. That’s when there became an urgent need for computer forensics to become a discrete science. Who are you going to call for help?

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

From BSides, to DerbyCon, to Shmoocon, even on the Apple App Store you can find evidence of their hard work. Whether in life or in this industry, or whatever, Vamosi: Only quitting your job and moving to Africa for charitable work is really expensive. Today Jinja is known for its tourism. Today Jinja is known for its tourism.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. I mean what's the remaining gap? In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. So how hard is it to hack APIs? Not very hard.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. So how hard is it to hack APIs? Not very hard.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

What you paid for your home, who lives there with you, your age, your children, your driving record, education, occupation, estimated income, purchasing habits, and any political affiliations you may have—all pretty personal information, right? How much of your personal info is available online? A simple search could show you plenty.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

And he's only getting busier. The days where victims could simply pay ransom for an encryption key, unscramble their data, and move on are ending. Their new trick is to extract precious company data before encrypting it, so the attacks pack a one-two punch—they threaten embarrassing data breaches on top of crippling data destruction.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, security news outlets made their rounds reporting on an Android TV box available on Amazon that came pre-installed with malware. What Daniel found was an Android T95 TV box infected with malware right out of the box! The findings came from a Canadian developer, Daniel Milisic, who posted on his GitHub.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

And as for staying invisible, well, at some point, it's only human that we sometimes fail. I mean, they’re criminals, right? SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. Operational Security is typically a military process.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In this episode I talk about how Heartbleed (CVE 2014-0160) was found and also interview Rauli Kaksonen, someone who was at Codenomicon at the time of its discovery and is now a senior security specialist at the University of Oulu in Finland, about how new security tools are still needed to find the next big zero day. Apple Podcasts.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” At the heart of the lawsuit was a crucial question: Who should pay for massive, state-sponsored cyberattacks that cause billions of dollars’ worth of damage? The malware ultimately infected more than 40,000 of Merck’s computers, which significantly disrupted the company’s drug and vaccine production.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 Let’s examine these and other questions to help secure your business.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. It's estimated that within the first year, over half the homes in the United States had spark meters installed. And on the other hand, we're saying security, that's a secondary concern.

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McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. This research was done with support from Culinda – a trusted leader in the medical cyber-security space. What Security Research has Already Been Performed? Designed for Safety Rather than Security.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

When you boil it down, what do those three things have in common? This is part of the opening monologue of the Ozark series and when I first heard it, I immediately stopped the show and dropped it into this blog post. I want to start here because this post is very specifically targeted at people working in the same industry as I do.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

Only used you guys once for tickets to a @TravisGreeneTV concert. ??????????? 2 million is more than I ever expected, if I'm honest, but it's also only a tiny, tiny drop in the ocean. Thankfully @troyhunt built an amazing tool ( @haveibeenpwned )for issues like this. billion records that are in HIBP today, there's 3.1B

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Biden administration said it is working with a Colonial Pipeline Company to deal with the cyber hack and its effects. With ransomware, attackers encrypt an organization's data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. note: this is a machine generated transcript so there may be transcription errors]. Ransomware is not new.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In other words, seeing the company name results in higher levels of trust or if we invert that statement, not seeing the company name results in decreased trust, right? Sure, you can still buy them (and there are companies out there that would just love to sell them to you!), The usefulness of EV is going, going.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. Vamosi: I first attended DEF CON in 2000 when it was still at the Alexis Park Hotel, just off the Strip. I went on to speak at DEF CON 18 When it was held in the Riviera. In Sin City, it's the Insect Invasion.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. Every one of these OSes and its changes were done to solve different problems. So every day, he was only allowed to take in software on a CD-ROM, before it was destroyed at the end of each day. They grow up so fast!

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers largely agree that ransomware growth has been astronomical; the only question is by how much. You still need to do the basics right, like employee cybersecurity training and patching ; those two areas alone could greatly reduce risk. Lack of Security Infrastructure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2021

As we look back at 2020 and the impacts of the pandemic that have carried over into 2021, it is important for organizations to look back and reflect what they did right and how they could improve their processes to become more resilient. Organizations not prepared to meet the data security challenges of the pandemic.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

The US Justice Department says it will no longer prosecute good-faith security researchers, but what constitutes good-faith security research? I first became aware of the term back in 1988, when as a kid, I saw Dan rather on the CBS Evening News talk about Robert Morris Junior, who had just launched the first computer worm.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Over the years, Dan continued to do really great things. Kind of like a time machine, only it’s much more.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2019

On May 22, 2019, the European Commission published an infographic on compliance with and enforcement of the GDPR from May 2018 to May 2019 and it is clear that a lot of work still needs to be done. The GDPR’s four main areas of focus are: Privacy rights, Data security, Data control and Governance. Privacy by Design.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

Diquet “It is a ‘mostly de-centralized’ approach, where most of the data never leaves the user’s device, in order to protect the user’s privacy as much as possible,” says Alban Diquet, the head of engineering at Data Theorem , a supplier of application security solutions. The server then alerts the non-infected persons to self-immunize.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

They’re all in great condition -- except I forgot their original combinations. When you feel that, write down the numer. What is the allure of lockpicking at hacker conferences? In this episode Deviant Ollam explains why these mechanical puzzles remain popular with hackers. In fact, I keep a bag of them.

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