CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

More than 1,500 organizations worldwide spanning Financial Services, Defense, Manufacturing, Energy, Aerospace, and Transportation Systems trust OPSWAT to secure their files and devices; ensure compliance with industry and government-driven policies and regulations, and protect their reputation, finances,?employees,?and employees,?and

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

Semperis is a security company, launched in 2014, that is entirely focused on AD – or, to put it more precisely, on delivering state-of-art AD cyber resilience, threat mitigation and rapid recovery from cyber breaches. The wake-up call For a long time, rogue employees manipulating the network via AD represented the primary threat.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

They might make headlines for a few days, but they're just the newsworthy tip of a very large iceberg. The risks are about to get worse, because computers are being embedded into physical devices and will affect lives, not just our data. Security is not a problem the market will solve.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

The pandemic changed our lives and society in so many ways. If the stress of a global pandemic was not bad enough, criminals sought ways to profit from these unprecedented changes to our lives. The impact of COVID-19 on security is certainly extensive. ” “Cybercrime apparently cost the world over $1 trillion in 2020.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. Keep your online accounts secure Respect your privacy Capture and share with care Take care of your data Take care of your device Be wary of certain sites and content online Be kind. Keep your online accounts secure.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

And over the past six months, the criminals responsible have created dozens if not hundreds of phishing pages targeting some of the world’s biggest corporations. For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. ” TARGET: NEW HIRES.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

Unless you live under a bottle cap rusting on the bottom of Loon Lake, you know that if you’re concerned about privacy , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the gift that keeps on taking. Canada, India, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil, and every member state of the European Union.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

Arun Vishwanath from his office in Buffalo, New York and discuss some of the recent high-profile security breaches and some of the urgent cyber security threats faced by governments and businesses. And attacks have continued, unabated, even as the security community has being trying to fix systems after the fact.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The state of stalkerware in 2020 (PDF). In terms of geographic spread, we see a largely consistent trend emerging: Russia, Brazil, and the United States of America (USA) remain the most affected countries globally, and they are the three leading countries in 2020. Main findings. Introduction and methodology.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 9, 2022

Which led me to a moment of clarity just yesterday as I was pondering revenge tactics and, in a flash of inspiration, came up with the idea of Password Purgatory: purgatory: a place or state of temporary suffering or misery You know how we all hate password complexity criteria? All they have to do first is create a password.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Bitdefender Total Security. For an introductory price of $45 a year for five devices, you get a long list of security protections: Advanced protection for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS devices. Protection against sophisticated malware and zero-day attacks. Kaspersky Total Security. Top 4 antivirus software.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. Thus, during the World Cup a brand-new scam appeared: it offered users to win a newly released iPhone 14 for predicting match outcomes. Of course, no prize ensued after the fee was paid.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 3, 2022

The number itself doesn’t reveal much, but it does give a rough idea of where you are located, such as city, state/province, and country and what type of network you’re connected to. They may also share this information with others who may have an interest in knowing where you go each day. What Can an IP Address Tell You?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. ADVANCED PERSISTENT TEENAGERS. So it’s their golden hour.”

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

I mean, there are so many positive stories about people who are hacking for a living and doing good things because of it. 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. There are a lot.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft does not rely on the secrecy of code as a security measure and viewing source code does not lead to elevation of risk.” ” While it may be tempting to dismiss LAPSUS$ as an immature and fame-seeking group, their tactics should make anyone in charge of corporate security sit up and take notice.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But how does something like that map to the digital world? It really didn’t concern commercial organizations until the late 1990s, until the widespread use of the World Wide Web made it possible for organizations to suffer data breaches or denial of service attacks. MAybe your second thought is to call in an investigative team.

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SecureList

JANUARY 11, 2021

Similarly, many other security companies published their own analysis of the Sunburst backdoor, various operational details and how to defend against this attack. If we consider past experience, looking back to the WannaCry attack, in the early days, there were very few facts linking them to the Lazarus group. Technical Details.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

For two years Heartbleed was a zero-day in OpenSSL until fuzz testing exposed it. No, this would be almost the perfect crime and done with a very simply yet subtle zero day. What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long. How many others are in the wild now? And how will we find the next one?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

For two years Heartbleed was a zero-day in OpenSSL until fuzz testing exposed it. No, this would be almost the perfect crime and done with a very simply yet subtle zero day. What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long. How many others are in the wild now? And how will we find the next one?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

For two years Heartbleed was a zero-day in OpenSSL until fuzz testing exposed it. No, this would be almost the perfect crime and done with a very simply yet subtle zero day. What I want to know is how that vulnerability was able to persist for so long. How many others are in the wild now? And how will we find the next one?

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Scammers encouraged investment in both abstract securities and more clearly outlined projects, such as oil production. Figures of the year. In 2021: 56% of e-mails were spam. 77% of spam was sent from Russia with another 14.12% from Germany. Our Mail Anti-Virus blocked 148 173 261 malicious attachments sent in e-mails. Trends of the year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Researcher discovered that global B2B CRM provider Really Simple Systems exposed online a non-password-protected database with million records. Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 3 million records.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

So what if you accidentally forget the password? We’ve all been there-- locked out of some account because we can’t remember the clever password we used. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency. Yeah, like that.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Pictured: a Dome Series security camera from Verkada. granting them access to live and archived video feeds across multiple organizations, including manufacturing facilities, hospitals, schools, police departments and prisons. A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc.,

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

But the leaked chats indicate this mercenary activity was of little interest to the tyrannical teenage leader of LAPSUS$, whose obsession with stealing and leaking proprietary computer source code from the world’s largest tech companies ultimately led to the group’s undoing.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

Finding Passwords With Deep Learning. While exactly what operators are after varies from environment to environment, there is one common target that everyone’s always interested in: passwords. Offensive ML includes things like sandbox detection , augmenting password guessing attacks , or improving spear phishing. DeepPass?—?Finding

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Every single byte of data that's been loaded into the system in recent years has come from someone who freely offered it in order to improve the security landscape for everyone. Let me explain why and how. Yet that's where we are today and if I disappear, HIBP quickly withers and dies.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Like any true hacker, this isn’t his day job; this is his passion. Vamosi: Beginning over a decade ago, in an effort to deal with global warming, countries around the world push to adopt emission control regulations. For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Tightening cybersecurity has become an increasingly important issue for organisations and individuals around the world. in Australia and the secure access innovations that make tangible differences in preventing a breach, mitigating the spread, and keeping organisations moving forward. billion annually from these incidents.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. I’m just not convinced that a fingerprint or an image of my face is secure enough. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. That's biometrics. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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Daniel Miessler

AUGUST 31, 2019

In extremely large and long-term-focused organizations—like the Military—this gap is understood, so they spend time building extensive, standardized programs that can take anyone off the street and turn them into professionals over time. It’s absolutely possible to hack your way into an entry-level position in security.

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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. Table of Contents.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Jonathan Toebbe is 42 years old and lives in Maryland. He is a government employee working as a Nuclear Engineer in the United States Navy. And that step opened a hole in his operational security that gave the FBI and the Navy's NCIS a front-row seat to what he was attempting to do. Not to mention military leadership.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Vamosi: Depending on who you ask, there is a shortage of infosec professionals in the world today. I guess the answer is what I usually say to a security question: It depends. How else should we address the skills gap in infosec?

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

Despite all the technological solutions to any problem in today’s world, there is always the human-factor to consider. This is especially true in the world of security. The best security defenses can be totally compromised by a single individual making the wrong decision, either accidentally or knowingly.

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