Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Trade school doesn’t immunize against specious ideas. Millions don’t believe in vaccination More. Millions don’t believe in manmade climate change More. 1 in 5 Americans can’t name a branch of government More. Part of your plan has to be making sure it’s not so eager to do so.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 22, 2021

But it isn’t just production quality—it’s the quality combined with the content. TL;DRSec is a newsletter centered around security research. Many newsletters have sections for tools, including my own, but Clint’s is the best because it’s his entire focus. They are very different.

Education 138

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2021

This story isn’t about what organizations do in response to cybercriminals holding their data for hostage , which has become something of a best practice among most of the top ransomware crime groups today. .… “Many victims see themselves confronted with having to rebuild their network in a way they didn’t anticipate.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The impending holidays don’t mean a break from cybersecurity threats. While the vulnerabilities were discovered this summer, Sonar didn’t release its report until last week. The Orca team said that at the time of writing this article, Google hadn’t fixed the flaw, only identifying it as an Abuse Risk.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2023

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2023

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

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Data breaches 94

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This doesn’t mean it can’t still happen. That moment hasn’t happened (yet), but I think we’ve become the frog in the boiling cyber-water. She tried to reroute to another hospital and didn’t make it. They called it Cyber Pearl Harbor. A threat to release data. Image from BrianKrebs.com.

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Daniel Miessler

JULY 19, 2020

Narrow that list down by who had the capability to do it, and doesn’t have other constraints that take it off the list. To be clear, I don’t think this always gets you an answer. Well I’m sure it doesn’t, otherwise attribution would be easy. What are you left with?

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

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Daniel Miessler

OCTOBER 4, 2020

At first they started with: If you don’t pay, you won’t get your data back. Then, within the last year or two, they started adding a second technique, which is stealing the data before they encrypt it—and then if you don’t pay they threaten to release that data and embarrass your business.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

JetBrains also announced that it had already patched TeamCity Cloud Servers and verified that they hadn’t been attacked. The fix: Microsoft has released patches for all three vulnerabilities — CVE-2023-36419 , CVE-2023-38156 , and the Regex DoS vulnerability, which doesn’t have an assigned CVE number. versions 7.4.0

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I just came across another post on Hacker News talking about why you shouldn’t move your SSH port off of 22 because it’s Security by Obscurity. Everyone knows that the tank is somewhere in the desert, they just can’t see it to shoot it. But most people don’t know what it actually is.

Encryption 300

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Ensure that team members don’t open links without verifying directly with the sender. The DNS traffic wasn’t traveling to the ExpressVPN servers like it was supposed to but instead to a third-party server. Email Address By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

The fix: PixieFAIL doesn’t have many established mitigation practices published by researchers yet. GitHub said that it didn’t see any evidence that the vulnerability had been found or exploited. NDcPP Citrix also suggests that users don’t expose the Netscaler ADC management interface to the internet.

Authentication 112

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. The T-Mobile security staff discovered “malicious, unauthorized access” to their systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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Cyber Attacks 82

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Unfortunately, the theme for this week is returning vulnerabilities, or ones that haven’t been excised quite yet. Some exploits and weaknesses have had fixes for months or longer, yet they keep showing up in the news, indicating that either they haven’t been patched properly or the patches haven’t worked.

VPN 97

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 21, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a slew of workers had to use remote access protocols because they weren’t able to access the office computers that housed the applications and files they needed. But most businesses and IT teams weren’t prepared for the barrage of cyberattacks and sophisticated techniques employed by threat actors.

VPN 98

VPN Passwords Software Small Business 98

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Privilege escalation is a method that threat actors use to increase their access to systems and data that they aren’t authorized to see. Often, they start their journey by stealing an initial set of credentials or somehow spoofing the application or network so they don’t have to use a password at all.

Accountability 108

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. T-Mobile confirms Lapsus$ had access its systems Are you using Java 15/16/17 or 18 in production? SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Patch them now!

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2021

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Data breaches 95

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

The announcement shows an improvement in the double-extortion tactic, which doesn’t limit to threatening the victims to leak the stolen files in case they don’t pay the ransom. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

DDOS 132

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

Unfortunately, the theme for this week is returning vulnerabilities, or ones that haven’t been excised quite yet. Some exploits and weaknesses have had fixes for months or longer, yet they keep showing up in the news, indicating that either they haven’t been patched properly or the patches haven’t worked.

VPN 84

VPN Authentication Mobile Firewall 84

Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 26, 2020

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them that computer security isn’t really a priority in most companies, or for our society in general. So ask yourself why home locks haven’t improved much in the last 50 years. I don’t think this will always be the case. Or 100 years. How many front doors are kicked in?

Software 148

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2024

If your business doesn’t already have a consistent method of identifying vulnerabilities, we recommend investing in a vulnerability scanning solution. The problem: This isn’t Ivanti’s first rodeo in 2024 vulnerability news, and both of this week’s flaws have critical CVSS ratings. Its CVSS rating is 9.9.

Computers and Electronics 62

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The vulnerability exists in the code, and security teams won’t be able to see that unless they know the programming language in which the page is written. Finding one manually requires too much manual work, and employees might miss it, especially if they don’t know the language.

Risk 104

Risk Financial Services Engineering Software 104

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

While Barracuda automatically rolled out the patch BNSF-36456 to all exploited appliances back in August, according to the FBI, the fix didn’t work — even patched appliances could still be exploited. If your team doesn’t already know, find out whether your appliances were compromised by CVE-2023-2868. 1020000 1.26.10-gke.1235000

Authentication 105

Authentication Software Engineering Security Defenses 105

Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2021

2020-08-21: #DarkSide #Ransomware | Made for Targeted Intrusions with Preset Exfiltration | Page from #REvil Message Curious TeamViewer.exe & VM Process Avoidance Possible Attack/Persistence Vector Clue h/t @demonslay335 | @malwrhunterteam [link] pic.twitter.com/KZcIcJJAnp — Vitali Kremez (@VK_Intel) August 21, 2020.

Ransomware 114

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Daniel Miessler

AUGUST 17, 2020

What people don’t realize when they get into bounty and/or content creation is that the very reason you’re participating is also the thing that causes the suffering. My advice to people considering a full-time job in content creation or bounty hunting is this: don’t just leap into it. Summary and practical takeaways.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

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Malware 77

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

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Spyware 80

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2023

With its Alphabet origins and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as chairman, SandboxAQ landed a $500 million funding round earlier this year, the biggest cybersecurity round of 2023 thus far, with an A-list of investors that includes Schmidt, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, T. Also read: The U.S. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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