Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Brand name “air tags” are placed in out-of-sight areas of the target vehicles when they are parked in public places like malls or parking lots. The post Thieves Using AirTags to “Follow” Cars appeared first on Security Boulevard. Once the new key is programmed, the vehicle will start and the thieves drive it away.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

While connected cars, stereo speakers, headphones, and even lightbulbs can be connected via Bluetooth, there are some risks associated with connecting to devices without security PINs (used during initial pairing) and ephemeral devices like rental cars. This is a well-known risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Researchers state the flaw was a ‘zero-click’ exploit that was discovered on September 2021 by experts who tagged it as an iMessage exploit dubbed ‘ForcedEntry’ that could also infect other Apple iOS, Mac OD and iWatchOS devices.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

An inexpensive phone could be purchased and left in someone’s bag or car for several days while an app communicates with the user’s account to notify them whenever the phone is on the move. These radios are being tracked and tagged by marketers, telecom companies and individuals in an effort to resell that data to parties willing to pay.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 17, 2022

Most recently, it’s reported that Ohio has proposed a new bill in relation to electronic tagging devices. Dude, where’s my car? She only became aware of what was happening because her phone alerted her to the tag’s presence. Smart stalkers will place tags on items or in places victims won’t suspect.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

February's Patch Tuesday tackles three zero-days Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams Arris router vulnerability could lead to complete takeover Ransomware pushes City of Oakland into state of emergency TikTok (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2022

Meanwhile, information is out that the same ransomware spreading gang also targeted TrustFord UK early this month, partially affecting certain IT services of the used car dealer of Ford Motor Company. TrustFord websites across the UK are open and the trading of cars is going on in full swing.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

Just like you can't drop out of the oil economy by refusing to drive a car, you can't opt out of the surveillance economy by forswearing technology (and for many people, that choice is not an option). But the infrastructure of total surveillance is everywhere the same, and everywhere being deployed at scale.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Martin joins The Hacker Mind to discuss this and his earlier Bluetooth vulnerability research, including the Car Whisperer and the Tesla Radar. Vamosi: I once wrote about a petty car thief in Prague, Czech Republic who started the usual way by using scissors to cut the wires and hotwire the engine to drive away. So the car would start.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You could consider signature-based analysis to be like a policeman running the plates of every car in a parking lot against the police department’s database of stolen vehicles. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! Keeping with this analogy, behavioral analysis would be the detective.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 10, 2024

” Let’s break it down: what these services offer, how they help, and if the peace of mind is worth the price tag. Deciding whether identity theft protection is worth the price tag takes more than a simple cost-benefit analysis. What Do Identity Theft Protection Companies Do? What about your identity?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 31, 2021

Alex Nette, Hive Systems Leave a locked car in the driveway This is a major deterrent because it makes it look like someone is home. Secure Homes Athens Avoid sharing social media posts In the age of social media, we are constantly sharing photos and tagging our location in pictures.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

You’ve just won a brand new car, a tropical vacation, and a lifetime supply of unicorn-shaped cookies—all you need to do is pay a small processing fee. Limit who can see your posts, tag you in photos, or slide into your DMs without an invitation. Remember: real companies don’t ask for your personal data via email.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

Object Tagging. Object tagging. Vehicle Detection. Vehicle Counting. License Plate Recognition. Color of Vehicle. AI/Analytics. AI/ML Algorithms. Facial recognition. Mask/no mask. License plate recognition. Gender/age detection. Alerts and notifications. Bad actor alert. Elastic Search. Facial clusters. Alerts and Notifications.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2021

If someone secretly hides a tag in your possessions, your phone will notice and warn you about it. According to multiple tech news outlets , Apple will release physical location-tracking tags in 2021, dubbed “AirTags.” Something I hadn’t considered before: new beta includes a Item Safety setting in Find My.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example they are used in cars to protect infotainment systems from signal interference, on the Space X launch pad to protect against damage from lighting strikes, and some prisons are designed in a particular way to act as a giant faraday cage. Most of us don’t realise just how commonplace Faraday cages are.

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Adam Levin

JULY 2, 2018

That information could be what sort of car the person drives, a spouse name, children’s names, birthdays and ages, pets owned, and really anything that makes it possible to hone in on one unique individual. Why Law Enforcement? .” Bottom line: You should act like the bad guys are out to get you, because they are.

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McAfee

APRIL 12, 2021

For instance, if you’re posting a photo, the app will ask you to “Turn on Location Services” to add a geo-tag. Car insurance companies have found a way to use technology by offering discounts to clients who allow them to collect personal information and share location data. News and weather apps. Insurance apps.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you were tasked with identifying every unique attribute of a specific car, what makes it different from the other thousands of cars with the same make and model, you probably could, but it would be an incredibly time-consuming process and wouldn’t be a very practical method for identification.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

And I’m not talking about services that can quote remove your buddy’s Instagram photos where you are tagged doing something Not Safe For Work. Cameras, be sure your car isn't unkempt. Your license plate anything that's identifiable about you or the car that's a problem. A word of caution. This proved to be sloppy.

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

Spam detection, facial recognition, market segmentation, social network analysis, personalized product recommendations, self-driving cars – applications of machine learning (ML) are everywhere around us. For example, we could tag all messages that contain the expression ‘make money’ as spam.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Researchers claim they’ve found a flaw that allows hackers to access your device from hundreds of feet away, giving them the ability to unlock your front door, even start your car. [It’s Another example might be acceleration, you'd like to know how fast the car is going. It’s 9:43]. Think pre-collision warning.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Researchers claim they’ve found a flaw that allows hackers to access your device from hundreds of feet away, giving them the ability to unlock your front door, even start your car. [It’s Another example might be acceleration, you'd like to know how fast the car is going. It’s 9:43]. Think pre-collision warning.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Researchers claim they’ve found a flaw that allows hackers to access your device from hundreds of feet away, giving them the ability to unlock your front door, even start your car. [It’s Another example might be acceleration, you'd like to know how fast the car is going. It’s 9:43]. Think pre-collision warning.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. And now, a 10th birthday blog post about what really sticks out a decade later. You know why it's called "Have I Been Pwned"?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Now we're looking at loss prevention in a different way with these RFID tags and readers," Miller said. "So You can just stick one of those RFID tags and if it leaves through this port, which is the only way to get in or out of the place where it is being held, then you're going to know where it is.".

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2023

using our tag "CryptoScam" (as of this writing we have 3600+ sites on the list -- hosting companies and registrars, please take action!) Some of you may have heard that students in UAB's Investigating Online Crimes class have been researching Crypto Investment Scam websites. Mirror Trading International and a $3.4

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

When it comes to cars and houses, that push came significantly from insurance companies. Exactly like Progressive asking you to install a box in your car that can monitor how you drive. Some teams will tag activity with various labels (OFFSEC, CHAOSOPS, UNKNOWN, ATTACKER22301 etc.) You need smoke alarms. You need this.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So getting cybersecurity education materials often comes with a price tag. Consider just because you're a passenger in a car, doesn't mean you know how to drive. Sure, you observe that cars stop at red and go on green, or that there are signs posting various speed limits. So, picoCTF isn't just capturing the flag.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Signing is important when: Unlocking a car with a key fob. Figure 17: Raspberry Pi Zero W with SD card at left Although Raspberry Pis have a reputation of only being a hobbyist device, PTP have found them in many retail devices including electric car (EV) chargers and industrial routers. Protecting users’ data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The threat actors used a lure document (“DIPLOMATIC-CAR-FOR-SALE-BMW.pdf”) containing images of a BMW car available for sale to diplomatic entities. “In the context of this particular attack, a script is executed, generating a PDF file featuring the lure theme of a BMW car for sale.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

At least 20 people have died, including an eight year old girl and a woman dying from carbon monoxide poisoning after a car was left running in a garage to help create heat. There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. The cold weather and loss of power turned deadly.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2019

They can count people or cars. Facial recognition technology is improving all the time, made easier by the enormous stockpile of tagged photographs we give to Facebook and other social media sites, and the photos governments collect in the process of issuing ID cards and drivers licenses. Computers can also identify people.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

To ensnare users, bad actors publish sketchy news with well thought out structures of tags and keywords that correspond to hot topics. It allows a hacker to substitute a genuine map with a bogus counterpart by falsifying GPS signals through special equipment affixed to a victim's car.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A creative avenue for threat actors is to expand their surveillance efforts to include devices such as smart home cameras, connected car systems and beyond. If an attacker is able to obtain these private keys, they could sign their malware, so that the code is trusted and run by MSI computers.

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