Schneier on Security

AUGUST 18, 2023

Interesting research: “ An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs “: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the years, as their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAS have continued to improve.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

That's the analogy I often use to describe the data breach "personal stash" ecosystem, but with one key difference: if you trade a baseball card then you no longer have the original card, but if you trade a data breach which is merely a digital file, it replicates. Ashley Madison.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2023

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta , which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. In a filing with the U.S. What else do we know about the cause of these incidents?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Shared data include names, IP addresses, and information about members’ operations on the company website and mobile apps. This included search terms used in their health encyclopedia. In a notice filed with the US government, the integrated managed care consortium disclosed a data breach impacting 13.4

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The victim shaming website operated by the cybercriminals behind 8Base — currently one of the more active ransomware groups — was until earlier today leaking quite a bit of information that the crime group probably did not intend to be made public. The 8Base ransomware group’s victim shaming website on the darknet.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance. 9, 2024, U.S.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 4, 2021

According to the company’s website, “ExaGrid offers a unique approach to ensure that attackers cannot compromise the backup data, allowing organizations to be confident that they can restore the affected primary storage and avoid paying ugly ransoms.” Their original terms were $7.5 Their original terms were $7.5

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 10, 2022

In that post we talked about 8 levels of password security, starting from using shared and weak passwords and going all the way up to passwordless. FIDO stands for Fast Identity Online, and it uses the Universal Authentication Framework (UAF) and Universal Second Factor (U2F) protocols. The answer is yes.

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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. Sites like FederalJobsCenter[.]com

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meta has likely been using those posts to train its AI, according to the company's top policy executive. In an interview with Reuters , Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said the company used the public posts to train the LLM (large language model) that feeds into its new Meta AI virtual assistant.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2024

As revealed in our 2024 ThreatDown State of Malware report, a full 11% of all detections recorded by Malwarebytes on Mac computers in 2023 were for different variants of malware—the catch-all term that cybersecurity researchers use to refer to ransomware, trojans, info stealers, worms, viruses, and more.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Inconsistent and untrustworthy ads YouTube has made it quite clear that using an ad blocker goes against its Terms of Service , reminding users that they have a choice between accepting ads or paying for a premium subscription. In this blog post, we look at a couple of examples that erode our trust in online ads.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The term digital skimming refers to the criminal practice of harvesting payment information of visitors of a website during checkout. Crooks use to exploit vulnerabilities in e-commerce platforms and CMSs to inject the skimming script into the page of the e-store. ” reads the press release published by Europol.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

re is one of the original “ residential proxy ” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. The current prices for 911’s proxies. “The 911[.]re

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve “notifications,” browser modifications that periodically display messages on the user’s mobile or desktop device. The company’s site currently is ranked by Alexa.com as among the top 2,000 sites in terms of Internet traffic globally.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The term “cache” refers to a storage container. If you’re familiar with the outdoor recreational activity geocaching, you may be familiar with the term outside of computing. But in website and computer terms, a cache is temporary storage that is used to speed up future requests and load things more quickly for the user.

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Internet Internet 126

Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

But many government employees aren’t issued an approved card reader device that lets them use these cards at home or remotely, and so turn to low-cost readers they find online. It is the principal card used to enable physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to DoD computer networks and systems.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 25, 2022

References The Password Purgatory website is now up and running (give it a go, it's. References The Password Purgatory website is now up and running (give it a go, it's. Wow, what a day yesterday! So happy to live here and have access to such a wonderful place.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Nor do I wish to hold forth about whatever cyber horrors may await us in 2024. Another milestone of sorts: We’ve now amassed more than 52,000 subscribers to our email newsletter, which is a fancy term for a plain text email that goes out immediately whenever a new story is published here. “Hey Brian, not so fast!

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-22245, is a Kerberos relay vulnerability where a malicious public website can communicate with the Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) and request arbitrary Kerberos service tickets on behalf of the user visiting the malicious site. Popup dialog indicating the website is communicating with the plugin.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2024

It has Terms of Service that include: You may only use this service for your own personal security and research. It has Terms of Service that include: You may only use this service for your own personal security and research. That leaves a lot of new records. But it does nothing to enforce that restriction.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

They can easily collect information through websites and applications without your knowledge by paying app developers to include SDKs (software development kits) inside their apps. Data Usage Some main ways customer data is used include targeting online ads based on purchase history to make ads more relevant.

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Data collection Data privacy Insurance Internet 71

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybercriminals use various techniques for conducting cyberattacks. The term Pharming is a combination of two words Phishing and Farming. It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. Related: Credential stuffing explained.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2023

eSkimming, Magecart, and formjacking are all terms used to describe website-based attacks that utilize malicious code injected into a webpage to read, write, or change the intended function of the page. The post All About eSkimming Attacks appeared first on Source Defense.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 11, 2023

What makes this case stand out is that Google allegedly misled Chrome users by implying that they could browse privately by using the Incognito mode. The judge in the suit said that Google appears to confuse users by portraying Incognito mode as a distinct offering without clearly articulated privacy terms for the service.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not the metaphorical kind in terms of "I bought some random s**t online", but literal s**t. Imagine you wanted to buy some s**t on the internet. The kind of thing you never would have thought possible to buy online until. Shitexpress came along. School teacher. School teacher. Your ex-wife. Filthy boss. Jealous neighbour.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Because he's a normal person, he has the same 1 or 2 or 3 he uses everywhere and even without telling me what they were, I knew they were terrible. I was having a coffee with a good mate the other day. He's not a techie (he runs a pizza restaurant), but somehow, we ended up talking about passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Given the dynamic nature of websites today and the constantly changing integrations to a site, this implicit trust model no longer suffices. So what does the average modern website look like? More than 70 percent of the content that loads on an end user’s browser does not come from the website’s server at all.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 12, 2024

Discovering your WordPress site has been compromised is a daunting experience for any website owner. of all sites using WordPress. This amounts to more than 455 million websites. When a website gets hacked, the aftermath can be expensive and long-lasting, and the recovery process is often extremely difficult.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Separately, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The threat actors set up websites cloning the official download websites for SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), KeePass password manager, and PDF Reader Pro. The RomCom threat actor deployed clone websites on malicious domain similar to the legitimate one that they registered.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

in terms of the number of people impacted. It is believed that PII (personally identifiable information) was transmitted to third-party vendors via mobile applications and other website tools used by the healthcare giant. The company revealed details of the incident in a public notification posted on April 25th.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 11, 2023

billion websites worldwide , so what are the chances of criminals targeting theirs? That is the wrong attitude to have and one that could prove highly costly both in the short and long term. Some people make it their life’s work to hack websites and steal the data stored within them. After all, there are more than 1.1

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A Ukrainian national, Mark Sokolovsky, has been indicted for crimes related to fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft and extradited to the United States from the Netherlands, the US Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Texas has announced. Because of this, the agency has created a dedicated website, raccoon.ic3.gov

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Many companies, from small outfits to large enterprises, use a CMS in some form to manage their websites. There are lots of advantages to using a popular CMS, but if you do you should keep an eye out for updates. There are lots of advantages to using a popular CMS, but if you do you should keep an eye out for updates.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In an interesting new development, AMOS is now being delivered to Mac users via a fake browser update chain tracked as ‘ClearFake’ This may very well be the first time we see one of the main social engineering campaigns, previously reserved for Windows, branch out not only in terms of geolocation but also operating system.

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