Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Nikita Kislitsin, at a security conference in Russia. Department of Justice. “The company is monitoring developments.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commissio n (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. that exposed more than 885 million personal and financial records tied to mortgage deals going back to 2003, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. First American Financial Corp.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 30, 2023

The 2003 Cyberattack Has Been Linked to a State-Sponsored Cyberespionage Campaign The United Kingdom's national cybersecurity agency on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of its response to the first-ever cyberattack against the government by disclosing how government agencies responded.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. On May 25, The New York Times cited unnamed security experts briefed on the attack who blamed the ransomware’s spread on the Eternal Blue exploit, which was linked to the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May 2017.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. in the Windows DNS server that affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019, and can be triggered by a malicious DNS response. The bug affects the DNS server component that ships with all Windows Server versions from 2003 to 2019. ” states Krebs.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission , LabCorp. AMCA has advised LabCorp that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information are not stored or maintained for LabCorp consumers.” credit card numbers and bank account information), medical information and Social Security Numbers. 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Between 2003 and 2006, Corpse focused on selling and supporting his Haxdoor malware. com , which promised customers the ability to quickly tell whether a given Internet address is flagged by any security companies as malicious or spammy. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In 2003, Barrett Lyon created a map of the internet. In 2021, he did it again—and showed just how quickly it's expanded.

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Dark Reading

MAY 14, 2019

Microsoft releases security updates for some out-of-support systems to fix a bug that could be weaponized as a worm if exploited.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. Icamis promoted his services in 2003 — such as bulk-domains[.]info w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

Dragos researchers were also able to recover the password using the exploit over Ethernet, significantly increasing the severity of the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-2003. The CVE-2022-2003 was responsibly disclosed to Automation Direct and the vendor addressed it with the release of a firmware update. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. Data Collected: 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Firmware versions 3,333,411 Binaries analyzed Date range of data: 2003-03-24 to 2019-01-24 (varies by vendor, most up to 2018 releases). [.].

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

A security researcher discovered a bug in PatchGuard Windows security feature that can allow loading unsigned malicious code into the Windows kernel. The feature was first introduced in 2005 with the x64 editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. ” reported The Record. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

Microsoft July 2020 addressed 123 security flaws across 13 products, including a 17-year-old wormable issue for hijacking Microsoft Windows Server dubbed SigRed. Microsoft July 2020 addressed 123 security vulnerabilities impacting 13 products, none of them has been observed being exploited in attacks in the wild. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Three years before that, the same pervasive weakness was described in a blog post by security researcher Matthew Bryant , who showed how one could commandeer at least 120,000 domains via DNS weaknesses at some of the world’s largest hosting providers. “Free services make it easier [to exploit] at scale. .

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

US: FTC adopts updated Safeguards Rule and seeks comment on security event notification requirement. On October 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule updating its information security rules for financial institutions’ protection of consumers’ financial information (the “Final Rule”).

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2024

Screenshot In a huge development, Microsoft announced today that it is revising its security practices, organizational structure, and, most importantly, its executive compensation in an attempt to shore up major security issues with its flagship product, not to mention quell rising pressure from regulators and customers.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If Georgia had still been using the paperless touchscreen DRE voting machines that they used from 2003 to 2019, then there would have been no paper ballots to recount, and no way to disprove the allegations that the election was hacked. That would have been a nightmare scenario.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

A security expert has developed a Metasploit module to exploit the critical BlueKeep vulnerability and get remote code execution. The security researcher Z??osum0x0 Many security experts have already developed their own exploit code for this issue without publicly disclosing it for obvious reasons. According to Z??osum0x0,

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 26, 2019

Simson Garfinkel performed the same experiment in 2003, with similar results. A recent experiment found all sorts of personal data left on used laptops and smartphones. This should come as no surprise.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The ICO fined the airline because the company failed in implementing adequate security measures, the company detected the security breach to months later the initial compromise. People entrusted their personal details to BA and BA failed to take adequate measures to keep those details secure.” ” concludes the ICO.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Solving this problem ­ which is increasingly a national security issue ­ will require us to both make major policy changes and invent new technologies. Hardware chips can be back-doored at the point of fabrication , even if the design is secure. In both cases, we want to verify that the end product is secure and free of back doors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2020

A flaw in the IP-in-IP tunneling protocol that can be exploited for DoS attacks and to bypass security controls impact devices from Cisco and other vendors. IP-in-IP encapsulation is a tunneling protocol specified in RFC 2003 that allows for IP packets to be encapsulated inside another IP packets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2022

Georgetown has a new report on the highly secretive bulk surveillance activities of ICE in the US: When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely think of the National Security Agency or the FBI. You might even think of a powerful police agency, such as the New York Police Department.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has rejected the US government’s request to extradite him on charges related to illegally obtaining and sharing classified material about national security. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2021

A security researcher discovered that a secret FBI’s terrorist watchlist was accidentally exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021. A security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 In any case, any thoughts as of where to responsibly report? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. After Microsoft and the US NSA , the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. Microsoft has released security updates to patch this vulnerability. Microsoft has released patches for Windows 7, Server 2008, XP and Server 2003.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

Wireless security is the protection of wireless networks, devices and data from unwanted access and breaches. Wireless security is critical because these networks are subject to eavesdropping, interception, data theft, denial of services ( DoS ) assaults, and malware infestations. What is Wireless Security?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

The Avaddon ransomware operators updated their malware after security researchers released a public decryptor in February 2021. At the same time, operators continued to upgrade their code to avoid detection of security solutions. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Source ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2020 addressed a 17-year-old wormable vulnerability for hijacking Microsoft Windows Server dubbed SigRed. on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Letting a company know about flaws in their products has gotten easier sine 2003—but not by much.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 28, 2019

Krebs on Security is reporting a massive data leak by the real estate title insurance company First American Financial Corp. The earliest document number available on the site -- 000000075 -- referenced a real estate transaction from 2003. should be held liable for their poor security practices.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

With almost every aspect of business becoming more digital, enterprise network security software minimizes the impact of cyberattacks — especially as guarding against them protects a company’s operations and safeguards its competitiveness in a fast-moving marketplace. Top network security tools. Network Security Product.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 7, 2022

Since its founding in 2003, ICE has not only been building its own capacity to use surveillance to carry out deportations but has also played a key role in the federal government’s larger push to amass as much information as possible about all of our lives.

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