Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000. In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. This week, the U.S. First American Financial Corp.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

LastPass says the changes are needed to ensure all customers are protected by their latest security improvements. That story cited research from Adblock Plus creator Wladimir Palant , who said LastPass failed to upgrade many older, original customers to more secure encryption protections that were offered to newer customers over the years.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. The very first discussion thread started by the new user Microleaves on the forum BlackHatWorld in 2013 sought forum members who could help test and grow the proxy network.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

In March 2013, several impossibly massive waves of nuisance requests – peaking as high as 300 gigabytes per second— swamped Spamhaus , knocking the anti-spam organization off line for extended periods. His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. Beyond DDoS.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. appeared first on Security Affairs. The UPnP communication protocol is widely adopted even if it is known to be vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led some security experts to conclude that crooks likely have succeeded at cracking open some of the stolen LastPass vaults. “They truly all are reasonably secure. But on Nov.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. us began in September 2013 as a forum for learning and teaching how to hack accounts at Runescape, an MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy realm where players battle for kingdoms and riches. Abusewith[.]us

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. ” Further reading: Top Container Security Solutions for 2021. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Cyber security reports are a bit like the proverbial London omnibus: you seem to wait for ages, then several come along at once. Here are this week’s stories.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2013

On December 18, 2013, the White House published a report recommending reforms to the federal government’s wide-ranging surveillance programs. surveillance efforts, which range from defending national security to protecting the right to privacy to strengthening strategic alliances with other countries.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. Related: My 2013 SIRA talk, " Building a Science of Security ", " Zeroing in on Malware Propagation Methods."

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Adam Shostack

MAY 20, 2020

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. The US Government has some interesting advantages: a large collection of attractive targets, a mandate that all CFO agencies have a security process, published investments in security, a large and skilled incident response force.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018). Organizations use DRM technologies and solutions to securely manage intellectual property (IP) rights and monetize the content. IDC estimated the world created.16 16 ZB (zettabytes) of data in 2006, then 2.83 Figure 2: Information Explosion.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We held over fifty stakeholder meetings between October of 2013 and April of 2015. We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. Our initial client service engagements—managed offsite storage and retrieval, secure document shredding, digitization, and, recently, electronic redaction—began in March of 2014.

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CGI

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Thu, 12/12/2013 - 10:00. These sites provide ad hoc stores of information that can be followed, searched, and mined but even more critically, help solve information 'unknowns' by linking people together. Discourage 'old' content proliferation by only distributing links to a securely-stored 'master', do not send copies of the original.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I would never want to live in any of our properties we bought as investments.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Today, let’s take a look back at cases related to cooperation, form of production, privilege and confidentiality disputes, social media related disputes and a key case regarding biometric security. BIOMETRIC SECURITY. 2013: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. Perhaps you missed some of these? Now is your chance to catch up!

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world? and such.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world? and such.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. Vamosi: Like a lot of us, information security wasn’t necessarily our first line of work. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world? and such.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. Related: Companies must bear a broad security burden. Security warnings keep popping up, urging you to take immediate action or install a particular security product. Warning signs. Ransomware.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

The very first feature I added to Have I Been Pwned after I launched it back in December 2013 was the public API. This is where it becomes their (your) problem rather than mine and that's particularly apparent in the next scenario.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

The unflattering profile was laid out in a series of documents tied to a lawsuit lodged by Michael Terpin , a cryptocurrency investor who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. But these security features can be bypassed by incompetent or corrupt mobile store employees.

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