The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Related: Securing identities in a blockchain Today we may be standing on the brink of the next great upheaval. Blockchain technology in 2019 may prove to be what the internet was in 1999. Public blockchains and private DLTs are in a nascent stage, as stated above, approximately where the internet was in the 1990s.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. The post Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the post published by Google. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Richard Sanders is a blockchain analyst and investigator who advises the law enforcement and intelligence community. ” Russian President Vladimir Putin in August signed a new law legalizing cryptocurrency mining and allowing the use of cryptocurrency for international payments.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

In an ideal world, all of the security controls are applied and all of the debugging tools are removed or disabled before the code is released to the public. ” These are very powerful functions for debugging tools, and also useful for executing malicious code without being trapped by the usual security controls.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger. Now the content-delivery network Akamai has reported on a new method: a botnet that uses the Bitcoin blockchain ledger.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Fuller discovered that the INVDoS flaw could be exploited by an attacker by using malformed Bitcoin transactions that, when processed by Bitcoin blockchain nodes, would lead to uncontrolled memory resource consuption, which would trigger a DoS condition (i.e. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. server crash).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021. The post Glupteba botnet is back after Google disrupted it in December 2021 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools. .

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies , what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office , and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. Before that, Jeffrey Ladish , an information security consultant based in Oakland, Calif., ” Stern wrote.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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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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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

IT Governance found more than 1,200 publicly disclosed security incidents in 2021 , which correlates to society’s increasingly reliance on computers and the expanding influence that criminal hackers have. Then there’s blockchain mining. This is no small matter. ISO 50001 and smarter energy use. Get started with ISO 50001.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A security firm has discovered that a six-year-old crafty botnet known as Mylobot appears to be powering a residential proxy service called BHProxies , which offers paying customers the ability to route their web traffic anonymously through compromised computers. The BHProxies website. million from private investors. Hope you are doing well.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Hong Kong, 16.11.2018 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, presented the findings of its latest Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report at the FinTech Security Conference in Hong Kong organized by Binary Solutions Limited in partnership with Group-IB. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Security Forensics Investigation. He has “worked around the clock” to secure assets, identify crypto on the blockchain , find records, and work with regulators and government authorities. There were no “appropriate” security controls with digital assets. Security is another issue with the industry. Securing Crypto.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

This allows currencies to maintain their decentralized ledger—the blockchain—but requires enormous amounts of energy. Most notably, the “proof of stake” system enables participants to maintain their blockchain by depositing cryptocurrency holdings in a pool. Greener alternatives exist.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

After all, why lock users’ machines and demand a ransom that they might not even pay when you can just infect their machine with software that mines for cryptocurrency without their knowledge? Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. million users.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

When it comes to data security , the ancient art of cryptography has become a critical cornerstone of today’s digital age. are kept secure. Elliptic curve cryptography adds an additional level of security by using random numbers to create much stronger keys that even next-generation quantum computers can’t break.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (the CNIL) has recently published its initial thoughts on this topic, providing some responses and practical recommendations on how the usage of a blockchain may be compatible with GDPR and more generally Data Protection Law, taking into account the “constraints” imposed by such technology. .

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

” Gupta said the report qualified as a “medium” severity security issue in Shifter’s brand new bug bounty program (the site makes no mention of a bug bounty), which he said offers up to $2,000 for reporting data exposure issues like the one they just fixed. .” Oh, and all your security woes will disappear, too.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Read More At: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2022. One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. This is the same trick business professionals might use to secure a sale (i.e. costing an estimated $18.88 What Are Common Tactics Scammers Use?

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CGI

MAY 13, 2018

To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed. Twenty-five years later, blockchain is here and can bring those use cases to life. However, blockchain requires organizations to think about their data not as an asset they own, but as a shared resource—a shift in mindset that is not easy for everyone.

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CGI

JULY 5, 2018

A new and quickly spreading phenomenon is to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency mining uses a lot of computing power and electricity because the mathematical problems connected to mining are difficult to solve. If you pay for the electricity and devices you use, mining will be costly.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the months following director William Hinman’s noteworthy speech on whether and when a digital asset is subject to securities laws, U.S. regulators have continued their stern warnings regarding the importance of compliance with the securities laws. securities laws. Convertible Equity Securities.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 28, 2018

Suppose I open a new address and pay into it three stolen bitcoin followed by seven freshly-mined ones. Ilia Shumailov has written software that applies FIFO tainting to the blockchain and the results are impressive, with a massive improvement in precision.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

IT security pros in financial services organizations reporting that their organization already had a data breach – but breaches are increasing at alarming rates. Another “canary in the coal mine” episode showcasing this trend happened just last week, with a sizeable breach of HSBC U.S. banking customers. Thales has answers for you.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

With tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, businesses and organizations can collate and analyze large amounts of data reliably and more efficiently. Incorporating blockchain technology into more industries. Blockchain enables more secure and complex transaction record-keeping for businesses.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The sharp increase in ransomware attacks can be attributed to many reasons, from the low level of cyber hygiene of some enterprises to insufficient training and education of employees and patch management issues, according to Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. More recent technology trends include Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) and Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS). Blockchain, Provenance, and Authentic Information. Digital Rights Management (DRM).

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. They accessed 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Fortunately, this is digital hardware device--the password is on a chip somewhere -- so Dan and his friend turned to a world-renowned embedded security expert, Joe Grand, who looked at the Trezor wallet. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Yeah, like that.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. This is why so many folks are excited by blockchain, after all (well that, and ICO ponzi schemes …). First, Data. How much have you thought about that word in the past two years? And second… Governance. Let The Data Flow.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

OfferExchange is a spinout from ProtocolLabs , a pioneer in secure blockchain software platforms like Filecoin. The site reconstructs around her answer, showing suggested data repositories she might mine. It’s still early in TokenLand, so an at-scale Google of the space hasn’t emerged.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2019

It would steal cookies aby website that has “blockchain” in their domain name. CookieMiner configures the compromised systems to load coinmining software that appears like an XMRIG-type miner, but that mines Koto, a lesser popular cryptocurrency associated with Japan. ” reads the analysis published by PaloAlto Networks.

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Data Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

The EO also focuses on the impact that blockchain technology and digital assets can have on financial inclusion and human rights (including the unbanked and underbanked) as well as on climate change and environmental pollution (including energy usage from mining and grid management).

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