Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Security measures have been taken to limit the risk of propagation.” “According to our sources, the incident started to spread during the course of last night. A few days before, EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” states a security notice published by the company. In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The infamous XMRig mines Monero cryptocurrency that is known to be anonymity-focused, as it’s particularly hard to trace back. This strategy seems to be a trade-off, as such services are way easier to take down by authorities, but it allows bypassing network security products that don’t block legitimate providers.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

This, of course, is a tall task. Convenience must be delicately balanced against security. The recent series of strategic moves made by VASCO Data Security underscore this seismic shift in banking services. Everybody’s using mobile apps and doing security within the apps. So banks are all in.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. state researchers at Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence Center and Section 52 at Azure Defender for IoT.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Also read: Top Container Security Solutions. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. Of course, it depends on the usage, but it’s unlikely you need more than one fourth or one third of the total CPU in most cases. Read next: How to Control API Security Risks.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023. This vulnerability was identified by Max Corbridge and Tom Ellson of JUMPSEC in June.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. This could be your eight-character first part…and you can make it more secure by making some swaps: M3@MFBA$. You can use the same method, of course, for the smaller parts of the password.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

On May 28, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released draft Data Security Administrative Measures (the “Measures”) for public comment. The Measures cover 40 articles in total, divided among four chapters, that address data collection, processing and use and data security. Regulated Data and Activities.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

EventTracker has a bird’s eye view; its unified security information and event management (SIEM) platform includes – behavior analytics, threat detection and response, honeynet deception, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment – all of which are coupled with their SOC for a co-managed solution. Election threat.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

A malicious advertising campaign originating out of Eastern Europe and operating since at least mid-June is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to home networks, according to executives with GeoEdge, which offers ad security and quality solutions to online and mobile advertisers. IoT a Security Concern.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“During the course of this investigation, OPP investigators determined an individual was responsible for numerous ransomware attacks affecting businesses, government agencies and private individuals throughout Canada as well as cyber-related offenses in the United States,” reads an OPP statement.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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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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The Falcon's View

MARCH 12, 2018

I started my security (post-sysadmin) career heavily focused on security policy frameworks. Instead, we need to move to that "security as code" mentality and find ways to directly codify requirements in ways that are naturally adapted and maintained. End Dusty Tomes and (most) Out-of-Band Guidance.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Security researchers spotted a new IoT botnet, tracked as Torii, that appears much more sophisticated and stealth of the numerous Mirai variants previously analyzed. According to BleepingComputer , the malicious code was also analyzed by the Italian cyber security expert Marco Ramilli who noticed similarities to the Persirai.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. So how many "Acuity" companies are out there in total?! It's a legitimate , honest , legal business model. And the column names line up!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). So, like any security person and good friend, I send Alex a text and a voicemail asking if the message was from him. Of course, once the attacker has accomplished their goal or gotten enough money, they can abandon that identity.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Either everyone has a copy of it, or the blockchain’s security fails. But people need to continually verify the blockchain’s history on the ledger for the system to be secure. Most Bitcoin mining happens in China.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Discovery focuses on understanding legacy application, infrastructure, data, interaction between applications, services and data and other aspects like security. Likewise, there are several other Generative AI use cases that include generating of target technology framework-specific code patterns for security controls.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Remember when web security was all about looking for padlocks? And let's be fair to Barclays - it's not just them offering outdated and inaccurate advice about the true meaning of the padlock: Taking a mandatory Cyber Awareness Course. and a green padlock - must mean it's secure! ?? But the option does not exist.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

that you can get visitors to your site to automatically check for a bunch of security issues. This is a service created by a good friend of mine, Scott Helme. Scott has carved out somewhat of a niche for himself within the security industry by going especially deep into browser security headers and TLS.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Imagine a situation where a third party gets hold of your metering data and, using data mining algorithms, and can detect your presence or absence and other household activities. How can metering data be shared securely for estimation purposes, while preserving a customer’s privacy? Wouldn’t that be devastating?

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

The most blunt solution is to ban cryptocurrency mining altogether. China did this in 2018 , but it only made the problem worse; mining moved to other countries with even less efficient energy generation, and emissions went up. Of course, some people will try to evade the tax, just as people evade every other tax.

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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

Yet, today, it's essentially wrong, and moreover isn't a helpful starting point for a security discussion. And, when we do think about it, it falls under the domain of site reliability engineering (SRE) rather than being a security function. We've reached this point thanks in large part to the cloud and the advent of utility computing.

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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. Our current political and economic culture is, of course, a direct descendant of this living document. Of course, we actively ignore them – who on earth would ever read them? Technologically, the answer is “of course.”

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You could, of course, sell your skillz to the dark web. And the rest, they say is this as a reporter, I was in a position to learn as I wrote about information security. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind that original podcast from for all secure. And that was my introduction to the world and security. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many of the basic principles for securing a data lake will be familiar to anyone who has secured a cloud security storage container. Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case. Data Lake Security Scope.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I wrote a free course for Varonis on GDPR earlier this year and I'm going to be referring to points from there quite a bit in this blog post. I won't go deep into all that here because I explain it in the aforementioned course, but let me sum it up in an easily consumable way: When you give your data to a cat forum, you still own it.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

While the results of an SNA project are focused on the intangible connections between people (and there is a lot of focus on this fun part), the process of collecting data for SNA is actually similar in fashion to data mining and it requires a bit of planning to do it effectively. Data Mining. Pre-processing. Transformation.

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