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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

This variant of Xbash is equipped to quietly uninstall any one of five popular types of cloud security protection and monitoring products used on such servers. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Secure your phone. Targeting one device.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

Of course it's virtual because let's face it, nobody is going anywhere at the moment. I want to talk about 3 upcoming events which Scott Helme and I are going to be running our Hack Yourself First workshop at starting with this one: NDC Security Australia, 26-27 March, AU$800 This is an extra special event that we've only just decided to run.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The adversary could apply data mining and extraction techniques to acquire records of interest and use them in advanced phishing scenarios and other cyber offensive purposes. The adversary may exploit the trust the victim has in the AI platform to obtain sensitive information, which could later be used for payment fraud and identity theft.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. Structured data can be human- or machine-generated, and is easily searchable information usually stored in a database, including names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, ZIP codes. Delete data.

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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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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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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. Most obviously, cyber crime by its nature involves the use of computers, which consume energy.

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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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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

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. Facing a backlash from lawmakers and the public, the IRS soon reverses course , saying video selfies will be optional and that any biometric data collected will be destroyed after verification.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

“It’s run by a fraud ring of cryptocurrency scammers who mine dating apps and other social media for victims and the scam is becoming alarmingly popular.” Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com com , which was made to be confusingly similar to XTB’s official platform.

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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some 20 years ago, the founders of Amazon and Google essentially set the course for how the internet would come to dominate the way we live. Related: Securing identities in a blockchain Today we may be standing on the brink of the next great upheaval. How often does that happen today?

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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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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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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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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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Data Protection Report

MARCH 18, 2025

The plaintiffs alleged that the Terms of Services and Privacy Policy contained promises about security that the defendant breached. 2019) (Using social media is not cost-free, because [t]he user incurs the cost of having his information mined and shared.) And, even if the party does have a duty to secure the data (e.g.

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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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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We now know, of course, they weren’t kidding. What if companies stopped treating consumers as wellsprings of behavioral data – data to be voraciously mined and then sold to the highest bidder? Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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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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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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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

Emphasis is mine.). Nobody would actually write memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) , of course, because it (at best) does nothing. As for the costs: there have been several cases where removing NULL checks has resulted in a security vulnerability, although I can't find any cases of this precise corner of the C standard causing it.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Online security, technology and “The Cloud” Australian.", " because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). Microsoft Regional Director. Pluralsight author. There's just one more "oh wow!

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Shouldn’t that address be mine? Shouldn’t someone provide me with home security? a platform that can “address” your data home and mine all the same no matter where we choose to host it, so that Tapestry can have both of us as users and neither of us have to be locked into a single storage choice.

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Attackers can compromise credentials because of extensive user password problems throughout most organizations; however, a number of security solutions provide credentials protection for both basic and advanced needs. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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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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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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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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