Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

but that recursive question raised a more general question: what are the differences between cybersecurity educational models? The education process is based upon the information to be shared, by meaning that information is the “starting brick” of education. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash. Section 4: The ignorance.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2024

During his testimony to the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Wray cited the ISIS-K attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow in March as an example of the type of threat the bureau is increasingly concerned about.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is warning investors of potential investment scams related to Hurricane Ida. ” The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is reachable through the phone number 1-800-732-0330 or through the online form.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

“For example, a stuffer buys a stolen payment card on the black market for $10 and uses it to purchase over $1,100 worth of goods. Education improves awareness” is his slogan. Once the stolen parcels were received and successfully returned, the traffickers could proceed to sell them on the local black market, dropping them.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. An example of spam email content Clicking the malicious link obviously leads to downloading a weaponized document. Usually, Hancitor is distributed via spam campaigns. Built-in tools were also abused.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.” Rhysida actors heavily leveraged this tool for lateral movement and remote execution.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requires encryption or equivalent security measures to protect private student records.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On November 2, 2022, the ICO issued to the UK Department for Education (“ DfE ”) a formal reprimand following an investigation into the sharing of personal data stored on the Learning Records Service (“ LRS ”), a database which provides a record of pupils’ qualifications that the DfE has overall responsibility for.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

AI could also assist sectors that cybercriminals frequently target, such as the education industry. Cybercriminals know that entities in education have historically lacked cybersecurity resources , a problem that makes it easier to pull off successful attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This gave the attackers easy access to the system and the ability to modify any value in the system, allowing them, for example, to tamper with the water pressure, change the temperature and more. This group also hit other American websites, including a governmental education website in Texas. ” concludes the post.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Even deepfake examples designed to educate the public — like a doctored video of Nixon’s resignation speech — fool observers without meaning to. A single example resulting from “deep voice” fakery resulted in a loss of $35 million in fraudulent bank transfers. The FBI’s warning. Best defense: awareness.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Regardless, these are examples of narrow AI. AGI examples However, once theoretical AGI achieves the above to become actual AGI, its potential applications are vast. Here are some examples of how AGI technology might revolutionize various industries: Customer service Imagine an AGI-powered customer service system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2018

One such example from December 2017 named free-mod-menu-download-ps3.exe com followed by XMRig traffic on TCP port 14444 like the example used in this blog.” Organizations with decent web filtering and educated users have a much lower risk of infection by these fake updates. exe also shows osdsoft[.]com

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. Why should employers educate employees about cyber security? or.con rather than.com, for example. Verify domain names – they could end in.co

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Let’s dive into some examples of how enterprises must account for external drones entering their airspace and cyber threats to drones operated by the enterprise. Within the United States for example, operating a drone within Class G, uncontrolled airspace over another entity’s property without advanced notice is legally allowed.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

“For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.” ” states the analysis published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Example of exposed database access credentials: Note: Our researchers did not access any unsecured databases due to the potential ethical implications of accessing private databases without authorization. The importance of educating support staff on responsible disclosure. Disclosure.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

One example is a training program led by a veteran who once trained military members to prepare for combat. Arguably, one of the most critical changes needed will be to adapt hiring practices to help candidates without a traditional college education enter into these critical roles. He is the author of The Shellcoder’s Handbook.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. We believe DePriMon is the first example of malware using this technique ever publicly described.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2021

“The bot is embedded into the ToxicEye RAT configuration file and compiled into an executable file (an example of a file name we found was ‘paypal checker by saint.exe’). ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

For example, we’ve seen threat actors create malicious browser extensions available in official web stores that claim to offer ChatGPT-related tools.” In March, security experts at Meta found multiple malware posing as ChatGPT or similar AI tools. ” reads the Meta’s Q1 2023 Security Reports.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 14, 2022

“Spear phishing,” represents another example of DeepSea methodology, whereby malicious actors “scrape” personal information (primarily from social media) about their targets to make each phishing attempt more personalized and seem more legitimate. Current solutions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Our old Twitter account, which was suspended, had pretty much many attacks on government agencies, corporations, educational institutions, ministries, and many, many other things around the world (which we still do, just on a smaller scale). How were you born and approximately how many you are? or even find them childish and boring).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Update your Zimbra webmail A classic example of fake technical support for urgent Zimbra application updates. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Businesses may optimize logistics by revaluating supply chain practices ; for example, by making transportation and shipping more efficient or using only suppliers that embrace sustainable practices. Sweden, for example, aims to be fossil fuel-free by 2040, while in Denmark, over 40% of electricity is generated from wind turbines.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

The botnet tatgeted victims in various industries, including healthcare, aviation, IT & telecommunications and higher education sectors. “For example, the attacker validates that certain COM classes are available – WbemScripting.SWbemLocator, Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

One example can be found on Telegram, wherein a member who favors the handle “ Bug ” has for the past month been selling access to various police and government email accounts. And it tracked the activities of a teenage hacker from the United Kingdom who was reportedly arrested multiple times for sending fake EDRs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Microsoft pointed out that cyberespionage is not the only motivation behind the attack, Iranian APT groups, for example, were responsible of destructive attacks on Israel. The analysis of attacks by countries of origin revealed that North Korea accounted for 20% of the attacks, followed by Iran (23%) and China (22%).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here is an example of the new Nigerian scam to which I have given the name ” Beyond the border scam ” and which is carried out entirely online and via email. Education improves awareness” is his slogan. The 419 scam is based on deception and psychological manipulation, exploiting the greed, pity, or curiosity of victims.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

For example, fraudsters could abuse such data to launch sham recruiting agencies. Leaks like this put job seekers at risk, so they should educate themselves on how to spot common job search-related scam techniques.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For example, an attacker could compose a DNS request of less than 100 bytes, prompting a response that is 60-70 times as large. That way, when the DNS servers respond, they reply to the spoofed (target) address. The bad guys also can amplify a reflective attack by crafting DNS queries so that the responses are much bigger than the requests.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

After the interview, I told him that his examples gave me paranoia. Here are a few unexpected examples of supposedly anonymous data reversal: •In 2016, the Australian government released what they called the “anonymous” (i. Another example comes from the MIT and Boston University. Related: The Facebook factor.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tesla, for example, suffered two cybersecurity events after layoffs back in 2018. For example, one priority is identifying personally identifiable information of your customers. Another example is any kind of proprietary algorithm or system. But it’s a real and growing risk to be aware of. Data loss isn’t necessarily spiteful.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

“It’s not uncommon for attackers to download legitimate third-party tools onto infected machines (for example, PsExec is often abused to run other tools or commands).” About 3% of the infected systems belong to organizations in different sectors, including education, professional services, healthcare, finance, and retail.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Most of the compromised websites are e-commerce sites, but crooks also offered access to websites of organizations in healthcare, legal, education and insurance industries and belonging to government agencies. According to the experts, most of the compromised servers are from U.S., Russian, or German hosting services.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

This article will provide some insights into current phishing methods cyber-criminals leverage to exploit human behavior, performance metrics useful for measuring organizational resiliency to phishing, and examples of free tools that can be leveraged to conduct internal simulated phishing exercises.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How to Avoid/Overcome: Overcome this issue by addressing objections directly with good communication and contextual education. Case studies and examples of peers in other organizations can be powerful techniques. Vendor-neutral research, or case studies, can be valuable tools when communicating with internal decision-makers.

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