Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2021

Sophos researchers that investigated the recently uncovered crypto-mining campaign targeting SQL servers with MrbMiner malware believe that it was conducted by an Iran-based company. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, mrbminer ).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. states to place a security freeze on their credit files.

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Threatpost

APRIL 2, 2020

The feature, criticized for "undisclosed data-mining," is only the latest privacy faux pas for Zoom this month.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Initially, they deployed and executed a separate Monero miner alongside the usual RapperBot binary, but starting from January 2023, they included the mining capabilities in the bot. The malware decodes the mining pools and Monero wallet addresses and updates the configuration before starting the embedded miner.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, these attacks aren’t due to exchange security flaws; malicious actors are exploiting the underlying consensus protocols of blockchains themselves. However, there are solutions blockchains can adopt to drastically increase their security without attracting any more mining power.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Security burden. Though DevOps-centric organizations can gain altitude quickly, they also tend to generate fresh security vulnerabilities at a rapid clip, as well. In that caper, a core API was left open allowing them to exploit it and begin using Tesla’s servers to mine cryptocurrency.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII. Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 28, 2019

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica, which allows city planners see “how, when, and where people travel in urban areas.”. The Intercept’s explainer details a troubling use of consumer data.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Wildlife crime syndicates can not only coordinate better but can mine growing public data sets, often of geotagged images. Privacy matters for tigers, for snow leopards, for elephants and rhinos ­ and even for tortoises and sharks. Video here.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) have issued a joint security advisory to warn teleworkers of an ongoing vishing campaign targeting organizations from multiple US industry industries. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks targeting companies. Restrict VPN access hours, where applicable, to mitigate access outside of allowed times.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Another important aspect is whether the collected user input will be retained for further training and whether such data will later be sanitized to minimize the disclosure of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and other data that may impact user privacy in the event of a breach.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We’re just a month and change into the new year, and already there have been two notable developments underscoring the fact that some big privacy and civil liberties questions need to be addressed before continuing the wide-scale deployment of advanced facial recognition systems. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. I mean what's the remaining gap?

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2018

Interesting paper " A first look at browser-based cryptojacking ": Abstract : In this paper, we examine the recent trend towards in-browser mining of cryptocurrencies; in particular, the mining of Monero through Coinhive and similar code-bases.

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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. 17 was not related to a security incident, but rather a technical issue that materialized during planned network maintenance. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2019

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The blue-sky mission is to bring modern data mining and machine learning technologies to bear delivering personalized services that ameliorate not just physical ailments, but also mental and even emotional ones. I had a lively discussion with Craig Hinkley, CEO of NTT Application Security , about the thinking behind this crusade.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Everybody knows Monero cryptocurrency and probably everybody knows that it has built upon privacy, by meaning It’s not that simple to figure out Monero wallet balance. In this scenario, it is used to make money at the expense of computer users by abusing the infected computer to mine Monero, a cryptocurrency. XMRIG prove 1.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2018, KrebsOnSecurity unmasked the creators of Coinhive — a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was being massively abused by cybercriminals — as the administrators of a popular German language image-hosting forum.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. The post Court Rules in Favor of Mining LinkedIn User Data appeared first on Adam Levin.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg infamously declared that privacy “is no longer a social norm” in 2010, he was merely parroting a corporate imperative that Google had long since established. But what if companies chose to respect an individual’s right to privacy, especially when he or she goes online? Privacy as good business.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. First American Financial Corp. Image: Linkedin. .

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. In his keynote address, he said: “Privacy and AI go hand in hand – there is no either/or here. In his keynote address, he said: “Privacy and AI go hand in hand – there is no either/or here.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now for the big challenge - security. The "s" in IoT is for Security Ok, so the joke is a stupid oldie, but a hard truth lies within it: there have been some shocking instances of security lapses in IoT devices. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. Security responsibilities. There’s a new breed of identity thief at work plundering consumers and companies.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. . that makes a product called MobileSpy.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

And relying on legacy technology creates business risk because these older systems are much harder to fix when things go wrong and more vulnerable to security threats. Importantly, data stored in the ECM system also provides a useful source of historical information that can be mined for business insights using analytics engines.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? What’s that? An average victim machine could “generate about $0.25

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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. Essentially, we are securing an app at scale with enormous requirements for stored data, incoming data, data interactions, and network connections. Data Lake Security Scope.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 31, 2022

No-code startups such as Mine PrivacyOps say they offer best of both worlds — quick development and compliance with privacy laws.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The post 2021 Predictions Are Foolhardy – Here Are Four of Mine appeared first on MediaPRO.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2021

Yeah, me either (at least not the spammy tracky ones that invade both your privacy and your bandwidth), but I also like free content on the web and therein lies the rub; how do content producers monetise their work if they can't put ads on pages? which was used for their link shortener (which also caused browsers to mine Monero).

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