Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

As I lay out in a report I just published , artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope. As AI gets more sophisticated, though, we often won’t even know it’s happening. Not for long.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

What follows is a story of how we managed to detect an attempt to infect one of our systems, and how our curiosity led us to an unlikely interview with the botmaster of a rare, dying breed of a botnet. Here’s how it all happened. Original post @ [link]. About this investigation. How we found the IRC botnet. Our honeypot setup.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. An undated photo of Vrublevsky at his ChronoPay office in Moscow. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 Hong Kong Processing Corporation).

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2022

She decides to extend her RV rental halfway through her trip, so she calls customer service for assistance, but finds herself waiting minutes, then what feels like hours. Not all AI platforms are built the same. On the lowest rung of the AI ladder, you have rules-based bots with limited response function. More waiting follows.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

They use information they have learned about you and your loved ones to trick you into believing the message is truly from someone you know, and they use this invented scenario to play on your emotions and create a sense of urgency. But what makes this attack dangerous is that the new bank account provided belongs to the attacker.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Botnet, packet flooding, bots, power of attack: “I don’t care how many and what bots I have, all I care is only to have stable stress power”. Cayosin Botnet: a deeper look at this threat supported by the psychological profile of the “youngsters-wannabe-hackers” Rolex boasters.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

“You may remember that in autumn 2019 we published a story about how a COMpfun successor known as Reductor infected files on the fly to compromise TLS traffic.” “You may remember that in autumn 2019 we published a story about how a COMpfun successor known as Reductor infected files on the fly to compromise TLS traffic.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

She decides to extend her RV rental halfway through her trip, so she calls customer service for assistance, but finds herself waiting minutes, then what feels like hours. Not all conversational AI platforms are built the same. On the lowest rung of the AI ladder, you have rules-based bots with limited response function.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

And in fact, you could map out all the possible combinations of this 40 bit key leg on a typical laptop computer. So what this petty thief did, he walked around Prague looking for a new Mercedes, and then he used his laptop and an RFID antenna to generate all the possible combinations for a Mercedes keycode until one hit and he did it again.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

What if you could simulate an ongoing attack to test your teams’ readiness? Vamosi: There was this short story, and much later a movie, called Ender’s Game. Vamosi: There was this short story, and much later a movie, called Ender’s Game. Anyway, what if there was a way to simulate attacks on your networks.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 22, 2020

DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge in 2016 showed the world what's coming -- autonomous adversaries -- and raised serious questions. Capture the-flag, if you don't already know, is a popular game among hackers. Capture the-flag, if you don't already know, is a popular game among hackers. Never miss another episode.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 21, 2020

DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge in 2016 showed the world what's coming -- autonomous adversaries -- and raised serious questions. Capture the-flag, if you don't already know, is a popular game among hackers. Capture the-flag, if you don't already know, is a popular game among hackers. Never miss another episode.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 21, 2020

DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge in 2016 showed the world what's coming -- autonomous adversaries -- and raised serious questions. Capture the-flag, if you don't already know, is a popular game among hackers. Capture the-flag, if you don't already know, is a popular game among hackers. Never miss another episode.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2022

The hackers promised that if a month passed and the company did not capitulate, it would release “all customer records, including profiles with all the customers’ secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails.”

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The Back Story When you buy an API key on Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), Stripe handles all the payment magic. Let's go find the rabbits! I love Stripe, it's such an awesome service that abstracts away so much pain and it's dead simple to integrate via their various APIs.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The researchers predict that soon it'll be hard to tell a human user at the keyboard, or at the mouse, from a bot or AI-driven entity. Vamosi: How do we know who’s on the other end of a connection, who it is that is logging into a computer or an account online? Such as their MAC address, their IP address, their geolocation.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2022

Tuesday’s story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and governments. In Part II of this series we’ll explore what it’s like to work for Conti, as described by the Conti employees themselves.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

The simulation ran for 2 days and showed that AI-powered bots can interact in a very human-like way. Once those bots—or agents—are trained, and autonomous enough to work on their own, that would be an important step in the direction of a world where AI-driven systems are able to be used for both good and bad.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

But there is also a puzzling side to all this noise: Random people tend to use your account as if it were theirs, and often for some fairly sensitive services online. Because it’s a relatively short username, it is what’s known as an “ OG ” or “ original gangster ” account.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Taking out Dyn would therefore impact many services, and that's what happened. In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? Vamosi: The internet. It's designed to be robust to withstand a nuclear war. terabits per second.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

16,482,365 known records breached in 240 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. According to Troy Hunt of the data breach notification service HIBP (Have I Been Pwned), “it looks like they’re finding @Shopify keys somewhere then just dumping all the data.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 12, 2019

Before I start getting all crazy on you, why don't you introduce yourself properly? Before I start getting all crazy on you, why don't you introduce yourself properly? What ForAllSecure's trying to do is bring actionable security testing through the full appsec lifecycle. Josh Bressers : 01:13 All right. Transcript.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The CyberWire Daily includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world. The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. This 20 minute podcast is available for listening below. The full transcript is also available below.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

All he needs is a short audio clip of your family member's voice — which he could get from content posted online — and a voice-cloning program. Call the person who supposedly contacted you and verify the story. Use a phone number you know is theirs. And nobody knows this more than Roger A. It's your grandson.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Yes, I have to confess, it was hard to wait all this time, but the reward it was worth it: unixfreaxjp is return, with a new, great page of reverse engeeniring published on the MalwareMustDie blog post: “ MMD-0064-2019 – Linux/AirDropBot ”. The beginning of the story: another IoT malware in the wild?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

A 20-year-old from Vancouver, Washington was indicted last week on federal hacking charges and for allegedly operating the “ Satori ” botnet, a malware strain unleashed last year that infected hundreds of thousands of wireless routers and other “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. 2018 that Schuchman was Nexus Zeta.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 12, 2019

Before I start getting all crazy on you, why don't you introduce yourself properly? Before I start getting all crazy on you, why don't you introduce yourself properly? What ForAllSecure's trying to do is bring actionable security testing through the full appsec lifecycle. Josh Bressers : 01:13 All right. Transcript.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 12, 2019

Before I start getting all crazy on you, why don't you introduce yourself properly? Before I start getting all crazy on you, why don't you introduce yourself properly? What ForAllSecure's trying to do is bring actionable security testing through the full appsec lifecycle. Josh Bressers : 01:13 All right. Transcript.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The CyberWire Daily includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world. The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. This 20 minute podcast is available for listening below. The full transcript is also available below.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 14, 2019

The CyberWire Daily includes interviews with a wide spectrum of experts from industry, academia, and research organizations all over the world. The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. This 20 minute podcast is available for listening below. The full transcript is also available below.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] I’ve got their profile right in front of me, all their work credentials. It was around 9 p.m. A snippet of the message left behind by the Impact Team.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. As illustrated in the timeline above ( full screen. ) , Mirai’s story is full of twist and turns. It is based on the.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The conversation also served as the kick-off to my own Burnes Center lecture series, “ The Internet We Deserve ” where I’ll talk with notable business, policy, technology and academic leaders central to the creation of the Internet as we know it today (last week I spoke with Larry Lessig ).

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KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

com and many others that will probably all be used for business email compromise (BEC) attacks. KYC' is a banking term that stands for 'Know Your Customer' or 'Know Your Client.' AI-Driven phishing and training recommendations for your end users Did You Know? We were not disappointed. Cyberwire Pro has a good summary.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

It's writing news stories, particularly in sports and finance. These comments were all unique, and sounded like real people advocating for a specific policy position. These comments were all unique, and sounded like real people advocating for a specific policy position. It's talking with customers on merchant websites.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

2019 is virtually over and a new year beckons with all the solemnity of the grim reaper for those who don’t have their eyes wide open to the persistent threats we collectively face in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity. . Now that I have your attention, I’d like to add that it’s not all bad news. million).

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