Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan and Secure, the company’s in-app feature that lets you know if any nearby Tiles are following you.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. On a consumer level, it might allow you to post somewhat inappropriate party photos while preventing them being tagged with your identity. This kind of technology would have many applications.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The group’s leader with identical alias in communications on Dark Web forums outlined Rust as one of the competitive advantages of their locker compared to Lockbit and Conti. The BlackCat is also known as “ALPHV”, or “AlphaVM” and “AphaV”, a ransomware family created in the Rust programming language.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 1, 2021

Apple calls this “app-tracking transparency” (ATT) and it concerns a code known as “the identity for advertisers” or IDFA. Ponder that for a moment and then reflect on the irony of a company that since 2013 has been selling such tagged devices, while at the same time bragging about its commitment to users’ privacy.

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Collibra

JANUARY 23, 2023

Zero trust, a government wide initiative Zero-trust was originally introduced as a network-based architecture mode, which centralized on identity and multi-factor authentication. As it has evolved, especially in the most recent years, we have seen the wide adoption of zero-trust in domains much beyond network and identity.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

Experts noticed that the script would load a favicon file that is identical to the one used by the compromised website. The initial JavaScript loads the skimming code included in the EXIF metadata of the favicon.ico using an <img> tag, and specifically via the onerror event.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

A school asks parents to verify their identities before giving out student information. The price tag can add up quickly. Organizations should use multi-factor authentication (MFA) or other strong measures to verify users’ identities before granting access to data. Organizations face fines of up to USD 7,500 per violation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

Both images contained a PHP script with a Base64-encoded JavaScript, and while they had identical JavaScript code, they slightly differed in their PHP implementation.” The attackers place a Base64-encoded string inside a spoofed Google Tag Manager code. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. business/data[.]php?p=form.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

The group’s leader with identical alias in communications on Dark Web forums outlined Rust as one of the competitive advantages of their locker compared to Lockbit and Conti. The BlackCat is also known as “ALPHV”, or “AlphaVM” and “AphaV”, a ransomware family created in the Rust programming language.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

Authentication processes validate identities of individuals and devices that attempt to connect to the network. They also provide authentication mechanisms to verify the identity of users and devices attempting to access the network.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As for the price tag on the deal, it’s estimated at $200 to $250 million. Cisco has long pursued a strategy of growth through acquisition, and has been one of the most active acquirers again this year, picking up cloud security startup Lightspin, AI security company Armorblox, and identity security startup Oort.

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Daradiction

JULY 13, 2009

They’re Neon Indian, and as of right now there identity is a mystery. Tags: Culture. A new band out of Brooklyn. This tune is called “Deadbeat Summer&#. Click here to view the embedded video.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, if your company works closely with a third-party professional services firm that needs access to certain HR and security applications and data but not others, you could divide your VLANs based on which ones need looser versus stricter identity and access management controls. Example VLAN groupings 2.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. Historical data that many threat intelligence feeds provide cover attack origins, the identity and past actions of the threat actor, past vs. present attack methods, and past vs. present damage.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2019

The people constituting each layer usually do not know the identity of the higher layers nor are ever in personal contact with them. Usually each unit of product is tagged with a piece of paper containing a unique secret word which is used to prove to the sales layer that a dead drop was found.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I'm going to come to the defence of the simple typeface in this blog, starting with an explanation of what we're actually seeing here - homoglyphs : In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar. What's the solution here?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Secondly, these services match their model of your identity to an extraordinary machinery of marketing dollars , serving up marketing in much the same way as the service itself. What's My Independent Identity? Search's rich uncle is the explosion of "user generated content" - what I like to call Conversational Media. But I digress.as

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Armstrong Archives

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sensitive data leaks can lead to identity theft, fraud, or corporate espionage. We’ll take ownership of the entire scanning process, from collection to high-resolution scanning, metadata tagging, and OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Losing important documents and records can be a crippling blow to any organization.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is sensitive data about customers, partners, or employees that can be used to identify exactly who specific individuals are – and that could lead to identity theft or other problems. Data privacy is all over the news these days , and many more regulations about allowable use of PII are being enacted.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

The administrator for the site would always be Dread Pirate Roberts, but different people could assume that identity over time. This was before the commercial internet when it was easier to forge documents to create new identities today. You almost have to put on your new identity the minute you walk out of your home or office.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2022

In this way it helps avoid human error and tags data so that policy enforcement can be achieved at the point of access rather than individual repositories. Once matched, entity resolution helps ensure that identity records are of high quality and reveals relationships between entities.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 1, 2018

Cross site request forgery is a perfect example; here we have a situation where the browser will happily send cookies along with requests (including auth cookies) thus issuing said request under the identity of the logged in user.

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ChiefTech

MARCH 20, 2009

Tags: twitter , trust , online identity What do you think - could this work? Alternatively, a great business model for Twitter could be to offer premium accounts that are “validated” by Twitter as authentic.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

Broken Authentication and Session Management Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of a user or system. An attacker can craft a malicious query that includes a script tag with JavaScript code that steals the user's session token, allowing the attacker to impersonate the user and perform actions on their behalf.

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Interactive Information Management

JANUARY 31, 2014

The presence of a large data center business (DC) in a local or regional community (like Ashburn, or more broadly, Northern Virginia) includes a complex set of identities to manage and steward. Why must these identities be properly managed? Risk - To manage business, geo-political and environmental risks 2. A local employer 2.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging. Attackers will inform the victim that their data is encrypted.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When tagging and auto-classifying content, the AI engine can extract metadata to provide context to unstructured content. The shipping manifest information about the product is digital and the product is tracked digitally using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. In the same month, Christie’s sold a work of digital art for $69.4

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) expands upon a basic Network Access Control (NAC) concept to include modules for network device control and integrated security options. With backing from the most dominant brand in network infrastructure, many larger organizations will need to seriously consider ISE as a NAC solution.

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Adam Levin

JULY 2, 2018

During the Ferguson protests, Anonymous doxed that city’s police chief posting photos of his family, home address and phone number, and there are countless examples of celebrity doxing incidents including Beyoncé and Michelle Obama. Bottom line: You should act like the bad guys are out to get you, because they are.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Now Cybersecurity expert says the next generation of identity theft is here: ‘Identity hijacking’ Were 3 Million Toothbrushes Really Used for a DDoS Attack? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

The phrase has something of a “ dark pool ” feel to it, but it’s actually a rather mundane concept: Developers tag their mobile apps and – if relevant – their complementary websites – with a linking structure that allows others to link directly into various points of entry into their applications.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Armis was acquired at a $1 billion price tag by Insight Partners in January 2020, joining Insight’s other cybersecurity subsidiaries like SentinelOne, Perimeter81, Mimecast, and Tenable. In addition to Cyber Vision, the Cisco IoT Threat Defense also includes firewalls , identity service engines (ISE), secure endpoints, and SOAR.

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ChiefTech

JUNE 3, 2007

is for users to control the content they create, the data captured about their web activities, and their identity; and Identity - Identity is a critical element of both Web 2.0 Technorati tags: Ross Dawson , Web 2.0 is driven by participation; Standards - an essential platform for Web 2.0 ; Decentralization - Web 2.0

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 19, 2008

The Ernst & Young Facebook case study also raised some interesting issues about online identity if you are asked to represent your organisation online - there is a real need for the employer to ensure the employee understands how to protect their privacy in the Web 2.0 Technorati Tags: Enterprise 2.0 , Enterprise 2.0 environment.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

The NYDFS alleges in April 2018, FAST contained 753 million documents, 65 million of which had been tagged by First American’s employees as containing NPI. Unauthorized individuals, however, could simply manipulate the URL of the public web page by inserting random identification numbers to access the documents stored on FAST.

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 16, 2008

Perhaps Charlene Li was right after all and I should simply create a second FB identity, however what I really want is something that is easy to use. Technorati tags: Facebook , social networking , Robert Scoble , Thomas Baekdal , Tom Hodgkinson , privacy , portals at 11:09 PM View blog reactions 3comments: jackvinson said.

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