Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2024

Image: Camdenliving.com Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags. Neither August nor Chirp Systems responded to requests for comment. ” Last year, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a Latvian woman for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Alla Witte (aka Max), a Latvian woman that was charged for her alleged role in the development of the Trickbot malware.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. But the situation isn’t hopeless. The impact of ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Department of Justice (DoJ) and is notifying additional targets of the hack-for-hire group. ” Recently Google TAG has published its first TAG quarterly report , the Q1 2020 TAG Bulletin , that provides insights on the campaigns monitored in the first quarter of 2020. ” reported the Reuters agency.

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Archives Blogs

MAY 2, 2018

DeHays, a private researcher, stole and sold identification tags and related items from files of American servicemen whose planes were downed in Europe during World War II, as well as other original records from the National Archives at College Park.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 1, 2020

What's less likely is that a current day official police department system would allow an all lowercase 8-character password. Hash-tagging it "Anonymous" implies social justice, even if the whole thing is a hoax. It's difficult to imagine someone creating an MPD account with that password. Not convinced?

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ChiefTech

DECEMBER 10, 2008

And naturally in a platform pitched at this level it meets requirements that are particularly important to government departments, like work flow, accessibility standards, content archiving and metadata. Technorati Tags: MySourceMatrix , Squiz.net , Web Content Management Systems

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