Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

For example, when he downloaded and tried to rename the file, the right arrow key on the keyboard moved his cursor to the left, and vice versa. ” Indeed, KrebsOnSecurity first covered RLO-based phishing attacks back in 2011 , and even then it wasn’t a new trick.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

One from May 2011 at onlineprnews.com sings the praises of Weblistingsinc.info , weblistingsinc.org and web-listings.net in the same release, and lists the point of contact simply as “Mark.” Cached versions of this site from 2011 show it naming Web Listings Inc. employed a number of people involved in the SEO business.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. For example, users who click on a link looking to download a free game instead unknowingly download and install Glupteba malware.”

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Data Matters

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Guidance is not intended to serve as a comprehensive framework but rather provides financial institutions with examples of effective risk management practices without endorsing any specific information security framework or standard. The 2005 guidance replaced a 2001 version of the same document. identification of high-risk users.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2021

Identifying the person behind Bitcoin Fog serves as an illustrative example of how hard it is to be anonymous online in the face of a competent police investigation: Most remarkable, however, is the IRS’s account of tracking down Sterlingov using the very same sort of blockchain analysis that his own service was meant to defeat.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

By implementing DKIM, an organization improves the reputation of its own emails and enables receiving email servers to improve their own email security. DKIM Fundamentals The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes full information on the DKIM and its standards, which were last updated in 2011.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

In November 2020, KrebsOnSecurity heard from security researcher Abraham Vegh , who noticed something odd while inspecting an email from his financial institution. This is not the first time an oversight by Fiserv has jeopardized the security and privacy of its customers.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, The Intercept reported that video calls are not end-to-end encrypted, despite the company’s claims that they are. Perhaps that’s true, but it could just as easily be an example of Hanlon’s razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” – although perhaps ‘negligence’ is the more accurate term.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011. We believe DePriMon is the first example of malware using this technique ever publicly described.” Then the DePriMon malware uses Schannel for the communication. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

And even though it’s been around since 2004, WPA2 remains the Wi-Fi security standard. WPA2 is a security protocol that secures wireless networks using the advanced encryption standard (AES). But in the meantime, WPA2 with a good firewall setting and antivirus software on your devices is pretty good security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

A working exploit for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability is now available and security experts fear that threat actors could use is in attacks in the wild. In September, the security expert Axi0mX released a new jailbreak, dubbed Checkm8 , that works on all iOS devices running on A5 to A11 chipsets. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2018

Last week, CNN reported that the Transportation Security Administration is considering eliminating security at U.S. Passengers connecting to larger planes would clear security at their destinations. It's nothing more than 20 people examining the potential security risks of the policy change. Schumer (D-N.Y.),

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Pin also was active at that same time on the Russian-language security forum Antichat , where they told fellow forum members to contact them at the ICQ instant messenger number 669316. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. NeroWolfe’s introductory post to the forum Verified in Oct.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2023

Regardless of the use case or industry an organization operates in, private key security must be utilized for code signing certificates to be trusted and valued. Subscription at the level that manages the private key must be configured to log all access, operations, and configuration changes on the resources securing the private key 3.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. “The following graph presents a high-level overview of these relations. ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft says that the Iran-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as Phosphorus (aka APT35 , Charming Kitten , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) a 2020 presidential campaign. Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. .

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2011

On January 14, 2011, the European Network and Information Security Agency (“ENISA”), which was created to enhance information security within the European Union, published a report entitled “ Data breach notifications in the EU ” (the “Report”).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Built, again, from a mashup of OpenAI technology and Microsoft’s Azure compute platform, E2 would address some of ChatGPT’s most annoying problems – its indifference to truth , for example, or the biases inherent to its Web-scale training corpus. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2016.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

On this page, you will find all our usual information breaking down the month’s security incidents. Meanwhile, you can subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. However, we’ve decided to consolidate our records onto a single page.

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Data Matters

JUNE 11, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) examination and enforcement programs. For example, the Investment Group may have an employee serving on the board of directors of the company or a shareholder committee. Investment Groups may also obtain MNPI as part of the investment process.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

For example, while Season 5 was broadcast, Group-IB’s Anti-Piracy team detected and removed 2,067 links to illegal copies. Group-IB‘s fight against digital piracy started in 2011, when the Anti-Piracy Department was established. Season after season, online pirates’ interest in the show has only been increasing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2013

In 2003, Croatia adopted the Act on Personal Data Protection (the “Act”), which it subsequently amended in 2006, 2008 and 2011. For example, international data transfers outside of Croatia are only allowed when an adequate level of protection of personal data is ensured (unless a derogation applies).

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 13, 2013

As reported in The Washington Post , large financial institutions are increasingly disclosing cyber attacks, and potential vulnerability to cyber threats, in their annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For example: In its 10-K filed on March 1, 2013, Citigroup Inc. JPMorgan Chase & Co.,

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans. Consider another example: the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, when terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage. As an example of a CSF, Table 1 defines the capabilities for CS to progress from Level 1 to Level 5.

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Data Matters

MARCH 2, 2018

Securities and Exchange Commission issued interpretive guidance (the Guidance) to assist public companies in drafting their cybersecuritydisclosures in SEC filings. Like the 2011 guidance, the Guidance emphasizes that companies “should consider” the materiality of cybersecurity risks and incidents when preparing required disclosures.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

In security and privacy, the devil is always in the details -- and Zuckerberg's post provides none. For example, it could allow users to turn off individually targeted news and advertising. Better security for collected user data. Facebook has a large and skilled product security team that says some of the right things.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 19, 2018

Let's start with this video as it pretty succinctly explains the issue in consumer-friendly terms: VIDEO: Nova Scotia's government is accusing a 19-year-old of breaching their government website's security ~ Privacy experts disagree. In summary, improperly secured publicly facing data shouldn't be viewed as a free for all.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 21, 2011

On June 14, 2011, the PCI Security Standards Council’s Virtualization Special Interest Group published its “ Information Supplement: PCI DSS Virtualization Guidelines ”(the “Guidelines”) to Version 2.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard (“PCI DSS”).

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 16, 2011

On December 8, 2011, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted an Opinion on the European Advertising Standards Alliance (“EASA”) and IAB Europe best practice recommendations for the online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) industry to comply with Article 5.3 The Working Party confirmed this statement in its Opinion 15/2011.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The proposed Bill would require telecom and internet service providers to notify the Dutch Telecom Authority (the “OPTA”) without delay in the event of a security breach involving personal data. The Dutch Minister of Justice recently stated that he expects to issue a proposal to implement a more general data breach notification law in 2011.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For example, we no longer destroy records on-site. In 2011 the State Legislature approved storage for Local Governments at the State Records Center. Recent upgrades include a perimeter fence and modern, monitored camera system, as well as state of the art motion and intrusion detection security system.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 11, 2014

It is another example of the Obama Administration’s efforts to encourage the sharing of information about cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. The Policy Statement, as well as their remarks, emphasize the seriousness of the cybersecurity challenge and the need to improve cybersecurity information sharing.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 2, 2014

The report recommends that Congress pass legislation providing a single data breach standard, similar to the Obama administration’s May 2011 proposal. For example, the report recommends removing distinctions in ECPA that focus on how long an email has been left unread.

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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

The C standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has a sane-seeming definition of memcpy (section 7.24.2.1): The memcpy function copies n characters from the object pointed to by s2 into the object pointed to by s1. For example, the snippet of code above produces this diff when tested this way: 0000000000000000 : - 0: 48 83 ec 08 sub rsp,0x8. +

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 9, 2020

So while it is prudent to be aware of potential new laws, organisations should ensure they are first compliant with the existing law on cookies, which in Ireland is the 2011 ePrivacy Regulations. This could be through plugins, widgets, or social media sharing tools, for example.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

For example, in September 2015, the SEC announced a $75,000 fine (among other things) against R.T. For an in-depth discussion regarding the entirety of the 2018 Exam Priorities, see Sidley’s previous analysis here. . safeguards for the protection of customer records and information.”

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