The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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Mining Cloud Ransomware Passwords 176

Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you. DHS’s myE-Verify homepage.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

Salt (aka SaltStack) is Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. A few days ago, researchers from F-Secure disclosed a number of vulnerabilities in the “Salt” framework, including two issues that could be exploited by attackers to take over Salt installations.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics. Other methods.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Hi folks, today I’d like to point you out another tool of mine which extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections. The entire system detect approximately 140k events per day. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Security Affairs – HoneyPots, Honey Feed).

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Honeypots Computer and Electronics Mining Cybersecurity 83

Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

51% attack refers to an attack on a blockchain by a group of miners that controls over 50% of the network’s mining hashrate. “Subsequent to this event, we detected 8 additional reorganizations that included double spends, totaling 88,500 ETC (~$460,000). . million worth of the digital currency. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Blockchain Mining IT Security 89

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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