Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Despite its similarities to a Russian attack of a Ukrainian power plant in 2015, my bet is that it’s a disgruntled insider: either a current or former employee. This could have been fatal to people living downstream, if an alert operator hadn’t noticed the change and reversed it. We don’t know who is behind this attack.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2020

Security researchers from Tencent have devised a technique, dubbed BadPower, to alter the firmware of fast chargers to cause damage to connected systems or cause the device to catch fire. “In rare cases, BadPower attacks may also affect the security of the physical environment around the device.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

House of Representatives passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill that aims at improving the security of IoT devices. House of Representatives last week passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill designed to improve the security of IoT devices. Mark Warner. “I Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com 2015-03-09 GODADDY.COM, LLC. com 2015-03-09 GODADDY.COM, LLC. For example, 2333youxi[.]com That record, from April 2015, lists Chu Da’s email address as yehuo@blazefire.com.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

xHelper is a piece of malware that was first spotted in October 2019 by experts from security firm Symantec, it is a persistent Android dropper app that is able to reinstall itself even after users attempt to uninstall it. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. and Russia. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

US intelligence believes that the cyber espionage operation was under the control of Zha Rong and Chai Meng, two intelligence officers working for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) in the Chinese city of Nanjing. The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. According to U.S. based firm.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. One of the examples relates to the default settings users get when starting to use a new service. Usually, the default settings are not focused on security. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a guideline, dubbed The Vulnerability Disclosure Toolkit, for the implementation of a vulnerability disclosure process. Having a clearly signposted reporting process demonstrates that your organisation takes security seriously. ” states the document. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread. But it requires different levels of security.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Practical Examples: Let’s say you have a new target and you cannot figure out which is the pinout of the UART console and you are too lazy to deal with a locig analyzer…. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. How to Run BUSSide: # cd BUSSide/Client #./busside.py busside.py /dev/ttyUSB0.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

“As with many other airlines, some of our premium seats have in-flight entertainment systems that came with cameras installed by the manufacturer.” The cameras are a standard feature that manufacturers of the system included for possible future purposes such as video conferencing.” ” . . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . Check Point’s experts have analyzed examples of targeted, hijacked email threads with subjects related to Covid-19, tax payment reminders, and job recruitment content.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

The malware samples analyzed impersonated the applications of telecommunications companies or smartphone manufacturers. According to leaked documents published in WikiLeaks in 2015, RCS Lab was a reseller of the notorious Italian surveillance firm HackingTeam. However, we found various publicly-available clues that suggest otherwise.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Two security researchers have found undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. Two security researchers have discovered undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

In addition to the monetary costs associated with things like lost productivity and improving network security to reduce the likelihood of future incidents, affected companies have to deal with the costs tied to reduced customer trust and damaged reputations. Manufacturing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have been affected. If the latter are the ones to blame, this marks the first time the gang has launched the attacks against pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies and may indicate a significant shift in their modus operandi. . ProxyBot and Silence.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Security experts from SentinelOne reported that the recently discovered Snake Ransomware has been targeting processes and files associated with industrial control systems (ICS). One such example would be Project Root. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin calling out Iran’s “robust cyber program,” and cautioning everyone to be prepared for Iran to “conduct operations in the United States.” Russia has twice now knocked out Ukraine’s power grid for extended periods, in the Industroyer attacks of December 2015 and again in December 2016.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm allow attackers to steal private data from hundreds of million millions of devices, especially Android smartphones. Security experts from Check Point have discovered security flaws in Qualcomm that could be exploited attackers to steal private data from the so-called TrustZone.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

facial recognition and fingerprint information) of more than a million people exposed online on an unsecured database owned by the Suprema biometric security company. “Malicious agents could use this to hack into secure facilities and manipulate their security protocols for criminal activities.” United Kingdom.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., video streams that are viewed).

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2019

The Human Factor has a fundamental importance for the success of a cyber attack, for this reason it is important to create a culture of cyber security within organizations. Whaling: A specialized type of spear phishing that targets a “large” victim of a company, for example CEO, CFO or other executive.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that the market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol in Russia exceeded 30 million USD in 2018, i.e. almost 5.8 For example, until recently, the resource alcolavca.com included 45 connected websites, however most of the network has now been blocked. million USD (+23%) more than in 2017.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The issue affects several modern Android-based phones, including devices manufactured by Samsung, Huawei, LG and Sony. In these attacks, a remote agent can trick users into accepting new phone settings that, for example, route all their Internet traffic through a proxy controlled by the attacker. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 10, 2018

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released for public comment an administrative complaint and proposed consent agreement with mobile phone manufacturer BLU Products Inc. At least since 2015, BLU licensed software from ADUPS Technology Co., At least since 2015, BLU licensed software from ADUPS Technology Co., The Complaint.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

Manufacturing giant Honda had its networks brought to a standstill by just such an attack. A 2019 study showed that 80 percent of IT business leaders expected a critical breach or a successful cyberattack within a year, double what a similar study had indicated in 2015. 1-99-employee companies are a target.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

Researchers at Fidus Information Security discovered a vulnerability in GPS trackers used by elderly people and kids could be exploited to spy on them. The white-label GPS trackers are manufactured in China is rebranded by many companies in the UK, US, Australia, and other countries. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Security experts from ESET have spotted the first UEFI rootkit of ever, the code tracked as LoJax was used in attacks in the wild. Security experts have debated for a long about UEFI rootkits that are very dangerous malware hard to detect and that could resist to the operating system reinstallation and even to the hard disk replacement.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 8, 2023

Examples of transportation systems include roadways, public transit systems, airports, train stations, bus stations, ferry terminals, pipelines and warehouses. This ambitious bill, largely managed by the US Department of Transportation, will distribute USD 1 trillion to fund construction, manufacturing initiatives and public works.

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CGI

MAY 26, 2015

Managing the insider threat is a critical part of enterprise security. Wed, 05/27/2015 - 01:00. Most security-minded professionals think of a cybersecurity threat as originating outside the organization. Unfortunately, there are numerous real-world examples like this across industries. federal government.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In January, white hackers from Google Project Zero disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact all major CPUs, including the ones manufactured by AMD, ARM, and Intel. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Security Affairs – Meltdown, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B Two of Ackerman’s cyber startups — Synack and Area 1 Security had their origins in Maryland and the NSA, but both realized quickly that they needed the playbook, expertise, resources and relationships of Silicon Valley to succeed. “So, The current number of U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

IoT security is where endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) and enterprise mobility management ( EMM ) meet the challenges of a rapidly expanding edge computing infrastructure. Enterprise organizations recognize this shift and need to invest in device management and endpoint security capabilities.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 8, 2022

Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Welcome to The Hacker Mind, an original podcast from for all secure. Herfurt: My name is Martin Herfurt and I'm a security researcher. It wasn't very robust. It was a mere 40 bit key length.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cybersecurity experts at CyberNews hijacked close to 28,000 unsecured printers worldwide and forced them to print out a guide on printer security. Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. Original post: [link].

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