Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” “At present, pre-installed partners cover the entire mobile phone industry chain, including mobile phone chip manufacturers, mobile phone design companies, mobile phone brand manufacturers, mobile phone agents, mobile terminal stores and major e-commerce platforms,” reads a descriptive blurb about the company.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Before we dive into the specific cybersecurity concerns, let us remind you about the attack that took place in October 2016. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

Other victims included one of France’s largest hospital systems; a French automobile manufacturer; a major French bank; companies that work with or manage networks for French postal and transportation systems; a domestic firm that operates a number of airports in France; a state-owned railway company; and multiple nuclear research facilities.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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. Hackers seeking to get in position to take over control or otherwise disrupt utilities are seeking paths through original equipment manufacturers, third-party vendors, and telecom providers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors. Many of the IoT sensors hoovering up sensitive personal and business data, and the routers this data flows through, for instance, have weak or non-existent passwords and lack a uniform way to patch inevitable software vulnerabilities that turn up.

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IT Governance

MARCH 22, 2018

million National Lottery account holders to change their passwords after what it described as a low-level cyber attack compromised 150 accounts. And why ask people to change their passwords instead of forcing them to? Use a unique, complex password for each, ideally generated by a password manager.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. Users were encouraged to change their passwords. A member of the public found the memory stick, viewed its contents (it wasn’t password protected either), and then passed it to the Sunday Mirror.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

million customers , most of them American, was compromised in the 2017 data breach – including their names, dates of birth, passwords, and driving licence and financial details. In total, the personal information of some 147.9 No flights were disrupted as a result of the incident, nor were safety or security systems put at risk.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates. 24 subnet.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Now, a new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet, called IoT Reaper, or IoTroop, has been discovered by researchers and could present a threat that could dwarf the 2016 attacks and create a major disruption to internet activity around the world.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

IoT devices can spy on people, steal data, or bring down vast swathes of the internet, as happened in 2016 when Mirai malware infiltrated devices such as baby monitors and refrigerators and locked them into a botnet for the Dyn cyberattack. Manufacturers assure us that they need the information to “improve products and customer satisfaction.”

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 27, 2018

government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors since at least March 2016. ” Watering-Hole. Through watering-hole attacks, the threat actors compromise “the infrastructure of trusted organizations to reach intended targets.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In 2016, $91 million was spent on IoT endpoint security solutions. Broadcom also offers a location hub microcontroller and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems for embedded IoT security for organizations handling product manufacturing. Product developers and manufacturers can conduct IoT product testing, including incident response.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

On Friday, Starwood Properties, which merged with Marriott in 2016, disclosed as many as 500 million people who made reservations at their hotels may have had their personal information accessed in a breach that lasted as long as four years. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can do what's called a replay attack by capturing the codes and replaying them, or you can use a previously successful rollover sequence to calculate the key fob code of the next car from the same manufacturer. Vamosi: In 2016 I took a two day car hacking training session at BlackHat USA in Las Vegas. Some of that was on purpose.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. Organizations can help prevent their computers from becoming part of a botnet by installing anti-malware software, using firewalls , keeping software up-to-date, and forcing users to use strong passwords. Backdoors.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

Israel ‘s defence ministry announced to have foiled an attempted cyber attack by a foreign threat actors group targeting the country’s defence manufacturers. The government urges to immediately change the passwords of control systems exposed online, ensure that their software is up to date, and reduce their exposure online.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

In December, 2016, the lights went out in Kyiv, Ukraine. So the reality is that there was a team of criminal hackers, and like all intrusions, this attack didn’t just start in December 2016; it began months before it was executed. The reality is much more complicated. Don’t believe me? Here’s Robert M.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. and often that defaults to the lowest common denominator.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. and often that defaults to the lowest common denominator.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Mon, 11/14/2016 - 04:00. There are benefits as well as risks in the emergence of IoT, improvements in Telecare, protection of the vulnerable or helping to avert manufacturing or transport failures. Don’t blame ‘The Things’. p.butler@cgi.com. It is easy to blame ‘The Things’, but really there is a wider issue here.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 1, 2020

UK investigating cyber attack leaking Syria propaganda operations (unknown) Norway’s parliament attacked by criminal hackers (unknown) No personal data affected in cyber attack on OH’s Manfield City Schools (0) Criminal hackers infiltrate Canada’s Justice Department’s system (unknown) Oregon State University reports IT security breach (unknown) Miami (..)

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

HIBP also implements the includeSubdomains and preload keywords which ensures that HSTS is cascaded down to every subdomain of the site and is implemented in every browser when it ships from the manufacturer (more on both of those in my post on HSTS ). Let them paste passwords! Blocking Paste. Why do websites do this?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. Multifactor a what's, what's your email, what's your password. Such as their MAC address, their IP address, their geolocation. If it's continuous authentication.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

NOBELIUM, a group of Russia-based hackers, gained access to multiple enterprises through software code, stolen passwords, compromised on-premises servers, and minted SAML (Security Assertions Markup Language) tokens. Persistent attacks pose a particular threat to critical infrastructure and manufacturing.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2020

We disassociated cyber risk, like using weak passwords and visiting sketchy websites, from the harm of that risk. Moreover, the private sector, including utilities, hospitals, manufacturing and IT, etc., Consumers chose to value convenience over security. We need a similar social contract for cybersecurity.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

With what we experienced in 2016 and 2018, is there any doubt there will be a rise in disinformation–homegrown and imported–of all stripe in the upcoming elections? Unfortunately, many are not secure because they are protected by nothing more than manufacturer default passwords readily available online.

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