Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

. “A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

In September 2021, Trend Micro researchers spotted crypto-mining campaigns that were actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical remote code execution vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. If the level of spam they’re receiving makes that impossible, they should set up multi-factor authentication instead. An email address’s connection to personal information is valuable, so scammers try to access it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

One of the threat types that surfaced and thrived since the introduction of cryptocurrency, cryptojackers are mining malware that hijacks and consumes a target’s device resources for the former’s gain and without the latter’s knowledge or consent. Below is a list of threats that are currently leveraging cryptocurrency: Cryptojackers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

The phishing messages sent to the journalists contained a link to ZIP archives containing LNK files, both named ‘Kang Min-chol edits’ (Kang Min-chol is North Korea’s Minister of Mining Industries). The archive was hosted on the domain dailynk[.]us us which impersonates NK News (dailynk[.]com), To nominate, please visit:?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

His blog, Krebs on Security , was knocked down alright. And since Dyn routed traffic, not just to Krebs’ blog, but also to Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit and PayPal, those popular websites were offline for some 12 hours, frustrating millions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Authentication: The identities of the sender and receiver—as well as the origin and destination of the information—are confirmed. Explore IBM cryptography solutions The post The three main types of cryptography appeared first on IBM Blog. The applications of cryptography are endless. are kept secure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

In this blog, and in an accompanying one by my Thales colleague Juan Asenjo, we will discuss the subject of big data analytics, and how it is enabling a new behavior-based authentication evolution for easier and more robust identity management. For more information about Entrust, please visit our partner page.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

One way of reducing the risk of credential stuffing attacks is to implement two-factor authentication where it’s available. His complaint relates to an Apple support page , which explains that “If you already use two-factor authentication, you can no longer turn it off. It’s not available on OkCupid. Well, that’ll do for this week.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). In this blog post, and in one by my colleague Sandy Carielli from Entrust Datacard, we discuss big data analytics and how it is enabling the evolution of new behavior-based authentication for easier and more robust identity management.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2019

encryption, two-factor authentication and key management) to protect their data from hackers. The four key methods of an ethical hacker include: Monitoring: They’ll monitor a company to understand the data it creates and stores and where any sensitive data is — the gold mine hackers are after.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Blog post with links: [link] New Phishing Benchmarks Unlocked: Is Your Organization Ahead of the Curve in 2023?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. bitcoin prices.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. I've regularly quoted the NCSC in particular, for example there's a bunch of their work in my recent blog post about authentication guidance for the modern era.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

“While data theft is traditionally the primary motivation, cyber actors seeking computational power (often for cryptocurrency mining) are also drawn to Kubernetes to harness the underlying infrastructure. . “Kubernetes can be a valuable target for data and/or compute power theft,” the authors wrote.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

This is the old ChiefTech blog. However, you need to come over and see my new blog at chieftech.com.au. Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion. Pipes at 9:09 PM View blog reactions 3comments: Janet Johnson said. Nice of you to drop in and visit.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. bitcoin prices.

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OneHub

MARCH 29, 2021

Confidential files such as financial documents or intellectual property are a gold mine for hackers, and they won’t hesitate to steal poorly secured files. Features such as role-based permissions, audit trails, session timeouts, and two-factor authentication mean your client’s data is fully protected. .

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. It also announced in the same blog that it would be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ by next August. Well, that’ll do for 2018.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Marketing teams can create and share marketing content such as online blog posts, white papers, e-books, or short videos that can be posted on social media platforms and targeted towards various audiences. Blockchain, Provenance, and Authentic Information. Customer Data Platforms (CDP). One use case is supply chains.

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 6, 2013

For several reasons, however, the RACF IDs that you use are different in form from the network IDs that the end users utilize for client-side authentication. In this blog entry, I'll provide a high-level overview of the steps associated with EIM implementation in a DB2 10 setting. Basically, there are three parts to this whole.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To automatically populate the appropriate credentials at any website going forward, you simply authenticate to LastPass using your master password. A chart on Palant’s blog post offers an idea of how increasing password iterations dramatically increases the costs and time needed by the attackers to crack someone’s master password.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“The threat actor was able to capture the employee’s master password as it was entered, after the employee authenticated with MFA, and gain access to the DevOps engineer’s LastPass corporate vault.” The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. Every time one of the kids asks Alexa a question, a TLS connection is established to Amazon's services and they get the benefit of confidentiality, integrity and authenticity.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

These Trojans have the ability to steal your web browser history and inputs even as they use your computing power to mine cryptocurrencies—this type of Trojans are very recent and run covertly in the background; the only thing you will note is your computer lagging. Avoid downloading files from sites whose authenticity you cannot verify.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

I highlighted 3 really important attributes at the time of launch: There is no authentication. In the end, the path forward was clear - the API would need to be authenticated. The New Model: Authenticated Requests I held back on this for a long time because adding auth to the API adds a barrier to entry. There is no cost.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Authentication: The identities of the sender and receiver—as well as the origin and destination of the information—are confirmed. Explore IBM cryptography solutions The post The three main types of cryptography appeared first on IBM Blog. The applications of cryptography are endless. are kept secure.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

Authentication: The identities of the sender and receiver—as well as the origin and destination of the information—are confirmed. Recipients of digitally signed documents can use the sender’s public key to verify the signature’s authenticity and confirm that the document has not been tampered with during transmission.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Look at how frequently we hear about AWS S3 buckets left out in the clear with sensitive information for hackers to mine. The post Federal Agency Data is Under Siege appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. There’s also the issue with keeping control of keys in the cloud.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 29, 2018

The environment that I see is one which is probably good for lawyers, because at least at firms like mine, companies are coming to us saying they really haven’t grappled with the disposition of legacy data. Where are mining operations? Who’s doing the mining? Who’s doing the mining? How do the algorithms work?

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Which brings me to the title of this blog post - the positive visual indicators we've become so accustomed to are increasingly useless and instead, we need to be focusing more on about the negative ones. For example, from that talk of mine: That's stripe.ian.sh Let me explain: The Uselessness of Positive Indicators. spotifyuser[.]validationsupport[.]userbilling-secure.com

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 16, 2019

This recently reported critical vulnerability in Kubernetes is particularly worrisome, as enterprises are in fact seeing their Kubernetes APIs exposed to the internet with zero authentication protections guarding them. The recent Tesla crypto-mining attack used an unprotected Kubernetes console to gain access to the underlying servers.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 31, 2008

Oliver Marks Mobile RSS Email Alerts Comments Share Print Facebook Twitter Recommend Yahoo Buzz Digg Email Facebook Twitter StumbleUpon Reddit Home / News & Blogs / Collaboration 2.0 His personal blog is at www.olivermarks.com. All pretty cutting edge in the spirit of this conference which is a personal favorite of mine.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2021

Their goal here is perfectly aligned with mine and, I dare say, with the goals of most people reading this: to protect people from account takeovers by proactively warning them when their password has been compromised. Here's what I'm thinking: There's an authenticated endpoint that'll receive SHA-1 and NTLM hash pairs of passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. Single Sign-on (SSO) and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) mechanisms are implemented to protect against keylogging. •In Warning signs.

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