Schneier on Security

JANUARY 26, 2023

Why does it have to fire blanks? Why was an actual gun used on the set? And why were actual bullets used on the set? Why wasn’t it a fake gun: plastic, or metal without a working barrel? Why can’t everyone just pretend, and let someone add the bang and the muzzle flash in post-production? Movies are filled with fakery.

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IT 88

Robert's Db2

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Curious, he investigated further and found that, in fact, most of the bytes in most of those column values were trailing blanks - for some of the table's rows, ALL of the bytes in the column were blanks. Why in the world would they pad a value (even a non-existent value) with blanks to completely fill up a VARCHAR column?"

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Micro Focus

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

People often think that hot new tech startups, with their promises to revolutionize __ (fill in the blank with your current dream), are the primary drivers of innovation. New kids on the block or old-timers? I’m here to say that’s just not true. The company I work for, Micro Focus, was a startup a few. View Article.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Expected behavior: It should have shown a blank referrer; Actual behavior: It shows the referrer as: kirtikumarar.com which was the host from where we navigated. The browser when used with Tor shouldn’t leak the referer.” ” reads the report submitted to HackerOne. Below is the procedure to reproduce the issue: Visit exploit.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

Seth Blank, CTO of Vailmail and co-chair of the DMARC Working Group, notes that “Despite [DMARC’s] growing popularity, fraudulent email remains the leading source of all cybercrime. DMARC requires many intricate steps,” Blank explains. Many organizations see value in tightening email security by implementing DMARC.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 16, 2018

Websites are desperately trying to maintain their links to users before the 24 May deadline, when consumers rather than companies will be in charge of personal data ‘Hey there Field Left Blank. But I’m here, today, to tell you we value you as a customer, Field Left Blank. So listen, budski, my man, my main man. For the last five years.

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GDPR Personal data IT 82

Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Seven new modules discovered in VPNFilter further fill in the blanks about how the malware operates and reveals a wider breath of capabilities.

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IoT Security 76

Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

Top five credentials included in the list were: root:[blank]—782 admin:admin—634 root:root—320 admin:default—21 default:[blank]—18. Many IoT devices included in the list have default and well-known credentials (i.e., admin:admin, root:root, or no authentication required).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2018

After selecting the Photo Library, iOS will take you back to the message screen, but you’ll see a blank space where the keyboard should be. The blank space is actually an invisible Photo Library. Click on the shelf handle on top of the blank space to activate the Photo Library.

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Access Libraries Security IT 87

Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

After the hackers took over the site, it was displaying a blank page whose HTML contains Godaddy parked domain scripts. . “We encourage you NOT to visit the domain, as there are some signals that it may be related to sites that have distributed malware in the past.” use o conf urllist [link].

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

A pop-up message or blank screen typically appears on a computer or phone, informing you that your system has been compromised and requires repair. That said, here are what I consider to be the Top 5 online threats seniors face today: •Computer tech support scams.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 2, 2021

Nevertheless, in February 2021, the duo published this detailed YouTube video from February , which documents how they discovered a chain of weaknesses that allows an attacker to remotely update a vulnerable device’s firmware with a malicious backdoor — using a low-privileged user account that has a blank password.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 27, 2020

I marked out the ports and what they are known for (with a few blanks for ones I am unfamiliar with): 5900: VNC. Looking at the list of ports they are scanning, they are looking for VNC services being run on the host, which is the same thing that was reported for bank sites. 5901: VNC port 2. 5902: VNC port 3. 5903: VNC port 4.

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Libraries Security IT 121

Schneier on Security

MAY 16, 2019

According to our researchers, the attackers either had access to the source code of the victims' projects or they injected malware at the time of project compilation, meaning they were in the networks of those companies.

Healthcare 98

Healthcare Access Security IT 98

The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Late mover advantage As DigiCert was innovating in the digital trust space, Oracle’s engineers filled their blank slate with a meticulous plan to distribute leading-edge hyperscaler services globally — much more nimbly than Amazon, Microsoft or Google.

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Cloud Digital transformation Military Retail 195

Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

The BORAT RAT is also able to perform the following activities to disturb the victims: Play Audio, Swap Mouse Buttons, Show/hide the Desktop, Show/hide the taskbar, Hold Mouse, Enable/Disable webcam light, Hang System, Monitor Off, Blank screen, etc. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

The ESET team also found the malware was able to manipulate the program icon displayed by the malicious PDF, possibly because fiddling with the file extension could cause the user’s system to display a blank icon for the malware lure.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2020

The “contact us” email link on the office’s homepage leads to a blank email address, and a message sent to the one email address listed there as the main contact for the Mexican government portal (gobmx@funcionpublica.gob.mx) bounced back as an attempt to deliver to a non-existent domain name.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 9, 2020

New research: " Security Analysis of the Democracy Live Online Voting System ": Abstract: Democracy Live's OmniBallot platform is a web-based system for blank ballot delivery, ballot marking, and (optionally) online voting.

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Security Risk Privacy IT 103

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The voter brings a blank ballot to the machine, inserts it into a slot, chooses candidates. Then the machine prints those choices onto the blank ballot and spits it out for the voter to inspect. This video shows a demonstration of ExpressVote all-in-one touchscreens purchased by Johnson County, Kansas.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The flaw allows presenting a totally blank signature that is accepted as valid by the vulnerable implementation. The vulnerability, dubbed Psychic Signatures, resides in Java’s implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA).

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Authentication Access Cybersecurity Security 91

John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 9, 2023

With these two main inputs offline, I’m stuck staring at a blank page. I have dozens of active tabs open when I write, and I’ll often make on the fly phone calls to sources as well. Cell service sucks where I live, so I use WiFi calling.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

.” But for all the good it brought, the healthcare records management system that Vastaamo used relied on little more than a MySQL database that was left dangerously exposed to the web for 16 months, guarded by nothing more than an administrator account with a blank password. ”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

The Wayback Machine at archive.org has a handful of mostly blank pages indexed for fitis[.]ru The most interesting domain name registered to the email address spampage@yahoo.com, fittingly enough, is fitis[.]ru ru , which DomainTools.com says was registered in 2005 to a Konstantin E. Fetisov from Moscow.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

However, the instructions say “ if you don’t have a driver’s license or state issued ID, you can leave the following fields blank. To check the filer’s identity, the site asks for a state-issued driver’s license ID number, and the ID’s issuance and expiration dates.

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Computer and Electronics IT Government Access 343

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The threat actor employed malware like BabyShark that were hosted on Google Drive in the form of blank files or ISO image files. ARCHIPELAGO “browser-in-the-browser” phishing page The ARCHIPELAGO group has shifted its phishing tactics over time to avoid detection, the attackers use phishing messages posing as Google account security alerts.

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Phishing Passwords Military Education 81

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

of users in the report, the only contact information recorded is full name and email address.

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Authentication Cloud Access Archiving 104

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The extension replaces the suspended pages with a blank page until the users decide to use it again. The extension had more than two million installs before it was removed from the Chrome store. The extension was used to suspend tabs that aren’t in use with the intent of saving resource.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

After the hackers took over the site, it was displaying a blank page whose HTML contains Godaddy parked domain scripts. “We encourage you NOT to visit the domain, as there are some signals that it may be related to sites that have distributed malware in the past.”. The attackers changed the IP address from 151.101.2.132 to 35.186.238[.]101.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

At this time, no referral for the reporting changes has been made to the Blanks (E) Working Group, as the SAP Working Group intends to gather initial feedback regarding the proposed changes prior to making a referral. While not standard for all changes adopted by the SAP Working Group and Blanks (E) Working Group, the revisions to SSAP No.

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Insurance Paper Privacy Risk 78

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

. “A quantity of evidentiary materials was seized and held for investigation, including desktop and laptop computers, a tablet, several hard drives, cellphones, a Bitcoin seed phrase and a quantity of blank cards with magnetic stripes,” the statement continues.

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IT Ransomware Mining Sales 282

John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 8, 2023

Below is a teaser for those of you who aren’t sure you want to click the link (so few of us do these days!). — It’s rare that the marketing industry has a chance to ask such a blank-canvas question, but the rapid acceptance of AI-driven chat experiences like ChatGPT presents just such an opportunity.

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Artificial Intelligence Marketing Retail IT 59

Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

the /etc/shadow file contains a blank field in place of the encrypted password (sp_pwdp in the context of the spwd struct returned by getspent.” The NULL passoword is present in the /etc/shadow file of the affected builds of the Alpine Docker Image. “In builds of the Alpine Docker Image (>=3.3) ” continues Talos. $

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

In addition it would contain a blank folder called “test.bundle ” which would be set as the default “ openfolder ” which automatically would open /Applications/Terminal. . “The first stage includes a modified version of the Terminal app, which is registered as a handler for a new file extension (.workingpoc). workingpoc).

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Cybersecurity Security IT 90

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I reached out to ShareFile and asked them point blank whether this reset effort was in response to any sort of intrusion at Citrix or ShareFile; they said no.

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Passwords Authentication Risk Marketing 218

Schneier on Security

MARCH 18, 2022

With little trouble, I could print a blank form, fill it out, and snap a photo. My proof of COVID-19 vaccination is recorded on an easy-to-forge paper card. Small imperfections wouldn’t pose any problem; you can’t see whether the paper’s weight is right in a digital image. That, too, would be easy to fake.

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Paper Security Compliance Privacy 112

Ascent Innovations

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I leave you to fill in the blank. He always had a lot on his plate and more often than not, he would greet fellow colleagues to his office with “I can’t take it no mo’!”, “Please. or “I don’t want your _”.

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