Schneier on Security

JUNE 15, 2020

Just the increased funding to Defense was 30 percent higher than the total Homeland Security budget to improve the security of federal networks ($909 million compared to $694.1 In fact, the cyber operations budget is higher than the budgets for the CISA, the FBI and the Department of Justice's National Security Division combined ($3.7

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years. The good news is that there is some very deep, behind-the-scenes research and development work being done to make driverless vehicles safe and secure enough for public acceptance. military and intelligence agencies.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some questions to think about: Representative democracies were built under the assumption that travel and communications were difficult. Limit financial and military power? My perspective, of course, is security. What could democracy look like if it were reinvented today? And much more: What about the justice system?

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. It has since been confirmed by Anukul Peedkaew, the permanent secretary of social development and human security.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Icamis and Sal were in daily communications with these botmasters, via the Spamdot forum and private messages. For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities.

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KnowBe4

MAY 22, 2019

He’s got info security folks requiring him to take annual training, posting educational videos, and sending simulated phishing email all the time. But when it gets right down to it, Bob doesn’t understand quite where security ends and privacy begins. Less filling!”. To Bob, it’s all about protecting data. And the time is now.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Employers are free to monitor these communications, as long as there's a valid business purpose for doing so. There are, of course, many nuances to the discussion. Sidenote: there's a whole other discussion about active interception of encrypted communications that may also give an employer access to this.)

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

The document provides a list of mitigation strategies, including turning things off: If it is critical that location is not revealed for a particular mission, consider the following recommendations: Determine a non-sensitive location where devices with wireless capabilities can be secured prior to the start of any activities.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate R emote A dministration T ool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a R emote A ccess T rojan. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

based security vendor in the thick of helping companies make more of their threat feeds. The company launched in 2013, the brainchild of Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, a couple of buddies working as security analysts in a U.S. Threat actors will innovate, of course. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. ThreatQuotient is a Reston, Virg.-based

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It’s often not enough to rely on employees memorising the guidance from staff awareness training courses. This could be as simple as getting another member of staff to check it for authenticity, or as complex as using a second means of communication to confirm the invoice with the organisation that sent it.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Pentesters work closely with the organization whose security posture they are hired to improve. Limited tests can focus on narrower targets such as networks, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, physical security, cloud security, web applications, or other system components. Additionally, tests can be comprehensive or limited.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

But, according to security researchers at Abnormal Security, cybercriminals are becoming brazen and are taking their shots at very large prizes. According to Abnormal Security, nearly every aspect of the request looked legitimate. This attack begins with a case of VEC – where a domain is impersonated.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

This is the story of a film star who connected the simple concept behind a player piano to complex communication technology in use in our devices today. A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Some do ask for our SSN, of course. Now, of course, we happily leave digital breadcrumbs everywhere, and private corporations, driven by profit, are far more advanced than the government at profiling and tracking us. Delivery/Communication. All of these are private corporations. Education. . I have a lot more to learn here.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Upon graduation everyone was assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and sent off to train for it. So I went to Vietnam in December of 1966 as an infantryman and through a mistake in my orders was assigned to the 1 st Marine Division Security Platoon instead of directly to a line company. ” But of course I didn’t.

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Reltio

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I started work as a developer at Ericsson on military applications such as radar systems. Increasingly business people are understanding that they should own the data, and not IT – we are not there yet of course but business value is the most important thing. I learned very fast because I was having fun.” .

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Reltio

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I started work as a developer at Ericsson on military applications such as radar systems. Increasingly business people are understanding that they should own the data, and not IT – we are not there yet of course but business value is the most important thing. . “Of course! The other big area is graph databases.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Facing a backlash from lawmakers and the public, the IRS soon reverses course , saying video selfies will be optional and that any biometric data collected will be destroyed after verification.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

As a journalist, I, of course, had experienced all of the relevant domains, but my knowledge in each was only so deep. I guess the answer is what I usually say to a security question: It depends. Clearing you don’t want someone off the street coming in as a Level 2 security analyst. I also went after a CISSP certification.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Especially in the world of security standards.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Especially in the world of security standards.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Some, like Adam Van Prooyan, just kind of wandered into that path, in part because he was interested in computers, and also because the West Point Military Academy just happened to have a CTF team that competes in the annual Cyberstakes competition. Vamosi: So, not everyone is in a military academy. Cyber 600 and that was.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Both were well-equipped to teach, test and train individuals ranging from teen-agers and non-technical adults, to working system administrators and even seasoned tech security pros. Guiding youth is vital, of course. Veterans have an inclination to continually defend their country, and many have security clearances, he says. “We

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. ” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. Say you’re an organization that’s been hit with ransomware.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

So you’re in your SOC, your security operations center. In your role, you have to see that everything is secure, 24/7, and think of every crazy attack vector, but for a hacker, they only have to find that one fault--and then they’re inside. Manka: I spent about seven-ish years working at the National Security Agency.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So you’re in your SOC, your security operations center. In your role, you have to see that everything is secure, 24/7, and think of every crazy attack vector, but for a hacker, they only have to find that one fault--and then they’re inside. Manka: I spent about seven-ish years working at the National Security Agency.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So you’re in your SOC, your security operations center. In your role, you have to see that everything is secure, 24/7, and think of every crazy attack vector, but for a hacker, they only have to find that one fault--and then they’re inside. Manka: I spent about seven-ish years working at the National Security Agency.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. They're typically hard to find.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns, the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war with its much larger neighbor, and of course Mikko’s new book, If it’s Smart, it’s Vulnerable. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

While some of the measures stipulated in the order are considered table stakes like multi-factor authentication, the fact that the order exists will help to raise the collective security posture of products and services. Keatron Evans, principal security researcher, Infosec Institute. Bryson Bort , CEO, SCYTHE.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? We know how Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jung-un would answer: “Of course!”. Advocates claim such access is needed to strengthen national security and hinder terrorism.

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