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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer

Krebs on Security

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. ” NortonLifeLock began offering the mining service in July 2021, but the program gained broader attention on Jan.

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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The City of Durham, North Carolina, was the last victim in order of time of the infamous Ryuk ransomware that infected its systems. The City of Durham, North Carolina was forced to shut down its network after its systems have been infected with the Ryuk Ransomware during the weekend.

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EVRAZ operations in North America disrupted by Ryuk ransomware

Security Affairs

Computer systems at EVRAZ, a multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining company, have been hit by Ryuk ransomware. EVRAZ is one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies with headquarters in London.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope. Abstract.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope. Abstract.

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Steelcase office furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Office furniture company Steelcase was hit by Ryuk ransomware attack that forced it to shut down its network to avoid the malware from spreading. It is the largest office furniture manufacturer in the world.

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Will Lawyers Ever Embrace Technology?: eDiscovery Best Practices, Part Four

eDiscovery Daily

Craig Ball once made a great point in responding to a post of mine about educating lawyers when he said “ We not only need to persuade lawyers to take the plunge, we need to insure there’s a pool for them to jump into. Do they go to a community night course on computers? I don’t think I’ve even seen a really good reading list on the topic (and much as I’d like for it to be, consuming the offerings on my web site isn’t enough). ”. Electronic Discovery Ethics Evidence

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. There’s no definitive method or technique that defines malware; any program that harms the computer or system owners and benefits the perpetrators is malware. Computer Viruses. Computer worms.

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Free Tool: Honey Feed

Security Affairs

Hi folks, today I’d like to point you out another tool of mine which extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections. I run a personal HoneyPot network which stands from years and over time it harvested numerous IP addresses which could be, potentially, malicious (typically scanners). The feed is update every 24h, so it would be useless to make multiple downloads per day. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Could Beto O’Rourke become the first US President with a past of hacking?

Security Affairs

I’m mortified to read it now, incredibly embarrassed, but I have to take ownership of my words,” Mr. Rourke said during a podcast taping in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, attendees reported. Mr. O’Rourke, 46, was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow in the late 1980s when he was going online with the moniker “Psychedelic Warlord,” he also contributed to electronic magazines published online decades earlier by the hacker group. This happiness was mine by right.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 181 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Google Android team found high severity flaw in Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Amazon is investigating allegations that its staff is selling customer data. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. Ngrok Mining Botnet. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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Sustes Malware: CPU for Monero

Security Affairs

Sustes Malware doesn’t infect victims by itself, but it is spread via brute-force activities with special focus on IoT and Linux servers. Everybody knows Monero cryptocurrency and probably everybody knows that it has built upon privacy, by meaning It’s not that simple to figure out Monero wallet balance. So, let’s have a closer look at it. It filters PID from connection states and it directly kills them (kill -9).

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else 11/25: The Collective Hallucination of Currency

John Battelle's Searchblog

Bitcoin mining operation. Namely, comparing it to the early internet, and echoing the importance of not stifling innovation with overly restrictive policy. On the heels of the bitcoin hype of this week, Feld offers a helpful deconstruction: “It’s possible to separate the functions of value store, unit of account, and transaction mechanism. A new electronic payment platform that may have significant advantages over most of the existing ones.”

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How To Protect Yourself From Hackers

Cyber Info Veritas

If your data and online privacy are important to you, and it should be whether you use the internet for social media, shopping, making money online, or learning, read this article with keen interest and apply the various “hacker-resistant” strategies discussed herein. As computers and smart devices creep into every crevice of our life, the need to protect yourself from hackers has never been greater.

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To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed

CGI

When I was at university earning my Masters in Computer Science, I devoted a lot of my coursework to distributed computing. While blockchain is not suitable for every project, it does offer benefits over traditional data sharing models, making it of keen interest to the public sector. Once a piece of data or transaction is written to a blockchain, it cannot be erased or modified. It also requires thorough analysis of business considerations (e.g.,

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Car Hacking 0x05

ForAllSecure

The point here is that we aren't used to thinking about our cars as computing devices, and yet they are if common thieves are using laptops and mobile devices to gain access to them. Leale: I mean it's a love-hate relationship as you can imagine. If that's the best way to describe it.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

It's estimated that within the first year, over half the homes in the United States had spark meters installed. I mean, on the one hand, we're saying it's a national priority. And in a moment, we'll hear how he took it upon himself to learn all that he could about smart meters.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

DEF CON is 30 years old this year, and it’s bigger and better in part because of topic-specific villages. In Sin City, it's the Insect Invasion. Vamosi: I first attended DEF CON in 2000 when it was still at the Alexis Park Hotel, just off the Strip. Currently it's $300 a ticket. I went on to speak at DEF CON 18 When it was held in the Riviera. Vamosi: DEF CON moved to the Rio for a few years, and now it's at Caesars well. It's a lockpick village.

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Extending intranets to hard-to-reach staff: Controlled documents kiosk example

ChiefTech

This Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) post about meeting the needs of hard-to-reach staff reminded me of a kiosk system that was developed on top of an electronic document and records management system at Illawarra Coal (part of BHPB Billiton ) – I was part of the team that helped to implement the system and came up with the conceptual design of the intranet publishing architecture from this system.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. The film won some artistic praise, but it was also banned in several countries, including Germany. It also offered her a clean start in Hollywood. But whatever it is, inventions are early for me.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? It's natural. I mean, we've all experienced it, and usually it just lasts a moment, as when someone across the street stares before they move on. It doesn't take leet hacking skills.

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Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5 | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Enterprise software Linux Microsoft Office Open source Software as a service Virtualization Web browsers Windows 7 4G Android BlackBerry iPhone Smartphones Malware Patches Vulnerabilities McAfee Symantec Zero Day Blog Forrester Galleries IT Failures TechRepublic Pro Reviews White Papers Videos Podcasts Special Reports Apple WWDC 10 Apples top-notch security has managed to keep its new gear out of bars and the contents of. It is [.] I believe it should be "learned".

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Turning Content Inside Out

CGI

Content is produced today by most organisations in the same way since the 1980's when personal computers were introduced and 'personal productivity' software became available. A Spreadsheet - which mixes content for analytics and presentation and often holds its own copy of data, so is it up-to-date? Content is a liability unless it is findable, trusted and useable by other people - what is the point of a document that is never read? Turning Content Inside Out.

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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA

Scary Beasts Security

Sometimes the elegant solution isn't the best solution. " -- Dave House, digressing to the 8271 during "Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8080 Microprocessor" [ link ], April 26th 2007, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California. It's US4152761.