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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. The vulnerability is the result of weak encryption used by TP-Link. The growth has been driven by the free and easy availability of certificates, largely due to the emergence of Let's Encrypt in 2016.

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The Decreasing Usefulness of Positive Visual Security Indicators (and the Importance of Negative Ones)

Troy Hunt

The correct answer to this question is: The traffic between the browser and the webshop is encrypted. Most notably, they're now free through services like Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and they're dead easy to setup so there goes another barrier too. Last month, I hopped over to Hawaii for the inaugural Loco Moco Sec conference.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: I started calling friends of mine. I said, Do you have one of these things, and I got lucky that a friend of mine in San Francisco had one. Since then, the subject of API security is gaining traction at conferences, it's becoming a track that is something more and more people are interested in. Well, it turns out a lot.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

Kent: I started calling friends of mine. I said, Do you have one of these things, and I got lucky that a friend of mine in San Francisco had one. Since then, the subject of API security is gaining traction at conferences, it's becoming a track that is something more and more people are interested in. Well, it turns out a lot.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

So in this episode, I'm going to share some of the conversations I've had with leaders of some of those more established villages over the last 50 episodes of the hacker mine. Ollam: so locks at DEF CON and locks it at any hacker conference. This year, there are over 30 distinct villages available. Do you want to do that next year?

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Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

Krebs on Security

Known as “original gangster” or “OG” accounts, short-character profile names confer a measure of status and wealth in certain online communities, and such accounts can often fetch thousands of dollars when resold in the underground. “just dont want my irl getting sus[pended].”

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