The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

In the first case you quickly go down the data governance path (inclusive of data security), which must factor in requirements for control, retention, protection (including encryption), and masking/redaction, to name a few things. Consider, if you will, a cloud resource being compromised in order to run cryptocurrency mining.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

And let's be fair to Barclays - it's not just them offering outdated and inaccurate advice about the true meaning of the padlock: Taking a mandatory Cyber Awareness Course. The correct answer to this question is: The traffic between the browser and the webshop is encrypted. But the option does not exist. It has a padlock!

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case. The major types of security controls for data lakes fall into the categories of: isolation, authorization, encryption , transmission, and storage. Data Lake Encryption. Data Lake Isolation.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? " It means "this is private."

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Of course Id also like an enterprise version of Yahoo! Attensa is a client of mine, and I live the benefits every day. We take the ability to transport email between organisations for granted and I think we need RSS to have the same abilities. Pipes too! :-) Technorati tags: RSS , Enterprise Web 2.0 , RSS Server , Attensa , Yahoo!

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

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. Of course, Jason reached out to Chamberlain, the company that makes the garage door opener he was using. Well, it turns out a lot. He told me. Vamosi: Once the problem is found.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

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. Of course, Jason reached out to Chamberlain, the company that makes the garage door opener he was using. Well, it turns out a lot. He told me. Vamosi: Once the problem is found.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

" because I had no expectation at all of any of that data being publicly available (note: phone number is optional, I chose to add mine). The one saving grace is that the token was rotated after reset so you can't use the one in the image above, but of course the new one was now publicly exposed in the API!

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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. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Warning signs. The data is neither stolen nor manipulated.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2018

It was a massive year for encrypted web communications and people have really eaten up material on it. Plus, I reckon I also scrubbed up alright given my usual level of presentiveness (my 8-year old son's word, not mine!) I only recorded one "traditional" course (i.e. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 6, 2020

Vamosi: So it’s, what, July and for me that would mean my 20th year going to Las Vegas.for Hacker Summer Camp, for Bsides Las Vegas , for Black Hat , and, of course, DEF CON. And last year’s defending champion, PPP, aka the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, will have to compete online, of course. Guest: Zaratec , PPP team member.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

Vamosi: So it’s, what, July and for me that would mean my 20th year going to Las Vegas.for Hacker Summer Camp, for Bsides Las Vegas , for Black Hat , and, of course, DEF CON. And last year’s defending champion, PPP, aka the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, will have to compete online, of course. Guest: Zaratec , PPP team member.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 5, 2020

Vamosi: So it’s, what, July and for me that would mean my 20th year going to Las Vegas.for Hacker Summer Camp, for Bsides Las Vegas , for Black Hat , and, of course, DEF CON. And last year’s defending champion, PPP, aka the Plaid Parliament of Pwning, will have to compete online, of course. Guest: Zaratec , PPP team member.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Of course, success at that level is exceptionally rare, but my point is that in this industry more than any other I can think of, we can create amazing things from very humble beginnings. Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year).

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

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. This year, there are over 30 distinct villages available. Yes, this episode contains some recycled material. And in Episode 16, I explored this topic further.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

So why don't I do some side look why don't I use these legitimate tools so comes up in loads of applications, you know, kindly low mine hours. And of course, hackers use that to do nefarious things, but by default, in most situations, macros are disabled. N etwork Chuck : Let's say I receive an email, a phishing email. So interesting.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

Ollam: So lockpicking has always been a huge part of the hacker world, and the community, both as a hobby interest, and also now increasingly as with faces like mine as a professional endeavor. That would be of course a lot easier to get yourself that big payday. There was a cannabis village recently at DEF CON. That gets us in.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Ollam: So lockpicking has always been a huge part of the hacker world, and the community, both as a hobby interest, and also now increasingly as with faces like mine as a professional endeavor. That would be of course a lot easier to get yourself that big payday. There was a cannabis village recently at DEF CON. That gets us in.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

No, of course not, and their abandonment of EV without consequences proves how little value they (and many others) actually place in it. A secure website check can let you know any vulnerabilities on the site, if it is using encryption and what level of verification a site has. Instead, the digicert-secured.com domain is mine.

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