Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

This presents a perfect opportunity to curb their environmental damage. The most blunt solution is to ban cryptocurrency mining altogether. China did this in 2018 , but it only made the problem worse; mining moved to other countries with even less efficient energy generation, and emissions went up.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

We're happy at the keyboard, but when it comes to real human interactions, it's sometimes hard, not for everyone, of course, some of us are really good at the human side of things. You see, Mills, you see cotton gins, you see mines that have shut down, you see places and every now and then there's somewhat of a success story.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You could, of course, sell your skillz to the dark web. And the rest, they say is this as a reporter, I was in a position to learn as I wrote about information security. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind that original podcast from for all secure. And that was my introduction to the world and security. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 28, 2014

Not long ago, a colleague of mine sent to me an e-mail message that he'd received from a person who supports DB2 for z/OS at a US-based company. Hereinafter I'll endeavor to explain the reasoning behind this contention of mine. The rise of vendor-supplied applications, of course, didn't mean the end of in-house application development.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I wrote a free course for Varonis on GDPR earlier this year and I'm going to be referring to points from there quite a bit in this blog post. I won't go deep into all that here because I explain it in the aforementioned course, but let me sum it up in an easily consumable way: When you give your data to a cat forum, you still own it.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Of course, not everyone earns hundreds of thousands of dollars by probing away at other people's systems. Let's explore that further.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Humans have used technology to transform their societies from prehistoric times up to the present. Finally, Part 3 will look to the future, will present next steps, and will discuss key takeaways. Organizations use DRM technologies and solutions to securely manage intellectual property (IP) rights and monetize the content.

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The components, processes, and details of records management are, of course, the focus of exam prep. Mine has been a positive one, and I thank the ICRM for supporting the opportunity for measurable, professional validation. The webinar was presented by a very senior member of the organization. They were for me.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2021

Every site that had Coinhive running on it, either by the design of the site owner or at the whim of a cryptojacker, stopped mining Monero. which was used for their link shortener (which also caused browsers to mine Monero). The site disappeared and the domain stopped resolving. wasm) in their paper. Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+apollohobo/1.0.0+Chrome/58.0.3029.110+Electron/1.7.9+Safari/537.36

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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

JUNE 16, 2021

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. And we've had our fair share of security concerns with those.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

APIs are vital in our mobile digital world, but the consequences of API security flaws have yet to be seen. During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. And we've had our fair share of security concerns with those.

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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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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

We think there are three big, compelling reasons to use a managed system for integrating RSS in your enterprise communications mix: synchronization, analytics and security. " Of course Id also like an enterprise version of Yahoo! Attensa is a client of mine, and I live the benefits every day. Help me understand - thank you.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all security. The actress was also responsible for developing the underlying technology that is present today in Wi Fi and Bluetooth. A short time later, they completed their design and presented it to the US Patent Office. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

And of course, we’re all fully staffed, right? We were proactive with offers to present on the program at any venue. We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. the many fronts that records touch within the organization make us feel like we need an army to even chip away at solutions.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Online security, technology and “The Cloud” Australian.", " 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). Not major issues in and of themselves, but they amplify the problems the exposed data presents.

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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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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. I mean what's the remaining gap? But that shouldn't be that surprising given that only 2.3% We still have a way to go!

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Lodrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 presentation. Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. It's an important topic, with real human consequences.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Anyone who has anyone in the information security community is usually melting under the hot Nevada sun. And by de I'm an analyst at Javelin strategy and research where I do security risk and fraud for the financial services industry. I write a monthly security column for Windows Secrets and I do a couple other things on the side.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I also noticed that although my email address ([redacted]) is in the csv data, there's also another email address ([redacted]) which is not mine. However, unlike many large corpuses of aggregated data I've seen in the past, this one is.  number of ppl living at the house has changed.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. 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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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

It's after as much clean-up as I could reasonably do and per the previous paragraph, the source data was presented in a variety of different formats and levels of "cleanliness". people presently use the free notification service and 768k of them are in this breach. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. Oh wow - look at this!

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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

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. So, when they saw my presentation, years ago, about locks and lock picking at DEF CON. To start, challenges, and workshop tables.

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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. So, when they saw my presentation, years ago, about locks and lock picking at DEF CON. To start, challenges, and workshop tables.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What was most interesting, of course, were the computer connections. Vamosi: Ssh, or secure shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating Network Services securely over an unsecured network. So this was a business doing security and their main website and back into real compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Attackers can compromise credentials because of extensive user password problems throughout most organizations; however, a number of security solutions provide credentials protection for both basic and advanced needs. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

When I say "kill", that never meant that EV would no longer technically work, but it killed the single thing spruikers of it relied upon - being visually present beside the address bar. No, of course not, and their abandonment of EV without consequences proves how little value they (and many others) actually place in it.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Mine was 2000. of pleasure, or rage, where operational security levels are much lower.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

I hope I was a bit more articulate than Richard, but I was someone fronting up and presenting my pride and joy to strangers who I hoped would share the same enthusiasm for it that I did. We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post. Was this the future I wanted?

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

My interest in the chip was piqued when I accidentally triggered a wild test mode that managed to corrupt one of my floppy discs even though the write protect tab was present! There are a large number of large structures present, densely packed. The rest of the abstract is a gold mine. What wonders will we find?

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