Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One possible solution, touted by former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on a recent podcast , would be for the federal government to step in and help pay for these sorts of attacks by providing a cyber insurance backstop. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Tue, 11/29/2022 - 06:08. The European Union enacted the Network and Information System (NIS) regulation in July 2016 with the intention of ensuring a specific level of security for networks and information systems belonging to critical and sensitive infrastructures in EU member states. Strengthened security requirements.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

*Reprinted with permission from the May 6, 2022 edition of the New York Law Journal © 202X ALM Global Properties, LLC. In March 2022, the White House issued a dramatic warning based on “evolving intelligence” about potential Russian cyberattacks on the United States in response to U.S.-imposed 19, 2022). All rights reserved.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign leveraging the Anubis Network is targeting Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. Figure 2 presents an example of an SMS sent to Internet end-users during the ANUBIS social engineering wave.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

Today’s Part III looks at how Conti abused a panoply of popular commercial security services to undermine the security of their targets, as well as how the team’s leaders strategized for the upper hand in ransom negotiations with victims. Conti is by far the most aggressive and profitable ransomware group in operation today.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Thu, 11/03/2022 - 05:31. Remote and hybrid workforces are making things harder to manage since security perimeters have become a moving target and digital identities are now the new corporate boundary to defend. 5 Needed Zero-Trust Answers on Taming Certificate Sprawl. The challenges of certificate sprawl.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Initially, security vendors only offered two-factor authentication. Since then, security vendors have introduced new methods for authentication, which can be layered to create a multi-factor authentication solution. This post has been updated for 2021. Something you have.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #12 | March 21st, 2023 [Heads Up] This Week's New SVB Meltdown Social Engineering Attacks On Saturday March 11, I warned about the coming wave of phishing attacks that would undoubtedly follow the SVB collapse. There is a raft of new registered domains that are SVB-related, for example login.svb[.]com

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For example, a simple system that has only an on off switch. Often the tiny flashing light on the dashboard also alerts would-be criminals that the car is protected by the latest form of anti theft security. A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. There is no easy way around it.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

From her talk at SecTor 2022 , Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of Cqure , returns to The Hacker Mind and explains how a lot of little configuration errors in common Windows tools and services can open the door to persistence on a system for bad actors and what sysadmins can do to mitigate these. And secure Academy. Special coding tricks?

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

But here’s the thing, after 16 guesses the data on the wallet would automatically erase. Fortunately, this is digital hardware device--the password is on a chip somewhere -- so Dan and his friend turned to a world-renowned embedded security expert, Joe Grand, who looked at the Trezor wallet. You know, a safety feature.

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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'd be allowed, right?

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