August, 2021

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Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

Krebs on Security

I was preparing to knock off work for the week on a recent Friday evening when a curious and annoying email came in via the contact form on this site: “Hello I go by the username Nuclear27 on your site Briansclub[.]com ,” wrote “ Mitch ,” confusing me with the proprietor of perhaps the underground’s largest bazaar for stolen credit and identity data. “I made a deposit to my wallet on the site but nothing has shown up yet and I would like to know why.” Th

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Whitelisting vs. Blacklisting: Which is Better?

eSecurity Planet

Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated all the time. From phishing scams to ransomware and botnets, it’s hard to keep up with the latest methods that cybercriminals use. It’s not just about stopping unwanted intruders from getting into a system, however.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

For everything from minor network infractions to devastating cyberattacks and data privacy troubles , digital forensics software can help clean up the mess and get to the root of what happened. Since the inception of data forensics almost forty years ago, methods for investigating security events have given way to a market of vendors and tools offering digital forensics software (DFS).

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FBI Issues Alert on Hive Ransomware

Data Breach Today

Uptick in Hive Ransomware Activity Spotted The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning about Hive ransomware after the group took down Memorial Health System last week. The alert details indicators of compromise, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with these ransomware attacks.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Apple’s NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered

Schneier on Security

Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm — the one it’s using for client-side scanning on the iPhone — has been reverse-engineered. Turns out it was already in iOS 14.3, and someone noticed : Early tests show that it can tolerate image resizing and compression, but not cropping or rotations. We also have the first collision : two images that hash to the same value.

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Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware

Krebs on Security

Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company.

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1.9 million+ records from the FBI’s terrorist watchlist available online

Security Affairs

A security researcher discovered that a secret FBI’s terrorist watchlist was accidentally exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021. A security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records that were exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021.

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UK ICO Approves the First UK GDPR Certification Scheme Criteria

Hunton Privacy

On August 19, 2021, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) approved the criteria for three certification schemes, as required under Article 42(5) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”). Certification schemes are one method for organizations to demonstrate compliance with the UK GDPR. The ICO has approved criteria for the following schemes: ADISA ICT Asset Recovery Certification 8.0 : This certification standard was developed for data processors or sub-processors provi

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Cloudflare Thwarts Largest Ever HTTP DDoS Attack

Data Breach Today

17.2 Million RPS Attack Originated From Over 20,000 Bots In 125 Countries Security firm Cloudflare says it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) distributed denial of service attack, almost three times larger than any previously reported HTTP DDoS attack.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Using “Master Faces” to Bypass Face-Recognition Authenticating Systems

Schneier on Security

Fascinating research: “ Generating Master Faces for Dictionary Attacks with a Network-Assisted Latent Space Evolution.” Abstract: A master face is a face image that passes face-based identity-authentication for a large portion of the population. These faces can be used to impersonate, with a high probability of success, any user, without having access to any user-information.

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Why No HTTPS? The 2021 Version

Troy Hunt

More than 3 years ago now, Scott Helme and I launched a little project called Why No HTTPS? It listed the world's largest websites that didn't properly redirect insecure requests to secure ones. We updated it December before last and pleasingly, noted that more websites than ever were doing the right thing and forcing browsers down the secure path.

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Man Robbed of 16 Bitcoin Sues Young Thieves’ Parents

Krebs on Security

In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, Schober says he’s confident he has located two young men in the United Kingdom responsible for using a clever piece of digital clipboard-stealing malware that let them siphon his crypto holdings. Schober is now suing each of their parents in a civil case that seeks to extract what their children would not return voluntarily.

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Attackers Exploit Flaw that Could Impact Millions of Routers, IoT Devices

eSecurity Planet

Cybercriminals using an IP address in China are trying to exploit a vulnerability disclosed earlier this month to deploy a variant of the Mirai malware on network routers affected by the vulnerability, according to researchers with Juniper Threat Labs. In a recent blog post , the researchers said the bad actors are looking to leverage a path traversal vulnerability that could affect millions of home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use the same code base and are manufactur

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR

Security Affairs

The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union’s GDPR. The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the Senate Chancellory’s use of the popular videoconferencing tool violates the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Hackers Target Critical Infrastructure in Southeast Asia

Data Breach Today

Symantec: China-Linked Actors Investigate SCADA Systems An unidentified hacking group with suspected Chinese ties is targeting critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia as part of a cyberespionage campaign to exfiltrate information about the victim's SCADA systems, says a report by security firm Symantec.

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Defeating Microsoft’s Trusted Platform Module

Schneier on Security

This is a really interesting story explaining how to defeat Microsoft’s TPM in 30 minutes — without having to solder anything to the motherboard. Researchers at the security consultancy Dolos Group, hired to test the security of one client’s network, received a new Lenovo computer preconfigured to use the standard security stack for the organization.

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Ontario moves towards introducing new privacy law

Data Protection Report

Given global trends in the development of privacy laws and enforcement, Canada and several provinces are looking at modernizing their respective privacy regimes. Ontario’s new proposed privacy law, which would govern commercial activities more broadly than current legislation (i.e., our federal legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and Ontario’s health privacy legislation, the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)), is intended to en

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

Krebs on Security

Communications giant T-Mobile said today it is investigating the extent of a breach that hackers claim has exposed sensitive personal data on 100 million T-Mobile USA customers, in many cases including the name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, phone number, security PINs and details that uniquely identify each customer’s mobile device.

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Supply Chain Flaws Found in Python Package Repository

eSecurity Planet

Administrators overseeing the Python Package Index (PyPI) in recent days found themselves responding to vulnerabilities found in the repository of open source software, the latest security problems to hit the Python community. Most recently, the PyPI group sent out fixes for three vulnerabilities that were discovered by security researcher RyotaK and published on his blog.

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CVE-2021-20090 actively exploited to target millions of IoT devices worldwide

Security Affairs

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass issue (CVE-2021-20090 ) affecting home routers with Arcadyan firmware. Threat actors actively exploit a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20090 , impacting home routers with Arcadyan firmware to deploy a Mirai bot. “A path traversal vulnerability in the web interfaces of Buffalo WSR-2533DHPL2 firmware version <= 1.02 and WSR-2533DHP3 firmware version <= 1.24 could allow unauthent

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Cybersecurity M&A Update: Five Firms Make Moves

Data Breach Today

Ivanti, Sophos, Deloitte, Cerberus Sentinel and Feedzai Announce Deals Cybersecurity acquisitions continue at an intense pace, with Ivanti, Sophos, Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory, Cerberus Sentinel and Feedzai all making moves to bolster their security portfolios.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage

Schneier on Security

Apple’s announcement that it’s going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. ( Here are five news stories.) I have been following the details, and discussing it in several different email lists. I don’t have time right now to delve into the details, but wanted to post something. EFF writes : There are two main features that the company is planning to install in every Apple device.

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MacOS Flaw in Telegram Retrieves Deleted Messages

Threatpost

Telegram declined to fix a scenario in which the flaw can be exploited, spurring a Trustwave researcher to decline a bug bounty and to disclose his findings instead.

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Ransomware Gangs and the Name Game Distraction

Krebs on Security

It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband. We hang on to these occasional victories because history tells us that most ransomware moneymaking collectives don’t go away so much as reinvent themselves under a new name, with new rules, targets and weaponry. Indeed, some of the most destructive and costly ransomware groups are now in their third incarnation.

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Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices: GeoEdge

eSecurity Planet

A malicious advertising campaign originating out of Eastern Europe and operating since at least mid-June is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to home networks, according to executives with GeoEdge, which offers ad security and quality solutions to online and mobile advertisers. The executives said the “malvertising” campaign – which was uncovered by GeoEdge’s security research team with AdTech partners InMobi and Verve Group – came out of Ukraine and Slovenia and reached as fa

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Accenture has been hit by a LockBit 2.0 ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Global consulting giant Accenture has allegedly been hit by a ransomware attack carried out by LockBit 2.0 ransomware operators. IT and consulting giant Accenture was hit by a ransomware attack carried out by LockBit 2.0 ransomware operators, the group announced the hack on its leak site, “These people are beyond privacy and security. I really hope that their services are better than what I saw as an insider.

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Cybercriminals Reportedly Created Blockchain Analytics Tool

Data Breach Today

Researchers Say the Tool Is Designed To Help Gangs Launder Bitcoin Cybercriminals have developed a blockchain analytics tool on the darknet that could help a gang launder illegally obtained bitcoin, and they are actively marketing it, according to the cryptocurrency analytics firm Elliptic. The tool, however, is rated as not entirely effective.

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The European Space Agency Launches Hackable Satellite

Schneier on Security

Of course this is hackable: A sophisticated telecommunications satellite that can be completely repurposed while in space has launched. […]. Because the satellite can be reprogrammed in orbit, it can respond to changing demands during its lifetime. […]. The satellite can detect and characterise any rogue emissions, enabling it to respond dynamically to accidental interference or intentional jamming.