Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

Voice phishing is a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and financial information for the purpose of financial reward. . . ” The agencies provide technical details about the attack technique used by cybercriminals.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This can be used, for example, to steal stock market prediction models and spam filtering models, in order to use them or be able to optimize more efficiently against such models. This post explores each of these classes of attack in turn, providing concrete examples and discussing potential mitigation techniques. adversarial examples.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This can be used, for example, to steal stock market prediction models and spam filtering models, in order to use them or be able to optimize more efficiently against such models. This post explores each of these classes of attack in turn, providing concrete examples and discussing potential mitigation techniques. adversarial examples.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

In some cases the router is reconfigured to use rogue DNS servers, which redirect victims to phishing pages that closely look like real online banking sites. ” Avast researchers also observed crooks using DNS hijacking to deliver crypto mining scripts to users’ browsers. ” states the analysis published by Avast.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. But a decent crypto-mining rig can quickly crack a majority of password hashes generated with MD5 (one of the weaker and more commonly-used password hashing algorithms). TARGETED PHISHING.

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Adam Shostack

MAY 20, 2020

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. ” How the intrusion happens is about questions like: Is it phishing emails that steal creds? For example, I believe that patch management is way harder than you’d believe if you read infosec twitter, but so what? SQL injection?

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 | July 5th, 2023 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains A year-long phishing campaign has been uncovered that impersonates 100+ popular clothing, footwear, and apparel brands using at least 10 fake domains impersonating each brand. Save My Spot!

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Last year, I wrote a long piece on certs and phishing which I'll come back to and talk about more a little later on. No, of course we shouldn't trust it and it's a perfect example of where a positive visual indicator is, in fact, misleading. Let me explain: The Uselessness of Positive Indicators. It has a padlock! spotifyuser[.]validationsupport[.]userbilling-secure.com

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As I started delving back through my own writing over the years, the picture became much clearer and it really crystallised just this week after I inadvertently landed on a nasty phishing site. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Also, as I’ve suggested , fact denial and fake news—land mines under the librarian’s definition of info literacy—should be serious concerns for the RIM and IG professional communities as well, given our core principles of integrity and transparency. Should it exclude avoiding rogue apps, weak passwords, and phishing attempts?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

But at “hubadverts.com/on-data/” for example, you will see a recent post of mine, scraped in its entirety. It’s phishing and blackhat SEO all rolled into one! Each of my posts is ripped off as a URL including that domain – if you click on the domain, you get a scammy feeling ecommerce site.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2018

The cryptocurrency craze rages on, and one unintended consequence is the dramatic rise of illicit cryptocurrency mining. To help you unpack all of this, here are five fundamental concepts that will help you understand why you should reduce your exposure to illicit cryptocurrency mining. Coinhive is a notable example.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Anti- phishing , anti-fraud and anti-spam features. Email phishing filter. Detection Using Machine Learning and Data Mining. One round of MITRE testing, for example, basically measured how well an endpoint security product can stop an attack by Russian state-sponsored hackers. Multi-layer ransomware protection.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Their intent is to find technological exploits that allow them to access private and confidential data and information so that they can then use this information for personal gains—blackmailing you for money is an apt example of personal gain. Phishing attacks are one of these ingenious strategies they use.

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The Falcon's View

MARCH 12, 2018

Essentially, the reason you put something into writing is because a) you're required to do so (such as by regulations), or b) you're driven to do so due to ongoing infractions or the inability to directly codify requirements (for example, requirements on human behavior). KPIs as Policies (et al.).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

So you've got auto scaling groups, or like virtual machines and kind of easy to use this as an example, your containerization as well instead of list environments, where again, you're only kind of using the resources you need. So you might see there is a suspicious login as an example. This is great. This is how you should use it.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2019

The ensuing discussion after that tweet reminded me that I really must check back in on what I suspect may be the single most significant example of why EV has become little more than a useless gimmick today. It all started on stage at NDC Sydney in September, more than 8 months ago now.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. To use an example of a functional GRC strategy in action, imagine a fictional retail business that sells vitamin supplements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. To use an example of a functional GRC strategy in action, imagine a fictional retail business that sells vitamin supplements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. IT governance and security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. For example, what is the equivalent of mutually assured destruction and cyber?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. For example, what is the equivalent of mutually assured destruction and cyber?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

He shares a particular example: e-commerce couldn’t have happened without fundamental crypto libraries, such as TLS and SSL. Gary McGraw is a good friend of mine and I've talked to him about software security for almost two decades now. For example, what is the equivalent of mutually assured destruction and cyber?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Examples include baiting, pretexting, and impersonation.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

” David said Truglia initially explained his wealth by saying he’d made the money by mining cryptocurrencies , but that Truglia later would admit he stole the funds. For example, once at a crowded lounge, he said: ‘Chris, I have more money than all of the people here tonight.'”

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Vamosi: malware that typically gets deposited on your computer from say a phishing attack or a malicious website is sometimes just a shell. Vamosi: The war dialing example at the beginning, hanging up when the other end answers would be more like a Surface Scan or a port scan, where you just check to see if the port is open.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Perhaps Kyle can give us an example of how this works in the real world. My favorite example of how this works is it's not always additive, meaning they need to bring in their own complex payloads. N etwork Chuck : Let's say I receive an email, a phishing email. And that was kind of the beginning of what we saw.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Is it a phishing site? Well, unless you actually load it up then it's rather red: It's not DigiCert's fault that someone has stood up a phishing site here, but this demonstrates how telling people to use a website checker does absolutely nothing of any use whatsoever. Or just a bank without EV? version?!

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

How this is done depends on the technology of choice, for example in the Microsoft world there are a couple of ways to grant other people access. The most impactful example of this is Edward Snowden persuading NSA colleagues to provide their credentials to him. . — FamilyofFlowers (@FamilyoFlowers) December 4, 2017.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, there are extremists who also use the Dark Web. SCHWARTZ : And towards the end of my internship, I was discussing what I was doing with a friend of mine who said, Oh, but it's a company that my friend works at called Cyber six skill and they do everything that you're doing manually. Those are just two examples.

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