Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

This article might be written very differently in an academic publication, for example, and publishing it here entailed pitching an editor, revising multiple drafts for style and focus, and so on. In response, scammers built link farms and spammed comment sections, falsely presenting their trashy pages as authoritative.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

states now have designated safe trading stations — mostly at local police departments — which ensure that all transactions are handled in plain view of both the authorities and security cameras. Nearly all U.S. And that probably holds true for all of Craigslist’s competitors.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2020

You can’t argue with that if you think our health should be our top priority, but keeping the status quo will of course continue to affect our jobs, our organisational security and our wellbeing. But that’s not to suggest that the government’s cyber security agency hadn’t done anything about the threat until now. Phishing scams.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. Earlier this year, for example, the group was tied to a particularly aggressive malware campaign that exploited recent vulnerabilities in widely-used networking products, including flaws in Cisco and D-Link routers, as well as Citrix and Pulse VPN appliances.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2020

In more positive news, the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) has created a new service that’s designed to spread awareness of cyber crime. The Suspicious Email Reporting Service allows people to send any suspicious emails they receive to the UK government’s cyber security agency. Phishing scams. Free resource.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On Friday, a deepfake video emerged on Twitter that appeared to show FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried offering an opportunity for users to recoup their losses. The video directed viewers to visit a website where they could enter a giveaway to win cryptocurrency. A series of phishing emails were discovered by the security firm Trellix.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To recognise and celebrate all our partners’ contributions, on 9 April 2024 we’ll be presenting awards and prizes to both organisations and individuals in a partner-exclusive, in-person awards ceremony. We are the market leader in data privacy and cyber security risk management solutions, so it makes sense to partner with us.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

HideezKey- This is a deep-dive into a nice concept for a security token & password manager that turned into a horrible product due to lack of proper R&D and Threat Modeling. video below), I started looking around for more interesting and concerning (from a security point of view) NRF52-based products.

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Lenny Zeltser

JANUARY 6, 2021

Malware analysis sits at the intersection of incident response, forensics, system and network administration, security monitoring, and software engineering. As someone who’s helped thousands of security professionals learn how to analyze malware at SANS Institute , I have a few tips for how you can get started.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. To be truly useful, the report must be more than a simple list.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2021

For example, financial services firms may be worried about employees breaching insider trading laws. Employee monitoring software not only helps track productivity and the possibility of data being misappropriated but also helps your cyber security team spot poor cyber security practices that could result in cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher Sreeram KL, he demonstrated how to exploit it to hijack Google Docs screenshot of any document due to postmessage misconfiguration and browser behavior. “After watching the video, I learned a new trick that I didn’t knew before. ” wrote the expert.

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IT Governance

APRIL 24, 2024

She gave a fascinating, interactive presentation on AI, focusing on its benefits, as well as the threats it presents, such as prompt hacking and jailbreaks. For scammers, that’s a good way to get through to people – by having an influencer endorse sham products, for example. Bridget, thank you for the food for thought.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It substantially follows the draft guidance, with some additional examples and pointers on where employers “must”, “should”, or “could” follow the approach laid out. Similarly, examples draw out the distinctions between workers who might expect intrusive monitoring in their employment and those who would not. Takeaways for employers 1.1

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

Security experts at Realmode Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Kindle e-reader that could have allowed an attacker to take over victims’ devices. Realmode Labs reported the flaws to Amazon on October 17 and the company released security updates to address them on December 10, 2020. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2021

It regularly checks the clipboard content for a format of a cryptocurrency wallet and, if a wallet address is present there, it replaces it with one of its own wallets.” If the malicious process is terminated — for example via the Task manager — it can then get triggered again on startup or by the scheduled task in the next minute.”

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IT Governance

MAY 14, 2020

Indeed, remote working exposes organisations to many problems – both in terms of their security and their ability to operate productively. As you’ve no doubt seen over the past few weeks, technology has presented massive opportunities for remote workers but can also introduce major risks. Technological risks. Legal requirements.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

This is the space in which virtually all security vulnerabilities originate.” Looking at both UFED and Physical Analyzer, though, we were surprised to find that very little care seems to have been given to Cellebrite’s own software security. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2022

It lists examples such as apps that request access to your GPS location, contacts list or photo albums. Another tip offered by the campaign is to review the privacy and security settings on web services and apps that you use. If you miss the presentation, it will be available to download from our website.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The findings, which were presented at the USENIX SOUPS security conference in August, were the result of a year-long investigation into the effectiveness of staff awareness training. According to the researchers, staff awareness training works best when there is a visual component – whether a video or an interactive element.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Security researcher discovered a series of flaws, collectively tracked as FragAttacks, that impact the WiFi devices sold for the past 24 years. Belgian security researcher Mathy Vanhoef disclosed the details of a multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as FragAttacks, that affect WiFi devices exposed them to remote attacks.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 29, 2024

There are personal stashes of data breaches all over the place and they're usually presented like this one: You'll recognise many of those names because they're noteworthy incidents that received a bunch of press. Ashley Madison. You may only search information about yourself, or those you are authorized in writing to do so.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

IBM’s security researchers demonstrated that the Siri Shortcuts introduced in the Apple iOS 12 can be abused by attackers. Researchers at IBM Managed Security Services discovered that Siri Shortcuts can be abused by hackers to perform malicious activities. ” reads the analysis published by IBM. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

We’ll tell our card tune to this one, and treat it as a digital video broadcasting for satellite feed. The feed are transmitted in MPEG video streaming format or the generic stream encapsulation (GSE) protocols. For example, imagine a cruise line that has a bunch of Windows devices aboard it ships.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

The rapid adoption has been driven by a combination of ever more visible browser warnings (it was Chrome and Firefox's changes which prompted the aforementioned tipping point post), more easily accessible certificates via both Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and a growing awareness of the risks that unencrypted traffic presents. WiFi Pineapple.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

“We present Spook.js, a JavaScript-based Spectre attack that can read from the entire address space of the attacking webpage. “For example, Chrome will separate example.com and example.net as their top-level-domains,net and.com, are different. to read sensitive information from other webpages.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. This variant of a screen-lock attack further threatens to erase the phone’s memory, including contacts, pictures and videos, as well as publicly post all of that sensitive personal information to the victim’s go-to social media accounts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2021

It is easy to contemplate the enormous opportunities that 5G presents for all industries. This is more than just the ability to see videos faster. There is, however a seriousness consideration to this new technology; data security. Where should data security be assigned? That is more than 9 devices per person.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The situation might seem hopeless, with cyber criminals outnumbering overworked and underfunded information security personnel, but there are plenty of ways you can improve your defences, even on a tight budget. Videos, blogs and podcasts. Green papers. This green paper explains each requirement and how you can comply.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With top names in IOT (Paras/Nexus/Wicked) being inactive, Scarface/Faraday is presently a go to name for script kiddies for buying IoT botnet code as well as weaponized exploits. Another URL is connected to via wget which doesn’t do much as it hosts a meme video (probably an indicator that by this time Scarface has owned your device).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

Common examples of such “fingerprints” logged by these systems include the IP address, browser information, device characteristics, screen resolution, time zone, language settings and the browser plugins installed. MASQ – is a great example of it.” – said Saraj Pant, cyber threat intelligence analyst with Resecurity, Inc.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

One of those interests that took off was computer security. But, as amazing as all that sounds, there are tradeoffs -- in privacy, for example. His approachable style and his desire to teach others what he’s learned about information security has resulted in a massive following of half a million subscribers. MODEM SOUND].

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

One of those interests that took off was computer security. But, as amazing as all that sounds, there are tradeoffs -- in privacy, for example. His approachable style and his desire to teach others what he’s learned about information security has resulted in a massive following of half a million subscribers. MODEM SOUND].

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Our new research recently discovered a security issue with Santander , the 5th largest bank in Europe and the 16th largest in the world. Representatives from the leading European bank responded to our emails and seem to have fixed the issue, as we are presently unable to access the information. or critical information from the blog?

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 15, 2024

Generative AI presents an unprecedented opportunity to enhance various aspects of government operations and improve services for citizens. Last year, the US Department of State sought feedback on the challenges and security considerations of introducing generative and natural language processing AI into its network.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But how exactly will artificial intelligence help bridge the information security skills gap? And even with the help of machine learning algorithms, what kinds of security work is still best left to humans? We also talk about what’s driving the adoption of AI and machine learning technologies in the information security field.

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