IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023. This vulnerability was identified by Max Corbridge and Tom Ellson of JUMPSEC in June.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Types of Cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

The company manufactures a variety of heavy equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers), such as that used for earthmoving, transport and mining. ” reads the post published by Cyble. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – BEML, hacking).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., costing an estimated $18.88 costing an estimated $18.88

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

This week, we discuss a data breach at Mumsnet, no data breach at OkCupid, and a lawsuit against Apple for implementing security measures. Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 14 February 2019. Natalie Sawyer, a spokesperson for OkCupid, said: “There has been no security breach at OkCupid.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

. “The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames , phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2024

When it comes to data security , the ancient art of cryptography has become a critical cornerstone of today’s digital age. From top-secret government intelligence to everyday personal messages, cryptography makes it possible to obscure our most sensitive information from unwanted onlookers. are kept secure.

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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. The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. million users.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. So what if you accidentally forget the password? This really happened to Dan Reich and a friend.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cybersecurity experts at CyberNews hijacked close to 28,000 unsecured printers worldwide and forced them to print out a guide on printer security. Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. Original post: [link].

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. MUSIC] VAMOSI: If you haven’t been paying attention, cloud security is critical right now.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

are kept secure. Private keys might be shared either through a previously established secure communication channel like a private courier or secured line or, more practically, a secure key exchange method like the Diffie-Hellman key agreement. National Security Agency for top secret information.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

are kept secure. Private keys might be shared either through a previously established secure communication channel like a private courier or secured line or, more practically, a secure key exchange method like the Diffie-Hellman key agreement. National Security Agency for top secret information.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Bottom Line: Preparing for Incident Response How Does Incident Response Work? In either case, preparation is critical.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Bug bounties have a really interesting way of changing the economics of security flaws and reversing the outcome from one where companies and customers lose, to promoting one where everyone wins. Today's post extends on yesterday's but I wanted to break it out into a discrete piece and come at it from a different angle. across the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. By masking high-value assets in a sea of fake attack surfaces, attackers are disoriented and attack a fake asset, in the process alerting security teams to their presence. But it can work the other way. What is Deception Technology?

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

But I don't think an attack of such magnitude as the one identified by security researchers at Internet security monitoring vendor Bolster. This latest impersonation campaign makes the case for ensuring users are vigilant when interacting with the web – something accomplished through continual Security Awareness Training.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 20, 2020

Twitter was caught storing plaintext passwords in logfiles two years ago. Apparently, Twitter did not learn from that experience or take sufficient steps keep user credentials and accounts secure.” This is a good time to reinforce the security principle of least-privilege. That’s a big security failure.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I had a chance to discuss this with Doug Dooley, COO of Data Theorem , a Silicon Valley-based application security startup helping companies deal with these growing API exposures. DevOps has decentralized the creation and delivery of smart applications that can mine humongous data sets to create cool new user experiences.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. I'm a principal on the security team at Cybereason, and I'm also a digital forensics instructor at the SANS Institute, Grooten: Martijn Grooten. So I hope you'll stick around.

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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? Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? We still have a way to go!

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

Multiple sites affiliated with the University of Florida student government hacked (unknown). Internet hosting provider Hostinger resets users’ passwords after security breach (14 million). French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000). Financial information.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Vamosi: But as someone who wrote a book questioning the security of our mass produced IoT devices, I wonder why no one bothered to test and certify these devices before they were installed? And on the other hand, we're saying security, that's a secondary concern. But we all know how security by obscurity works in the end.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

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. Then again, you might want someone --anyone -- to come in as a Level 1 security analyst so your current Level 1s can advance. Sometimes it was only 20.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

You had to figure out how to configure Kermit, get passwords to get on. Mine was 2000. And so, myself and another individual named Rob Farrell, we were brought in to start a security team. of pleasure, or rage, where operational security levels are much lower. Hacker was more about the pursuit of knowledge.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And just a side-note before I jump into those fundamentals: I had a quick flick through the government's eSafety guidance for children under 5 whilst on the plane and it has a bunch of really good stuff. And importantly, teaching them how to use secure passwords with @1Password ??

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

How HIBP runs across the various Azure services, the Cloudflare dependencies, how I recover if things go wrong and then how that's managed across different autonomous parts of the project such as the HIBP website, the Pwned Passwords service etc etc. It was an endless series of questions, meetings and if I'm honest, frustration.

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Because email isn’t deleted from most servers by default, this target-rich digital information environment is often accessible to anyone with a login and password–something that is regularly served up to hackers by the billio ns. True story: The Internet was not made with security in mind. It was made to communicate fast.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Imagine a government using this sort of attack against another government, coordinating a series of fake tweets from hundreds of politicians and other public figures the day before a major election, to affect the outcome. Yet they are run by for-profit companies with little government oversight. The FBI is investigating.

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