Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Wildlife crime syndicates can not only coordinate better but can mine growing public data sets, often of geotagged images. Animal data protection laws, where they exist at all, are oblivious to these new threats, and no-one seems to have started to think seriously about information security. Video here.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. The post Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now for the big challenge - security. The "s" in IoT is for Security Ok, so the joke is a stupid oldie, but a hard truth lies within it: there have been some shocking instances of security lapses in IoT devices. Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Operators behind the FreakOut (aka Necro, N3Cr0m0rPh) Python botnet have added a PoC exploit for Visual Tools DVR, a professional digital video recorder used in surveillance video systems. The post Necro botnet now targets Visual Tools DVRs appeared first on Security Affairs. from visual-tools.com. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. “As soon as the apps are downloaded and launched, they fetch a coin-mining JavaScript library by triggering Google Tag Manager (GTM) in their domain servers.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Towards this end it has begun sharing videos, whitepapers and reports designed to rally decision makers from all quarters to a common cause. I had a lively discussion with Craig Hinkley, CEO of NTT Application Security , about the thinking behind this crusade. NTT, in short, has set out to usher in a new era of human wellness.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. Related video: Why it’s high time to protect unstructured data. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. A few takeaways: Outside a database.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. The regulation around IoT security was this year’s signal that the answer is, fortunately, no. Insights from VDOO’s leadership. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Monero cryptomining miner, dubbed BlackSquid, that is targeting web servers, network drives, and removable drives. “Simultaneous with its attacks, BlackSquid also downloads and executes two XMRig cryptocurrency-mining components.! continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 4, 2019

After I gave him the password to my iPhone, Moncivias spent three hours reviewing hundreds of photos and videos and emails and calls and texts, including encrypted messages on WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. Nothing on mine was spared. Consider everything on your phone right now. Pomeroy, meanwhile, searched my laptop.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 24, 2020

I've had heaps of dramas in the past with recordings being lost and the first time I do a 3-person weekly update only 2 of them recorded (mine being the exception). So this video has ended up with only Scott's and Ari's mics working and me in the background along with a whole lot of unwanted conference scene noise - sorry!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Another change is related to the list of commands supported by the backdoor that now includes “get_gallery” and “get_photo” that allows operators to steal the victim’s photos and videos. The post Roaming Mantis SMSishing campaign now targets Europe appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Lower-ranked scammers are employed by the groups to drive traffic to scam websites that trick victims into downloading the malware, using links in reviews of popular games on YouTube, in mining software, on NFT forums, and in lotteries on social media. Like the attackers observed by Group-IB, SEKOIA.IO How to Stop Infostealer Malware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. IoT a Security Concern.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

Recently, I've witnessed a couple of incidents which have caused me to question some pretty fundamental security basics with our local Aussie telcos, specifically Telstra and Optus. Alarmingly, this is not unprecedented and I've been blocked before myself for reporting a security incident. No video recording or photos needed.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. We'll work through them and try to figure out where they fit into the picture in a moment, but first let's look at the actual data. And it's called Acuity!

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

I want to talk about 3 upcoming events which Scott Helme and I are going to be running our Hack Yourself First workshop at starting with this one: NDC Security Australia, 26-27 March, AU$800 This is an extra special event that we've only just decided to run. Scott and I will be doing an "unplugged" session together over the lunch breaks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2019

Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered several vulnerabilities in the communication protocols used by cranes, hoists, drills and other industrial machines. Machines used in transportation, manufacturing, construction, and mining sectors often use radio frequency (RF) protocols. ” reads the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the months following director William Hinman’s noteworthy speech on whether and when a digital asset is subject to securities laws, U.S. regulators have continued their stern warnings regarding the importance of compliance with the securities laws. securities laws. securities laws. Convertible Equity Securities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

Security researcher from F5 Networks that released more details and proof-of-concept for the recently addressed flaw in Outlook for Android. reads the security advisory published by Microsoft. This one is mine. The post Expert released PoC for Outlook for Android flaw addressed by Microsoft appeared first on Security Affairs.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. as well as math, statistics, data visualization (to present the results to stakeholders) and data mining. Are you looking for a pattern you suspect is there, but that’s hard to detect?

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

After all, records management also involves security policies, regulatory compliance, and complete lifecycle management. “Appropriate storage” means that you have the right infrastructure to keep your documents accessible, readable, and secure. ” That sounds great!

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

as highlighted in the video above. A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

as highlighted in the video above. A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For example, miners would expect to wear location tracking devices in the mine due to the risk of accidents, while office workers would not. Continuous audio and video recording can be highly intrusive and you are unlikely to be able to justify it in most circumstances.” A specific purpose for the monitoring must be identified.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Yeah, like that.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Matt Vukas tries to parse what’s going on with Comcast’s alleged throttling of Netflix traffic, playing around with encrypted VPN that masks the video traffic, and pinging the traceroute to see where is packets are coming from. Mining for efficiency and effectiveness gains, but it all sounds a little creepy, too.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Remember when web security was all about looking for padlocks? and a green padlock - must mean it's secure! ?? There's a simple and obvious reason why: Positive security indicators are readily obtainable or spoofable, but nobody ever wants to show a negative indicator on a legitimate site!

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Techopedia (2021) defines a CSP as “a software environment where users can collaborate as well as create and work on different types of content such as text, audio and video pieces. This includes the digital content previously mentioned, but with a greater emphasis on multimedia, such as podcasts, video, digital images, and movies.

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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

Yet, today, it's essentially wrong, and moreover isn't a helpful starting point for a security discussion. And, when we do think about it, it falls under the domain of site reliability engineering (SRE) rather than being a security function. We've reached this point thanks in large part to the cloud and the advent of utility computing.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2021

Every site that had Coinhive running on it, either by the design of the site owner or at the whim of a cryptojacker, stopped mining Monero. which was used for their link shortener (which also caused browsers to mine Monero). The site disappeared and the domain stopped resolving. Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+apollohobo/1.0.0+Chrome/58.0.3029.110+Electron/1.7.9+Safari/537.36

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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. Facing a backlash from lawmakers and the public, the IRS soon reverses course , saying video selfies will be optional and that any biometric data collected will be destroyed after verification.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Since then Hash started a reverse engineering wiki site called Recessim and created dozens of YouTube videos in a channel of that same name to chronicle his adventures. 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. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

How will organizations use so-called “vaccine passports” related to employees and customers and how will organizations secure their protected health information (PHI) in response to changing health directives? IA overlaps many areas of design, such as navigation, user experience, user interface, security model, taxonomy, and metadata.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

“It’s run by a fraud ring of cryptocurrency scammers who mine dating apps and other social media for victims and the scam is becoming alarmingly popular.” – No video: The scammers will come up with all kinds of excuses not to do a video call. But they will always refuse.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. Our initial client service engagements—managed offsite storage and retrieval, secure document shredding, digitization, and, recently, electronic redaction—began in March of 2014. Others, like brief and bang-bang, YouTube-style training videos, are planned.

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