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My TED Talks

Schneier on Security

TEDxPSU 2010: “ Reconceptualizing Security ” TEDxCambridge 2013: “ The Battle for Power on the Internet ” TEDMed 2016: “ Who Controls Your Medical Data ?” I have spoken at several TED conferences over the years. ” I’m putting this here because I want all three links in one place.

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Google Pays $10M in Bug Bounties in 2023

Schneier on Security

The highest reward for a vulnerability report in 2023 was $113,337, while the total tally since the program’s launch in 2010 has reached $59 million. It’s $2M less than in 2022, but it’s still a lot. For Android, the world’s most popular and widely used mobile operating system, the program awarded over $3.4

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How China Uses Stolen US Personnel Data

Schneier on Security

Interesting analysis of China’s efforts to identify US spies: By about 2010, two former CIA officials recalled, the Chinese security services had instituted a sophisticated travel intelligence program, developing databases that tracked flights and passenger lists for espionage purposes. intelligence agencies.

Hacking 361
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The Insecurity of WordPress and Apache Struts

Schneier on Security

Interesting data : A study that analyzed all the vulnerability disclosures between 2010 and 2019 found that around 55% of all the security bugs that have been weaponized and exploited in the wild were for two major application frameworks, namely WordPress and Apache Struts.

Risk 229
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A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack

Krebs on Security

Exchange Server 2010 is no longer supported, but the software giant made a “defense in depth” exception and gave Server 2010 users a freebie patch, too. How long have the vulnerabilities exploited here been around? 2, Microsoft patched four flaws in Exchange Server 2013 through 2019.

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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Krebs on Security

On March 14, KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people. Onerep and Shelest did not respond to requests for comment on that story.

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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

Krebs on Security

The biggest potential gold mine for de-anonymizing Maza members is the leak of user numbers for ICQ, an instant messaging service formerly owned by AOL that was widely used by cybercrime forum members up until around 2010. That’s about when AOL sold the platform in 2010 to Russian investor DST for $187.5

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