Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election. As a security expert , I believe it’s a tool uniquely suited to Internet-era propaganda. This is all very new.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. Many used browsers that they were accustomed to, not browsers of choice, or default browsers set by organizations, such as the Internet Explorer. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh was incorporated in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2016. The dust-up over Pushwoosh came in part from data gathered by Zach Edwards , a security researcher who until recently worked for the Internet Safety Labs , a nonprofit organization that funds research into online threats. THE PINCER TROJAN CONNECTION. “Pushwoosh Inc.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Senator Ron Wyden asked, and the NSA didn’t answer : The NSA has long sought agreements with technology companies under which they would build special access for the spy agency into their products, according to disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and reporting by Reuters and others. government agency, since only the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Basically, we know it when we see it, from bots controlled by the Russian Internet Research Agency to Saudi attempts to plant fake stories and manipulate political debate. Since the 2016 US presidential election, there have been an endless series of ideas about how countries can defend themselves. Governments will have to disclose.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Way back in 2016, security firm Fortinet blogged about LinkedIn’s redirect being used to promote phishing sites and online pharmacies. Linkedin’s parent company — Microsoft Corp — is by all accounts the most-phished brand on the Internet today. Let me be clear that the activity described in this post is not new.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com — were seen as early as 2016 as distribution points for the Hummer Trojan , a potent strain of Android malware often bundled with games that completely compromises the infected device.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially , upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. These computer-generated "people" will drown out actual human discussions on the Internet. It's writing news stories, particularly in sports and finance.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Canadian media revealed that in November 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was a hit by a large-scale cyberattack. The hackers scan the Internet for vulnerable servers that could lead to compromising valuable targets. “In ” reported a blog post published by ESET. All are still working at the Organization.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., ” If you get a hit, chances are excellent you’ve got a device built on Xionmai’s technology. WNK Security Technology.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Passwordless technology is certainly ready for prime time; innovative solutions from suppliers like Cisco’s Duo, Hypr, OneLogin and Veridium have been steadily gaining traction in corporate settings for the past few years. For a full drill down on our wide-ranging discussion, please give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

Internet censors have a new strategy in their bid to block applications and websites: pressuring the large cloud providers that host them. Today's Internet largely reflects the dominance of a handful of companies behind the cloud services, search engines and mobile platforms that underpin the technology landscape.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

is investigating reports that attackers are exploiting two previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server , a technology many organizations rely on to send and receive email. In customer guidance released Thursday, Microsoft said it is investigating two reported zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. I had an eye-opening conversation about all of this with Steve Hanna , distinguished engineer at Infineon Technologies , a global semiconductor manufacturer based in Neubiberg, Germany.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

One of the least technologically sophisticated cyberattacks, business email compromise (BEC), is also one of the most damaging. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there were 241,206 business email compromise incidents between 2016 and 2021, with combined global business losses of $43,312,749,946.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

“The system calls on companies and entities in the energy and water sectors to immediately exchange passwords from the Internet to the control systems, reduce Internet connectivity and ensure that the most up-to-date version of controllers is installed.” .” reads the alert issued by the Israeli government.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. Mellen: Big initiatives like these are good for the security industry, but technology is not a silver bullet when it comes to consumer security. Technology can only go so far when protecting individuals, and we must, to the best of our ability, learn to recognize manipulative or dangerous behavior online.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 12, 2021

Over the ensuing years, experts have repeatedly pointed out that not only were many of the technology systems being deployed to improve the efficiency of fuel distribution infrastructure management introducing dangerous vulnerabilities, but that a cyber-attack against the operator of a fuel pipeline was eventually going to both occur and succeed.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A lot has changed in the Microsoft technology world in the last 7 years since I launched ASafaWeb in September 2011. Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser ( Chrome was in 3rd place back then ). Windows Server has gone from 2008 R2 to 2012 to 2012 R2 to 2016 to 2019. From development and architecture to security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2019

The Internet of Things is a remarkable benchmark in human technological advancement. A few years ago, big box chain Target demonstrated the potential folly of using vendors and connected technologies that hadn’t been fully vetted yet. Their way in was through the company’s internet-connected HVAC system.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2023

It could mimic the work that the Russian Internet Research Agency did in its attempt to influence our 2016 elections, but without the agency’s reported multimillion-dollar budget and hundreds of employees. To be sure, there may also be benefits to this technology in the democracy space; the biggest one is accessibility.

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

We have witnessed Grandoreiro’s campaigns since at least 2016, with the attackers regularly improving techniques, striving to stay undetected and active for longer periods of time. This malware steals passwords from browsers and from the device’s memory, providing remote access to capture internet banking access.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. Microleaves works by changing each customer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address every five to ten minutes. ” A teaser from Irish Tech News. “Online[.]io

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” Founded in 2016 by cryptography experts from the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ elite 8200 cyber unit, Silverfort is backed by leading investors in cybersecurity technologies. Talk more soon.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om Domain names are a sizable part of a company’s attackable surface, and companies or individuals who ignore their own presence on the internet, as well as how it’s represented, do so at their peril. and Citibank.om (.om

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2024

A prime example comes from Resecurity , a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity vendor that has been helping organizations identify, analyze, and respond to cyber threats since its launch in 2016. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

CyberGRX launched in 2016 precisely because bespoke assessments had become untenable. Questionnaire answers get cross referenced against cybersecurity best practice protocols put out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, namely NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171. Here are key takeaways: Smoothing audits.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

The Qihoo 360 experts claim that a CIA hacking unit tracked as APT-C-39 has hacked organizations in the aviation, scientific research, oil, technology industries, it also targeted government agencies. In 2016, Joshua stole the classified documents of Vault 7 and passed them to WikiLeaks, which published the precious dump on Wikileaks in 2017.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

and UK and found that ownership of internet-connected cars is on the rise. increased from 24% in 2016 ) and 18% in the UK. We all know that as technologies advance and become more powerful, cyber attackers gain better tools and improved skillsets as well. Our survey found the vast majority of U.S. Across the U.S. 61%) and U.K.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A series of internal CIA documents released Tuesday by WikiLeaks serve as a reminder that any computer, smartphone or other devices connected to the internet is vulnerable to compromise. The scale of the program was so massive that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than what is currently used to run Facebook.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It can often be found on internet-facing servers. The problem is that the vulnerability also affects ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11 installations, which have reached end-of-life (EOL) and are no longer supported with security patches. Prioritize remediation of vulnerabilities on internet-facing systems. Prevent intrusions.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

June 14, 2016. We’re proud to earn a place on the 2016 Online Trust Alliance’s (OTA) 2016 Honor Roll for the fourth consecutive year. The 2016 scoring has been expanded and enhanced with additional weight and granularity given to key practices.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 20, 2018

They're computers -- often ancient computers running operating systems no longer supported by the manufacturers -- and they don't have any magical security technology that the rest of the industry isn't privy to. In 2016, someone changed the party affiliation of hundreds of voters before the Republican primary.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. In Silicon Valley, the initial technology seeds were planted in World War II, when the U.S.

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