Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

He is also the inventor of several information-security technologies widely used today; his work is cited in over 500 published patents. Sepio’s hardware fingerprinting technology discovers all managed, unmanaged and hidden devices that are otherwise invisible to all other security tools. ” About Sepio Systems.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The commission said it took action in response to a May 2018 story broken by The New York Times , which exposed how a company called Securus Technologies had been selling location data on customers of virtually any major mobile provider to law enforcement officials.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. In 2016, financial reality once again would catch up with the company’s leadership when Norse abruptly ceased operations and was forced to lay off most of its staff. Remember Norse Corp. ,

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Pushwoosh was incorporated in Novosibirsk, Russia in 2016. Edwards said Pushwoosh began as Arello-Mobile , and for several years the two co-branded — appearing side by side at various technology expos. Around 2016, he said, the two companies both started using the Pushwoosh name. THE PINCER TROJAN CONNECTION.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2021

While Flash enjoyed popularity for some time, technological advantages made it increasingly unattractive to developers and users, and, by the early 2010s, the handwriting was on the wall; Apple’s then CEO, Steve Jobs, published a scathing open letter about Flash , as Apple and various other major technology vendors migrated away from the platform.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The social media giant has been under investigation by the FTC since March 2018 in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which affected 87 million users and may have been a pivotal influence in the 2016 election campaign. The post Facebook May Be Fined for Billions for Cambridge Analytica Scandal appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT , a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with orchestrating an international malware scheme.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration," said Robert Hickey, aviation program manager within the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. Last month, the DHS announced that it was able to remotely hack a Boeing 757: "We got the airplane on Sept.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Fatalities in the first decades of aviation forced regulation, which required new developments in both law and technology. Today, every airline crash is closely examined, motivating new technologies and procedures. Any regulation of industrial robots stems from existing industrial regulation, which has been evolving for many decades.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 13, 2024

As India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies—and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world. ” Jayalalithaa died in 2016.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Their ransom notes share stylistic similarities with SenSayQ ransomware, and their TOR websites use similar technologies. Deloitte discovered the hack in March 2017, and according to The Guardian, the attackers may have had access to the company systems since October or November 2016.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 22, 2024

ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the notorious Cobalt Gang," Positive Technologies researchers Vladislav Lunin and Alexander Badayev said in a technical report

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Schneier on Security

MAY 15, 2018

In the wrong hands, the technology could be used to unlock doors , wire money or buy stuff online ­-- simply with music playing over the radio. Inside university labs, the researchers have been able to secretly activate the artificial intelligence systems on smartphones and smart speakers, making them dial phone numbers or open websites.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. -based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Both had nice setups for presentations with large screens, ample room sizes, and wifi and media technology that “just worked.”. He shared details about how his business has had to pivot several times due to changes in technology and how by cultivating human connections, all of his clients come directly from referrals. The Keynote.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

The first concern was over high numbers: in both 2016 and 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 40 orders for collection, but the NSA collected hundreds of millions of CDRs, and the agency provided little clarification for the high numbers. For a time, the new program seemed to be functioning well.

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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. 26 sample from Urlscan shows a LinkedIn link redirecting to a Paypal phishing page. Let me be clear that the activity described in this post is not new.

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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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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2020

Because all of the candidates still in play are essentially survivors from the initial group of submissions from 2016, there will also be future consideration of more recently developed ideas, Moody said. NIST has now begun the third round of public review.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2016 Time and time again since that poll, a pulse check of subscriber sentiment has returned similar results. i speak at conferences around the world and run workshops on how to build more secure software within organisations. coordinates":[.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

A document published by the Obama administration in May 2016 (PDF) says the DEA’s El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) systems in Texas are available for use by federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement, as well as the Department of Defense and intelligence community. .

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Since early 2016 we have seen criminals target hospitals almost incessantly – for good reason; people can die, and have died, when their medical data is not available to doctors treating them – and criminals know that hospitals are likely to pay ransoms because they do not have the luxury of spending time to recover from attacks.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

This process has been going on since 2016, and since that time there has been a huge increase in quantum technology and an equally large increase in quantum understanding and interest. I just read an article complaining that NIST is taking too long in finalizing its post-quantum-computing cryptography standards.

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Joseph Steinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

To help the world achieve such an objective, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been running a competition since 2016 to develop new quantum-proof standards for cryptography – winners are expected to be announced sometime in the next year, and multiple approaches are expected to be endorsed.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The IP address of one of the C2 servers used by the surveillance tool has been linked to Wuhan Chinasoft Token Information Technology Co., a Chinese tech company founded in 2016 with fewer than 50 employees. “EagleMsgSpy is a lawful intercept surveillance tool developed by Wuhan Chinasoft Token Information Technology Co.,

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Surrounded by the invisible hum of electromagnetic energy, we’ve harnessed its power to fuel our technological marvels for decades. Often overlooked, the SIM card —short for Subscriber Identification Module—acts as the nexus between our identity and technology, illuminating the thin line between connection and surveillance.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS. National Association ; Viacom International ; and Walgreens. .

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Large language models—the technology undergirding modern chatbots—allow users to interact with computers through natural conversation, an innovation that introduces some baggage from human-to-human exchanges. .” ” Other computing technologies have been shown to shape our cognition. This is beginning to change.

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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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Adam Levin

JUNE 17, 2020

CIA-developed hacking tools stolen in 2016 were compromised by an organizational culture of lax cybersecurity, according to an internal memo. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has been outspoken about the need to improve cybersecurity at government agencies. The post Loss of CIA Hacking Tools Tied to Lax Cybersecurity appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai — a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., WNK Security Technology.

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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Adoption of facial recognition technology is fast gaining momentum, with law enforcement and security use cases leading the way. According to Allied Market Research, the facial recognition systems market is in the midst of rising at a compounded annual growth rate of 21% between 2016 to 2022. billion by 2022. Pieces in place.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

The campaign is active since at least April 2020, but experts found some samples that suggest the attacks begun at least December 2016. In October 2016, Chenkuo Technology announced a partnership with Aisino for “big data cooperation. ” The backdoor is digitally signed by a company named Chenkuo Network Technology.

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