The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Joining MISA represents a significant milestone, demonstrates the company’s ability to deliver impactful security solutions while increasing adoption of their SCALR XDR offering and helping clients maximize their investment in Microsoft Security technologies. Philadelphia, Pa.,

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

There are lots of terms used to describe what DemandScience does, including "B2B demand generation", "buyer intelligence solutions provider", "empowering technology companies to accelerate ROI", "supercharging pipelines" and "account intelligence" Or, to put it in a more lay-person-friendly fashion, they sell (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

Spy”-type cyberspace race as both criminals and defenders vie to gain the upper hand using new and emerging technologies. Every technology that enables our cyber teams to pinpoint and resolve threats and prevent attacks more quickly and accurately also benefits cybercriminals.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 11, 2020

While the proposed privacy initiative was initially met with significant opposition, particularly from large technology companies, some of that opposition faded in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Mark Zuckerberg's April 2018 testimony before Congress.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to government procurement data , the DEA has paid a Houston, Texas company called Cowboy Streetlight Concealments LLC roughly $22,000 since June 2018 for "video recording and reproducing equipment." ICE paid out about $28,000 to Cowboy Streetlight Concealments over the same period of time.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 9, 2019

Medical facilities are frequently targeted by hackers, due in part to their reliance on networking technologies and their archives of sensitive personal information. A recent study showed that 1 in 4 healthcare facilities were hit by ransomware in 2018 alone. Click here to see the original report describing the malware findings. .

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

29, 2018, the attackers broke in through a compromised login account on Christmas Eve and quickly began infecting servers with the Ryuk ransomware strain. 2, 2018 shows the company is still struggling to restore services more than a week after the attack began. A status update shared by Data Resolution with affected customers on Jan.

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Anton on Security

JUNE 17, 2022

For example, in my analyst days, I built a maturity model for a SOC (2018) , a SIEM deployment (2018) and vulnerability management (2017). Admittedly many organizations don’t have a SOAR or comparable technology, so they fall outside of this visual. Guess which one is missing? The one for SOAR! Now, why was it missing?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In January 2018, GovPayNet was acquired by Securus Technologies , a Carrollton, Texas- based company that provides telecommunications services to prisons and helps law enforcement personnel keep tabs on mobile devices used by former inmates.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Talking about those systems, I said: Now, add into this mix the risks that arise from new and dangerous technologies such as the internet or AI or synthetic biology. AI and intelligent robotics are the culmination of several precursor technologies, like machine learning algorithms, automation, and autonomy.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

By Jayakumar (Jay) Kurup, Global Sales Engineering Director at Morphisec Securing operational technology (OT) creates unique challenges. Sometimes this is due to cultural reasons (management’s fear of even the slightest chance of disruption); other times, it is technological.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. [ NYSE:WIT ] is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against some of the company’s customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. On Friday, Apr.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Atrium Health launched an investigation into the security breach and discovered that from January 2015 to July 2019, certain online tracking technologies were active on its MyAtriumHealth (formerly MyCarolinas) Patient Portal, accessible via web and mobile. The company notified the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In one recent engagement, a client of Nick’s said they’d reached out to an investor from Switzerland — The Private Office of John Bernard — whose name was included on a list of angel investors focused on technology startups. ” Mr. Bernard’s investment firm did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act included funding for the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Transportation to jointly conduct demonstrations of various alternatives to GPS, which were concluded last March. A report on the technologies was submitted to Congress last week. It needs to be more secure.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The spyware’s deployment relied on Cellebrite’s unlocking process, combining two invasive technologies to compromise the journalists digital privacy comprehensively. Development traces back to at least 2018. ” reads the report published by Amnesty. At this time, the origin of NoviSpy remains unclear.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

A 2018 GAO report expressed concern regarding the lack of secure and patchable U.S. In 2018, a 29-country NATO exercise, Trident Juncture , that included cyberweapons was disrupted by Russian GPS jamming. Gone are the days when we can pretend that our technologies will work in the face of a military cyberattack. weapons systems.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In May 2018, Cincinnati, Ohio-based financial institution Fifth Third Bank began hearing complaints from customers who were receiving text messages on their phones that claimed to be from the bank, warning recipients that their accounts had been locked. Image: Mastercard.us.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

The ISAC found when it comes to IT systems tied to “operational technology” (OT) — systems responsible for monitoring and controlling the industrial operation of these utilities and their safety features — just 30.5 percent of utilities have identified all IT-networked assets, with an additional 21.7

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2024

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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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

The second emerged in June 2018 when the NSA announced the purging of three years' worth of CDR records for "technical irregularities." Second, we show how the architecture of modern telephone communications might cause collection errors that fit the reported reasons for the 2018 purge.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 2, 2022

ICS vulnerability disclosures have grown by 110% since 2018, which Claroty said suggests more types of operational technologies are coming online and presenting soft targets. The post Get ready for security in the age of the Extended Internet of Things, says Claroty appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption. The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline investigatory powers between government and industry.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

troyhunt pic.twitter.com/9FMSdvVRiL — Hagen (@hagendittmer) June 3, 2018. link] @troyhunt — Daniel Parker (@CodyMcCodeFace) June 21, 2018. This is also the advice of the @NCSC [link] — Brian Gentles (@phuzi_) June 21, 2018. Alissa — ING Australia (@ING_Aust) August 13, 2018. 6 characters.

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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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The researchers have since commercialized the technology, which is now busily defending networks for customers like the U.S. AIs would improve every year because all of the core technologies are continually improving. In 2018, I wrote about how AI could change the attack/defense balance in cybersecurity. Department of Defense.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. “On the surface, Pinsky is an ‘All American Boy,'” Terpin’s civil suit charges.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In a 2018 trial, a medical robot was implicated in killing Stephen Pettitt during a routine operation that had occurred a few years earlier. Fatalities in the first decades of aviation forced regulation, which required new developments in both law and technology. You get the picture. Those standards, with obscure names such as R15.06

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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. In 2018, Dr.Web expanded its research when it discovered the Triada malware installed on 40 different models of Android devices. com is the domain name for Shanghai Qianyou Network Technology Co.,

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. based Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.8 billion in earnings last year.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2020

” According to Conti, the “legacy” TSYS business unit hit was Cayan , an entity acquired by TSYS in 2018 that enables payments in physical stores and mobile locations, as well as e-commerce. . “We immediately contained the suspicious activity and the business is operating normally.”

Ransomware 358

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Travel and hospitality industries have been a frequent target of hackers in recent years, perhaps most notably being the 2018 Marriott data breach that affected 300 million customers. The company has not yet indicated whether it would be providing credit monitoring or identity theft protection to customers affected by the breach.

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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. But Karunanidhi died in 2018. His party authorized the deepfake.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 15, 2018

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies might change things.

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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. billion in revenue in 2018. -based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

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