Tech Republic Security

JULY 28, 2021

The number of ads selling access to corporate networks has continued to increase from 2019 to 2020 and into 2021, says Positive Technologies.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology used by online streaming sites like Disney , Hulu and Netflix to prevent their content from being pirated.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The increasing sophistication of these technologies has made it harder than ever to distinguish real content from fake. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented in 2019 revealed that deepfakes generated by AI could deceive humans up to 60% of the time. As the technology evolves, so will its misuse.

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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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 24, 2022

Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. But that’s nothing inherent in blockchain technology—that’s just a bunch of bad design choices bitcoin made. But the core technology is absolutely not useless. ” I have yet to see one.

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SecureBlitz

APRIL 11, 2024

In a move that could significantly alter the landscape, Kape Technologies, the owner of the popular VPN service CyberGhost, has announced its intention to acquire Private […] The post Evolving VPN giant: CyberGhost Acquired PIA [2019] appeared first on SecureBlitz Cybersecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

M&A invariably creates technology gaps that bad actor’s prey upon. According to a report from Protenus and DataBreaches.net, over 41 million patient records were breached in 2019, almost tripling healthcare industry breaches from the prior year. Patient data exposures. The data was found for sale on the dark web.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. Marrapese documented his findings in more detail here.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. Araneida Scanner. In 2022, Araneida told fellow Breached members they could be reached on Discord at the username “ Ornie#9811.”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2025

Chinese company 360 Security Technology, also known as Qihoo 360, purchased Lemon Seed, according to its 2019 annual report. While VPNs are a useful way to achieve some privacy online, this report highlights the importance of due diligence when choosing a technology provider.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2020

billion in 2019. Corvus found that while services that scan and filter incoming email for malicious threats can catch many ransomware lures, an estimated 75 percent of healthcare companies do not use this technology. R1 RCM Inc. Formerly known as Accretive Health Inc. Chicago-based R1 RCM brought in revenues of $1.18

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

Finally, in March 2019 it was reported that the NSA had decided to completely abandon the program and not seek its renewal as it is due to sunset in late 2019. The second emerged in June 2018 when the NSA announced the purging of three years' worth of CDR records for "technical irregularities."

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

But a 2019 research brief on Axact’s diploma mills found none of those convicted had started their prison sentence, and that several had fled Pakistan and never returned. ” Dozens of top Axact employees were arrested, jailed, held for months, tried and sentenced to seven years for various fraud violations.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Public-interest technology isn't new. We need public-interest technologists.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2021

For a while, in 2019, the update server’s password for SolarWinds’s network management software was reported to be “solarwinds123.” When national security is compromised by high-flying technology companies that fob off cybersecurity risks onto their customers, something similar is at work.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

” The FCC tweet also provided a link to the agency’s awareness page on juice jacking , which was originally published in advance of the Thanksgiving Holiday in 2019 but was updated in 2021 and then again shortly after the FBI’s tweet was picked up by the news media. This scam is referred to as juice jacking.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

On of the researchers credited — EXPMON — said on Twitter that it had reproduced the attack on the latest Office 2019 / Office 365 on Windows 10. Microsoft says the vulnerability is currently being used in targeted attacks, although its advisory credits three different entities with reporting the flaw.

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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. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2019, pending an antitrust review by the U.S. ”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The hack was acknowledged by the forum’s current administrator, who assured members that their passwords were protected with a password obfuscation technology that was extremely difficult to crack. OGUsers was hacked at least twice previously, in May 2019 and again in March 2020.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In 2019, TSYS was acquired by financial services firm Global Payments Inc. But according to Fabian Wosar , chief technology officer at computer security firm Emsisoft , Conti typically only publishes data from victims that refuse to negotiate a ransom payment. NYSE:GPN ]. “We regret any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that it has fined four companies $7 million for misleading statements about their cybersecurity incidents, particularly concerning the high-profile 2019 SolarWinds hack. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Unisys Corp.,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data. Salt Typhoon is a China-linked APT group active since at least 2019. In 2019, T-Mobile disclosed data breach affecting prepaid wireless customers.

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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. Sources say PCM discovered the intrusion in mid-May 2019. El Segundo, Calif. PCM has nearly 4,000 employees, more than 2,000 customers, and generated approximately $2.2

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Adam Levin

JULY 15, 2020

The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially reported. It contains the personal information of more than 142 million guests of MGM hotels, according to technology reporting site ZDNet. million.

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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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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 17, 2022

A large-scale cyber-espionage campaign targeting primarily renewable energy and industrial technology organizations have been discovered to be active since at least 2019, targeting over fifteen entities worldwide. [.].

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 10, 2023

Related: Using ‘Big Data’ to improve health and well-being But there’s yet another towering technology mountain to climb: we must also overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law. Optical technology can enable us to control energy consumption so we can support increasing capacity and increasing bandwidth,” Gomi summarizes.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Amir Golestan , the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. Canada, and parts of the Caribbean. ARIN and Micfo settled that dispute in arbitration, with Micfo returning most of the addresses that it hadn’t already sold.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

According to the original complaint against NSO Group, filed in October 2019, the spyware vendor used WhatsApp servers to send malware to around 1400 mobile phones. The European Data Protection Supervisor recommended an EU ban on the technology in 2022, although this has not yet happened.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2024

This is all part of Generative AI and Large Language Models igniting the next massive technological disruption globally. AppSec technology security-hardens software at the coding level. Some of the more intriguing innovations had to do with leveraging GenAI/LLM-equipped chatbots as proprietary force multipliers.

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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. “A total of 44.4

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

“The support center was scheduled to be closed on Friday Oct 25, 2019 due to poor air quality caused by wildfires to the north,” said the source, who asked to remain anonymous. The technology team continues to set up interim workstations at each affected hospital while they prepare to rebuild servers.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

based Imperva sells technology and services designed to detect and block various types of malicious Web traffic, from denial-of-service attacks to digital probes aimed at undermining the security of Web-based software applications. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Earlier today, Imperva told customers that it learned on Aug.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company sells "TIME AI," "the world's first dynamic 'non-factor' based quantum AI encryption software," "utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music's infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs." Parts of it remain on the Internet.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2021

. “We never got a ‘real’ confirmation of the zero-day before the patch was released,” said Dubex’s Chief Technology Officer Jacob Herbst. 2, Microsoft patched four flaws in Exchange Server 2013 through 2019. How long have the vulnerabilities exploited here been around?

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