Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. The post 2020 Likely To Break Records for Breaches appeared first on Adam Levin.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. Others, like Internet-enabled game machines or digital cameras, are truly special purpose. In 1999, Internet startup FreePC tried to make money by giving away computers in exchange for the ability to monitor users' surfing and purchasing habits.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

military and to other high-value customers/targets that manage key Internet infrastructure, and that those organizations have been asked to sign agreements preventing them from disclosing details of the flaw prior to Jan. 14, the first Patch Tuesday of 2020. Equally concerning, a flaw in crypt32.dll

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They allege that in late December 2020, Sharp applied for a job at another technology company, and then abused his privileged access to Ubiquiti’s systems at Amazon’s AWS cloud service and the company’s GitHub accounts to download large amounts of proprietary data. When FBI agents raided Sharp’s residence on Mar.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s digital age, trust has become a cornerstone of building a better Internet. Preserving privacy for a greater good The Internet was designed as a platform for peer research, not for the vast scale and diverse uses we see today. We possess the tools to craft a better, more trustworthy internet.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7 , a notorious Russia-based hacking group. co as one of their projects.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2021

— TP-LINK UK (@TPLINKUK) November 17, 2020 The manufacturer is under no obligation to support us tinkerers. It is suggested to use the TP-Link official App KASA to manage the plug. If you have issues, pls feel free to let us know.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

Top of the heap this month in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2020-1350 , which concerns a remotely exploitable bug in more or less all versions of Windows Server that attackers could use to install malicious software simply by sending a specially crafted DNS request. .”

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

jump over 2020 (23.6 Even so, the company, which bills itself as the “Internet privacy company,” offering a search engine and other products designed to “empower you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online without any tradeoffs,” remains a rounding error compared to Google in search.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

These are the books that I read in Q2 2020 that I think are worth your time. These are the books that I read in Q2 2020 that I think are worth your time. Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. Sorry it's late. They're still worthwhile. :) Cyber You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late , by Josephine Wolff.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2020

This week, security researchers said they spotted that same vulnerability being exploited by a new variant of Mirai , a malware strain that targets vulnerable Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale attacks and as proxies for other cybercrime activity. A joint advisory on CVE-2020-9054 from the U.S.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2020

The Ultimate Tor Browser Guide for 2020 The Best VPN for China 2020 How to know if someone is watching you on your camera 5 Ways to Stay Protected from Advanced Phishing Threats How to Access Windows Remote Desktop Over the Internet What We Need To Know About Bluetooth Security The Best Internet Browser for 2020 Two-Factor Authentication: ?What

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the Cybersecurity Law & Policy Scholars Virtual Conference on September 17, 2020. I’m keynoting the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s online symposium, Canadians Connected , on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

On deck this month are patches to quash a wormable flaw, a creepy wireless bug, and yet another reason to call for the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser. ” Another curious bug fixed this month is CVE-2020-24587 , described as a “Windows Wireless Networking Information Disclosure Vulnerability.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

GreyNoise Intelligence firm warns of a mysterious phenomenon observed since January 2020, massive waves of spoofed traffic called Noise Storms. GreyNoise Intelligence has been tracking a mysterious phenomenon since January 2020 consisting of massive waves of spoofed traffic, tracked by the experts as ‘Noise Storms.’

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. In 2020, it saw 193 billion credential stuffing attacks globally, with 3.4

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Schneier on Security

JULY 8, 2020

It is amazing that this sort of thing can still happen: the list was compiled by scanning the entire internet for devices that were exposing their Telnet port. The hacker then tried using (1) factory-set default usernames and passwords, or (2) custom, but easy-to-guess password combinations. Default passwords?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. We spoke at RSA 2020. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide. I’ll keep watch.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2023

New reporting from Wired reveals that the Department of Justice detected the SolarWinds attack six months before Mandient detected it in December 2020, but didn’t realize what they detected—and so ignored it. In July 2020, with the mystery still unresolved, communication between investigators and SolarWinds stopped.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Back in November 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, I gave a virtual talk at the International Symposium on Technology and Society: “ The Story of the Internet and How it Broke Bad: A Call for Public-Interest Technologists.” ” It was something I was really proud of, and it’s finally up on the net.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. — NordVPN (@NordVPN) October 23, 2020 Ah, tricky! Been a lot of "victim blaming" going on these last few days. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

From calendar years 2020 to 2022, there was a 27% increase in victim reports to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) of BECs with a real estate nexus. To cover their tracks, the gang would buy Bitcoin with the stolen funds and divide it over three different addresses.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center ( IC3 ), consumers and businesses reported more than $4.2 billion in losses tied to cybercrime in 2020, and BEC fraud and romance scams alone accounted for nearly 60 percent of those losses. Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. 2020) was not in HaveIBeenPwned, but then again Facebook claims to have more than 2.7 A cybercrime forum ad from June 2020 selling a database of 533 Million Facebook users. According to a Jan.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet service providers in recent months as part of a cyber espionage campaign code-named Salt Typhoon. internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2020 blog post on an ongoing Qakbot campaign that was first documented three months earlier by Check Point Research. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 2, 2024

It banned default passwords in 2018, the law taking effect in 2020. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security standards for manufacturers, and demands that these companies are open with consumers about how long their products will receive security updates for.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2022

Netflix has a new documentary series airing next week — “ Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet ” — in which Yours Truly apparently has a decent amount of screen time. Image: Netflix.com. “Conspiracy.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

internet-service providers in recent months in pursuit of sensitive information, according to people familiar with the matter.” China has long targeted global internet service providers and recent attacks are aligned with past operations linked to Beijing. Hackers linked to the Chinese government have broken into a handful of U.S.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

link] — Junade Ali (@IcyApril) August 5, 2020 This tweet isn't entirely accurate; it was all Junade's idea and he designed the k-anonymity implementation for HIBP's Pwned Passwords. I asked on Twitter earlier today, and it's, well, extensive: Chromium — Isaac Weaver (@IsaacjWeaver) August 7, 2020 Wordpress.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Of course, because the internet has a strange recency bias, finding pictures of that is hard. I bought a copy to explore the DRM before news came out that you could just take a sharpie and draw over the bits that made it into a CD-ROM. The CD would then play, or rip, just fine.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2020

While what my source did was technically wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet through false pretenses), cybercriminals bent on using fake.gov domains to hoodwink Americans likely would not be deterred by such concerns. Then you either mail or fax it in. After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.”.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2021

Flash was once the dominant platform for rendering multimedia content in web browsers, but, as Adobe has terminated support for Flash as of the end of 2020, and, as Flash has created serious security problems in the past, now is the time to get rid of Flash once and for all. Flash’s death was not unexpected.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Chaput said the spammers used more than 1,500 Internet addresses across 400 providers to register new accounts, which then followed popular accounts on Mastodon and sent private mentions to the followers of those accounts. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw

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Scams DDOS Cryptocurrency Accountability 301

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication.” National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Dec.

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