Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 17, 2021

1, 2021, the United States government enacted as federal law the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (“the AML Act”), thereby instituting mandates that should enhance the ability of the United States to collaborate more effectively with the rest of the international community in efforts to reduce financial crimes.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have re-introduced the EARN IT Act , an incredibly unpopular bill from 2020 that was dropped in the face of overwhelming opposition. It’s a framework for private actors to scan every message sent online and report violations to law enforcement.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’ll be speaking at Cyber Week Online , October 19-21, 2020. I’ll be speaking at the IEEE Symposium on Technology and Society virtual conference, November 12-15, 2020. I’ll be keynoting the 2020 Conference on Cyber Norms on November 12, 2020.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

The facial recognition technology is used by the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles to ensure no one obtains multiple credentials or credentials under someone else’s name, said Emily Cook, spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office.

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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. In 2020, it saw 193 billion credential stuffing attacks globally, with 3.4 Meanwhile, threat actors’ siege on web applications surged 62 percent in 2020 vs. 2019: Akamai observed nearly 6.3

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

From a MIT Technology Review article : Soon after they were spotted, the researchers saw one exploit being used in the wild. More discoveries in November 2019, January 2020, and April 2020 added up to at least five zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited from the same bug class in short order.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2020

It’s unclear when the intruders first breached R1’s networks, but the ransomware was unleashed more than a week ago, right around the time the company was set to release its 2nd quarter financial results for 2020. R1 RCM declined to discuss the strain of ransomware it is battling or how it was compromised.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2020

released between March 2020 and June 2020.” In its own advisory, FireEye said multiple updates poisoned with a malicious backdoor program were digitally signed with a SolarWinds certificate from March through May 2020, and posted to the SolarWindws update website. HF 5 through 2020.2.1, ”

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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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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 20, 2023

3CX hired incident response firm Mandiant , which released a report on Wednesday that said the compromise began in 2022 when a 3CX employee installed a malware-laced software package distributed via an earlier software supply chain compromise that began with a tampered installer for X_TRADER , a software package provided by Trading Technologies.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

His comedy skit nailed it too: my Twitter timeline is literally just me talking about the things I'm interested in and whilst that might be predominantly technology and infosec stuff, turns out I actually have a life beyond that too. pic.twitter.com/YUJIqgYNXf — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 1, 2020 Beautiful day out!

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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.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Fastly addresses these technological vulnerabilities by utilizing tools like Rust and WebAssembly. The societal aspects of technology, the human side, have grown equally unruly. People are wary of technology and its creators. These principles drive better technological outcomes, ensuring an improved experience for all web users.

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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

— NordVPN (@NordVPN) October 23, 2020 Ah, tricky! Much of this comes back to the old chestnut about how involved users should be in the whole decision-making process around the trustworthiness of a URL and indeed, how proactive technology should be to help them with this task. That’s how [link] became [link]. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2022

Conti ravaged the healthcare sector throughout 2020, and leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group show the gang had access to more than 400 healthcare facilities in the U.S. alone by October 2020. In June 2021, the HSE’s director general said the recovery costs for that attack were likely to exceed USD $600 million.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

In March 2020, the DOJ unsealed two criminal hacking indictments against Kislitsin, who was then head of security at Group-IB , a cybersecurity company that was founded in Russia in 2003 and operated there for more than a decade before relocating to Singapore. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

18, 2023 – Salvador Technologies , the pioneering cyber-attack recovery platform provider for critical infrastructures and industrial organizations, today announced that it has secured $6m in funding. Rehovot, Israel Dec.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 9, 2020

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 31, 2020 And so it is with posts about the dangers of 5G. So, let's not talk about whether 5G is safe or not, let's instead talk about why opponents of the technology display every single spammy, scammy, hoaxy behaviour imaginable and then you can consider how much you should trust them.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 30, 2022

Wired is reporting on a new remote-access Trojan that is able to infect at least eighty different targets: So far, researchers from Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs say they’ve identified at least 80 targets infected by the stealthy malware, including routers made by Cisco, Netgear, Asus, and DrayTek.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2024

In February 2020, the FCC put all four wireless providers on notice that their practices of sharing access to customer location data were likely violating the law. The fines mark the culmination of a more than four-year investigation into the actions of the major carriers.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2021

Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company called SolarWinds. 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 20, 2021

NYSE:IT ] — a $4 billion technology goliath whose analyst reports can move markets and shape the IT industry. As the largest organization dedicated to the analysis of software, Gartner’s network of analysts are well connected to the technology and software industries.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

.” Image: Coveware Q3 2020 report. Fabian Wosar , chief technology officer at computer security firm Emsisoft , said ransomware victims often acquiesce to data publication extortion demands when they are trying to prevent the public from learning about the breach.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The US Department of Justice announced the unsealing of an indictment against Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese national associated with Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. for his alleged role in... The post CVE-2020-12271 Exploited: FBI Seeks Chinese Hacker Behind 81,000 Device Breach appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 19, 2023

Here are a few takeaways: A converged ecosystem Cloud migration and rapid software development were both on a rising curve when Covid 19 hit and the global economy suddenly shut down in 2020. By one estimate, companies are on track to spend $77 billion on MSSP services by 2030, up from $22 billion in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2021

Then in October 2020, the California Department of Technology (CDT) issued a new set of guidelines that effectively require all executives, managers and supervisors to know all of the details of a phishing exercise before it occurs.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Taking an active role Your cybersecurity policy should address your employees and technology systems. Employee training is crucial.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Random fun new posts: “SOC Technology Failures?—?Do Skills, Not Tiers”” “Beware: Clown-grade SOCs Still Abound” “Revisiting the Visibility Triad for 2020” “Why is Threat Detection Hard?” Top 5 most popular posts of all times: “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM” “Can We Have “Detection as Code”?” “New

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The Hacker News

JUNE 13, 2024

Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as the country's emergence as an influential power has drawn the attention of cyber espionage groups.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2022

Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard , the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who tricked dozens of startups into giving him tens of millions of dollars. Another investor, a Belgian named Guy Devos , contributed the remaining $750,000. million) — had been lost.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

billion in 2020 and will grow to $16.1 Yet, according to the study by the Ponemon Institute, the number of insider leaks has increased by 47 percent in 2020 compared to 2018. In 2020, G-71 went through the Alchemist acceleration program and then launched a cloud-based solution. The technology uses the steganography method.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies provide intriguing opportunities for immersive and interactive experiences in cybersecurity training. Related: GenAI’ impact on DevSecOps Here’s how these technologies can bridge learning gaps in cybersecurity awareness and enhance the overall training experience.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin.

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