Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. And then there's the account holder, the one who chose the password.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Golubov later earned immunity from prosecution by becoming an elected politician and founding the Internet Party of Ukraine , which called for free internet for all, the creation of country-wide “hacker schools” and the “computerization of the entire economy.” Vrublevsky Sr. “Hi, how are you?”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Your Web browser knows how to find a site like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly website names (example.com) into numeric Internet addresses. Image: Infoblox. How does one know whether a DNS provider is exploitable?

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own. Setting up Google 2FA.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2020

After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.”. 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.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Related: How ‘XDR’ defeats silos Now along comes a new book, Evading EDR: The Definitive Guide for Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems , by a red team expert, Matt Hand, that drills down a premier legacy security system that is in the midst of this transition: endpoint detection and response, EDR. Hand: I don’t believe so.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Going by the details, Xfinity email users started receiving email alerts that their account info was changed. And when they tried to access the account, their attempts failed as their passwords were changed. The post Data Breach leads to Comcast Customer Data Leak appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

. “DNS is a foundational networking component and commonly installed on Domain Controllers, so a compromise could lead to significant service interruptions and the compromise of high level domain accounts.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. 7 Internet safety tips.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Consider that kids are constantly connected on the internet with online games, streaming devices, virtual schooling, and zoom play dates. Companies must take this into account and consider extending employee training to also promote security and privacy habits among all family members, especially children. We’re all connected.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

A lot of people are thinking about the security of their home network right now, and as one of the project leaders on the OWASP Internet of Things Security Project , I wanted to provide three levels of security you can do at home. Use a password manager to make and store good passwords that are different for every account/device.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

38% of people said they will book their next travel opportunity through a general search, which could leave them vulnerable to malvertising. Take, for example, the 38% of people who told Malwarebytes that they would conduct a general search online in booking their next vacation. Use a password manager and 2FA. Consider a VPN.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you have doubts, check it out–go directly to your account or to the source, which you should always independently verify, if the communication refers to anything service or finance related. You go online and you can’t access your cloud account, or you can’t find data stored on a device or in a specific service.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

21, booked an Uber to pick them up at Woody’s condominium in Mandaluyong City, and when the driver arrived the two men stuffed a large box into the trunk of the vehicle. Both are pictured in the first of the three large photos below, taken from Woody’s Instagram account. Image: Manila Police Dept.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. And yet almost every Internet account requires one.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. “Some of our users are facing issues with our service,” the message read. “We are actively working on fixing these problems.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.” ” Technically, what my source did was wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet/telephone/fax through false pretenses); had he done it through the U.S. Then you either mail or fax it in. mail, he could be facing mail fraud charges if caught.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2022

In order to extract value from the Internet, data sprawl first must get reined in. Jeff Bezos solved data sprawl for selling books and gave us Amazon. Krishnan gave me the example of a technology company that was concerned about employees flouting a company ban on the use of personal email accounts to share proprietary documents.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to follow along and find out everything the internet knows about… you! Along the way, as you get familiar with the tools and tactics of internet sleuths, you’ll get a better idea of your current internet footprint as well as know what tracks you leave in the future.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else. When commercialization first came to the internet, there was no easy way for users to make micropayments to do things like viewing a web page. This has been true for social media, and it will similarly hold true for AI.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. bank accounts. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion. w s, icamis[.]ru

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The men — a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab — were reportedly prosecuted for their part in an investigation into Pavel Vrublevsky , a convicted cybercriminal who ran one of the world’s biggest spam networks and was a major focus of my 2014 book, Spam Nation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2024

“This is an opportune moment to fully implement the Kremlin’s long-desired ‘import substitution’ in the form of wooden abacuses, paper savings books, and cave paintings for accounting.” Ukraine has launched a massive cyberattack against ATMs of Russian banks, the cyber operation began on July 23. reported the KyivPost.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 6, 2022

Whether we’re ordering groceries or looking for new shoes, all we need to do is create an account, fill out some basic personal details and log in. But what happens when that account is compromised – or when we think that account is compromised? Travel industry scams. Ride-share driver scam. How to Help Avoid Tech Support Scams.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It also doesn't work for the 24 million Lumin PDF accounts that were taken from a MongoDB instance "left exposed online without a password" as no security was violated. gets dumped and all the plain text passwords spread around the internet alongside email addresses and usernames. let's say catforum.com.au

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Add to that the websites we visit that Google tracks through its advertising network, our Gmail accounts, our movements via Google Maps , and what it can collect from our smartphones. Surveillance capitalism drives much of the internet. In 2015, I wrote a book about it. Companies that can understand it can use it against you.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great. Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of high school (at least). Don’t give a smartphone as the first phone.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Manipulation is the other business model of the Internet. This is how the Internet works. They use mascots and spokesmodels.

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DoublePulsar

JANUARY 3, 2024

The threat actor accessed Orange’s RIPE account. RIPE look after internet IP addresses, basically the phone book of the internet. You may notice two step authentication is disabled — RIPE don’t require it, and it isn’t enabled by default for new accounts either. The internet is made of string. ~g

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

According to a report published by researchers at PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps. In a report published on the 16 th of March by PrivacySavvy, many travel companies expose users’ data through their booking apps.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” There are also compliance drivers to account for. It may be possible to strike the balance between protection and productivity that is needed for internet-centric corporate computing to come to full fruition.

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