SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Localization is a combination of measures aimed at adapting your business, product, and messaging to the requirements of the local market and tastes of the local customers. Religious and cultural taboos should be taken into account to prevent alienation of your audiences in the new market. EU, and China.

Marketing 99

Marketing Cybersecurity eCommerce Data breaches 99

Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

And in turn, the criminals adapt, which brings us to Genesis Market. There's an excellent IMPaaS explanation from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands via a paper titled Impersonation-as-a-Service: Characterising the Emerging Criminal Infrastructure for User Impersonation at Scale. It was that simple.

Marketing 355

Marketing Passwords Authentication Accountability 355

Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

[ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. The company is listed by market analysis firm Datanyze.com as the world third-largest ad server network.

Accountability 253

Accountability Passwords Advertising Penetration Testing 253

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. For example, the ICT industry (Information, Communication, Technology) was the 5th highest paying with an average salary of $104,874 (dollars are Aussie, take off about 30% for USD). Intro: This Industry Rocks! Banking is below that. Medical even lower.

Technology 279

Technology Education Marketing Insurance 279

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At issue is a “redirect” feature available to businesses that chose to market through LinkedIn.com. Here’s the very first Slink created: [link] which redirects to the homepage for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. Image: Urlscan.io.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 359

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“My nickname was MikeMike, and I worked with Dmitri Golubov and made technologies for him,” Shefel said. They also accused Vrublevsky of facilitating money laundering for Hydra , the largest Russian darknet market at the time. “I’m also godfather of his second son.” ” Dmitri Golubov, circa 2005.

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Retail Advertising Cryptocurrency Marketing 258

Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2025

Google is spying on Android users, starting from even before they have logged in to their Google account. However, the ways in which Google uses all of these market shares should not be at the expense of the users and their privacy. The ID is persistent to the extent that logging out of the Google account does not remove it.

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Advertising Accountability Marketing Engineering 139

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Gen AI threats and quantum computing exposures must be accounted for. Attacks targeting identities rose 71% last year, with valid accounts as the top entry point. Transparent, traceable, and accountable AI practices are crucial to mitigate biases and align actions with ethical standards. The drivers are intensifying.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. Rather, the missives are sent through the Apple iMessage service and through RCS , the functionally equivalent technology on Google phones. “Who says carding is dead? .”

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Phishing Mobile Scams Banking 284

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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Mobile Marketing Consumer Protection Wireless 358

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Implementing trust management enables organizations to swiftly respond to market trust issues, iterate on trust-building initiatives, and align with stakeholder expectations. Technology demands rigor; a technical system will inevitably falter if left unmanaged. Without it, even the best-designed systems eventually fail.

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Marketing Architecture Manufacturing Technology 111

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It's the old "data is the new oil" analogy that recognises how valuable our info is, and as such, there's a market for it.

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Data breaches Passwords B2B Technology 303

SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. Unlike the free data mentioned above, these have been checked, and even the account balances have been extracted. Phishers use OTP bots to try and hack 2FA.

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Phishing Marketing Scams Accountability 144

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To wrap up our 2024 year-end roundtable, we turn our attention to new technologies and trends that are emerging to help bridge the gaps. To mitigate risks, organizations must enforce Zero-Trust principles, limit AI access to privileged accounts, and sanitize AI prompts.

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Risk Threat Detection Technology Phishing 173

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2019

million new accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. The restaurants affected include Hy-Vee Market Grilles , Market Grille Expresses and Wahlburgers locations that the company owns and operates. “This encryption technology protects card data by making it unreadable. .

Energy and Utilities 278

Energy and Utilities Retail Data breaches Marketing 278

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A paradigm shift in technology is hurtling towards us, and it could change everything we know about cybersecurity. When ChatGPT was unveiled to the public in late 2022, security experts looked on with cautious optimism, excited about the new technology but concerned about its use in cyberattacks. Uhh, again, that is.

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Artificial Intelligence Small Business Malware Technology 143

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Bringing together diverse viewpoints from the cybersecurity and DevSecOps communities, NHIcon 2025 will provide technical insights and practical guidance to address the challenges of securing non-human identities, such as service accounts, AI agents, and other software workloads. Users can visit aembit.io and follow us on LinkedIn.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments. Going through an M&A is highly risky business due in large part to the potential impact on the market, valuation, shareholders, business partners, etc. Lack of documented evidence.

Marketing 265

Marketing Data privacy Risk Accountability 265

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

I had the chance to discuss this with Matt Keil, director of product marketing at Cequence Security , a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based they then began to use the stolen credentials to launch automated account takeovers. “So We were able to stop the account takeovers that would then sometimes lead to these romance scams.”

Mobile 266

Mobile Digital transformation Scams Accountability 266

Krebs on Security

JULY 3, 2023

Although the letter includes the words “marketing services” in the upper right corner, the rest of the missive is deceptively designed to look like a bill for services already rendered. Here’s a look at the most recent incarnation of this scam — DomainNetworks — and some clues about who may be behind it.

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Scams Business Services Accountability Marketing 292

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. NortonLifeLock and Avast appear to be betting on the next iteration of the huge and longstanding consumer antivirus market. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. billion in 2016, for instance.

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Antivirus Marketing Identity Theft Social Engineering 223

Schneier on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

The purchase of surveillance technology by law enforcement in any state must be transparent and subject to public debate. Spyware companies like NSO Group have relied on rubber stamp approvals by government agencies whose permission is required to export their technologies abroad.

Spyware 244

Spyware Surveillance Technology Accountability 244

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 24, he reportedly maintained his innocence and told agents someone else must have used his Paypal account to purchase the Surfshark VPN subscription.

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VPN Internet Internet Accountability 266

Schneier on Security

MAY 6, 2019

Enable two-factor authentication for all important accounts whenever possible. Watch your credit reports and your bank accounts for suspicious activity. Once that happens, the market will step in and provide companies with the technologies they can use to secure your data.

Identity Theft 279

Identity Theft Passwords Password Management Authentication 279

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. . 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

Cryptocurrency 364

Cryptocurrency VPN Scams Social Engineering 364

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

An online search for the term “yehuo” reveals an account on the Chinese Software Developer Network which uses that same nickname and references the domain blazefire[.]com. com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. com , buydudu[.]com

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Mobile Technology Manufacturing Malware 275

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

If not spent, these funds often return to general accounts or are lost altogether, missing an opportunity for strategic investment. Employee Retentio n: Invest in employees’ growth to boost morale and retention – especially in a tight job market where your best employees may be lured to other companies.

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Cybersecurity Media Marketing Accountability 130

Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2024

Stevens is also quoted in a paid blog post at ecogreenequipment.com , as is Alina Clark , co-founder and marketing director of CocoDoc , an online service for editing and managing PDF documents. Cocofinder lists its market officer as Harriet Chan , but Ms. Is Shenzhen Duiyun Technology Co. Cocofinder[.]com

Marketing 317

Marketing Technology Advertising Data privacy 317

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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Cybersecurity Technology Government Internet 275

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Detecting unknown unknowns The introduction of Sweets patent-pending LLM technology transforms its ability to identify previously undetectable threats. Sweet uses advanced AI to help security teams navigate complex and dynamic environments with improved precision and confidence. For more information, users can visit [link].

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Engineering Media Marketing Accountability 130

The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

I had an enlightening discussion about this with Dana Tamir, vice president of market strategy for Silverfort , a Tel Aviv-based supplier of multi-factor authentication technology. LW: Can you frame the separate issue of securing service accounts? Tamir: Service accounts (machine-to-machine connections) are a big problem.

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Authentication Cloud Migration Accountability Digital transformation 280

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security is not a problem the market will solve. The primary reason computers are insecure is that most buyers aren't willing to pay -- in money, features, or time to market -- for security to be built into the products and services they want. Facebook account data might be important, but again, nobody dies when it's stolen.

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Government Internet Internet Marketing 266

IT Security Guru

JANUARY 30, 2025

This heavy reliance on technology, however, makes it an attractive target for hackers seeking to exploit vulnerabilities in trading systems and platforms. This gives the hacker the information to access your trading capital or, even worse, lock you out of your account. Monitor your accounts regularly. Enable 2FA.

Cyber Risk 95

Cyber Risk Risk Penetration Testing Accountability 95

Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 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.

Cybersecurity 266

Cybersecurity Technology Government Internet 266

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. According to FedFis.com , Fiserv is by far the top bank core processor , with more than 37 percent market share.

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Banking Accountability Passwords Technology 237

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. The Internet of Things fuses products with communications technology to make daily life more effortless. Right now, we have a market failure.

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IoT Manufacturing Internet Internet 265

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

Images from Punchmade Dev’s Twitter/X account show him displaying bags of cash and wearing a functional diamond-crusted payment card skimmer. Even his most vocal critics acknowledged that the whole persona could just be savvy marketing. io , which is currently selling hacked bank accounts and payment cards with high balances.

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Cybercrime Media Banking Accountability 324