The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The technology industry hopes that Matter arises as the lingua franca for the Internet of Things. Matter seeks to achieve this right out of the gate by leveraging and extending the public key infrastructure (PKI) — the tried-and-true authentication and encryption framework that underpins the legacy Internet.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ubiquiti , a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders, security cameras and access control systems, is urging customers to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. In an email sent to customers today, Ubiquiti Inc.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ubiquitous on-demand modern services (such as verifying identities and data integrity, establishing network sessions, providing access control, and automatic software updates) rely more on authentication and integrity mechanisms -- such as digital signatures -- than on encryption.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And for maybe half a decade, I have been talking about the world-sized robot that is the Internet of Things, and how digital security is now a matter of public safety. Your data is no longer in a bazillion places on the Internet, controlled by you-have-no-idea-who. Solid is one of those technologies. It's yours.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Internet of Everything ( IoE ) is on the near horizon. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 30, 2022

Since then, I have seen many Internet memes circulate that appear to convey a similar message. Such a policy is also wise, if not overly generous, with regard to information obtained via the Internet, as there is never 100% certainty as to who crafted a particular piece of data or whether its sources are accurate.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The Internet of Things ( IoT ) is on the threshold of ascending to become the Internet of Everything ( IoE.) Yet IoE, at this nascent stage, holds much promise to tilt us towards a utopia where technology helps to resolve our planet’s most intractable problems. Very well said! I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Image: Wikipedia. ”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2021

Related: Why PKI will endure as the Internet’s secure core. And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. Most of us, by now, take electronic signatures for granted. Yet electronic signatures do have their security limitations.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 29, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers have found more than 900,000 instances of Kubernetes consoles exposed on the internet. The term “K8s” or “K-eights” is also used to refer to this technology. The post Nearly a Million Kubernetes Instances Exposed on Internet appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2022

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.”

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Google Security

APRIL 24, 2023

Christiaan Brand, Group Product Manager We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator , across both iOS and Android, which adds the ability to safely backup your one-time codes (also known as one-time passwords or OTPs) to your Google Account. Making technology for everyone means protecting everyone who uses it.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Then the Internet took off and trusting the connection between a user’s device and a web server became of paramount importance. I had the chance to talk about DigiCert’s perspective with Jason Sabin, DigiCert’s Chief Technology Officer. Trust under siege.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 14, 2022

Workloads (and portions thereof) regularly move across not only the internal organization, but over the Internet, and through one or more third-party cloud environments; there simply is no physical perimeter. Today, however, cloud computing has totally transformed the situation. In short, why are secure workloads important?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn’t exist at the time. SSL/TLS certs). ” Caturegli said setting up an email server record for memrtcc.ad

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

How did America and Americans regress to being much less secure than before the Internet? Everyone knows the many amazing conveniences, benefits, and advances the Internet has enabled. The internet was designed that way.” A recent Council on Foreign Relations report confronts this irrational Internet utopianism. “

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

This year : King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology. A centralized printout of a received Internet message is not voter verifiable.

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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. A Webcam made by HiChip that includes the iLnkP2P software.

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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. Turn on automatic updates, install updates from the operating system when you’re asked to, and make a regular habit of updating everything in your technology ecosystem.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ If your staff can log on to the internet to access their emails, so can an attacker. MFA can be challenging to implement for some organizations from a technology or cost perspective or due to user pushback.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 7, 2023

Related: A call to regulate facial recognition This was an early example of multifactor authentication (MFA). Guest expert: Phani Nagarjuna, CEO, Circle Security According to Nagarjuna, Circle’s technology places a small agent on the endpoint device. Access to cloud-stored files can then be shared widely.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

At RSA Conference 2022 , which takes place next week in San Francisco, advanced technologies to help companies implement zero trust principals will be in the spotlight. Lots of innovation has come down the pike with respect to imbuing zero trust into two pillars of security operations: connectivity and authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

M&A invariably creates technology gaps that bad actor’s prey upon. Healthcare organizations are taking advantage of the many benefits of cloud and SaaS, accessing apps and data over the Internet. Patient data exposures. Healthcare data security and privacy is a problem that continues to grow.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. The hope is that Matter gives rise to an emerging technology ecosystem in which interoperability deepens not just in smart homes, but across multiple interconnected systems. It can be cumbersome to set up and so adoption has been sluggish.

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Related: Why the ‘Matter’ standard matters Companies have long relied on PKI to deploy and manage the digital certificates and cryptographic keys that authenticate and protect just about every sensitive digital connection you can name. and a Series A of $19 million led by StepStone Group.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

Multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) has raised the bar, but MFA alone is not enough to slow, much less stop, moderately-skilled bad actors. about the role of advanced wearable authentication devices, going forward. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. The document requested the Internet address history of Discord accounts tied to a specific phone number used by the target.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your applications and services, especially for admin access to platforms and backend systems. Food for thought, eh!

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

The new Badge Partner Program further accelerates the adoption and integration of Badge’s privacy-preserving authentication, enabling even more users to benefit from seamless MFA experiences across any device or application without storing user secrets or private keys. “We

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

My primer on the going forward privacy and security implications of IoT — What Everyone Should Know About the Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things — won second place in the contest’s IoT Security category. So keep reading and sharing. And thanks for your support.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2022

Both the technology and the teams responsible for specific cyber assets tend to operate in silos. And cloud-hosted, data analytics technology is now readily available to ask smart questions about network security, at scale, and get actionable answers. The technology to do this at scale and in a timely manner are at hand.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

PKI and digital certificates were pivotal in the formation of the commercial Internet, maturing in parallel with ecommerce. PKI touches nearly every aspect of our connected technologies. This is how we authenticate human and machine identities and move encrypted data between endpoints. Certificate confusion.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The vulnerabilities of internet security, once mostly a nuisance, have become dangerous and costly. Second, the design of security solutions struggled to scale up properly or adapt to the technological changes in the industry, especially in disaggregated compute networks. Thus, secure implementations are critical. About the essayist.

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