Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I have a new book coming out in February. It’s about hacking. A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back isn’t about hacking computer systems; it’s about hacking more general economic, political, and social systems. Hedge funds are full of hacks.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They also sell miniature pencil sharpeners, palm-size kitchen utensils, scaled-down books and camping chairs so small they evoke the Stonehenge scene in “This Is Spinal Tap.” Selling miniature replicas to unsuspecting shoppers: Online marketplaces sell tiny pink cowboy hats.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity last week heard from a reader whose close friend received a targeted phishing message within the Booking mobile app just minutes after making a reservation at a California. One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2020

Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. An online post by the attackers who broke into Data Viper. It’s all for show to try and discredit my report and my talk.”

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

Here’s a religious hack : You want to commit suicide, but it’s a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. It’s a clever hack. I didn’t learn about it in time to put it in my book, A Hacker’s Mind , but I have several other good hacks of religious rules. Problem solved.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Books that I read in the second quater that are worth your time include two memoirs, a great book on the security of ML, and more! A short book reflecting on the history of thinking about passwords, treating the secret knowledge of how to solve the labyrinth as password adjacent. Password (Object Lessons series) , Martin Eve.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 10, 2023

In my latest book, A Hacker’s Mind , I wrote about hacks as loophole exploiting. Definitely a hack. This is a great example: The Wisconsin governor used his line-item veto powers—supposedly unique in their specificity—to change a one-year funding increase into a 400-year funding increase. 121.905 (3) (c) 9.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2023

Booklist reviews A Hacker’s Mind : Author and public-interest security technologist Schneier ( Data and Goliath , 2015) defines a “hack” as an activity allowed by a system “that subverts the rules or norms of the system […] at the expense of someone else affected by the system.” The book will be published on February 7.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2025

In this scam, dubbed “ ClickFix ,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. Some of those lures worked, and allowed thieves to gain control over booking.com accounts.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Shostack + Associates updates Open trainings: Our next Essentials (one day) course is at Archimedes in New Orleans ( April 30 ), and two Intensives in person at Blackhat (both two days), which are Aug 3-4 or Aug 5-6 And last but not least, my book Threats is available in Italian! There is a stack of books on the bench.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Discover the latest on her new book about secure coding, exciting updates in Application Security, and the use of AI in security. Learn how her new book goes deeper into secure coding practices, backed by her [] The post Tanya Janca on Secure Coding, AI in Cybersecurity, and Her New Book appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 13, 2019

It's the Hack Yourself First UK Tour! Last year, I asked good friend and fellow security person Scott Helme to help me out running my Hack Yourself First workshops. Since that time, Scott has run Hack Yourself First all over the world and done an absolutely sensational job of them.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The attack significantly disrupted IHG’s booking channels and other applicationsì, a circumstance that suggests that the company was the victim of a ransomware attack. The security breach also impacted the booking process through third-party sites such as Expedia and Booking.com, and the service was intermittently resumed during this week.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2023

“Hacking is something that the rich and powerful do, something that reinforces existing power structures,” contends security technologist Schneier ( Click Here to Kill Everybody ) in this excellent survey of exploitation. The book will be published on February 7. Here’s the book’s webpage.

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Zero Day

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Downloading your Kindle books one by one could take days. But with this clever step-by-step hack, you can grab 25 at a time and save your entire collection before Amazon locks it down this week.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The researchers noticed that the “Send to Kindle” feature allows Kindle users to send e-books to their devices as email attachments, a behavior that could be potentially exploited for malicious purposes, for example sending a malicious e-book to potential victims. To my pleasant surprise, the e-book appeared on the device!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities. Vrublevsky Sr.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2024

According to the Associated Press, UnitedHealth booked $1.1 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, healthcare ) billion in total costs from the cyberattack in the second quarter.

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Penetration Testing

JULY 26, 2024

On the popular pirate e-book site Z-Library, or rather its phishing clone Z-lib, created in late 2022, there was a recent data breach affecting nearly 10 million users. On June 27, 2024, the Cybernews... The post 10 Million Users Compromised in Z-Library Phishing Site Hack appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

. “There’s a big gulf between what this technology promises, and what it actually does on the ground,” said Audrey Watters, a researcher on the edtech industry who runs the website Hack Education. My solution, which seems like the obvious one, is not to give timed closed-book exams in the first place.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

intelligence agencies—so says a new book. The post Who is ‘Andrew’—the US Spy who Hacked Booking.com? Huge hotel reservations site Booking.com was breached.com. And the perp was the NSA, or one of the U.S. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 10, 2019

The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of a U.S. Waves of hacking victims emanate from those six plus HPE and IBM: their clients. Others include travel reservation system Sabre, the American leader in managing plane bookings, and the largest shipbuilder for the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Schneier, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and author of such books as Data and Goliath and Click Here To Kill Everybody , regularly challenges his students to write down the first 100 digits of pi, a nearly impossible task­—but not if they cheat, concerning which he admonishes, “Don’t get caught.”

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2023

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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. To learn more tips on how to identify and prevent attacks, download the complete e-book below. The post Who’s Hacking You? The Impersonator.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2022

Baker & Taylor, one of the world’s largest distributors of books, revealed that it was hit by a ransomware attack. Baker & Taylor, one of the world’s largest distributors of books worldwide, suffered a ransomware attack on August 23. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Baker & Taylor). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

. "A strange sign of the times" (the ABC's piece on HIBP and I) I mentioned "Outliers, the Story of Success" as one of my favourite books (turns out it's a combination of hard work and good luck, neither of which is sufficient by itself) Talking about good luck, the story of my leaving Pfizer is in one of my favourite evers (..)

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ted Harrington’s new book Hackable: How To Do Application Security Right argues for making application security a focal point, while laying out a practical framework that covers many of the fundamental bases. Harrington: Software runs the world.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The group reported that the alleged stolen data includes booking confirmations for the past 3 years. This data includes PDF & RTF booking confirmations for the past 3 years (5.5 The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang added Motel One to the list of victims on its Tor leak site.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 12, 2021

Gab got hacked again with a heap of posts made under users' identities (this is what happens when you don't take your first breach seriously enough!)

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s pretty devastating : Today, Ian Carroll, Lennert Wouters, and a team of other security researchers are revealing a hotel keycard hacking technique they call Unsaflok.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Black Basta ransomware gang claims the hack of the car maker Hyundai Motor Europe and the theft of three terabytes of their data. In April, Hyundai suffered another data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. The intrusion aimed at stealing automotive trade secrets.

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Zero Day

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Downloading your Kindle books one by one could take days. But with this clever step-by-step hack, you can grab 25 at a time and save your entire collection before Amazon locks it down this week.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2025

According to the Associated Press, UnitedHealth booked $1.1 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking,Change Healthcare) billion in total costs from the cyberattack in the second quarter.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 27, 2020

I think I am writing a new book about hacking in general, and want to discuss this. First, does this count as a hack? The tool then checked that their login credentials were correct, logged in, and refreshed the checkout page over and over again until a new delivery window appeared. It then placed the order, Koch explained.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Check out the 3 cyber warfare books every API hacker should read to learn about offensive security, past, present, and future. The post 3 Cyber Warfare Books Every API Hacker Should Read Over The Holidays appeared first on Dana Epp's Blog.

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