Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World. This is a book about technology, and it's also a book about policy. The regulation-free Internet that we've enjoyed for the past decades will not survive this new, more dangerous, world.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Now everyone is racing for insight and the internet gives them tools to do it. I have not yet read the book. Wired has an excerpt : In short, data volume and accessibility are revolutionizing sensemaking.

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Graham Cluley

JUNE 25, 2021

Storage drive maker Western Digital is telling owners of its WD My Book Live device to disconnect it from the internet, after reports that some have had their data erased by malicious software. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2024

And a 1994 review of Applied Cryptography by redacted : Applied Cryptography, for those who don’t read the internet news, is a book written by Bruce Schneier last year. Schneier has gathered academic research, internet gossip, and everything he could find on cryptography into one 600-page jumble. There are many redactions.

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Adam Shostack

AUGUST 19, 2020

These are the books that I read in Q2 2020 that I think are worth your time. Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. Let me be frank: I hate most business books. Sorry it’s late. They’re still worthwhile. You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late , by Josephine Wolff. Leading Change by John Kotter.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2024

Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls , a single-volume book containing French versions of the latest editions of both the best selling CyberSecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg, and Hacking For Dummies by Kevin Beaver, is now available to the public.

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Adam Shostack

APRIL 5, 2019

Thought-provoking survey of the problems that come from the book above not being better read. The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong. As a summary of the problems and challenges of the internet, it’s aged sadly well since 2015. As it turns out, all three fiction books are re-imaginings of other stories.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The full tale of what I first did (and how disastrous it ultimately became), is up front early in the book so I won't relay it here, but it's quite the story. The book title - Pwned - also seemed like a natural fit. I'm even in the story of how it became the internet's favourite taunt , again, somehow.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I recently had a chance to have a rich discussion about the state of cybersecurity with Stiennon, the occasion being him sending me a copy of his new book: Security Yearbook 2020: A History and Directory of the IT Security Industry. Then along came cloud computing and the Internet of Things. You see it everywhere.” I’ll keep watch.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The book won’t be published until December, but Ross has been making drafts of the chapters available online as he finishes them. Now that the book is completed, I expect the publisher to make him take the drafts off the Internet. Ross Anderson’s fantastic textbook, Security Engineering , will have a third edition.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Surveillance is still the business model of the Internet, and this data is used against the customers' interests: either by the device manufacturer or by some third-party the manufacturer sells the data to. None of this is new, and much of it was discussed in my book Data and Goliath. IoT companies don't publish those reports.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Currently, there are around 2,500 registrars authorized to sell domains by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California nonprofit that oversees the domain industry. John Levine is author of the book “The Internet for Dummies” and president of CAUCE.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 29, 2022

Shodan is a search engine for everything on the internet — web cams, water treatment facilities, yachts, medical devices, traffic lights, wind turbines, license plate readers, smart TVs, refrigerators, anything and everything you could possibly imagine that's plugged into the internet (and often shouldn't be).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 27, 2024

Their technique starts with obtaining any keycard from a target hotel—say, by booking a room there or grabbing a keycard out of a box of used ones—then reading a certain code from that card with a $300 RFID read-write device, and finally writing two keycards of their own. Some older installations may take years.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 4, 2021

Fraudsters and scammers are in full attack mode as they prepare this year’s arsenal of fake booking websites and holiday offers to steal personal information and money from holidaymakers looking for last-minute deals and cheap property rentals. Why identifying fake booking deals can be difficult.

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

I hate reviewing books by people I know, because I am a picky reader, and if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. I also tend to hate management books, because they often substitute jargon for crisp thinking. It is not a book for the CSO. The book is organized into two major parts.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It’s bad news for people who want to be able to control their computer, because these attacks are leading vendors to lock down even their traditional operating systems, as Jonathan Zittrain predicted in his 2008 book, The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. Cult of the Dead Cow , Joseph Menn. How to design games.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2018

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC, Commission, or we) will conduct a public hearing to receive information from all interested parties about potential safety issues and hazards associated with internet-connected consumer products. Maybe I should send them my book manuscript. The Commission also requests written comments.

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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. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

Western Digital is asking customers to disconnect My Book Live hard drives from the internet to prevent malware from wiping them of data. “Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices are being compromised through exploitation of a remote command execution vulnerability. .

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Zero Day

JUNE 28, 2021

Active attacks are indiscriminately wiping user devices.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But even in our small corner of this world on the edge of the Soviet Empire behind the Iron Curtain, when my father and I read Stefan Zweig’s book on Magellan together, I could dream of the vast world beyond. The post Misinformation and propaganda in the authoritarian internet appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2022

” This is what I wrote in my upcoming book (to be published in February): One example of an extension of this technology is the “persona bot,” an AI posing as an individual on social media and other online groups. They would participate in small forums around the Internet: hobbyist groups, book groups, whatever.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

For children, concepts like cyber criminals, hackers, private information, and the vast idea of Internet dangers are abstract concepts. You can explain that hackers break in through the Internet to steal information. I’ve also been brought in to host virtual reading events with the book for corporate and nonprofit efforts.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Threat actors are wiping many Western Digital (WD) My Book Live and My Book Live Duo NAS devices likely exploiting an old vulnerability. Owners of Western Digital (WD) claim that their My Book Live and My Book Live Duo network-attached storage (NAS) devices have been wiped. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2020

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. Then you either mail or fax it in. After that, they send account creation links to all the contacts.”.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Internet safety should start from the home.

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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. Do you have a corporate book club? I’ve also been brought in to host Virtual Reading Events with the book for corporate programs. We’re all connected. Send gifts to clients?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Security researchers from WizCase have discovered several vulnerabilities in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS. WD My Book, NetGear Stora. If you are using one of the above devices and they are connected on the WAN, make sure to remove your device from the internet. Summary of Our Findings.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As a result, we are stuck with hackable internet protocols, computers that are riddled with vulnerabilities and networks that are easily penetrated. These connected computers and the network that connects them -- collectively known as "the internet of things" -- affect the world in a direct physical manner.

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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.) This, of course, is the plot of endless dystopian books and movies that end with rogue machines in charge. This, of course, is the plot of endless dystopian books and movies that end with rogue machines in charge.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. In an email to KrebsOnSecurity, booking.com confirmed one of its partners had suffered a security incident that allowed unauthorized access to customer booking information.

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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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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The domain name system (DNS) is known as the phone book of the internet, quickly connecting users from their devices to their desired content. But what appears to most users as seamless and instantaneous actually offers multiple opportunities for bad actors to slip through the cracks.

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