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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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I have a new book coming out in February. Just as a computer vulnerability can be exploited over the Internet because the code permits it, a tax loophole is “allowed” by the system because it follows the rules, even though it might subvert the intent of those rules. It’s about hacking. And I really like the cover.

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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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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Some of what I've read over the past quarter, and want to recommend each of the books below as worthy of your time. Cyber The Internet of Risky Things , Sean Smith. Dr. Black is explicit that she wrote the book to carry the feel of an internet campaign, with some stylistic bits that I found surprising. Fiction N.

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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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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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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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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

An unexpected book review. 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. Here's how to interpret results.

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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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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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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

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. Fiction As it turns out, all three fiction books are re-imaginings of other stories.

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2025

If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Good bots accounted for just 14% of the internet’s traffic. Bad bots do all kinds of unpleasant things.

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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2025

Beginning the message with emojis, Birdie started the chat… Group invitation on X [emoji intro] Hello, I am a third-party agency from the UK, specializing in providing ranking and likes services for Booking+Airbnb hotel applications. Tina tells me all you need is internet access and you can start working for booking.com.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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Zero Day

JUNE 28, 2021

Active attacks are indiscriminately wiping user devices.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2025

Bezos launching Amazon with a single book, and Googles Brain Team engineering the transformer architecture that underpins todays GenAIthese are milestones on the same arc. Jeff Bezos sells his first book on a novelty called Amazon.com in 1999. Fast-forward 560 years. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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.

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