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. DNS encryption. Onion networking.

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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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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This is unhappy news for Huawei, but more importantly, as cyber is now treated as a “fifth domain” and there are no norms of conflict, bad news for technology in general. It’s bad news for the makers of important technology, who are now subject to attacks by nation states. Cult of the Dead Cow , Joseph Menn.

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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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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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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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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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 3, 2024

Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control nature and build large, complex human societies, and the more we employed and mastered technology, the better things got.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company sells "TIME AI," "the world's first dynamic 'non-factor' based quantum AI encryption software," "utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music's infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs." Parts of it remain on the Internet.

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 2, 2022

CyberSecurity Expert, Joseph Steinberg, was recently interviewed by the team at Utopia — a group of networking-technology enthusiasts seeking to provide readers with wise insights on security, privacy, and cryptocurrency — insights gained through interviews of people with considerable related experience. The interview follows.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 8, 2021

IDIQ Names Patrick Glennon Chief Technology Officer. Technology is central to company growth and product roadmap—. 8, 2021 – IDIQ, an industry leader in credit report and identity theft monitoring, has selected Patrick Glennon to lead technology and security at the company. IdentityIQ. Temecula, California, Dec.

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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. Mellen: Big initiatives like these are good for the security industry, but technology is not a silver bullet when it comes to consumer security. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most likely you didn’t pause before you clicked, and got phished or compromised in some other way–possibly by an internet of things device connected to your home network. While you may have your book series in hand, do you have candles and matches or a lighter or both? Tip: Back up everything (for more, see below).

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

In order to extract value from the Internet, data sprawl first must get reined in. Jeff Bezos solved data sprawl for selling books and gave us Amazon. To accomplish this, he says, it crawls data with advanced analysis technologies and brings “ deep learning ” data analytics to bear. This has always been the case.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 24, 2024

But when you see what Delta Airlines is *still* doing to passengers some five days after this one piece of bad code ate the internet, you can't blame CrowdStrike any longer. But most consumers have little or no real choice when booking tickets. This wasn't a single point of failure. It was a event cascade. Get used to it.

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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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Schneier on Security

APRIL 12, 2018

Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. In my new book -- out in September -- I write: There are challenges to creating these new insurance products. There are two basic models for insurance.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee account on Telegram, who said there was some kind of technology issue with the video platform, and that their IT people suggested using a different meeting link.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great. But while Haidt’s proposals may feel right—his book has spent five weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list —some psychologists disagree.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

It is a subsidiary of the partially state-owned Chinese company Wingtech Technology. In response to the incident, the company disconnected the affected systems from the internet to prevent the threat from spreading. Nexperia is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When Ackoff wrote his article, computing technology was at the cusp of data and information. With the advent of advanced tools like big data analytics and artificial intelligence, one might make a bold statement that today, computing technology straddles the gap between information and knowledge. Ackoff, R. From data to wisdom.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 21, 2023

As information technology continues to evolve, more and more people are penetrating cyberspace. But is it always safe to surf the internet? How Does Immersive Technology Affect Cybersecurity? Immersive technology can greatly help in this problem since it can train staff and spread cybersecurity awareness.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We have so much change happening and we can drive it to happen in a more positive way to reduce the resource needs for organizations and actually scale security for businesses of all sizes.".

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Consider, for example, a 2013 Massachusetts bill that tried to restrict the commercial use of data collected from K-12 students using services accessed via the internet. It turns out there is a natural opening for this technology: microlegislation. The bill appealed to many privacy-conscious education advocates, and appropriately so.

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Daniel Miessler

OCTOBER 4, 2020

These soft targets not only lack the defensive technology to protect themselves, they don’t even know what that tech is. And even if they did they wouldn’t have the people to do a basic security assessment, implement basic security practices, and to install and maintain some basic defensive technology. Free to attendees.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2019

One of the catch phrases I overheard at RSA 2019 that jumped out at me was this: “The internet is the new corporate network.” Founded in 2016 by cryptography experts from the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ elite 8200 cyber unit, Silverfort is backed by leading investors in cybersecurity technologies. Talk more soon.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. One such site — sun-technology[.]net w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

The book was written by several members of ERI’s leadership team, Aaron Blum, Kevin Dillon, Brendan Egan, John Shegerian and Tammy Shegerian and is available for purchase via Amazon Prime as a physical copy or digitally on Amazon. ERI’s mission is to protect people, the planet and privacy.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 22, 2020

In other words, I think we can predict the future of technology through a strong understanding of what humans ultimately want as a species. The Real Internet of Things, January 2017. Specifically, instead of starting with tech and seeing where it’s going, I’m starting with humans and what they seek, need, and desire.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

zettabytes to 40 zettabytes, as the Internet of Things and 5G networks take hold. It was really about setting up a central repository,” Couch says, “where anybody could come into the library and pull out a book on a given topic and have access to everything the organization knows about the topic.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The new AI-powered insights enhances the Reflectiz Smart Alerting system by integrating AI LLM technology on top of its traditional alerting tool for cross-checking the validity of the alert with Reflectiz’s extensive databases. Book a personalized demo here. Tel Aviv, Israel, Dec.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2023

However, history has shown that technological advances create new jobs and industries. For example, the rise of the internet led to the creation of millions of jobs in areas such as e-commerce, social media, and digital marketing. However, experts in the field of AI argue that such scenarios are unlikely to occur.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. I wrote about four systems for enabling trust: our innate morals, concern about our reputations, the laws we live under, and security technologies that constrain our behavior. Laws and security technologies are systems of trust that force us to act trustworthy.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“My nickname was MikeMike, and I worked with Dmitri Golubov and made technologies for him,” Shefel said. ChronoPay founder and CEO Pavel Vrublevsky was the key subject of my 2014 book Spam Nation , which described his role as head of one of Russia’s most notorious criminal spam operations. Image: U.S. Vrublevsky Sr.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 18, 2022

We speak with Mikko Hyppönen on the sidelines of the DEF CON Conference in Las Vegas to talk about his new book, “If its Smart it Vulnerable.". We speak with Mikko Hyppönen on the sidelines of the DEF CON Conference in Las Vegas to talk about his new book, “If its Smart it Vulnerable." Click the icon below to listen.

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