Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Occasionally, I feel like I'm just handing an organisation more shovels - "here, keep digging, I'm sure this'll work out just fine." The latest such event was with NatWest (a bank in the UK), and it culminated with this tweet from them: I'm sorry you feel this way. I can certainly pass on your concerns and feed this back to the tech team for you Troy?
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Interesting research : The trick in accurately tracking a person with this method is finding out what kind of activity they're performing. Whether they're walking, driving a car, or riding in a train or airplane, it's pretty easy to figure out when you know what you're looking for. The sensors can determine how fast a person is traveling and what kind of movements they make.
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WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 29, 2017
The practice of using a website visitor's device to mine cryptocurrency has expanded—and evolved—at an alarming rate.
Elie
DECEMBER 2, 2017
This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. OVH. , Dyn. , and.
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Dark Reading
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Cloud security architecture skills to customer-service savvy are among the key IT security skills needed next year as CIOs ramp up hiring.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Researchers warn of copycat type attacks as exploit code used in Mirai variant goes public.
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Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 1, 2017
A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing because someone named his wireless network (presumably from his smartphone) "bomb on board.". In 2006, I wrote an essay titled " Refuse to be Terrorized." (I am also reminded of my 2007 essay, " The War on the Unexpected." A decade later, it seems that the frequency of incidents like the one above is less, although not zero.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Researchers found that network configuration errors have left thousands of high-end speakers open to epic audio pranking.
eSecurity Planet
DECEMBER 28, 2017
And just 11 percent plan to add one in the coming year.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Updated version includes changes to some existing guidelines - and adds some new ones.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Thanks to heightened consumer confidence, a rise in proximity payments adoption and ongoing developments in biometrics, the payments industry continued to undergo digital transformation throughout 2017. We’re now seeing big data play an increasing role in how retail sales and payments are being tailored to individual consumer’s preferences, and providers are adopting and integrating smarter, more efficient ways of completing the path-to-purchase.
Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 20, 2017
This week, I've been writing up my 5-part guide on "Fixing Data Breaches" On Monday I talked about the value of education ; let's try and stop the breach from happening in the first place. Then yesterday it was all about reducing the impact of a breach , namely by collecting a lot less data in the first place then recognising that it belongs to the person who provided it and treating with the appropriate respect.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 22, 2017
The NSA leaker's latest project aims to secure your computer—and you—from not just digital but physical attacks.
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eSecurity Planet
DECEMBER 20, 2017
The information, from data analytics firm Alteryx, was in an Amazon S3 bucket configured to provide any AWS user with access.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Follow these five guidelines to keep your organization's data protected.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Ancestry.com closes parts of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigates a leaky server that exposed thousands of passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet.
Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 17, 2017
We have a data breach problem. They're constant news headlines, they're impacting all of us and frankly, things aren't getting any better. Quite the opposite, in fact - things are going downhill in a hurry. Last month, I went to Washington DC, sat in front of Congress and told them about the problem. My full written testimony is in that link and it talks about many of the issue we face today and the impact data breaches have on identity verification.
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Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Security Planner is a custom security advice tool from Citizen Lab. Answer a few questions, and it gives you a few simple things you can do to improve your security. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead to give people things they can actually do to immediately improve their security. I don't see it replacing any of the good security guides out there, but instead augmenting them.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 19, 2017
The urge to fight one decisive battle has undone countless real-world rebellions—and those in the Star Wars universe as well.
eSecurity Planet
DECEMBER 27, 2017
And almost half of those breaches were caused by a third-party vendor or contractor.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Avast's RetDec machine-code decompiler now available for free on Github.
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In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Until recently, it was nothing more than a buzzword bandied around across various industries. Now though, businesses everywhere are undergoing various forms of digital transformation as they look for ways to better interact with their end customers, whether consumer or corporate. Organisations are finding themselves under increasing pressure from their boards, all keen on moving their businesses forward technologically, to deliver the solutions and services they need to remain competitive in an
Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 12, 2017
I've been gradually coming to this conclusion of my own free will, but Phil Schiller's comments last week finally cemented it for me: Face ID stinks. I wrote about the security implementations of Face ID just after it was announced and that piece is still entirely relevant today. To date, we haven't seen practical attacks against it that should worry the masses and the one piece that suggests it's vulnerable has been pretty thoroughly debunked by Dan Goodin at Ars Technica.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Matthew Green wrote a fascinating blog post about the NSA's efforts to increase the amount of random data exposed in the TLS protocol, and how it interacts with the NSA's backdoor into the DUAL_EC_PRNG random number generator to weaken TLS.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 20, 2017
To safeguard AI, we’re going to need to solve the problem of ‘adversarial examples.’.
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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.
eSecurity Planet
DECEMBER 1, 2017
The data is unusually sensitive, including full credit card and bank account numbers as well as images of Social Security cards and driver's licenses.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Loki malware, built to steal credentials, is distributed via Microsoft Excel and other Office applications rigged with malicious 'scriptlets' to evade detection.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
DECEMBER 19, 2017
As 2017 draws to a close, the trends and innovations that will shape the technology industry over the coming weeks, months and years were brought into sharper focus over the course of the last twelve months. Cloud computing has gone mainstream for many enterprises, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how both industrial and consumer-oriented companies do business.
Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 28, 2017
It's Xmas! Well, it was Xmas but I (and hopefully you too) am still in that Xmas period haze where it's hard to tell one day from the next. Apparently, it's also hard to remember to hit record before talking about this week's updates so yeah, good one Troy! But I did eventually record a full update and in an otherwise slow news week, I thought I'd talk a little bit about Xmas down under in Australia.
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
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