Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe how large companies have become central control points for our data. And for maybe half a decade, I have been talking about the world-sized robot that is the Internet of Things, and how digital security is now a matter of public safety.
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The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Less than 48 hours after the killing of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin calling out Iran’s “robust cyber program,” and cautioning everyone to be prepared for Iran to “conduct operations in the United States.” Related: Cyber warfare enters Golden Age In fact, strategic cyber operations essentially pitting Russia and Iran against the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes
Adam Levin
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Online scammers are using the 2020 Oscars to spread malware. A recent study released by Kaspersky Labs uncovered several hacking and phishing campaigns promising their targets free and early access to Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards. The study found over twenty phishing websites hosting at least 925 malicious files using the movies as bait, requiring would-be victims to either provide personal information (including credit card numbers), or to install adware applications to
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Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. They'd given me a heads up as apparently, that's what the program has a habit of doing: I Just wanted to get in contact to let you know we're featuring 'have I been pwned?
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Based on years of pilot projects and proofs-of-concept, the Industrial Internet Consortium has detailed the best-practices organizations can use to ensure successful deployments.
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Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Google presented its system of using deep-learning techniques to identify malicious email attachments: At the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google's security and anti-abuse research lead Elie Bursztein will present findings on how the new deep-learning scanner for documents is faring against the 300 billion attachments it has to process each week.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Iran comes under cyber-attack again, a massive offensive brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet. Iran infrastructures are under attack, a massive cyberattack brought down a large portion of the Iranian access to the Internet, according to the experts the national connectivity fell to 75%. The N etBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, observed yesterday (February 8, 2019) a massive outage of the country’s connectivity to the Interne
Adam Levin
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The personal information of over 10.6 million customers of MGM Resorts has been published online. MGM Resorts confirmed the leaked data as being the result of a data breach that occurred last year. The data includes full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birthdates, and, in some cases, passport numbers of 10,683,188 hotel guests, including celebrities and prominent public figures such as Justin Bieber and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
I've got audio! Ok, so I cheated a bit in terms of recording back in the home office, but the plugs I need to make the Zoom H6 work the way it should (and yeah, I know I said "Rode" H6 in the vid, sorry!) are on the way and hopefully they'll be all good for next week when I'm in Sydney. I'm talking about that trip in this week's update along with the Chrome 80 changes to SameSite cookies not that its hit, the Adult FriendFinder breach and then recapping on a heap of the week's news in tweets.
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Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
If you don't follow these Kubernetes deployments security best practices from Portshift, your containers, their underlying technologies, and your data could be at risk.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don’t go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG sold equipment to governments and militaries around the world for decades after World War II. They were owned by the CIA: But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company's devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Microsoft is recommending administrators to disable the SMBv1 network communication protocol on Exchange servers to prevent malware attacks. Microsoft is urging administrators to disable the SMBv1 protocol on Exchange servers as a countermeasure against malware threats like TrickBot and Emotet. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on
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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.
Adam Levin
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
As if cybersecurity weren’t already a red-letter issue, the United States and, most likely, its allies–in other words, the global economic community–are in Iran’s cyber sites, a major player in cyber warfare and politically divisive disinformation campaigns. The “slap” as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described it was a ballistic missile attack on a target that had three hours to get out of harm’s way.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
On reflection, I feel this week's update was dominated by having a laugh at an IoT candle ?? And that's fair, too, even though I then went and bought one because hey, this is gonna be great conference talk material! Delivery is going to be much later this year so don't hold your breath, but it could be really, uh, "interesting" once it lands. Stay tuned for that one but until then, here's this week's update: References If you're not pwned, you may be an anomaly (I'd actually like to write this u
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Get ready for consolidation risk, microbreaches, and other cybersecurity hazards, warn experts from Mimecast, the Cyber Resilience Think Tank.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Many modern vehicles let owners use the Internet or a mobile device to control the car’s locks, track location and performance data, and start the engine. But who exactly owns that control is not always clear when these smart cars are sold or leased anew. Here’s the story of one former electric vehicle owner who discovered he could still gain remote, online access to his old automobile years after his lease ended.
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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.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. I think I did pretty well. Here's what I said back then: There's really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You're secure from something or against something. In the next 10 years, the traditional definition of IT security -- that it protects you from hackers, criminals, and other bad guys -- will undergo a radical shift.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
The traditional focus on security has been on breach prevention and threat detection but these can only go so far. For organisations going through digital transformation there needs to be a layered approach to security – complimenting these traditional strategies with data protection.In the evolving digital world of cloud, social and apps, data is now the perimeter.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
Group-IB experts detected a database containing over 460,000 payment card records uploaded to Joker’s Stash cardshops , most of records were from the Indian banks. Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has detected a database containing over 460,000 payment card records uploaded to one of the most popular darknet cardshops ( Joker’s Stash ) on February 5.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
I don't know exactly why the recent uptick, but lately I've had a bunch of people ask me if I've tried the Brave web browser. Why they'd ask me that is much more obvious: Brave is a privacy-focused browser that nukes ads and trackers. It also has some cool built-in stuff like the ability to create a new private browsing window in Tor rather than just your classic incognito window that might ditch all your cookies and browsing history but still connect to the internet directly from your own IP ad
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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.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Data exposure is one of the biggest threats from attacks on IoT devices. A new report recommends a shift to perimeter-less security strategies.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
A Pennsylvania man who operated one of the Internet’s longest-running online attack-for-hire or “booter” services was sentenced to five years probation today. While the young man’s punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant’s dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss’s identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Interesting collision of real-world and Internet security: The ceremony sees several trusted internet engineers (a minimum of three and up to seven) from across the world descend on one of two secure locations -- one in El Segundo, California, just south of Los Angeles, and the other in Culpeper, Virginia -- both in America, every three months. Once in place, they run through a lengthy series of steps and checks to cryptographically sign the digital key pairs used to secure the internet's root z
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream.
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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?
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The FBI recommends using longer passwords composed of multiple words into a long string of at least 15 characters instead of short passwords including special characters. Recent guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) highlights that the password length is much more important than password complexity. The recommendations are part of the Protected Voices initiative launched by the FBI to help 2020 political campaigns and American voters protect against online forei
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
In the past decade, businesses started evaluating the pros and cons of moving to the cloud in order to meet the increased demand for the cost and IT efficiency benefits of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Many businesses subsequently adopted a Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or SaaS model, thus positioning the cloud as the foundation for digital transformation.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
A DivvyCloud report finds 196 data breaches exposed more than 33 billion records due to environments without appropriate security.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Crooks are constantly dreaming up new ways to use and conceal stolen credit card data. According to the U.S. Secret Service , the latest scheme involves stolen card information embedded in barcodes affixed to phony money network rewards cards. The scammers then pay for merchandise by instructing a cashier to scan the barcode and enter the expiration date and card security code.
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