Schneier on Security
AUGUST 3, 2018
Humble Bundle sells groups of e-books at ridiculously low prices, DRM free. This month , the bundles are all Wiley titles, including three of my books: Applied Cryptography , Secrets and Lies , and Cryptography Engineering. $15 gets you everything, and they're all DRM-free. Even better, a portion of the proceeds goes to the EFF. As a board member, I've seen the other side of this.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 16, 2018
An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like these are prompting some experts to say the surest way to safeguard one’s online accounts may be to disconnect them from the mobile providers entirely.
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The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 27, 2018
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. To the contrary, DDoS attacks appear to be scaling up and getting more sophisticated in lock step with digital transformation; DDoS attacks today are larger, more varied and come at the targeted website from so many more vectors than ever before.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 28, 2018
I'm still pretty amazed at how much traction Pwned Passwords has gotten this year. A few months ago, I wrote about Pwned Passwords in Practice which demonstrates a whole heap of great use cases where they've been used in registration, password reset and login flows. Since that time, another big name has come on board too : I love that a service I use every day has taken something I've built and is doing awesome things with it!
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Many cybersecurity awareness platforms offer massive content libraries, yet they fail to enhance employees’ cyber resilience. Without structured, engaging, and personalized training, employees struggle to retain and apply key cybersecurity principles. Phished.io explains why organizations should focus on interactive, scenario-based learning rather than overwhelming employees with excessive content.
Adam Levin
AUGUST 13, 2018
Security researchers at the recent Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas have placed malware on pacemakers as a proof-of-concept hack to highlight the potential for security vulnerabilities in IoT-enabled medical devices. Another separate demonstration revealed that patients’ vital signs could be falsified in real time. The malware attack on IoT medical devices made it possible for a hacker to deliver shocks to a target’s heart via an unencrypted connection, and as such represe
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 21, 2018
The enactment of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a significant milestone for virtually every international business. Under the standard, organizations need to comply withan extensive set of requirements—or potentially face significant fines for failing to do so. Thales eSecurity and DataStax have come together to draft “Aligning GDPR Requirements with Today’s Hybrid-Cloud Realities,” which outlines a number of the issues organizations need to address to be GDPR
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Krebs on Security
AUGUST 7, 2018
Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher , an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 3, 2018
Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It was easy to see this coming. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Cryptojacking was born. And now, the next-level shift is underway. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. Cybercriminals have shifted their focus to burrowing onto company servers and then redirecting those corporate computing resources to crypto mining chores.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 7, 2018
Only a few weeks ago, I wrote about a new GDPR course with John Elliott. We've been getting fantastic feedback on that course and I love the way John has been able to explain GDPR in a way that's actually practical and makes sense! In my experience, that's a bit of a rare talent in GDPR land. When we recorded that course in London a couple of months back, we also recorded another one on Defending Against JavaScript Keylogger Attacks on Payment Card Information.
Adam Levin
AUGUST 27, 2018
Wireless company T-Mobile suffered a data breach affecting more than 2 million of its 77 million customers. The breach resulted in the compromise of names, phone numbers, email addresses, as well as general account information, but not, according to the company, financial information. T-Mobile’s cybersecurity team identified the breach on August 20th, and took steps to stop the “unauthorized data leak,” before alerting affected customers via text within days of the event.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Adam Shostack
AUGUST 13, 2018
The slides from my Blackhat talk, “ Threat Modeling in 2018: Attacks, Impacts and Other Updates ” are now available either as a PDF or online viewer.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 27, 2018
A report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies looks at surprise and war. One of the report's cyberwar scenarios is particularly compelling. It doesn't just map cyber onto today's tactics, but completely re-imagines future tactics that include a cyber component (quote starts on page 110). The U.S. secretary of defense had wondered this past week when the other shoe would drop.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 12, 2018
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning banks that cybercriminals are preparing to carry out a highly choreographed, global fraud scheme known as an “ATM cash-out,” in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines around the world to fraudulently withdraw millions of dollars in just a few hours. “The FBI has obtained unspecified reporting indicating cyber criminals are planning to conduct a global Automated Teller Machine
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 23, 2018
Remember the old adage, you can never be too thin or too rich? The software development world has its own take on that dictum—you can never be too fast. Related: Gamification training targets iGens. Business demand dictates a frenetic pace for delivering new and better technology. To perfect the process, more organizations are taking a DevOps approach—melding software development and software operations simultaneously.
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Troy Hunt
AUGUST 6, 2018
Earlier this year, I spent some time in San Fran with friend and Bugcrowd founder Casey Ellis where we recorded a Pluralsight "Play by Play" titled Bug Bounties for Companies. I wrote about that in the aforementioned post which went out in May and I mentioned back then that we'd also created a second course targeted directly at researchers. We had to pull together some additional material on that one but I'm please to now share the finished product with you: Bug Bounties for Researchers.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 22, 2018
Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 22, 2018
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Schneier on Security
AUGUST 29, 2018
Interesting story of a CIA intelligence network in China that was exposed partly because of a computer-security failure: Although they used some of the same coding, the interim system and the main covert communication platform used in China at this time were supposed to be clearly separated. In theory, if the interim system were discovered or turned over to Chinese intelligence, people using the main system would still be protected -- and there would be no way to trace the communication back to
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Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 1, 2018
Reddit.com today disclosed that a data breach exposed some internal data, as well as email addresses and passwords for some Reddit users. As Web site breaches go, this one doesn’t seem too severe. What’s interesting about the incident is that it showcases once again why relying on mobile text messages (SMS) for two-factor authentication (2FA) can lull companies and end users into a false sense of security.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 15, 2018
In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Related: How PKI can secure IoT. Google’s Chrome web browser commands a 60% market share. So the search giant has been leading the push to get 100% of websites to jettison HTTP and replace it with HTTPS.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 17, 2018
Made it to 100! And by pure coincidence, it aligned with the week where I've tuned out more than I ever have since gaining my independence which means there's really not much to talk about. But I did want to share a little about the snow in Australia (turns out it's not all beaches) and some thoughts on gov initiatives in the news following my time with the Australia Cyber Security Centre in Canberra last week.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 29, 2018
Cyberstalking is one of the most overlooked crimes. This is exactly why it is among the fastest growing crimes in the world. Learn all there is about cyberstalking here. The internet has been a blessing since its inception. The very concept of globalization has come into existence just because of the internet. The world that was previously unconnected soon became a global village with different cultures and traditions linking together via the information highway.
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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
AUGUST 31, 2018
Air Canada is advising customers to reset their passwords on their mobile application after detecting a potential data breach of customer records. In a notice, Air Canada says that a data breach it discovered last week impacted 20,000 profiles. However, the airline operator is urging all 1.7 million users to reset their passwords. “We detected unusual login behavior with Air Canada’s mobile App between Aug. 22-24, 2018.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 1, 2018
The UK's GCHQ delivers a brutally blunt assessment of quantum key distribution: QKD protocols address only the problem of agreeing keys for encrypting data. Ubiquitous on-demand modern services (such as verifying identities and data integrity, establishing network sessions, providing access control, and automatic software updates) rely more on authentication and integrity mechanisms -- such as digital signatures -- than on encryption.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 23, 2018
In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a failure to patch one of its Internet servers against a pervasive software flaw — in a Web component known as Apache Struts — led to a breach that exposed personal data on 147 million Americans. Now security experts are warning that blueprints showing malicious hackers how to exploit a newly-discovered Apache Struts bug are available online, leaving countless organizations in a rush to apply new updates and plug the security hole before att
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 6, 2018
The recent data breaches at Timehop and Macy’s are the latest harbingers of what’s in store for companies that fail to vigorously guard access to all of their mission-critical systems. Related podcast: Why identities are the new firewall. A common thread to just about every deep network breach these days is the failure of the victimized entity to effectively deploy multi-factor authentication (MFA) to at least make it harder for threat actors to access their sensitive systems.
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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.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 8, 2018
Rounding out a recent spate of new Pluralsight courses is one final one: Modern Browser Security Reports. This time, it's with Scott Helme who for most of my followers, needs no introduction. You may remember Scott from such previous projects as securityheaders.io , Report URI and, as it relates to this course, our collective cleaning up at a couple of recent UK awards nights: With @Scott_Helme (at a different awards night) learning we both just scored at the European Cyber Security Blogger Awar
Security Affairs
AUGUST 27, 2018
A group of researchers has conducted an interesting study on AT commands attacks on modern Android devices discovering that models of 11 vendors are at risk. A group of researchers from the University of Florida, Stony Brook University, and Samsung Research America, has conducted an interesting research on the set of AT commands that are currently supported on modern Android devices.
Adam Levin
AUGUST 15, 2018
It’s long been known that organizations need to exercise extreme caution when jettisoning old office equipment, especially if it has built-in memory—and that it’s even more crucial to bear in mind that hackers can utilize digital or carbon-based memory. An Israeli-based company recently found another way older communication devices—and new versions of older technology—provide hackers entree into office networks—in this case an all-in-one, network-connected device that faxes, scans and copies.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 7, 2018
Interesting research: " Dancing Pigs or Externalities? Measuring the Rationality of. Security Decisions ": Abstract: Accurately modeling human decision-making in security is critical to thinking about when, why, and how to recommend that users adopt certain secure behaviors. In this work, we conduct behavioral economics experiments to model the rationality of end-user security decision-making in a realistic online experimental system simulating a bank account.
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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.
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