Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2018

This vulnerability is a result of an interaction between two different ways of handling e-mail addresses. Gmail ignores dots in addresses, so bruce.schneier@gmail.com is the same as bruceschneier@gmail.com is the same as b.r.u.c.e.schneier@gmail.com. (Note: I do not own any of those email addresses -- if they're even valid.) Netflix doesn't ignore dots, so those are all unique e-mail addresses and can each be used to register an account.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

I have a vehement dislike of spam. Right there, that's something you and I have in common because I'm yet to meet a person who says "well actually, I find those Viagra emails I receive every day kinda useful" We get bombarded by spam on a daily basis and quite rightly, people get kinda cranky when they have to deal with it; it's an unwanted invasion that takes a little slice of unnecessary mental processing each time we see it.

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Media Advertising Accountability Marketing 211

WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 25, 2018

Researchers didn't have to hack Amazon's Alexa voice assistant to use it for eavesdropping. They just took advantage of the system in place.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 17, 2018

Hackers are craftier than ever, pilfering PII piecemeal so bad actors can combine data to set up schemes to defraud medical practices, steal military secrets and hijack R&D product information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2018

Thales eSecurity’s CTO Jon Geater and Peter Carlisle , Thales eSecurity’s VP of Sales, EMEA, were recently featured in major news outlets espousing their opinions about internet-connected devices and the new Cyber Security Export Strategy. Geater, on new UK IoT security guidelines. Earlier this month, the UK government announced guidelines to make internet-connected devices safer.

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Elie

APRIL 18, 2018

This post explains why artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to building anti-abuse defenses that keep up with user expectations and combat increasingly sophisticated attacks. This is the first post of a series of four posts dedicated to provide a concise overview of how to harness AI to build robust anti-abuse protections. The remaining three posts delve into the top 10 anti-abuse specific challenges encountered while applying AI to abuse fighting, and how to overcome them.

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Artificial Intelligence Phishing Technology Malware 91

Troy Hunt

APRIL 23, 2018

Remember the anti-piracy campaign from years back about "You Wouldn't Steal a Car"? This was the rather sensationalist piece put together by the Motion Picture Association of America in an attempt to draw parallels between digital piracy and what they viewed as IRL ("In Real Life") equivalents. Here's a quick recap: The very premise that the young girl sitting in her bedroom in the opening scene is in any way relatable to the guy in the dark alley sliding a slim jim down the Merc

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Internet Internet Penetration Testing Hacking 209

WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 25, 2018

Researchers found—and helped fix—a flaw in Vingcard RFID locks that would let hackers break into any room in hotels around the world.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 9, 2018

Retailer says customer payment and other information may have been exposed via the breach of [24]7.ai online chat provider.

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Retail 93

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

The past year has seen a number of high profile security breaches tied to leaky storage servers. Specifically, the leakage of sensitive files connected to misconfigured security protocols on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. In fact, in June, a misconfigured database containing the sensitive personal information of 198 million American voters was left exposed online for nearly two weeks.

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Elie

APRIL 18, 2018

This post explains why artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to building anti-abuse defenses that keep up with user expectations and combat increasingly sophisticated attacks. This is the first post of a series of four posts dedicated to provide a concise overview of how to harness AI to build robust anti-abuse protections. The remaining three posts will delve into the top 10 anti-abuse specific challenges encountered while applying AI to abuse fighting, and how to overcome them.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 23, 2018

Russia has banned the secure messaging app Telegram. It's making an absolute mess of the ban -- blocking 16 million IP addresses , many belonging to the Amazon and Google clouds -- and it's not even clear that it's working. But, more importantly, I'm not convinced Telegram is secure in the first place. Such a weird story. If you want secure messaging, use Signal.

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Encryption 196

Troy Hunt

APRIL 27, 2018

When I launched Pwned Passwords in August , I honestly didn't know how much it would be used. I made 320M SHA-1 password hashes downloadable and also stood up an API to query the data "as a service" by either a plain text password or a SHA-1 hash. (Incidentally, for anyone about to lose their mind over SHA-1, read that launch post as to why that hashing algorithm is used.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 22, 2018

The mythical creature's popularity says a lot about the psychology of password creation.

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Passwords 111

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Lenny Zeltser

APRIL 9, 2018

Is it better to perform product management of information security solutions at a large company or at a startup? Picking the setting that’s right for you isn’t as simple as craving the exuberant energy of a young firm or coveting the resources and brand of an organization that’s been around for a while. Each environment has its challenges and advantages for product managers.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 20, 2018

Threat actors generate, launder, spend, and reinvest more than $1.5 trillion in illicit funds, according to a new study on cybercrime's 'web of profit.

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Cybercrime 81

Elie

APRIL 23, 2018

This post looks at the main challenges that arise when training a classifier to combat fraud and abuse. At a high level, what makes training a classifier to detect fraud and abuse unique is that it deals with data generated by an adversary that actively attempts to evade detection. Sucessfully training a classifier is such adversarial settings requires to overcome the following four challenges: Non stationarity.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2018

Info on the coded signals used by the Colorado Rockies.

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Encryption 187

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2018

I received a very nice email this week: Congratulations, your nomination has been accepted to the Microsoft Regional Director program! I am pleased to welcome you back to this worldwide community of technology thought leaders and thank you for being a part of this community. Just over 2 years ago, I first became a Microsoft Regional Director. This is a role that has meant a great deal to me over that time; it's not one you can sit an exam for and no amount of money will buy you one either.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 23, 2018

Whether to pay ransomware is a complicated—and costly—calculation.

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Ransomware 111

Threatpost

APRIL 9, 2018

A new wave of document attacks targeting inboxes do not require enabling macros in order for adversaries to trigger an infection chain that ultimately delivers FormBook malware.

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Malware Hacking 78

Dark Reading

APRIL 11, 2018

Most exposed data records caused by human error.

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Elie

APRIL 23, 2018

This post looks at the four main challenges that arise when training a classifier to combat fraud and abuse. This is the second post of a series of four that is dedicated to provide a concise overview of how to harness AI to build robust anti-abuse protections. The first post. explains why AI is key to build robust anti-defenses that keep up with user expectations and increasingly sophisticated attackers.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2018

The ISO has rejected two symmetric encryption algorithms: SIMON and SPECK. These algorithms were both designed by the NSA and made public in 2013. They are optimized for small and low-cost processors like IoT devices. The risk of using NSA-designed ciphers, of course, is that they include NSA-designed backdoors. Personally, I doubt that they're backdoored.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2018

We're in Hawaii! "We" being Scott Helme and myself and we're here for the Loco Moco Sec conference which has been a heap of fun (the location may have played a part in that.) And what a location: Scott joined me for this week's update and we were fresh out of a great talk from the Google Chrome Security PM so have a bit to share there about changes coming to the browser.

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Mobile Accountability Risk 143

WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 25, 2018

Ray Ozzie thinks his Clear method for unlocking encrypted devices can attain the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.

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Encryption 111

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Threatpost

APRIL 10, 2018

Researchers are warning of a new email phishing campaign that launches a trojan capable of distributing ransomware and stealing passwords.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 23, 2018

By Peter Galvin, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Thales eSecurity. Today, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud technology. Many organizations have implemented a cloud first philosophy, requiring that any new applications or IT investments start with the cloud. And not just one cloud, but organizations are investing in multiple clouds and SaaS applications.

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Elie

APRIL 18, 2018

While machine learning is integral to innumerable anti-abuse systems including spam and phishing detection, the road to reap its benefits is paved with numerous abuse-specific challenges. Drawing from concrete examples this session will discuss how these challenges are addressed at Google and providea roadmap to anyone interested in applying machine learning to fraud and abuse problems.

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Phishing 89

Schneier on Security

APRIL 27, 2018

This seems like an absolute disaster: The very short version is that a UK bank, TSB, which had been merged into and then many years later was spun out of Lloyds Bank, was bought by the Spanish bank Banco Sabadell in 2015. Lloyds had continued to run the TSB systems and was to transfer them over to Sabadell over the weekend. It's turned out to be an epic failure, and it's not clear if and when this can be straightened out.

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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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