Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2019

A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack this week that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Multiple sources affected say their IT provider, Englewood, Colo. based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware known as “Sodinokibi” or “rEvil” to be installed on computers at more than 100 dentistry businesses

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Pensacola, FL was hit by a cyberattack in the wake of what has been described as a terrorist shooting. “The city of Pensacola is experiencing a cyberattack that began this weekend that is impacting our city network, including phones and email at City Hall and some of our other buildings,” said Mayor Grover Robinson. . The cyberattack began early Saturday morning days after a shooting at the nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station that left four dead and eight wounded.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

For decades, the cornerstone of IT security has been Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , a system that allows you to encrypt and sign data, issuing digital certificates that authenticate the identity of users. Related: How PKI could secure the Internet of Things If that sounds too complicated to grasp, take a look at the web address for the home page of this website.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2019

EFF has published a comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off. Well worth reading and sharing. Boing Boing post.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers. The allegations stemmed from a three-year investigation by a U.S.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The personal data of more than 752,000 applicants filed to obtain copies of birth and death certificates was found on an unprotected Amazon Web Services database. . The leaked data has been tracked back to a company that provides the online request forms for copies of birth and death certificates to state governments. States contracting with the company include California, New York, and Texas.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I recorded this right before heading out for my final conference talk of the year at YOW! Melbourne where I was due to do the closing keynote of the event. That's now done, questions answered and beers drunk and I left the event feeling great. One of the things I get the most pleasure out of at conferences is hanging around talking to people so a big thanks to everyone who made the time today to stay back on a Friday evening and cap a very busy year of conferences off in this fashion.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft today released updates to plug three dozen security holes in its Windows operating system and other software. The patches include fixes for seven critical bugs — those that can be exploited by malware or miscreants to take control over a Windows system with no help from users — as well as another flaw in most versions of Windows that is already being exploited in active attacks.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools. .

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While hardware-level attacks are high, only 59% of companies have implemented a hardware security strategy, Dell and Forrester found.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I'm presently on the YOW! conference tour which means doing the same keynote three times over in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. It's my first time back at YOW! since 2015 and it's always a nice way to wrap up the year, especially the Brisbane leg I'm on at the moment in my home state. That's kept me busy, but it's some tweets last week that have kept me entertained so I'm talking about those as well as some reflections on what is now 6 years of running HIBP.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

CISO Magazine , a publication dedicated to covering issues near and dear to corporate chief information security officers everywhere, has graciously awarded this author the designation of “ Cybersecurity Person of the Year ” in its December 2019 issue. KrebsOnSecurity is grateful for the unexpected honor. But I can definitely think of quite a few people who are far more deserving of this title.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Discovered and analyzed by security provider Sophos, Snatch attempts to bypass traditional security software by rebooting your PC into Safe Mode.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Earlier this year, I helped to organize a workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl on Empirical Evaluation of Secure Development Processes. I think the workshop was a tremendous success, we’ve already seen publications inspired by it, such as Moving Fast and Breaking Things: How to stop crashing more than twice , and I know there’s more forthcoming.

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Elie

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The. “Right to be Forgotten” (RTBF). is a landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information uncovered by queries containing the name of the requester.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There's a serous debate on reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I am in the process of figuring out what I believe, and this is more a place to put resources and listen to people's comments. The EFF has written extensively on why it is so important and dismantling it will ben catastrophic for the Internet. Danielle Citron disagrees.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Mozilla has evolved its Lockbox password tool into a more standard password manager. Jack Wallen shows you how to use the Firefox Lockwise password manager.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Emily Asher-Perrin has some of the most interesting writing on the Star Wars universe. I like her analysis of where Rey may come from in Rey Should Choose to Adopt the Skywalker Name, Not Be Retconned Into the Family. I half look forward to the day when Disney assimilates her into the official writing team. The stories will get better, and we’ll lose her analysis.

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Daniel Miessler

DECEMBER 9, 2019

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Interesting taxonomy of machine-learning failures ( pdf ) that encompasses both mistakes and attacks, or -- in their words -- intentional and unintentional failure modes. It's a good basis for threat modeling.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Mozilla has evolved its Lockbox password tool into a more standard password manager. Find out if Firefox Lockwise is right for you.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The Open Technology Institute has an Open Letter to Law Enforcement in the U.S., UK, and Australia: Weak Encryption Puts Billions of Internet Users at Risk. ( press release , letter.) I am pleased to be one of the signers. In closely related news, nominations for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are open.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A new wave of reports about the home surveillance cameras getting hijacked by creeps is painfully familiar.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Experts discovered tens of flaws in the Siemens SPPA-T3000 control systems that could be exploited to attack fossil and renewable power plants. Siemens informed customers that the SPPA-T3000 Application Server is affected by 19 vulnerabilities and the SPAA-T3000 MS3000 Migration Server is impacted by 35 security issues. Some of the vulnerabilities have been rated as critical and could be exploited by attackers to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or to execute arbitrary code on the ser

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Intel's Amit Elazari Bar On discussed IoT security, ethical hackers, bug bounties, and more.

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Elie

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The “Right to be Forgotten” is a privacy ruling that enables Europeans to delist certain URLs appearing in search results related to their name. In order to illuminate the effect this ruling has on information access, we conducted a retrospective measurement study of 3.2 million URLs that were requested for delisting from Google Search over five years.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Reports about the toy store using cameras to track shoppers caused an uproar, but the companies behind the tech insist their systems are trained to ignore kids.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft revealed that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking. Microsoft discovered that 44 million Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Services accounts were vulnerable to account hijacking because of using of compromised passwords. Experts from the Microsoft threat research team analyzed a database containing 3 billion leaked credentials from different security breaches. “The Microsoft identity threat research team checks billions

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 10, 2019

'Tis the season for open source gifts. But what to buy? Jack Wallen has a few ideas that are sure to put a smile on the faces of the open source lovers in your life.

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