Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

One of the digital underground’s most popular stores for peddling stolen credit card information began selling a batch of more than three million new card records this week. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the data was stolen in a lengthy data breach at more than 100 Dickey’s Barbeque Restaurant locations around the country. An ad on the popular carding site Joker’s Stash for “BlazingSun,” which fraud experts have traced back to a card breach at Dickey’s BBQ.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Five researchers hacked Apple Computer’s networks — not their products — and found fifty-five vulnerabilities. So far, they have received $289K. One of the worst of all the bugs they found would have allowed criminals to create a worm that would automatically steal all the photos, videos, and documents from someone’s iCloud account and then do the same to the victim’s contacts.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You know how some people are what you'd call "house proud" in that they like everything very neat and organised? You walk in there and everything is in its place, nice and clean without clutter. I'm what you'd call "network proud" and the same principle applies to how I manage my IP things: That's just a slice of my Ubiquiti network map which presently has 91 IP addresses on it between clients and network devices.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Barnes & Noble has confirmed a data breach following a cyberattack that took many of their services offline. . The bookseller sent an email to customers notifying them that their personal information had been exposed, but that their financial information had not been compromised. . “While we do not know if any personal information was exposed as a result of the attack, we do retain in the impacted systems your billing and shipping addresses, your email address and your telephone number if yo

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Microsoft Corp. has executed a coordinated legal sneak attack in a bid to disrupt the malware-as-a-service botnet Trickbot , a global menace that has infected millions of computers and is used to spread ransomware. A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control over many Internet servers Trickbot uses to plunder infected systems, based on novel claims that the crime machine abused the software giant’s trademarks.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2020

One of the things we learned from the Snowden documents is that the NSA conducts “about” searches. That is, searches based on activities and not identifiers. A normal search would be on a name, or IP address, or phone number. An about search would something like “show me anyone that has used this particular name in a communications,” or “show me anyone who was at this particular location within this time frame.” These searches are legal when conducted for the

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The week's update comes on the back of a very long week for me, but it's good to be "out there" speaking at events even if they are just from the comfort of my own home. There's also more adventures in IoT, Chrome's experiment with URL paths in their omnibox and Apple messing around with MAC addresses on my phone and watch. Oh - and I did manage to track down what my favourite Norwegian beer is following a question from the audience: I was asked about my favourite Norwegian beer during my live s

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In keeping with that theme, if you (ab)use Microsoft Windows computers you should be aware the company shipped a bevy of software updates today to fix at least 87 security problems in Windows and programs that run on top of the operating system. That means it’s once again time to backup and patch up. Eleven of the vulnerabilities earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, which means bad guys or malware could use them to gain

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Workshop on Economics of Information Security will be online this year. Register here.

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Information Security 308

Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Cyberattacks against businesses have spiked since the shift to remote work began in early 2020, says Keeper Security.

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Adam Levin

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Microsoft has stepped up its efforts to disrupt the Trickbot malware botnet after receiving permission to take on its network infrastructure. Citing concerns of potential activity to disrupt the upcoming elections, Microsoft was granted approval from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to disable online servers connected to the botnet. .

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Nice looking website you've got there. It'd be a shame if someone DDoS'd it.

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Hacking 145

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Earlier this month, we learned that someone is disrupting the TrickBot botnet network. Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If you've had files deleted by a hacker or you've accidentally removed them, Jack Wallen shows you how to recover that missing data with a handy tool called testdisk.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Google security researcher discovered Bluetooth vulnerabilities (BleedingTooth) in the Linux kernel that could allow zero-click attacks. Andy Nguyen, a Google security researcher, has found Bluetooth vulnerabilities, referred to as BleedingTooth, in the Linux kernel that could be exploited by attackers to run arbitrary code or access sensitive information.

Advertising 145

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Lenny Zeltser

OCTOBER 13, 2020

REMnux ® offers a curated collection of free tools for reverse-engineering or otherwise analyzing malicious software. How to find the right tool for the job, given how many useful utilities come as part of the distro? To guide you through the process of examining malware, REMnux documentation lists the installed tools by category. Each grouping, which you’ll find in the Discover the Tools section of the documentation site, represents the type of actions the analysts might need to take: Exa

Malware 145

Malware Engineering Software Information Security 145

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’ll be speaking at Cyber Week Online , October 19-21, 2020. I’ll be speaking at the IEEE Symposium on Technology and Society virtual conference, November 12-15, 2020. I’ll be keynoting the 2020 Conference on Cyber Norms on November 12, 2020. I’m speaking at the (ISC)² Security Congress 2020 , November 16, 2020.

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Technology 226

Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What if you could compare security on IoT devices, similar to nutrition labels, before you buy them? One organization is trying to make that happen.

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IoT 207

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Britain’s most senior cyber general declared that the UK has implemented an advanced offensive cyberwar capability that could destroy its enemies. Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, the UK’s strategic command chief, announced that that the UK has implemented an advanced offensive cyberwar capability that could potentially “degrade, disrupt and destroy” the critical infrastructure of its adversaries.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Meet General Paul Nakasone. He reined in chaos at the NSA and taught the US military how to launch pervasive cyberattacks. And he did it all without you noticing.

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CompTIA on Cybersecurity

OCTOBER 13, 2020

With the increase in cyberattacks and the number of new connected devices, the need for skilled cybersecurity professionals is growing at a rapid pace. The CompTIA Cybersecurity Career Pathway can help you get into cybersecurity.

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Cybersecurity 140

Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Remote work makes protecting data on the PC a higher priority, while the Edge browser gets more control.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint security alert to warn of attackers combining VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to target government networks.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Researchers found they could stop a Tesla by flashing a few frames of a stop sign for less than half a second on an internet-connected billboard.

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Internet Internet Hacking 144

Dark Reading

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Larry Cashdollar, a researcher with more than 300 CVEs to his credit, looks back at his favorite vulnerabilities (and being the only individual CNA on Mitre's list).

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Teaching via Zoom has had some unexpected benefits, college professor says, though robotics class is still a challenge. Her real passion is inspiring young women and girls to go into computer science.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The US DHS’s Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA) report revealed that threat actors have targeted the US Census network during the last year. The US Department of Homeland Security revealed that unknown threat actors have targeted the network of the US Census Bureau during the last year. The attacks were reported in the first Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA) report released earlier this week.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 13, 2020

From arrests to surveillance, governments are using the novel coronavirus as cover for a crackdown on digital liberty.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Clop group attacked Software AG, a German conglomerate with operations in more than 70 countries, threatening to dump stolen data if the whopping $23 million ransom isn’t paid.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Analysts point to specific clues from the company's response that show it may have been a ransomware attack.

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