Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

If you're going to commit an illegal act, it's best not to discuss it in e-mail. It's also best to Google tech instructions rather than asking someone else to do it: One new detail from the indictment, however, points to just how unsophisticated Manafort seems to have been. Here's the relevant passage from the indictment. I've bolded the most important bits: Manafort and Gates made numerous false and fraudulent representations to secure the loans.

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Surveillance Banking Internet Internet 355

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. Those 80M records are now searchable, read on for the full story: There's an unknown numbers of data breaches floating around the web.

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Data breaches Passwords Accountability Password Management 224

Elie

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) is the 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 from across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information surfaced by queries containing the name of the requester.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 2, 2018

By leaving Instagram followers off the public record, Columbia researcher Jonathan Albright says Facebook is making the Russian trolls' true audience appear artificially low.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 2, 2018

Since you don't have enough to worry about, here's a paper postulating that space aliens could send us malware capable of destroying humanity. Abstract : A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In the immortal words of Ricky Bobby, I wanna go fast. When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week , I made it fast - real fast - and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I've since shaved another 56% off the load time for requests that hit the origin. And a bunch of other cool perf stuff while I'm here.

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Passwords Internet Internet Architecture 197

WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A fake story about a Parkland student started on the right, but outrage-tweeting on the left propelled it into the mainstream.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Forbes reports that the Israeli company Cellebrite can probably unlock all iPhone models: Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that's become the U.S. government's company of choice when it comes to unlocking mobile devices, is this month telling customers its engineers currently have the ability to get around the security of devices running iOS 11.

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Government Engineering Passwords Mobile 160

Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days. This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" I built it in part to help people answer that question and in part because my inner geek wanted to build an interesting project on Microsoft's Azure.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 2, 2018

Phishing emails disguised as tax-related alerts aim to trick users into handing attackers their usernames and passwords.

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Passwords Accountability Phishing 103

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Apple is bowing to pressure from the Chinese government and storing encryption keys in China. While I would prefer it if it would take a stand against China, I really can't blame it for putting its business model ahead of its desires for customer privacy. Two more articles.

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Encryption Government 149

Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2018

Massive, massive week! I'm not trying to make these videos longer (and the next two while I'm overseas will definitely be shorter), but yeah, this week was a biggie. Pwned Passwords dominated throughout, interrupted only by a few thousand new data breaches going into HIBP. But the big one - at least to me in terms of the significance - is the UK and Aussie governments now using HIBP to monitor their gov domains.

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Elie

MARCH 2, 2018

Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts the files of infected hosts and demands payment, often in a crypto-currency such as Bitcoin. In this paper, we create a measurement framework that we use to perform a large-scale, two-year, end-to-end measurement of ransomware payments, victims, and operators. By combining an array of data sources, including ransomware binaries, seed ransom payments, victim telemetry from infections, and a large database of Bitcoin addresses annotated with their owne

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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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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Kremlin's hacking misdirection is evolving. And even when those attempts to confuse forensics fail, they still succeed at sowing future doubt.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2018

Two weeks ago, I blogged about the myriad of hacking threats against the Olympics. Last week, the Washington Post reported that Russia hacked the Olympics network and tried to cast the blame on North Korea. Of course, the evidence is classified, so there's no way to verify this claim. And while the article speculates that the hacks were a retaliation for Russia being banned due to doping, that doesn't ring true to me.

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Hacking 136

Dark Reading

MARCH 1, 2018

A comprehensive new report from Cisco should "scare the pants off" enterprise security leaders.

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Cybersecurity 100

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

At the start of the year, Thales released the findings of its latest annual global Data Threat Report which found that, as businesses everywhere undergo a form of digital transformation, the risk of data breaches has reached an all-time high. According to the report, 37 percent of organisations use sensitive data with mobile applications and 91 percent are either using or are planning to use mobile payments. 41 percent of the organisations surveyed for the report expressed concern about the secu

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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.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 1, 2018

While still the best protection against phishing attacks, some Yubikey models are vulnerable after a recent update to Google Chrome.

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Phishing 98

Elie

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

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 conduct a retrospective measurement study of 2.4 million URLs that were requested for delisting from Google Search over the last three and a half years.

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Media Internet Internet Government 63

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Here are 20 hot IT security startups addressing everything from IoT security and blockchain to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT 74

Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Updated data on zero-days, IoT threats, cryptomining, and economic costs should keep eyebrows raised in 2018.

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Cybercrime IoT 79

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 1, 2018

On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.

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Threatpost

MARCH 1, 2018

A new strain of mobile malware found on an array of apps can pull out sensitive data – including audio recordings – from Android phones.

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Malware Mobile Spyware 60

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Here are some steps you can take to reduce the risk of becoming an unwitting accomplice to cryptojacking attacks.

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Risk 75

Dark Reading

MARCH 2, 2018

Key focus areas include supply chain risks, identity management, and cybersecurity risk assessment and measurement.

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Cybersecurity Risk 72

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Analytics services are unintentionally collecting a mass of passwords and other sensitive data, new research shows.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Morphisec said that it has detected several malicious word documents – part of a “massive” malspam campaign – that takes advantage of a critical Adobe Flash Player vulnerability discovered earlier this month.

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Malware 47

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 2, 2018

The new vector was recently used to launch a record-breaking 1.35 Tbps attack on GitHub.

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DDOS 70

Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Preventing a data breach is safer and more cost-effective than dealing with a breach after it has already happened. That means a focus on security in the design phase.

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Data breaches 49

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Within the past few years, ransomware attacks have turned to critical infrastructure, healthcare, and government entities. Attackers have taken advantage of the rapid shift to remote work and new technologies. Add to that hacktivism due to global conflicts and U.S. elections, and an increased focus on AI, and you have the perfect recipe for a knotty and turbulent 2024.

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