Adam Shostack

JULY 7, 2020

The Internet Society Open Letter Against Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act was published this morning. It’s an important and broad coalition to protect the ability of American companies to deliver security to their customers. I’m honored to be one of the signers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. Here are a few of the more notable examples , although all of those events are almost a decade old.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2023

” Rapid7 ‘s Caitlin Condon called this remarkable turn of events “fairly stunning,” and said there appear to be roughly 11,000 vulnerable ESG devices still connected to the Internet worldwide. If they’re going for data ransoming, they’re encrypting the data itself — not the machines.”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) ’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3)

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At the same time, we also have changes at every layer of the protocol stack and this is driven by an increased push for encryption—not just encryption, strong encryption.". Don't miss Kathleen Moriarty's complete presentation, as well as those of other cybersecurity leaders, at our upcoming digital events.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

More insidious is the possibility that Beijing could use its access to degrade or disrupt communications services in the event of a larger geopolitical conflict. Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Kevin Breen at Immersive Labs called special attention to CVE-2023-21563 , which is a security feature bypass in BitLocker , the data and disk encryption technology built into enterprise versions of Windows. “We rely on BitLocker and full-disk encryption tools to keep our files and data safe in the event a laptop or device is stolen.

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Anton on Security

JULY 7, 2022

for “ransomware” in the cloud] observed was where attackers were seen brute forcing SQL databases, cloning a database table into a new table , encrypting the data, and proceeding to drop the original table. ” [A.C.?—?cloud cloud ransomware isn’t really ‘a ware’, but a RansomOp where humans?—?not not malware?—?do

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sometime around 1993 or 1994, during the first Crypto Wars, I was part of a group of cryptography experts that went to Washington to advocate for strong encryption. Markey was against forcing encrypted phone providers to implement the NSA's Clipper Chip in their devices, but wanted us to reach a compromise with the FBI regardless.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 19, 2020

Better Network and Firewall Protection: By routing an employee’s internet traffic through your company network, you can provide the same firewalls and network-level protection that they’d have working at an office with robust cybersecurity defenses. Here are five ways VPNs can keep remote employees secure. The post Remote Workforce?

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Hackers could trigger ‘fake earthquakes,’ affecting emergency and economic responses to a seismic event, and generate mistrust in seismic technology among the population, the researchers say. Seismic monitoring equipment is vulnerable to common cybersecurity threats like those faced by IoT devices, a new research paper warns.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. Earlier this month I spoke at a cybersecurity conference in Albany, N.Y. National Security Agency.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2020

In December 2018, security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. Some of the attacks observed by the experts peaked more than 350 Gigabits per second (Gbps, according to open-source reporting.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Threat actors are using a malicious Internet Information Services (IIS) Server module, dubbed Owowa, to steal Microsoft Exchange credentials. ” Attackers designed the Owowa module to inspect HTTP requests and responses by hooking the PreSendRequestContent event. . . “Owowa is a C#-developed.NET v4.0

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. This activity results in a rich matrix of overlapping threat feeds that, if all of the slices could somehow be combined, would present a heat map of an Internet throbbing with malicious traffic that unceasingly changes and steadily intensifies.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 28, 2024

Encryption gets applied across multiple planes and gets dynamically rotated, based on a predefined or policy-driven interval, he noted. The streams traverse a “situationally- aware” network that can “react in real time to a degraded network situation or even a cyber event.” A step forward for resiliency.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Physical security is the protection of personnel and IT infrastructure (such as hardware, software, and data) from physical actions and events that could cause severe damage to an organization. All the encryption , firewalls , cryptography, SCADA systems , and other IT security measures would be useless if that were to occur.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) has taken the Internet by storm in the past few days. For customers inspecting ingress traffic— with decryption if traffic is TLS (Transport Layer Security) encrypted — these rules will alert and can block attacks based on this vulnerability. Create a rule. Give it a name.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

TLS certificates are a key component of all of this frenetic activity; they are part of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI, the system for authenticating and encrypting all human-to-machine and machine-to-machine connections. Here are key takeaways: PKI on centerstage. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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SecureList

MAY 8, 2024

As we approach International Anti-Ransomware Day, we have analyzed the major ransomware events and trends. If the malware author wants to test the executable without encrypting their own files, they create a Vaccine.txt file. If the malware finds this file in the system, it doesn’t proceed with encryption.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

LW: Will any of the big initiatives we heard about at RSA 2021 and Black Hat 2021 – such as advanced encryption, advanced application security and advanced cloud-security frameworks – ultimately remove much of the responsibility for data security from the individual consumer? Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. Local storage prioritizes direct access, potential cost savings, and reduced reliance on the internet, yet lacks the scalability and security of the cloud.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2025

Traditional protections like firewalls, encryption, MFA, and IDS/IPS continue to be crucial, but these are reactive methods to an extent, and their effectiveness heavily depends on how well they are configured. If they remain static in a dynamic environment, they'll become irrelevant very quickly.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The Holy Ghost ransomware appends the file extension.h0lyenc to filenames of encrypted files. MSTIC linked DEV-0530 to another North Korean-based group tracked as PLUTONIUM (aka DarkSeoul or Andariel ).

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2024

The malware borrows code from the Xor.DDoS and Mirai bots, it also implements fresh evasion techniques, such as encrypting both the main component and its corresponding Lua script using the ChaCha stream cipher. “Our analysis revealed that one specific ASN had a drop of roughly 49% in the number of devices exposed to the internet.”

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 8, 2022

The average internet user has somewhere around 100 accounts, according to NordPass research, meaning they have to track 100 different passwords or risk using the same one over and over. Users can share password files securely with encrypted transmissions. Event logs 24/7 support Security audit and compliance. Key Features.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With quantum computing looming in the not-so-distant future, the way that we think about encryption will need to evolve. However, the complex math behind creating encryption keys is no match for the power of quantum computers. The global internet economy relies on cryptography as the foundation for a secure network.

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SecureList

JUNE 7, 2021

Most of the strings are encrypted using XOR encryption and are decrypted at runtime. Internet Explorer. Gootkit creates a pending GPO for the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK), which points directly at the INF file. Each key contains a maximum chunk of 512,000 bytes (500KB) of encrypted data. 0xC84F40F0.

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Google Security

JULY 19, 2022

Posted by Matthew Maurer and Mike Yu, Android team To help keep Android users’ DNS queries private, Android supports encrypted DNS. While transport security may be applied to the connection itself, that DNS lookup has traditionally not been private by default: the base DNS protocol is raw UDP with no encryption. In Android 9.0,

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Think about how irresponsible you’d feel if that thing happened, and perhaps stress less about it if it would be considered a freak event. VPNs encrypt the traffic between you and some endpoint on the internet, which is where your VPN is based. That and the Ninja in your bedroom are not realistic scenarios. The Government.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Encryption and data backup. Data encryption is a protection strategy that renders data useless even when an intruder accesses it. Encrypting all your company’s sensitive data and private information ensures that it’s protected from data breaches. Secure your hardware.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This line of events made some researchers wonder how private the conversations really were. An investigation by the Stanford Internet Observatory found that some of the back-end infrastructure for the Clubhouse App was provided by Agora. The Stanford Internet Observatory. Exactly what Clubhouse needed to roll out their app.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

One consensus tenant that emerged from this whirlwind of rule-making in the ME and EU was the requirement to “containerize” business data, that is keep data encrypted at all times, including when accessed by and stored on mobile devices. You now actually have to prove the data is encrypted, both at rest and in transit. It’s coming.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

ChatGPT is a groundbreaking chatbot powered by the neural network-based language model text-davinci-003 and trained on a large dataset of text from the Internet. ‘$ScriptBlockText’ ChatGPT not only detected obfuscation technics, but also enumerated a few: XOR encryption, Base64 encoding, and variable substitution.

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