Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Even messages shared via encrypted services like WhatsApp are vulnerable, according to POLITICO’s technical review of the application, and two of the outside experts. It can also track people’s locations via smartphone’s built-in GPS and Wi-Fi technologies, according to two of the analysts.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

…within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums—­some with little or no coding experience­—were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks. And the technology will only get better.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Related: Pushing the fly-by-wire envelope This is especially true because systems are more interconnected and use more complex commercial software than ever before, meaning a vulnerability in one system could lead to a malicious actor gaining access to more important systems. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

There is little doubt that quantum computing will ultimately undermine the security of most of today’s encryption systems , and, thereby, render vulnerable to exposure nearly every piece of data that is presently protected through the use of encryption. Such an attitude is not alarmist – it is reality, whether we like it or not.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. For example, the ICT industry (Information, Communication, Technology) was the 5th highest paying with an average salary of $104,874 (dollars are Aussie, take off about 30% for USD). Intro: This Industry Rocks! Banking is below that. Medical even lower.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To wrap up our 2024 year-end roundtable, we turn our attention to new technologies and trends that are emerging to help bridge the gaps. Quantum computing advances are making traditional encryption obsolete, and adversaries are stockpiling data for future decryption.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A group of academics has disclosed a new "software fault attack" on AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to infiltrate encrypted virtual machines (VMs) and even perform privilege escalation.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management (DRM) technology used by online streaming sites like Disney , Hulu and Netflix to prevent their content from being pirated. ” Google called the weakness a circumvention that would be fixed. .”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX. “This is the first time Mandiant has seen a software supply chain attack lead to another software supply chain attack,” reads the April 20 Mandiant report. Microsoft Corp.

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2025

We have been tracking the latest attack campaign by the Lazarus group since last November, as it targeted organizations in South Korea with a sophisticated combination of a watering hole strategy and vulnerability exploitation within South Korean software. We found that the malware was running in the memory of a legitimate SyncHost.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Part three of a four-part series In 2024, global pressure on companies to implement advanced data protection measures intensified, with new standards in encryption and software transparency raising the bar. Similarly, software bills of materials (SBOMs) underscore the need for better accountability in third-party software.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. ” they wrote.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For most phones it works like this: Under About phone or About device you can tap on Software updates to check if there are new updates available for your device, although there may be slight differences based on the brand, type, and Android version of your device.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The five core components of a VPN are: Encryption : The conversion of information into a coded format that can only be read by someone who has the decryption key. Split tunneling: Allows you to choose which internet traffic goes through the VPN (with encryption) and which goes directly to the internet. How do VPNs work?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

I had the opportunity to sit down with DigiCert’s Jason Sabin , Chief Technology Officer and Avesta Hojjati , Vice President of Engineering to chew this over. And PKI is the best technology we’ve got to get us there. We met at DigiCert Trust Summit 2023. Threat actors are pursuing a “harvest now, decrypt later” strategy, Savin told me.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2025

With the increasing reliance on digital technologies for operational efficiency, this sector has become a prime target for sophisticated cyber and physical threats. Strategies for protecting oil and gas infrastructure Regular updates and patching: Outdated software and hardware are the most common entry points for cyberattacks.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While American Water has not disclosed the exact method of attack, such incidents often involve tactics like ransomware or phishing , where hackers gain access to sensitive systems and either steal or encrypt data, demanding a ransom in return for restoring access.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key elements in protecting against AI-driven threats include timely software updates, network security improvements and strong password policies. Resolution #2: Take a Quantum Leap in Security As quantum computing improves, organizations must prepare today to address the security risk posed by this emerging technology.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 26, 2023

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. An attacker who followed this step would then be able to decrypt intercepted traffic with consumer-level hardware and a cheap software defined radio dongle.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2021

. “In a lot of cases, companies do have backups, but they never actually tried to restore their network from backups before, so they have no idea how long it’s going to take,” said Fabian Wosar , chief technology officer at Emsisoft. “That is still somewhat rare,” Wosar said.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Mimecast Limited was fined $990,000 for minimizing the details of its breach, which involved the exfiltration of critical code and encrypted credentials. Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., was fined $995,000.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Then he requested help from Amnesty Internationals Security Lab fearing to be the target of surveillance software like other journalists in Serbia. The spyware’s deployment relied on Cellebrite’s unlocking process, combining two invasive technologies to compromise the journalists digital privacy comprehensively.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

They require integrity, authentication, trusted identity and encryption. Software-defined-everything is the order of the day. We simply must attain — and sustain — a high bar of confidence in the computing devices, software applications and data that make up he interconnected world we occupy. Trust under siege.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2020

-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. Newer, chip-based cards employ a technology known as EMV that encrypts the account data stored in the chip.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. A Webcam made by HiChip that includes the iLnkP2P software.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2022

VPNs encrypt data streams and protect endpoints from unauthorized access, essentially by requiring all network communications to flow over a secured pipe. A user gets continually vetted, per device and per software application — and behaviors get continually analyzed to sniff out suspicious patterns.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2024

This is all part of Generative AI and Large Language Models igniting the next massive technological disruption globally. Highlights of what I learned: Coding level The continual monitoring and hardening of business software as it is being rapidly developed, tested and deployed in the field has become a foundational best practice.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Virtual reality (VR) technology has transformed how we experience digital environments. This technology simulates environments with striking realism, providing a highly immersive experience for users, and triggering their visual and auditory senses so they feel that they are truly in the moment in a virtual world.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 10, 2025

However, the use of any kind of software that deals with large amounts of sensitive customer data can make a business the target of cybercriminals. When you use third-party software, you need to satisfy yourself that you feel it has strong security protocols, and that it's a company that you can trust to do the right thing.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 4, 2023

Zero Trust Network Architecture, on the other hand, is not conceptual; it refers to an actual information technology architecture – including hardware, software, data, and workflow – that employs the principles of Zero Trust in its design so as to enforce a Zero Trust model.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company sells "TIME AI," "the world's first dynamic 'non-factor' based quantum AI encryption software," "utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music's infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled key pairs."

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

I use end-to-end-encrypted (E2EE) messaging for a reason. It provides the underlying technology for features like the upcoming Sensitive Content Warnings feature in Google Messages that helps users protect themselves when receiving potentially unwanted content.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, printer software flaws reported by the U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Badge's technology allows organizations to use face, fingerprint, PIN, device characteristics, contextual, and other factors for authentication. Thales is augmenting its identity offering by adding Badge to the integrated solution, authenticating that you are you all along the identity lifecycle.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2019

But typically, such breaches occur when cybercriminals manage to remotely install malicious software on a retailer’s card-processing systems. “This encryption technology protects card data by making it unreadable.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

Because the companies that make the equipment are subservient to the Chinese government, they could be forced to include backdoors in the hardware or software to give Beijing remote access. Neither is banning Chinese microchips, software, or programmers. But the enhancements aren't enough. The 5G security problems are threefold.

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