Schneier on Security

MAY 21, 2024

Apple and Google said they will continue collaborating with the Internet Engineering Task Force to further develop this technology and address the issue of unwanted tracking. Several Bluetooth tag companies have committed to making their future products compatible with the new standard.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 8, 2019

Public Interest Tech in Silicon Valley : Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman, Mozilla Corporation; Cindy Cohn, EFF; and Lucy Vasserman, Software Engineer, Google. The Future of Public Interest Tech : Bruce Schneier, Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School; Ben Wizner, ACLU; and Jenny Toomey, Director, Internet Freedom, Ford Foundation (Moderator).

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Matter is intended to be the lingua franca for the Internet of Things. To get a full grasp on why Matter matters, I recently visited with Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer at Infineon Technologies , a global semiconductor manufacturer based in Neubiberg, Germany. It’s only a first step and there’s a long way to go.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. ” Ryan English , an information security engineer at Lumen, said it’s disappointing his employer didn’t at least garner an honorable mention in Versa’s security advisory.

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Anton on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This blog series was written jointly with Amine Besson, Principal Cyber Engineer, Behemoth CyberDefence and one more anonymous collaborator. Detection Engineering is Painful — and It Shouldn’t Be (Part 1) Contrary to what some may think, a detection and response (D&R) success is more about the processes and people than about the SIEM.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 9, 2020

Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology). Cloud Studio launch The good news is SIEMs continue to evolve to keep pace with accelerating technological advances.

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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. Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches. We can expect security teams feeling pressure to adopt new technology quickly.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection. The internet initially promised to change this process. Large language models, or LLMs, are trained on massive troves of material—nearly the entire internet in some cases.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Related: Technology and justice systems The U.S. Avaya Holdings , Check Point Software Technologies , and Mimecast Limited each minimized or obscured the extent of security breaches linked to the SolarWinds Orion hack, impacting investor trust and highlighting the critical importance of clear, truthful communication.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, social engineering has undergone significant transformations over the years, propelled by advancements in technology. This article delves into the historical shifts in social engineering tactics and explores how adversaries embrace new technologies to achieve their objectives.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2024

One of the zero-day flaws — CVE-2024-43573 — stems from a security weakness in MSHTML , the proprietary engine of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. Cemerikic noted that while Internet Explorer is being retired on many platforms, its underlying MSHTML technology remains active and vulnerable.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Internet of Everything ( IoE ) is on the near horizon. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“My nickname was MikeMike, and I worked with Dmitri Golubov and made technologies for him,” Shefel said. ” Mr. Shefel says he stopped selling stolen payment cards after being pushed out of the business, and invested his earnings in a now-defunct Russian search engine called tf[.]org. Image: U.S.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 3, 2024

Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control nature and build large, complex human societies, and the more we employed and mastered technology, the better things got.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 2, 2023

And their results have been immediate, innovative, and an indication of how the future of this technology is going to play out. The large corporations that had controlled these models warn that this free-for-all will lead to potentially dangerous developments, and problematic uses of the open technology have already been documented.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This case underscores the serious risk that social engineering and supply chain attacks pose to open-source projects. was used by tens of millions of websites approximately 4% of all sites on the internet which highlights the severity of the incident, whose full impact is yet to be determined. Why does it matter? Why does it matter?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

Xanthorox reasoner advanced mimics human reasoning, helping attackers craft more believable phishing messages or manipulate targets through social engineering. It features a live web scraper tool that pulls data from over 50 search engines for real-time reconnaissance. But platforms like Xanthorox show the dark side of this technology.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Tim Berners-Lee has called them "philosophical engineers." Public-interest technology isn't new.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. But like nearly all innovation, there are risks involved. But software is different.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2019

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Tim Berners-Lee has called them "philosophical engineers." Public-interest technology isn't new.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Chearis Karsten Chearis , US Security Sales Engineer Team Lead, XM Cyber Resiliency involves four stages, while compromise has three phases: about to be compromised, compromised, and recovering. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to a security advisory from Redmond, the security hole CVE-2021-40444 affects the “MSHTML” component of Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions. There is currently no official patch for the flaw, but Microsoft has released recommendations for mitigating the threat.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. As technology has rapidly exceeded all historical imaginings, opportunities for fraudsters to exploit their victims abound.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s a digital swindle as old as the internet itself, and yet, as the data tells us, the vast majority of security incidents are still rooted in the low-tech art of social engineering. Some 74 percent of cyber breaches are caused by human factors, including errors, stolen credentials, misuse of access privileges, or social engineering.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 10, 2023

Related: Using ‘Big Data’ to improve health and well-being But there’s yet another towering technology mountain to climb: we must also overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law. Optical technology can enable us to control energy consumption so we can support increasing capacity and increasing bandwidth,” Gomi summarizes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2023

By Jayakumar (Jay) Kurup, Global Sales Engineering Director at Morphisec Securing operational technology (OT) creates unique challenges. Sometimes this is due to cultural reasons (management’s fear of even the slightest chance of disruption); other times, it is technological.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a feat of engineering, the bomb component was so carefully hidden as to be virtually undetectable, even if the device was taken apart, the officials said. Technology alone has no ethics: the difference between a patch and an exploit is the method in which a technology is disclosed.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

NiceHash founder Matjaz Skorjanc said the unauthorized changes were made from an Internet address at GoDaddy, and that the attackers tried to use their access to its incoming NiceHash emails to perform password resets on various third-party services, including Slack and Github. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

Ueland said after hearing about the escrow.com hack Monday evening he pulled the domain name system (DNS) records for escrow.com and saw they were pointing to an Internet address in Malaysia — 111.90.149[.]49 The employee involved in this incident fell victim to a spear-fishing or social engineering attack.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2025

11, 2025 360 Privacy , a leading digital executive protection platform, today announced that it has secured a $36 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital , a sector-focused growth equity firm with a successful track record of investing across the enterprise technology landscape. Nashville, TN Mar.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The United States government's continuing disagreement with the Chinese company Huawei underscores a much larger problem with computer technologies in general: We have no choice but to trust them completely, and it's impossible to verify that they're trustworthy. The engineers who design and program them come from over a hundred countries.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2025

From Gutenbergs press to the steam engine, to the rise of semiconductorseach transformative leap began as an open revolution and was soon constrained by consolidation. Bezos launching Amazon with a single book, and Googles Brain Team engineering the transformer architecture that underpins todays GenAIthese are milestones on the same arc.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 13, 2024

In some cases, we can use access-control mechanisms and other Internet security systems to limit who can access the LLM and what the LLM can do. Engineers will be tempted to grab for LLMs because they are general-purpose hammers; they’re easy to use, scale well, and are good at lots of different tasks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2022

The vulnerabilities of internet security, once mostly a nuisance, have become dangerous and costly. Second, the design of security solutions struggled to scale up properly or adapt to the technological changes in the industry, especially in disaggregated compute networks. About the essayist.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

Numerous other open-source LLMs are under development, with a community of thousands of engineers and scientists. And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do.

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