Tech Republic Security

JULY 9, 2024

Recent technological advancements have made people and things more interconnected. The purpose of this customizable Social Engineering Awareness Policy, written by Maria Carrisa Sanchez for TechRepublic Premium, is to. Unfortunately, people with malicious intent are also taking advantage of this capability.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Nowadays, a lot of cybersecurity professionals use IDA Pro as their primary tool for reverse engineering. While IDA is a complex tool that implements a multitude of features useful for dissecting binaries, many reverse engineers use various plugins to add further functionality to this software.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Artificial intelligence garners the spotlight, taking the top three positions.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

In information technology, brittleness also results from the fact that hundreds of companies, none of which you;ve heard of, each perform a small but essential role in keeping the internet running. We have built a society based on complex technology that we’re utterly dependent on, with no reliable way to manage that technology.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

Technology companies developed automated models to take on this massive task of filtering content, ushering in the era of the algorithmic publisher. Early search engines relied on keywords; soon, scammers figured out how to invisibly stuff deceptive ones into content, causing their undesirable sites to surface in seemingly unrelated searches.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We identified a new wave of phishing for banking credentials that targets consumers via Microsoft’s search engine. While Microsoft’s Bing only has about 4% of the search engine market share , crooks are drawn to it as an alternative to Google. We have reported the fraudulent sites to Microsoft already.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2023

BeyondTrust Chief Technology Officer Marc Maiffret said that alert came more than two weeks after his company alerted Okta to a potential problem. In both cases, the attackers managed to social engineer employees into resetting the multi-factor login requirements for Okta administrator accounts. He said that on Oct 2.,

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

” Those third-party reports came in late June 2024 from Michael Horka , senior lead information security engineer at Black Lotus Labs , the security research arm of Lumen Technologies , which operates one of the global Internet’s largest backbones. victims and one non-U.S. ”

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

certification for its flagship search engine solution, Criminal IP. certification represents the latest version of this standard, featuring enhanced security requirements that address emerging threats and technological advancements. Torrance, Calif., This accomplishment builds on last year’s attainment of PCI DSS v3.2.1

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It wasn’t until the American Society of Mechanical Engineers demanded risk analysis and transparency that dangers from these huge tanks of boiling water, once considered mystifying, were made easily understandable. Fatalities in the first decades of aviation forced regulation, which required new developments in both law and technology.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Without much fanfare, digital twins have established themselves as key cogs of modern technology. Digital twins enable simulations to be run without risking harm to the physical entity; they help inform efficiency gains made in factories and assure the reliability of jet engines, for instance. The task at hand is not a small one.

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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

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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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX hired incident response firm Mandiant , which released a report on Wednesday that said the compromise began in 2022 when a 3CX employee installed a malware-laced software package distributed via an earlier software supply chain compromise that began with a tampered installer for X_TRADER , a software package provided by Trading Technologies.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 5, 2022

Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as long as the proper documents are provided and the request appears to come from an email address connected to an actual police department domain name.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2021

The company outsourced much of its software engineering to cheaper programmers overseas, even though that typically increases the risk of security vulnerabilities. When national security is compromised by high-flying technology companies that fob off cybersecurity risks onto their customers, something similar is at work.

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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

MARCH 31, 2022

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. The TCU is designed as a stand-alone processor that will reside on a motherboard next to a CPU, GPU or other compute engine. About the essayist.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

based technology companies. “This is social engineering at the highest level and there will be failed attempts at times. Donahue said 60 technology companies are now routing all law enforcement data requests through Kodex, including an increasing number of financial institutions and cryptocurrency platforms.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“An attacker could craft a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine,” Microsoft wrote. “The attacker would then have to convince the user to open the malicious document.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Check out these five course bundles breaking down the most important IT, development, and cybersecurity skills that a business owner can master.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 6, 2021

Criminals may utilize all sorts of social engineering approaches, as well as technical exploits, in order to deliver their ransomware into their intended targets. Many ransomware attacks are now targeted, rather than opportunistic.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

Okay, maybe this is a bit of hyperbole, but it requires no far-future science fiction technology. This wasn’t AI — human engineers programmed a regular computer to cheat — but it illustrates the problem. They programmed their engine to detect emissions control testing, and to behave differently.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Today, there are two major types of common CMS platforms: •The older “traditional” or “monolithic” CMS platforms include a content repository (usually a multimedia database), the administrative console (where content is added and categorized), the presentation system (which makes nice-looking pages), and the search engine. Gierlinger.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2024

The message left on these domains indicates they were defensively registered by a user on Mastodon whose bio says they are a systems admin/engineer. The domain mentioned at the beginning of this story — fedetwitter.com — redirects users to the blog of a Japanese technology enthusiast.

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Joseph Steinberg

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Head of AI Labs at Netskope ) Brett Norton (SVP Engineering at Vic.ai ) Christina Melas-Kyriazi (Partner Bain Capital Ventures ) An abstract for the session follows: As AI revolutionizes industries, concerns about its security and trustworthiness are paramount.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company, which was founded by three Russian engineers in the Czech Republic, makes a tool called TeamCity that helps developers test and manage software code. TeamCity is used by developers at 300,000 organizations, including SolarWinds and 79 of the Fortune 100 companies.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to immediately reveal people’s names, phone numbers, and addresses. PimEyes is an online face search engine that searches the internet to find pictures of particular faces.

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Anton on Security

JANUARY 10, 2022

Strong thought out processes are sometimes (unfairly) seen as the most boring of the people, processes, and technology triad. capturing this magic was our focus for the paper!]

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2022

However, the most significant protection against zero day and other attacks comes from using security technologies that sit very close to how your application works. Unlike matching technologies, which often have false positives, runtime security tools, have the advantage of being closer to the application.

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SecureList

JULY 9, 2024

” This and the fact that SOC teams forever play the long game, having to respond with limited resources to a changing threat landscape, evolving technology and increasingly sophisticated malicious actors, makes managing efforts to develop detection logic an integral part of any modern SOC’s activities.

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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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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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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The technology, which first emerged primarily in the world of gaming and entertainment, now promises to reshape our reality with interactive information and immersive experiences. In short, AR is undoubtedly a groundbreaking technology that will reinvent how we interact with the digital world. Related: Is the Metaverse truly secure?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Gonzalez Relying on data collection and organization tools like the traditional SIEM to analyze the various log data for threat detection requires constant updating of the analysis methods and, more importantly, puts the onus of observability onto the security engineer.

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