Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This law journal article discusses the role of class-action litigation to secure the Internet of Things. Basically, the article postulates that (1) market realities will produce insecure IoT devices, and (2) political failures will leave that industry unregulated. Result: insecure IoT.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2022

Two bills attempting to reduce the power of Internet monopolies are currently being debated in Congress: S. 2710, the Open App Markets Act. Reducing the power to tech monopolies would do more to “fix” the Internet than any other single action, and I am generally in favor of them both.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

And in turn, the criminals adapt, which brings us to Genesis Market. In this instance, the data shared emanates from the Initial Access Broker Marketplace Genesis Market. The FBI has taken action against Genesis Market, and in the process has been able to extract victim information for the purposes of alerting victims.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Golubov later earned immunity from prosecution by becoming an elected politician and founding the Internet Party of Ukraine , which called for free internet for all, the creation of country-wide “hacker schools” and the “computerization of the entire economy.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2024

The German police seized the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market disrupting its operation. The Nemesis Market has been active since 2021, its offerings included illegal drugs and narcotics, stolen data and credit cards, as well as a selection of cybercrime services such as ransomware , phishing or DDoS attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The technology industry hopes that Matter arises as the lingua franca for the Internet of Things. Connectivity confusion reigns supreme in the consumer electronics market. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market as a result of an international law enforcement operation. The Kingdom Market was established in March 2021, the offer of the dark web marketplace included drugs, malware, stolen data, and forged documents.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2020

Yet another Internet-connected door lock is insecure : Sold by retailers including Amazon, Walmart, and Home Depot, U-Tec's $139.99 UltraLoq is marketed as a "secure and versatile smart deadbolt that offers keyless entry via your Bluetooth-enabled smartphone and code."

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

On January 29, the FBI and the Dutch national police seized the technical infrastructure for a cybercrime service marketed under the brands Heartsender , Fudpage and Fudtools (and many other “fud” variations). One of several current Fudtools sites run by the principals of The Manipulators.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At issue is a “redirect” feature available to businesses that chose to market through LinkedIn.com. Here’s the very first Slink created: [link] which redirects to the homepage for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. Image: Urlscan.io.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

According to the market share website statista.com , booking.com is by far the Internet’s busiest travel service, with nearly 550 million visits in September. We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 9, 2022

This quirk of internet history means that marketers can track exactly when you open an email and your IP address, which can be used to roughly work out your location. Most email newsletters you get include an invisible “image,” typically a single white pixel, with a unique file name. So, how does Apple Mail stop this?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 19, 2024

US officials noted how TP-Link undercut the competition on price to become the market leader for Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network appliances. In doing this, TP-Link managed to grow their market share to 60% of the US retail market for WiFi systems and SOHO routersfrom 10% in 2019.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel , a St. Charles, Ill. The user interface for Downthem[.]org.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2023

Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other: The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms should be able to exchange messages with each other. This opens up a real Pandora’s box.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. The domain Vip72[.]org

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Kentik’s view of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage. Update, 6:16 p.m.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 5, 2024

From generative AI and virtual prototyping to the Internet of Things, blockchain and data analytics, Merkle has predicted that four shifts in the business-to-business market will shape tech buying appetites.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

government agency created in 2011 to protect consumers in the financial sector, ensuring fair, transparent, and competitive financial markets The agency has issued a directive to employees to reduce the use of their phones and invite them to use Microsoft Teams and Cisco WebEx for their meetings and conversations that involve nonpublic data.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Try2Check was so reliable that it eventually became the official card-checking service for some of the underground’s most bustling crime bazaars, including Vault Market, Unicc , and Joker’s Stash. That Bankir account was registered from the Internet address 193.27.237.66 Nordex appears to have been a finance nerd.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The now-defunct homepage of xtb-market[.]com, Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com Platinum plans on xtb-market promised a whopping 45 percent ROI, with a minimum investment of $265,000. The now-defunct xtb-market[.]com. When those generated hefty returns, Nolan made bigger deposits.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Data helps digital businesses make meaningful decisions and fast-track their growth in a global market so that companies that are skilled at harvesting data regularly and consistently tend to grow faster than those that only involve data scantily in making decisions. This is important to keep users safe while on the internet.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 5, 2024

At RSAC 2024 I sat down with Isaac Roybal , chief marketing officer at Seclore , to discuss how the challenge of securing business data has moved beyond even where the EDRM space has been evolving. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2020

Thing is, it's probably not even "your" site anyway because there's a very high likelihood that you're an Oompa Loompa in the "digital marketing" space tasked with spamming people like me (remember, you're only allowed to have gotten down to here if you understand what spam is) in order to drive clicks.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2024

Related: AppSec market trajectory At RSAC 2024 , I sat down with Bruce Snell , cybersecurity strategist at Qwiet.ai , to hear a break down about how Qwiet has infused it’s preZero platform, with graph-database capabilities to deliver SAST, SCA, container scanning and secrets detection in a single solution. The pace of change notches higher.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2020

The co-owners of vDOS , a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. vDOS as it existed on Sept.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Guest expert: Ian Thomas, VP of Product Marketing, Ironscales. I had the chance to visit with Ian Thomas, vice president of product marketing at Ironscales , an Atlanta-based email security company. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

On that note, we must realize that at some point in the future, even before encryption-busting quantum computers arrive on the market, those in the know will consider it gross negligence to encrypt data with algorithms known to be vulnerable to quantum compromise. This post is sponsored by IronCAP.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 8, 2019

The reason is basically economic: The market doesn't want to pay for quality software. With a few exceptions, such as the space shuttle, the market prioritizes fast and cheap over good. All software contains bugs. The result is that any large modern software package contains hundreds or thousands of bugs.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2020

When it was first introduced, device fingerprinting – or online fingerprinting in general – was meant to create a safer, more responsible internet. The idea was that by fingerprinting devices used to connect to the internet we could achieve better accountability. Now, fingerprinting is a tool in the marketer’s toolbox.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. This includes taking snapshot snapshots of your data environment on a regular basis. Despite challenges, their business value ensures continued progress. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

is a US-based telecommunications company that provides broadband internet, cable TV, and phone services. is known for offering high-speed internet and competitive pricing in markets where it competes with larger providers. a leading Internet Service Provider with over 1.5 Arkana claimed to have breached WOW!s

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Many companies use Sendgrid to communicate with their customers via email, or else pay marketing firms to do that on their behalf using Sendgrid’s systems. Image: Wikipedia.

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