Troy Hunt

APRIL 5, 2023

And in turn, the criminals adapt, which brings us to Genesis Market. There's an excellent IMPaaS explanation from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands via a paper titled Impersonation-as-a-Service: Characterising the Emerging Criminal Infrastructure for User Impersonation at Scale. The malware will be removed.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. ARIN says the 5-year sentence handed down by the South Carolina judge “sends an important message of deterrence to other parties contemplating fraudulent schemes to obtain or transfer Internet resources.”

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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). I spoke with Trevor Daughney, vice president of product marketing at Exabeam , at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently.

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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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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 Matter 1.0

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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. Tang Tim Tang , Director, Enterprise Solutions, Hughes Network Systems As cyber threats escalate, AI-enabled technologies are enabling enterprises to mount an effective defense.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 23, 2019

As a tech reporter at USA TODAY, I wrote stories about how Google fractured Microsoft’s Office monopoly , and then how Google clawed ahead of Apple to dominate the global smartphone market. Gartner estimates that the so-called Infrastructure-as-a-service-Market (IaaS) global market will jump from to $83.5 billion in 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

There’s no stopping the Internet of Things now. I had a fascinating discussion about this with Sri Sundaralingam, vice president of cloud and security solutions at ExtraHop , a Seattle-based supplier of NDR technologies. Here are the key takeaways: IoT surge According to Fortune Business Insights, the global IoT market will top $1.1

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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.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2025

Mobile VPNs are apps that connect your smartphone to the internet via different computers around the world. Innovative Connecting developed an app called Turbo VPN, which was marketed to Spanish-speaking people in the US as a way to circumvent proposed restrictions when accessing Chinese-owned social network TikTok.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The sales pitch came from a marketing official trusted by Hezbollah with links to Apollo. As it turned out, the actual production of the devices was outsourced and the marketing official had no knowledge of the operation and was unaware that the pagers were physically assembled in Israel under Mossad oversight, officials said.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies set up to obtain more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the nonprofit organization that leases the digital real estate to entities in North America. ”

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 30, 2022

Since then, I have seen many Internet memes circulate that appear to convey a similar message. Such a policy is also wise, if not overly generous, with regard to information obtained via the Internet, as there is never 100% certainty as to who crafted a particular piece of data or whether its sources are accurate.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. Forty major music festivals pledged not to use the technology, and activists are calling for a nationwide ban. Many Democratic presidential candidates support at least a partial ban on the technology.

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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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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 20, 2022

And, while today’s commercially-created quantum machines are nowhere near powerful enough to approach quantum supremacy, absolutely nobody knows the true extent of the quantum capabilities of all of the technologically-advanced governments around the world. Clearly, there is a need to act in advance – and acting takes time.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2025

Gartners predictions for the Internet of Things (IoT) security landscape in 2025 highlight the impact of AI Agent Abuse Leading to Security Breaches: By 2028, Gartner forecasts that 25% of enterprise security breaches will be traced back to the misuse of AI agents by both external and internal malicious actors. Menlo Park, Calif.,

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 7, 2025

There’s the Instagram ad about carry-on luggage, the TikTok ad about earplugs, and the countless ads you encounter simply scrolling through the internet about laptop bags. And then, that same week, you start noticing some eerily specific ads. And so you think, “Is my phone listening to me?”

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Schneier on Security

JULY 11, 2018

To increase the resilience of the Internet and communications ecosystem against these threats, many of which originate outside the United States, we must continue to work closely with international partners. Market incentives should be more effectively aligned. Automated, distributed attacks are a global problem.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. A records search at Domaintools for “Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co” returns 11 domains, including blazefire[.]net, com is the domain name for Shanghai Qianyou Network Technology Co.,

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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. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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SecureBlitz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Here, I will talk about IoT technologies and trends. These days, the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered to be one of the most promising technologies with the hugest potential to change a lot of industries and, consequently, a lot of processes and tasks in our daily and professional lives.

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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

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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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. Rob McEwen is CEO of Invaluement.com , an anti-spam firm whose data on junk email trends are used to improve the spam-blocking technologies deployed by several Fortune 100 companies.

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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. Public-interest technology isn't new. So does society's underlying security needs.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 14, 2022

The cybersecurity term “secure workloads” seems to be gaining a lot of traction in marketing materials lately. Workloads (and portions thereof) regularly move across not only the internal organization, but over the Internet, and through one or more third-party cloud environments; there simply is no physical perimeter.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

As technology has rapidly exceeded all historical imaginings, opportunities for fraudsters to exploit their victims abound. Digital exploitation refers to the abuse and manipulation of technology and the internet for illegal and unethical purposes, including identity theft, sextortion, cyberbullying, online scams, and data breaches.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., and a handful of other Chinese tech firms that seemed to have a history of placing product market share and price above security.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

Called Xanthorox AI, the tool was first spotted earlier this year on darknet forums and encrypted chat groups, where its being marketed as the killer of WormGPT and all EvilGPT variants. Xanthorox can also work offline if needed, making it useful even in isolated environments or where internet access is restricted.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. They allege that in late December 2020, Sharp applied for a job at another technology company, and then abused his privileged access to Ubiquiti’s systems at Amazon’s AWS cloud service and the company’s GitHub accounts to download large amounts of proprietary data.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Nayyar: Many security vendors want a piece of the SIEM market, even if their technology isn’t necessarily purpose-built. Gurucul pioneered UEBA technology a decade ago – in fact our company was built around this capability. LW: How should a company leader at a mid-market enterprise think about all this?

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