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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2021

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’ll be part of a European Internet Forum virtual debate on June 17, 2021. The topic is “Decrypting the encryption debate: How to ensure public safety with a privacy-preserving and secure Internet?” Details to come.

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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. Matter seeks to achieve this right out of the gate by leveraging and extending the public key infrastructure (PKI) — the tried-and-true authentication and encryption framework that underpins the legacy Internet. Matter 1.0

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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. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug. victims and one non-U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

Friday’s massive internet outage, caused by a mid-sized tech company called CrowdStrike, disrupted major airlines, hospitals, and banks. The catastrophe is yet another reminder of how brittle global internet infrastructure is. Compare the internet with ecological systems. Compare the internet with ecological systems.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Hackers are using internet-connected home devices to livestream “swatting” attacks, according to the FBI. Offenders often use spoofing technology to anonymize their own phone numbers to make it appear to first responders as if the emergency call is coming from the victim’s phone number.”.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 14, 2021

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century , a virtual conference hosted by The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), July 23-25, 2021. I’m speaking (via Internet) at SHIFT Business Festival in Finland, August 25-26, 2021.

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Lohrman on Security

JUNE 9, 2024

Over the past month, the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report and the Watchguard Technologies Internet Security Report were released. Here are some highlights.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And for maybe half a decade, I have been talking about the world-sized robot that is the Internet of Things, and how digital security is now a matter of public safety. Your data is no longer in a bazillion places on the Internet, controlled by you-have-no-idea-who. Solid is one of those technologies. It's yours.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But now I have this excellent paper from MIT researchers: “Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting” Sunoo Park, Michael Specter, Neha Narula, and Ronald L. Abstract: Voters are understandably concerned about election security.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Currently, there are around 2,500 registrars authorized to sell domains by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the California nonprofit that oversees the domain industry. John Levine is author of the book “The Internet for Dummies” and president of CAUCE.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Talking about those systems, I said: Now, add into this mix the risks that arise from new and dangerous technologies such as the internet or AI or synthetic biology. AI and intelligent robotics are the culmination of several precursor technologies, like machine learning algorithms, automation, and autonomy.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 21, 2024

I had the chance to sit down with Eyal Benishti , IRONSCALES founder and CEO, to get a breakdown of how their new Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) technology utilizes a specialized LLM to reinforce anti-phishing mitigation services. One promising example of the latter comes from messaging security vendor IRONSCALES.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Your data is no longer in a bazillion places on the Internet, controlled by you-have-no-idea-who. This is a significant step forward to realizing Tim’s vision : The technologies we’re releasing today are a component of a much-needed course correction for the web. It’s yours.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 8, 2022

These technologies are coming. They’re going to be an essential part of the Internet of Things. “Privacy-friendly” is a relative term.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 14, 2020

References The feedback on open-sourcing HIBP has been 99.99% positive (that's about as good as you can ever hope for on the internet!) Next we'll do it at the other end of the day again and I'm sure there'll be a heap of new stuff to cover before then.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 14, 2021

Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. An industry group called the Institute for Security and Technology (no, I haven’t heard of it before, either) just released a comprehensive report on combating ransomware.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The Internet of Things ( IoT ) is on the threshold of ascending to become the Internet of Everything ( IoE.) Yet IoE, at this nascent stage, holds much promise to tilt us towards a utopia where technology helps to resolve our planet’s most intractable problems. Very well said! I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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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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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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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2024

Last week, CrowdStrike, one of the cybersecurity industry’s most reputable solution providers, inadvertently caused more disruption across the Internet than all the threat actors active online at the time. Explore alternative operational enablers, both technological and non-technological, and evaluate their costs and investment thresholds.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Last August, NTT , the Tokyo-based technology giant, unveiled its Health and Wellbeing initiative – an ambitious effort to guide corporate, political and community leaders onto a more enlightened path. We want to use technology and best practices to bring about a more human-centric approach to health and wellbeing. Uphill climb.

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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. Indeed, the technology and best practices to do this are readily available. New AI risks have lit a fire under IT teams.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

China has enclosed its national internet servers within what is colloquially called ‘the Great Firewall.’ If your staff can log on to the internet to access their emails, so can an attacker. MFA can be challenging to implement for some organizations from a technology or cost perspective or due to user pushback.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ubiquiti , a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders, security cameras and access control systems, is urging customers to change their passwords and enable multi-factor authentication. In an email sent to customers today, Ubiquiti Inc.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 3, 2023

Internet companies’ manipulating what you see to serve their own interests is nothing new. What distinguishes AI systems from these other internet services is how interactive they are, and how these interactions will increasingly become like relationships. Smart TVs spy on you. Phone apps collect and sell your data.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If you’re into this sort of thing, it’s pretty much the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet without committing multiple felonies. The researchers have since commercialized the technology, which is now busily defending networks for customers like the U.S. People train for months. Winning is a big deal. Department of Defense.

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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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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

The operation copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm used for command and control (C2) of the underlying botnet. The botnet “targets network devices manufactured by WatchGuard Technologies Inc. WatchGuard) and ASUSTek Computer Inc. Those devices are still vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2024

On July 16, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sent a letter to the owners of the.top domain registry. ICANN’s warning redacted the name of the recipient, but records show the.top registry is operated by a Chinese entity called Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology Co. ” Image: Shutterstock.

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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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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 9, 2022

Other parties familiar with Russian Internet usage patterns have also estimated that as many as a third of all Russian Internet users now regularly use VPNs. VPN technologies deliver two major benefits to Russian citizens. times as high as it was prior to the war!

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 14, 2022

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. Today, however, cloud computing has totally transformed the situation.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 15, 2023

It’ll take time, but we’ve never seen a technology be used in real-world applications as fast as post-ChatGPT-AI. This is largely due to the fact that integration technologies like Langchain only rose to prominence in the last 2 months. And then internet to mobile. They’re onramps to functionality. And now AI.

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