The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As small businesses increasingly depend on digital technologies to operate and grow, the risks associated with cyber threats also escalate. INE Security advises businesses to secure their network by using firewalls, encrypting data, and regularly updating security software. Cary, NC, Oct.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Related: Pushing the fly-by-wire envelope This is especially true because systems are more interconnected and use more complex commercial software than ever before, meaning a vulnerability in one system could lead to a malicious actor gaining access to more important systems. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 25, 2024

As we experienced last week, a single problem in a small piece of software can take large swaths of the internet and global economy offline. 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.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The original October 31 post from abyss0, where they advertise the sale of data from several large banks that are customers of a large financial software company.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX. “This is the first time Mandiant has seen a software supply chain attack lead to another software supply chain attack,” reads the April 20 Mandiant report. Microsoft Corp.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Suspected members of a European car-theft ring have been arrested : The criminals targeted vehicles with keyless entry and start systems, exploiting the technology to get into the car and drive away. Among those arrested feature the software developers, its resellers and the car thieves who used this tool to steal vehicles.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

DevHub is a platform designed for developers to access resources, tools, and APIs to build and integrate applications with Cisco’s technologies. It provides a range of development resources, including SDKs (Software Development Kits), documentation, sample code, and learning materials for networking, security, and cloud infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Russia’s NKTsKI warns financial sector organizations about a breach at major Russian IT service and software provider LANIT. LANIT Group (Laboratory of New Information Technologies) is one of Russia’s largest IT service and software providers. ” reads the security breach notification published by GosSOPKA.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 12, 2023

as a broad set of technologies being marketed to companies to help them cut their costs, the question becomes: how do we keep those technologies from working as “capital’s willing executioners”? Yet such software could easily still cause as much harm as McKinsey has. If you think of A.I. Alternatively, if you imagine A.I.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The app also provides Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, which created it, with other so-called backdoor privileges, or the ability to scan people’s devices. It can also track people’s locations via smartphone’s built-in GPS and Wi-Fi technologies, according to two of the analysts.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 1, 2021

Early in 2020, cyberspace attackers apparently working for the Russian government compromised a piece of widely used network management software made by a company called SolarWinds. For a while, in 2019, the update server’s password for SolarWinds’s network management software was reported to be “solarwinds123.”

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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. Supply chain attacks will intensify through poisoned APIs and unchecked software dependencies. We can expect security teams feeling pressure to adopt new technology quickly.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

There are two sides to this: 1) assessing a technology vendors cryptoagility efforts in your RFPs as a part of determining third-party tech supplier risk, 2) assessing a technology vendors capability to help you in your PQC migration as technology functionality you can use.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. Araneida Scanner. LinkedIn finds this same altugsara[.]com Neither Altug Sara nor Bilitro Yazilim responded to requests for comment.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2025

15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Quantum computing is set to revolutionize technology, but it also presents a significant security risk for financial institutions. Today, the company offers mobile-first software authentication and hardware authenticators trusted by major European banks. Prague, Czech Republic, Jan.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. The Secure Boot mechanism allows the execution of only software that is trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Greenware Technologies, Radix Technologies Ltd.,

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Manufacturing systems, especially the ones that work with SCADA technology (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), IoT devices, and other critical technologies, depend heavily on efficient IT support to ensure that the downtime is minimal, and the performance is optimal.

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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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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2024

Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” With digital obsolescence threatening many early technological formats, the dilemma surrounding Admiral Hopper’s lecture underscores the critical need for and challenge of digital preservation. So they won’t do anything.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Joining MISA represents a significant milestone, demonstrates the company’s ability to deliver impactful security solutions while increasing adoption of their SCALR XDR offering and helping clients maximize their investment in Microsoft Security technologies. Philadelphia, Pa.,

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Risk Penetration Testing Marketing Technology 130

Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2025

This week, Cl0p ransomware group listed Sams Club among the victims of its December Cleo software exploit , accusing it of ignoring security. ” Ransomware gang Cl0p leaked files from Rackspace Technology and listed ~170 companies allegedly hacked via zero-day vulnerabilities in Cleos file-transfer software.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It’s a controlled setting for what computer hackers do in real life: finding and fixing vulnerabilities in their own systems and exploiting them in others’ It’s the software vulnerability lifecycle. The competition occurred in a specially designed test environment filled with custom software that had never been analyzed or tested.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 24, 2024

The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike and to do so more easily than when such work required tradecraft. The last ten years have also been marked by stark failures to control spyware and its precursors and components.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Part three of a four-part series In 2024, global pressure on companies to implement advanced data protection measures intensified, with new standards in encryption and software transparency raising the bar. Similarly, software bills of materials (SBOMs) underscore the need for better accountability in third-party software.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Technologies that were figments of the imagination a dozen years ago, if they were conceived of at all, quickly become mainstream — think generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) or blockchain. As they do, they create more security vulnerabilities and inherent business, changing the nature of cybersecurity careers.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 5, 2024

In whaling and later in commercial fishing, new technology made it easier to find and catch marine creatures in ever greater numbers. Each generation of researchers came of age in a new ecological and technological environment, inadvertently masking an exponential decline. In privacy and security, we need to do the same.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2024

This is all part of Generative AI and Large Language Models igniting the next massive technological disruption globally. Highlights of what I learned: Coding level The continual monitoring and hardening of business software as it is being rapidly developed, tested and deployed in the field has become a foundational best practice.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 21, 2025

Rather, the missives are sent through the Apple iMessage service and through RCS , the functionally equivalent technology on Google phones. Merrill said the Z-NFC software can work from anywhere in the world, and that one phishing gang offers the software for $500 a month. “They even have 24-hour support.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2024

DevHub is a platform designed for developers to access resources, tools, and APIs to build and integrate applications with Ciscos technologies. It provides a range of development resources, including SDKs (Software Development Kits), documentation, sample code, and learning materials for networking, security, and cloud infrastructure.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 10, 2025

However, the use of any kind of software that deals with large amounts of sensitive customer data can make a business the target of cybercriminals. When you use third-party software, you need to satisfy yourself that you feel it has strong security protocols, and that it's a company that you can trust to do the right thing.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Now that Chuck has proven to Acme that even lightweight threat modeling can save money and time, Acme decides to give him a training course so that he can uplevel these skills and apply them consistently to all software he develops. With the right skills to manage the automation, you optimize the value of that technology investment.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The SolarWinds hack , which compromised the software update system of IT management company SolarWinds, had wide-reaching effects across public and private sectors. Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., was fined $995,000.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2025

Thompson “In todays saturated cybersecurity and AI-driven software markets, startups are struggling to break through the noise and access real buyers,” said Allan Thompson , Co-founder and CEO of AcceleTrex. Its amazing; Market Experts understand my technology and incorporate real-world experience into the introduction.

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