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US offers $10 million reward for information about Russian military hackers implicated in NotPetya attack
PRIVACY PRIVACY The United States has made it $10 million harder to keep your mouth shut, if you happen to have any information about the Russian military hackers who masterminded the notorious NotPetya cyber attack. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Microsoft: Russia Has Launched Hundreds of Cyber Operations in Ukraine
PRIVACY PRIVACY Pre-positioning began as far back as March 2021 Read More
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Security Alert as Researchers Discover 400,000 Exposed Databases
PRIVACY PRIVACY Public-facing assets are a prime target for attack Read More
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Smarter Homes & Gardens: Smart Speaker Privacy
PRIVACY PRIVACY So is your smart speaker really listening in on your conversations? That’s the crux of a popular privacy topic. Namely, are we giving up some of our privacy in exchange for the convenience of a smart speaker that does our bidding with the sound of our voice? After all, you’re using it to…
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Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Are on the Rise
PRIVACY PRIVACY Both Google and Mandiant are reporting a significant increase in the number of zero-day vulnerabilities reported in 2021. Google: 2021 included the detection and disclosure of 58 in-the-wild 0-days, the most ever recorded since Project Zero began tracking in mid-2014. That’s more than double the previous maximum of 28 detected in 2015 and…
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Cyber Skills Gap Linked to Breaches
PRIVACY PRIVACY Impact of skills gap in cybersecurity industry goes beyond talent shortage Read More
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Proficio launches detection and response service to tackle identity-based threats
PRIVACY PRIVACY Managed detection and response (MDR) service provider Proficio has launched ProSOC Identity Threat Detection and Response to protect businesses from identity-based attacks and credential abuse. The firm claimed the service is the industry’s only vendor-agnostic Open XDR solution that supports identity threat detection and response and works with existing security tools without proprietary…
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Smile Brands Breach Impacts 2.5 Million Individuals
PRIVACY PRIVACY Data breach, first reported as impacting 1200 individuals, affected 2,592,494 Read More
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Private Investigator Admits Role in Hedge Fund Hack
PRIVACY PRIVACY Private investigator pleads guilty to involvement in global fraud and hacking conspiracy Read More
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Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police
PRIVACY PRIVACY When KrebsOnSecurity recently explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media firms and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the…