Cyber-Security
Marriott Says Up To 500 Million Breach Also Includes Trump Hotels (#GotBitcoin?)
Hacked information includes passport numbers, payment-card numbers in addition to addresses, travel details. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. and Trump Hotels have also said hackers had stolen information. Marriott International Inc., the world’s largest hotel company, said it identified a data breach in its Starwood reservation system that may have exposed…
Venmo And Amazon Hit By Breaches And Fraudsters (#GotBitcoin?)
A spike in fraudulent activity earlier this year led to higher losses than the payments company had expected. Venmo was hit by a wave of payments fraud earlier this year that helped push losses higher than the company previously expected and prompted it to shut down some user features to…
Ultimate Resource On Trezor Hardware Wallets (#GotBitcoin)
Be careful, buy only from Trezor Shop or authorized resellers. Ultimate Resource On Trezor Hardware Wallets (#GotBitcoin) [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp012aP0ZFA&t=929s[/embed] “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” — you have probably heard this proverb before. We have experienced it first-hand, as Trezor clones have been released over the years of our activity. Related: Mainstream…
Fake Comments Are Plaguing Government Agency Websites And Nobody Much Seems To Care (#GotBitcoin)
You might recall that when the FCC repealed net neutrality, the agency's open comment period (the only opportunity the public had to voice their concerns) was plagued with all manner of bogus comments and identity fraud. Fake Comments Are Plaguing Government Agency Websites And Nobody Much Seems To Care (#GotBitcoin)…
To Fight This Generation of Hackers, Companies Take A Cue From Spies (#GotBitcoin?)
Threat-intelligence services give companies a clearer view of the dangers they’re facing. To Fight This Generation of Hackers, Companies Take A Cue From Spies After years of being caught flat-footed by hackers, companies are turning to cybersecurity defenses called threat intelligence to fend off a new generation of criminals and spies…
Cybersecurity Firm Ranks Safety of Top Crypto Exchanges (#GotBitcoin?)
Prominent cybersecurity firm Group-IB has graded the security of top crypto exchanges. Cybersecurity Firm Ranks Safety of Top Crypto Exchanges According to research conducted by the Moscow-based firm in partnership with crypto asset insurance platform CryptoIns, the Kraken platform is the safest crypto exchange. In contrast, OKEx — the now-second crypto…
US. Can Learn From China’s Spot-The-Spy Program
BEIJING—In Xi Jinping’s campaign to galvanize China around threats to national security, the latest focus has turned to spies. US. Can Learn From China's Spot-The-Spy Program In recent weeks, the country has dramatically amped up a call for vigilance even from its youngest citizens, with games such as “Spot the…
US Charges Chinese Agents In Hacking Scheme, More Cases Expected (#GotBitcoin)
Prosecutors targeting hacking group previously linked to Beijing. US Charges Chinese Agents In Hacking Scheme, More Cases Expected (#GotBitcoin) Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against 10 Chinese intelligence officers and other individuals Tuesday, accusing them of engaging in a persistent campaign to hack into U.S. aviation companies in Arizona, Massachusetts, Oregon…
The Key To Being Safer Online Is Actually A Key (#GotBitcoin?)
The best way to protect yourself against hackers and phishers is to turn on two-factor authentication—then get a YubiKey or Google Titan Key. The Key To Being Safer Online Is Actually A Key Google, Yubico and others offer security keys for different devices and ports, but they all work basically the…
New Spy Service Shows You Unsecured Webcams And Baby-Cams, Etc. (#GotBitcoin?)
Shodan has made it even easier for our inner voyeur to spy upon the open webcams of homes across the world -- but are the ramifications more pronounced than idle surveillance? New Spy Service Shows You Unsecured Webcams And Baby-Cams, Etc. Launched in 2013, Shodan is a search engine used to…
Emerging Field of Social Physics Shows Promise In Cybercrime Detection (#GotBitcoin?)
A few weeks ago I wrote about social physics, a new discipline that aims to help us better understand and predict the behavior of human groups. Social physics is based on the premise that all event-data representing human activity contain a special set of group behavior patterns. As long as…
Poor Cyber Practices Plague The Pentagon (#GotBitcoin?)
Good day, CIOs. Or perhaps we should say, goodbye, because the results are in from a U.S. Government Accountability Office cybersecurity study of the Defense Department's newest weapons systems. They are not encouraging. "DOD likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity,"…