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High Fraudulent Transaction Rates Combined with Volatility Led to Steam Dropping Crypto as a Payment Form in 2017
Posted on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
As the Steam Deck is starting to get to people that have ordered them questions about Steam’s place in Web3 and recent moves around NFTs come up in conversation. Steam, Valve’s distribution arm has been seen as a one of…
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Elon Musk Brings Starlink Internet to Ukraine as Russian Invasion Continues
Posted on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Warfare has changed little over its centuries of existence. The tools have changes, the arenas have moved from two dimensions to 3, but the concepts and execution area basically the same. You need to not only assault and occupy ground,…
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Research shows that Meta is not Ready for the Metaverse.
Posted on Monday, 28 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Last year a group call Centre for Countering Digital Hate reviewed interactions in the Metaverse. The results of their checkup were not encouraging as they encountered 100 potential violations of Meta’s policies in the span of only 11.5 hours. The…
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Companies Prepare for Attacks as Sanctions Hit and as Russia is Blocked from SWIFT Banking System over Ukraine Invasion
Posted on Monday, 28 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
US and other Western Organizations are preparing for potential cyber attacks from Russia, especially banks after a new wave of sanctions went into effect that included blocking the banks from the SWIFT system and freezing Russian assets. The goal of…
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Malware Found in Microsoft Store Gaming Apps Could Hijack Social Media Accounts
Posted on Monday, 28 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
App Stores have been around for a while and pretty much everyone has one. Although they started off in the mobile device world, they quickly were bolted on to the other areas. As their usage has grown attackers have found…
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Microsoft Preps to Remove WMIC from Windows 11 and Remove an Attack Vector
Posted on Friday, 25 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
WMIC or the Windows Management Instrumentation Command line is a very powerful tool. It can allow an administrator or an attacker a lot of control over a system. Because of the number of times that WMIC has been abused to…
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Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Cisco NX-OS that Could Allow Arbitrary Code Execution
Posted on Friday, 25 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Cisco has announced that a series of vulnerabilities along with the associated patches that go with them for some of the Nexus Series Switches based on NX-OS. Cisco’s NX-OS is the heart of their data center line of switches like…
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Trickbot Shuttering its Infrastructure as it moves to New Methods and Malware
Posted on Friday, 25 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
It looks like the group behind Trickbot, the Swiss Army Knife of Malware as service for Windows is shutting down the framework and infrastructure behind the “solution”. According to research groups that have been tracking the campaign the disappearance there…
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IRS backs off Collecting Biometric Data as part of ID.me Account Creation
Posted on Thursday, 24 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
ID.me, the private identification verification company, has become a popular go-to when it comes to governmental services. We have seen it put in play at the local, state, and federal level. The idea is to have a source of truth…
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Vulnerabilities, Phishing, and More allow Attackers to Compromise web3 services including OpenSea and Steal $1.7 Million in virtual assets
Posted on Wednesday, 23 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
We have another Web3 article today. This one covers a new NFT marketplace compromise though the use of phishing emails that tricked users into singing over their digital assets to an, as of yet, unknown attacker.
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Unpatched and Unprotected Microsoft SQL Servers Targeted for Cobalt Strike Injection
Posted on Wednesday, 23 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
It seems that there are still some MS SQL servers that are not only exposed to the open internet but are also still using weak passwords. When this is combined with vulnerabilities and the lack of other security controls and…
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noVNC Used by Clever Pentester to get Around MFA During Spearphishing Attack
Posted on Wednesday, 23 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Most attacks, be they real or from a penetration test, begin with an attempt to compromise a single system, or user. The compromise of a device or user account gives the attacker a small foothold in an environment that they…
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Google Finds a Sneaky Way to Keep Tracking Paid Workspace Users
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Google has a bit of a history (understatement) of abusing data collection and sneaking in ways to continue collecting data on its users. This type of collection is all in service to their ad business. They want to be able…
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Meta Makes Changes to Instagram Daily Time Limit Warnings after Disappointing Revenue Report
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Recently Mark Zuckerberg had to admit that Meta not only had lost a significant amount of money but stood to lose more as changes in attitudes around personal data privacy and targeted ads are changing. In the EU privacy protection…
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Another Banking Trojan for Android is making the Rounds Through Google’s Play Store
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Google has a bit of an issue with malware present in their Play Store as there are reports of another banking trojan targeting users of European banks. Currently, the malware called Xenomorph may have infected as many as 50,000 devices…
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It Feels Like 99 Again as Two Digit Bug May Impact Multiple Browsers May be Impacted by Version Change
Posted on Tuesday, 22 February 2022
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Sean Kalinich
In mid-1999 software and hardware developers uncovered a bug of sorts that, at first glance, seemed like it would end the computer world as we know it. It was called the Y2K bug and centered around the issue that somehow…
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