Every week I publish interesting articles and ways to improve your understanding of cybersecurity. This week learn about National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online.
Projects
- TryHackMe – Metasploit: Meterpreter – Complete
- TryHackMe – Blue – Complete
- TryHackMe – Linux PrivEsc – In Progress
- Linux Foundation – Introduction to Kubernetes (LF158) – In Progress
Videos
Whitepapers
- NOIR: A White Paper, Part 1 & 2— Proposing a New Policy for Improving National Security by Fixing the Problem of Insider Spies by Dr. David L. Charney, Psychiatrist
- Case Study: Pinterest – Pinning Its Past, Present, and Future on Cloud Native
Articles
- Iranian group used ChatGPT to try to influence US election, OpenAI says – AI company bans accounts and says operation did not appear to have meaningful audience engagement
- Russian spy agency hackers breach human rights groups, victims say – Traditional phishing attacks aimed to break into organizations advocating for Russian dissidents, among others.
- Malicious Links, AI-Enabled Tools and Attacks on SMBs Among Top Cybersecurity Threats in H1 Mimecast Global Threat Intelligence Report – Mimecast, a leading global Human Risk Management platform, today published its Global Threat Intelligence Report 2024 H1, revealing malicious links and AI-driven bots in call centers to be among the greatest threats to cybersecurity defenses, with small businesses bearing the brunt of attacks.
- Toyota Customer, Employee Data Leaked in Confirmed Data Breach – The company has released little information on the breach, but claims it’s been in contact with the individuals affected.
- Major Backdoor in Millions of RFID Cards Allows Instant Cloning – Backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics allows instantaneous cloning of RFID smart cards used to open office doors and hotel rooms around the world.
- Chinese Wi-Fi Router Vendor Draws US Congressional Ire – Two congressmen want the US Commerce Department to examine the company’s goods and decide if they pose a threat
- Oregon Zoo warns visitors their credit card details were stolen – Oregon Zoo is informing that visitors who purchased tickets online between December and June had their payment card information compromised.
- National Public Data Published Its Own Passwords – National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available from its homepage until today.