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Attacker combines phone, email lures into believable, complex attack chain

August 10, 2023 admin defcon, electron, Featured, image spam, notepad++, socat, Social engineering, sophos x-ops, threat research, Tor, war stories

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:00:10 +0000

A social engineering phone call lends authenticity to the attacker’s malicious email

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Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

April 14, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, aries security, brian markus, defcon, FBI, FCC, juice jacking, Latest Warnings, omg cable, Security Tools, snopes

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:27:56 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about “juice jacking,” a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile device into a public charging kiosk. It remains unclear what may have prompted the alerts, but the good news is that there are some fairly basic things you can do to avoid having to worry about juice jacking.

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Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws

August 12, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, comcast, cybir, david mcguire, defcon, Department of Homeland Security, digital alert systems, emergency alert system, ken pyle, Latest Warnings, monroe electronics, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:26:58 +0000

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is urging states and localities to beef up security around proprietary devices that connect to the Emergency Alert System — a national public warning system used to deliver important emergency information, such as severe weather and AMBER alerts. The DHS warning came in advance of a workshop to be held this weekend at the DEFCON security conference in Las Vegas, where a security researcher is slated to demonstrate multiple weaknesses in the nationwide alert system.

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Badgelife: A Defcon 26 retrospective

August 22, 2018 admin badgelife, Conferences, defcon, Defcon badges, SAO, Security world

Credit to Author: Jean Taggart| Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:03:18 +0000

Another year, another Defcon. In this retrospective, we take a look at the crown jewel of Defcon swag: badges. Reminisce with us about the coolest badges ever made and traded.

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