P2P - Tagged - Security Boulevard The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:29:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png P2P - Tagged - Security Boulevard 32 32 133346385 New P2P Worm Puts Windows and Linux Redis Servers in its Sights https://securityboulevard.com/2023/07/new-p2p-worm-puts-windows-and-linux-redis-servers-in-its-sights/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:35:18 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1982166 P2PInfect network security, phishing, ChatGPT, AI, identity, hacking, AI, Chat GPT, ChatGPT malware threat ransomware CNA REvil EtterSilent ransomware dark web

A new peer-to-peer (P2P) worm, P2PInfect, is spreading across instances of the Redis open source database software in the cloud.

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]]> 1982166 Identity Theft, Fraud Exploding in 2020  https://securityboulevard.com/2020/06/identity-theft-fraud-exploding-in-2020/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:00:35 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1848341 breach

Identity theft and fraud are on the rise, increasing the costs to both consumers and the businesses they deal with, according to a recent study from Javelin Strategy & Research, which showed that losses related to identity fraud have increased some 15%. The “2020 Identity Fraud Report” also revealed another troubling trend in which criminals..

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]]> 1848341 P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices https://securityboulevard.com/2019/04/p2p-weakness-exposes-millions-of-iot-devices/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:17:14 +0000 https://krebsonsecurity.com/?p=47216 A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found.

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]]> 1806302 Naming & Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai https://securityboulevard.com/2018/10/naming-shaming-web-polluters-xiongmai/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:41:56 +0000 https://krebsonsecurity.com/?p=45290 What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai -- a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras.

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]]> 1787315 Telegram not really anonymous? Researcher reports bug that leaks IP addresses https://securityboulevard.com/2018/10/telegram-not-really-anonymous-researcher-reports-bug-that-leaks-ip-addresses/ Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:49:13 +0000 https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/?p=20398 Encrypted messaging app Telegram is dealing with a major anonymity fail possibly affecting their brand reputation and customer trust. Last week, security researcher Dhiraj Mishra detected some vulnerabilities in the Telegram desktop application and Telegram for Windows that leaked both public and private IP addresses online during voice calls, revealing user location. Telegram normally asks […]

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