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The chaotic and cinematic MGM casino hack, explained

Vox

. | John Locher/AP Photos Are we in the middle of Ocean’s 14 or is this just another ransomware attack? Did prominent casino chain MGM Resorts gamble with its customers’ data? And it may have all started with a phone call, if reports citing the hackers themselves are to be believed.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. So they’re often unprepared when a nation state APT choses to focus on them. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. I want to talk more about the privileged position they have when it comes to these larger threat.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. Lascelles: Yeah, and this, this is a huge lesson in API security right hackers are also users.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

In this episode, Jason Kent from Cequence Security talks about his experience hacking a garage door opener API, the tools he uses such as Burp, ZAP, and APK tool, and why we need to be paying more attention to the OWASP API Security Top 10. Lascelles: Yeah, and this, this is a huge lesson in API security right hackers are also users.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

The LockBit ransomware gang no longer offers just one service, like ransomware, but multiple services, like anti-analysis tools and bug bounty programs. Mick Baccio from Splunk’s SURGe explains how ransomware gangs are evolving into crimeware-as-a-service platforms, as one stop shop for all your online criminal needs.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Over the years, Dan continued to do really great things. So what do we mean by managing all the hardware?

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

ForAllSecure

Where would we be without it today 24 Seven news and sports updates streaming movies, ordering stuff anytime you want. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. Maybe our current approach to IoT botnets isn’t working? Vamosi: The internet.

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