Category: Social Media

The New YouTube Ruling: Protect Your Viewing Privacy with Nordman VPN

In an unprecedented move, a recent court order has now mandated YouTube to disclose the identities of individuals who have viewed certain videos. This decision, stemming from legal proceedings that scrutinized specific content on the platform, marks a significant shift in online privacy dynamics, raising concerns among digital rights advocates and everyday users alike.

What Does This Mean for You?

The ruling necessitates YouTube to reveal viewer details, potentially exposing individuals’ viewing habits and preferences. In an era where digital privacy is already under siege, this development adds another layer of vulnerability, highlighting the necessity for robust measures to safeguard online anonymity.

Safeguard Your YouTube Browsing with Nordman VPN

In response to these growing privacy concerns, turning to reliable security solutions like Nordman VPN becomes paramount. Nordman VPN stands out as a beacon of digital privacy, offering top-tier encryption and IP masking features that ensure your YouTube activities remain confidential and untraceable.

Why Choose Nordman?

  • Enhanced Privacy: Nordman VPN encrypts your internet connection, keeping your online activities private and secure from prying eyes.
  • IP Anonymity: It masks your real IP address, making your YouTube viewing habits invisible to outsiders, including ISPs and third parties.
  • Ease of Use: With user-friendly interfaces and seamless integration, Nordman ensures that your online privacy protection is hassle-free and efficient.

Embrace Your Digital Freedom

While the digital realm continues to evolve, often bringing complex challenges to the fore, tools like Nordman VPN empower you to take control of your online privacy. In light of the recent YouTube ruling, adopting Nordman VPN isn’t just a choice—it’s a necessity for those who value their digital freedom and wish to maintain a private, secure online presence.

Stay Informed, Stay Secure

As advocates for digital rights and privacy, we must stay informed and proactive in protecting our online spaces. By choosing robust security solutions like Nordman VPN, you can safeguard your digital footprint and continue to enjoy the vast world of YouTube without compromising your privacy.

How To Track Anyone In The World Simply Using Any File!

How to Track Anyone’s IP using Images? — Email, QR Code, PDF, EXE, MS Word, MS Excel, & any file can be a “digital mouse trap”..

Supported Tokens: HTTP, DNS, Web Image, Cloned Website, Adobe PDF, MS Word, MS Excel, MySQL Dump, Windows Directory, Custom EXE, QR Code, Sensitive Command, SVN, AWS API Keys, Fast Redirect, Slow Redirect, SQL Server, and many more…

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Greetings, World!

Today I’ll teach you how to track anyone’s IP using Transparent Images! Yeah..

We will first understand the whole concept then redirect towards the step by step usage guide. You can even do this manually using custom developed payloads but it’s a more better way to do this easily. I’ll help you with that today, by providing easy steps you can follow. Let’s start learning..

Understanding Canarytokens

Canarytokens are like digital traps for your computer systems. They work by watching for certain actions, such as someone reading a file, making a database query, running a process, or spotting specific patterns in log files. It’s similar to those tracking images in emails, but instead of tracking opens, it tracks actions on your system.

The cool thing is, we can use Canarytokens to set up these traps in our regular computer systems, kind of like putting alarms in different parts of your house where anything someone does can set off an “alarm” – or at least a notification.

Now, why should you bother with these Canarytokens? Well, sometimes hackers get into computer networks, and it happens to big companies, governments, regular people — basically, everyone. That part is understandable. But what’s not okay is only finding out about it way later, like months or even years down the line which seems disappointing!!

Canarytokens are a free, easy, and fast way to help you know right away if someone is messing around in your systems. It’s like the hackers accidentally letting you know they’re there.

  1. Web bug / URL token — Alert when a URL is visited
  2. DNS token — Alert when a hostname is requested
  3. AWS keys — Alert when AWS key is used
  4. Azure Login Certificate — Azure Service Principal certificate that alerts when used to login with.
  5. Sensitive command token — Alert when a suspicious Windows command is run
  6. Microsoft Word document — Get alerted when a document is opened in Microsoft Word
  7. Microsoft Excel document — Get alerted when a document is opened in Microsoft Excel
  8. Kubeconfig token — Alert when a Kubeconfig is used
  9. WireGuard VPN — Alert when a WireGuard VPN client config is used
  10. Cloned website — Trigger an alert when your website is cloned
  11. QR code — Generate a QR code for physical tokens
  12. MySQL dump — Get alerted when a MySQL dump is loaded
  13. Windows folder — Be notified when a Windows Folder is browsed in Windows Explorer
  14. Log4Shell — Alert when a log4j log line is vulnerable to CVE-2021–44228
  15. Fast redirect — Alert when a URL is visited, User is redirected
  16. Slow redirect — Alert when a URL is visited, User is redirected (More info is grabbed!)
  17. Custom image web bug — Alert when an image you uploaded is viewed
  18. Acrobat Reader PDF document — Get alerted when a PDF document is opened in Acrobat Reader
  19. Custom exe / binary — Fire an alert when an EXE or DLL is executed
  20. Microsoft SQL Server — Get alerted when MS SQL Server databases are accessed
  21. SVN — Alert when someone checks out an SVN repository
  22. Unique email address — Alert when an email is sent to a unique address

Step-by-Step Usage

Go to canarytokens.org & choose your Canarytoken. This is like setting up a digital trap. Provide an email where you want to be notified and a note to remind yourself where you placed it.

https://canarytokens.org/generate#

Generate a Canarytoken, which is a unique URL or Fast redirect or anything else – it is all your choice. It’s like creating a secret link that will trigger an alert if someone interacts with it. In this blog I’ll be using Fast redirect as an example.

EXAMPLE

Put the generated Canarytoken in a special location & send it to the target. It could be in an email, a document, or even as an embedded image. If a target arrives upon it, you’ll receive an email notification, alerting you that something is off – just like a mouse activating a mouse trap :–)

Clicked..Your Digital Mouse Trap Is Set!

Fast Redirect was really super fast.. Later I tried using URL shortener and surprisingly, our main URL was not even noticeable in real time..

If your target hits the URL/File, like shown in the example above, your token gets activated & alerted to email or webhook as below:

You can also rename the generated PDF/Excel/Word document without affecting its operation!

DMARC: What Is It & Why Is February 1, 2024 Important?

DMARC

For 2024, Google and Yahoo are rolling out updated guidelines for bulk email senders, aimed at boosting deliverability and fighting the good fight against spam. This is good news: not only will it positively impact your deliverability, it’s easy to implement.

Why the update?

It’s simple: to create a cleaner, more secure environment for both senders and recipients. The new requirements fall into three key categories:

  • Authentication: Email authentication verifies you’re a legitimate sender, not a spammer. If you’re sending emails already, you’ve probably already taken the first step by setting up SPF (sender policy framework) and DKIM (domainkeys identified mail) records, even if you weren’t sure what they did. Now, the next crucial step is publishing a DMARC policy.

  • Simple unsubscribes: No more requiring users to authenticate or navigate labyrinthine unsubscribe processes. One-click unsubscribe provides a better user experience. Luckily, if you’ve already been offering this option, you’re already ahead of the curve!

  • Spam complaints: If you’re diligently collecting opt-ins with proper consent, spam complaints likely won’t be a concern. But it’s always good practice to maintain a healthy email list and engage your audience thoughtfully.

So what is DMARC?

  • The DMARC policy (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) acts as your email’s official security document, telling the world how to handle messages claiming to be from your domain.
  • Setting it up properly is essential today because many Email List Providers (such as small businesses) are already being surprised that their E-Mail Success % Rates Are Decreasing Just This Week (Google and Yahoo Domain Emails Began Enforcement On February 2nd, 2024).By February 1, 2024, publish your DMARC policy with your domain provider. Ensure this TXT record is added to your DNS settings with “yourdomain.com” replaced with your actual company domain:

    Hostname: _dmarc.yourdomain.com          Value: v=DMARC1; p=none;

    It is actually straight-forward for most technical savvy folks whether you manage DNS yourself or need to put in a ticket so that your IT team can handle the DNS settings. (You can learn even more about DMARC records, including other options like adding a “rua” value to designate an email address that will receive DMARC reports, in Google’s documentation here.

    These new email requirements might seem like extra hurdles, but they’re ultimately a positive step towards a more reliable and enjoyable email experience for everyone. By taking the small steps outlined above, you can ensure your business thrives under the new rules, reaching your target audience effectively and building lasting relationships.
    TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT DMARC IF YOU WANT TO DIVE DEEPER:

  1. Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is an email authentication policy that protects against bad actors using fake email addresses disguised to look like legitimate emails from trusted sources.
  2. DMARC makes it easier for email senders and receivers to determine whether or not an email legitimately originated from the identified sender. Further, DMARC provides the user with instructions for handling the email if it is fraudulent.
  3. WHY SHOULD ORGANIZATIONS LIKE YOURS BE INTERESTED IN DMARC?
Phishing and Spearphishing are among the top attack vectors for any organization dealing with PII (Personal Identifying Information), which can lead to identity impact, financial fraud, or even protected health information (PHI) breaches and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) fines --> why? Because many individuals in the "black market" underground will access, buy, and sell that PII for non-Citizens/those who do not have health insurance-->they will be using it for their own "services" with fake ID presented as the same name and person that your company revealed their PII.                  
                
Summary: Your/Your Company liability can be far more reaching than you could ever imagine. It happens every day in the United States where "Joe" walks up to the urgent care or hospital needing emergency care with someone else's ID/SSN/healthcare insurance information all for the right price!
  4. Fraudulent emails are easy to design and cheap to send, which gives threat actors incentive to use repeated email attacks. DMARC provides an automated approach to reducing fraudulent email, before it ever reaches an employee’s inbox. In addition, DMARC helps prevent adversaries sending email to your organization or others purportedly from your staff.
  5. HOW DOES DMARC WORK? 
DMARC removes guesswork from the receiver’s handling of emails from non-authoritative email servers, reducing the user’s exposure to potentially fraudulent and harmful messages. A DMARC policy allows a sender to indicate that their emails are protected by Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and/or Domain Keys Identified Message (DKIM), both of which are industry-recognized email authentication techniques. DMARC also provides instructions on how the receiver should handle emails that fail to pass SPF or DKIM authentication. Options include sending the email to quarantine or rejecting it entirely.
  6. DMARC provides the receiver with an email address to provide feedback to the sender. 
Potential feedback can include that the sender’s email was rejected/quarantined by the receiver or that a threat actor is attempting to imitate the sender’s domain.
  7. HOW CAN I ADOPT DMARC ON MY DOMAIN?                                                                                        
Savvy organizations that adopt DMARC do so in strategic stages, with feedback loops between IT departments and their staff (depending on the size of the organization of course!). Because DMARC can block third parties delivering mail on the purported sender’s behalf, some intended messages may be flagged as illegitimate in some cases - which is a very small price to pay (risk vs. reward) in cybersecurity honestly.
Below Are A Few Steps Organizations Can Take To Ease Into DMARC Over Time:
1. Deploy DKIM & SPF in reporting-only mode first, listing known authorized email servers (such as vendors and trusted internal/external Partners).
2. Collect and review reports to identify unknown email servers.
3. Work with business units and IT staff to identify servers and determine their legitimacy.
4. Update DMARC policy flags to “quarantine” then to “reject” as confidence increases that most or all legitimate
servers have been accounted for.

Top 10 Cybersecurity Trends (Updated for 2023)

Top 10 Cybersecurity Trends (Updated for 2023)

Table of Contents

1) Rise of Automotive Hacking 

2) Potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

3) Mobile is the New Target 

4) Cloud is Also Potentially Vulnerable 

5) Data Breaches: Prime Target

6) IoT with 5G Network: The New Era of Technology and Risks 

7) Automation and Integration 

8) Targeted Ransomware

9) State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare

10) Insider Threats

2023: The Digital Transformation realized for businesses, organizations and even governments are relying on computerized and progressively increased digital systems to manage their day-to-day activities making Cybersecurity a primary goal and priority for all Executives and Organizations of all sizes.

The 2020 pandemic  year exacerbated this fact – with up to 75% of billions of people globally transitioning from their physical office (which had the IT resources and personnel) to their “home office”. Essentially turning the entire “working from home industry” and all of the IT and HR requirements that it needs due to safeguarding data from various online attacks or any unauthorized access as the new “norm” of virtual/remote work.

Going Forward: Continuous change in technologies including the popular Dual Authorization Password apps primarily through utilizing the smart phone also implies a parallel shift and priority in Cybersecurity trends across the board in every organization as news of data breach, ransomware, malware, compromised devices/browsers and hacks unfortunately become the norms. This is simply based on adapting to the progressing volume (millions before the 2020 Pandemic worked from home, today it is billions) of remote workers. Here are the top Cybersecurity trends for 2023:

1) Rise of Automotive Hacking 

Modern vehicles nowadays come packed with automated software creating seamless connectivity for drivers in cruise control, engine timing, door lock, airbags and advanced systems for driver assistance. These vehicles use Bluetooth and WiFi technologies to communicate that also opens them to several vulnerabilities or threats from hackers. Gaining control of the vehicle or using microphones for eavesdropping is expected to rise in 2023 with more use of automated vehicles. Self-driving or autonomous vehicles use an even further complex mechanism that requires strict cybersecurity measures.

2) Potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

With AI being introduced in all market segments, this technology with a combination of machine learning has brought tremendous changes in cybersecurity. AI has been paramount in building automated security systems, natural language processing, face detection, and automatic threat detection and the ChatGPT OpenAI capabilities that are literally transforming industries of anything relating to “the written word” including Copy Writing, Marketing, Advertising, Education, and many, many others are all being automated with AI. Although, it is also being used to develop smart malware and attacks to bypass the latest security protocols in controlling data. AI enabled threat detection systems can predict new attacks and notify admins for any data breach instantly.

3) Mobile is the New Target 

Cybersecurity trends provide a considerable increase (50 percent) for mobile banking malware or attacks in 2020, making our handheld devices a potential prospect for hackers. All of our photos, financial transactions, emails, and messages possess more threats to individuals. Smartphones are logically one of the biggest targets for anyone with the skills and agenda primarily based on two facts:

  1. Smartphones are used by more people globally today than PC’s (personal computers)
  2. The security and vulnerabilities of smartphones are far less on average than PC’s
  3. Social Media like Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok as well as other installed Apps of all types on smartphones/PC’s/devices are being targeted more and more each day by malicious individuals and “ransomware gangs” globally.

4) The “Cloud” i.e. Internet is Also Potentially Vulnerable 

With more and more organizations now established on clouds, security measures need to be continuously monitored and updated to safeguard the data from leaks. Although cloud applications such as Google or Microsoft are well equipped with security from their end still, it’s the user end that acts as a significant source for erroneous errors, malicious software, and phishing attacks more than ever before today. Malicious actors across the globe are adapting faster than end users can act, especially in today’s ever so popular Social Media world.

5) Data Breaches: Prime target

Data will continue to be a leading concern for organizations around the world. Whether it be for an individual or organization, safeguarding digital data is the primary goal now. Any minor flaw or bug in your system browser or software is a potential vulnerability for hackers to access personal information. New strict measures General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced from May 25th, 2018 onwards, offering data protection and privacy for individuals in the European Union(EU). Similarly, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was applied after January 1st, 2020, for safeguarding consumer rights in the California area.

6) IoT with 5G Network: The New Era of Technology and Risks 

With the advent and growth of 5G networks, a new era of inter-connectivity will become a reality with the Internet of Things (IoT).

The Internet of Things (IoT)  is essentially an interconnected global network where all devices are connected to each other as well as the “internet” 24×7. This communication between multiple devices also opens them to vulnerabilities from outside influence, attacks or an unknown software bug. Even the world’s most used browser supported by Google, Chrome was found to have serious bugs. 5G architecture is comparatively new in the industry and requires a lot of research to find loopholes to make the system secure from external attack.

Every step of the 5G network might bring a plethora of network attacks that we might not be aware of. Here manufacturers need to be very strict in building sophisticated 5G hardware and software to control data breaches.

7) Automation and Integration 

With the size of data multiplying every day, it is eminent that automation is integrated to give more sophisticated control over the information. Modern hectic work demand also pressurizes professionals and engineers to deliver quick and proficient solutions, making automation more valuable than ever. Security measurements are incorporated during the agile process to build more secure software in every aspect. Large and complex web applications are further hard to safeguard making automation as well as cyber security to be a key concept of the software development process.

8) Targeted Ransomware

Another important cybersecurity trend that we can’t seem to ignore is targeted ransomware. Especially in the developed nations’ industries rely heavily on specific software to run their daily activities. These ransomware targets are more focused today in 2023 including examples like the Wanna Cry attack on the National Health Service hospitals in England corrupted more than 70,000 medical devices. Though generally, ransomware asks to threaten to publish the victim’s data unless a ransom is paid still it can affect the large organization or in case of nations too.

9) State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare

There won’t be any stoppage between the western and eastern powers in attempts to find superiority. The tension between the US and Iran or Chinese hackers often creates worldwide news though the attacks are few; they have a significant impact on an event such as elections. And with more than 70 elections bound to be held this year, criminal activities during this time will surge. Expect high-profile data breaches, key infrastructure like airlines grounding planes due to internal software compromises, etc. as top cybersecurity trends for 2023.

10) Insider Threats

Human error is still one of the primary reasons for data breaches and cyber security issues and service tickets, up to 75% of all reported in fact according to the most recent 2022 statistics. Any employee having a grudge or just a bad day at their employer or intentional loophole can bring down a whole organization with millions of stolen data. One example of this in 2022 was an official Report by Verizon that a documented data breach gives strategic insights on cybersecurity trends that 45 percent of total attacks were directly or indirectly made by the employees. Creating a culture of more awareness within premises to safeguard data in every way possible is truly the primary goal today in 2023 as well as the future.