Tech Republic Security

APRIL 29, 2020

A new compilation of data says the home of Hollywood and Silicon Valley has seen nearly 19 million records lost in attacks since 2005.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 25, 2023

Zacks Elite sign-ups for the period 1999–2005 were accessed, including name, address, email address, phone number, and the password associated with Zacks.com.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

This blog post documents attacks on network devices going back to 2005 to the end of 2023. The rate and severity of attacks against network devices has increased drastically over the last 5 years.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Microsoft may have retired the Boa web server in 2005, but that hasn’t stopped widespread use—and now the company is saying a vulnerability in the server’s open source component has been exploited by bad actors, targeting the energy industry and underscoring the continued vulnerability of the supply chain.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2023

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The baton was then passed to the Insafe network in 2005, The post Safer Internet Day 2022 – Keep Everyone Safe Online appeared first on Indusface. Safer Internet Day 2022 lands on February 8. Safer Internet Day began as an EU SafeBorders project in 2004.

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The Hacker News

JULY 20, 2021

Details have emerged about a high severity security vulnerability affecting a software driver used in HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers that has remained undetected since 2005.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flaws from a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to attack organizations from the energy sector. State-backed Chinese hacking groups have used the Boa web server to target several Indian electrical grid operators, compromising an Indian national emergency response system and a logistics company subsidiary.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 18, 2022

Founded back in 2005, Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity giant that has earned the trust of the business community thanks to its impressive track record. In the world of cybersecurity, reputation is everything. Most business owners have little understanding of the technical side, so they have to rely on credibility.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

TrickBot is a distant descendent of the ZeuS banking Trojan, which first appeared in 2005, although it is most commonly associated with Dyre or Dyreza, which went down in 2015. TrickBot appeared in 2016, replicating parts of Dyre’s malware while preserving its banking credential harvesting and web inject architecture.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I wrote about this exact attack in 2005 and 2009. In the event targets' accounts were protected by 2fa, the attackers redirected targets to a new page that requested a one-time password. This isn't new.

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Adam Levin

MAY 24, 2019

Google announced a glitch that stored unencrypted passwords belonging to several business customers, a situation that had been exploitable since 2005. This issue has been fixed and, again, we have seen no evidence of improper access to or misuse of the affected passwords.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cyber Monday is the online version of a complement to Black Friday that debuted in the US in 2005. It was initiated to encourage online shopping on the Monday after Thanksgiving. Since its inception, Cyber Monday has grown into a mega annual shopping carnival breaking sales records every year – with fraud following closely Digital […].

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

Here’s a weird footnote in deepfake history… Old publishers of “facts” like map makers and encyclopedias gave up inserting fake data after the US Supreme Court ruled their facts can’t be copyrighted, as a New Yorker article from 2005 explained. The post Deepfake Map History appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureBlitz

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In this interview, we spoke with David Monnier, Chief Evangelist at Team Cymru, a risk management solution launched in 2005 with a network that extends to 143 CSIRT teams in 86 countries and over 1,000 network operators and ISP community that helps keep the internet safe. Team Cymru has released the findings from their State […].

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Heimadal Security

JULY 21, 2021

It has been on those drivers from 2005 and now the researchers have found that the real threat is that this bug could let hackers gain local system privileges. SentinelLabs has released a new report stating the discovery of CVE-2021-3438, a 16-years-old vulnerability present in printer drivers belonging to HP, Samsung, and Xerox.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In 2005, one malware install which needed the.NET framework to run would helpfully install the whole thing for you if you didn’t have it. For one final slice of additional context, 2005 was also a key year for security happenings. By curious coincidence, the ASC also came into existence in 2005.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 8, 2023

The software has been maintained since 2005 when it was first released under the name CMSsystem, and has received 53 stars since migrating to GitHub in 2014. Pluck is a PHP-based content management system (CMS) used to set up and manage websites.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 6, 2022

According to Fierce Education, there were 1,851 data breaches in educational institutions between 2005 and. The post Higher Education is a Growing Target for Threat Actors appeared first on Gurucul. The post Higher Education is a Growing Target for Threat Actors appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). In an early post to Antichat in January 2005, Stanx disclosed that he is from Omsk , a large city in the Siberian region of Russia.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2021

I even wrote as far back as 2005 that the debate was [.]. This is a question that has been debated for decades in the cybersecurity arena. Media conflated hacker and cybercriminal very early on, and it has been challenging to correct that error and separate the terms.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It must have been around 2005. I was fed up with my job. I was the at that stage of life where I had the perfect balance of youthful arrogance, a disdain of authority, and just enough knowledge to give me illusions that I could do my boss, and his boss, and his bosses job … Continue reading Making the best of a bad situation ?.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

and one that our founding editor Derek Slater offered up to readers way back in 2005—heck, if there's one website you ought to be able to trust to tell you what a CSO is, it's CSOonline. A CSO is a departmental leader responsible for information security, corporate security or both.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2021

In 2005, when Albert Gonzalez was hacking his way into the networks of many retail chains in the US (listen to Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 ), credit cards were still very insecure: magnetic stripes and signed receipts did little to stop smart hackers such as Gonzalez and his crew.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The experts pointed out that Boa has been discontinued since 2005. ” Microsoft experts explained that despite Boa being discontinued in 2005, many vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits (SDKs) continue to use it. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

In 2005, AOL won a $12.8 Hawke had reportedly bragged about the money he earned from spam, but told friends he didn’t trust banks and decided to convert his earnings into gold and platinum bars. That sparked rumors that he had possibly buried his ill-gotten gains on his parents’ Massachusetts property.

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Javvad Malik

JANUARY 24, 2022

Back in the olden times (in 2005) a website was setup called the Million Dollar Homepage. A brainchild of student Alex Tew who wanted to raise some money for university. The concept was simple, get a webpage composed of a million pixels and sell them all for $1 each. They were sold in 10 x 10 pixel blocks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The hackers accessed company file servers that contained information about current and former employees from 2005 to 2020 and their beneficiaries and dependents. The investigation conducted by Canon found evidence of unauthorized accesses on its network between July 20 and August 6. ” reads the statement.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 12, 2024

is an open-source CMS that’s been around since 2005, and has been one of the most popular CMS platforms by market share for much of that time. This means that Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies need to remediate this vulnerability by January 29, 2024 in order to protect their devices against active threats.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

They also had access to lists of students and alumni going back to 2005. According to a report by netzpolitik.org , on January 12, an update to the Campus Management System of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin inadvertently set some students' accounts to "God Mode" potentially enabling them to access, and in some cases, change grades.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 11, 2021

Note 1- Earlier, the company was only called as Coors of the United States and as soon as it merged with a Canada-based company Molson in 2005, the collective reference of the company as Molson Coors started.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 18, 2022

From the description, surely Janet’s finest hour: A certain 5400 RPM OEM hard drive, as shipped with laptop PCs in approximately 2005, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (device malfunction and system crash) via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2022

The oldest flaws in the set of 66 recently added issues are dated back to 2005. The new vulnerabilities added to the catalog have to be addressed by federal agencies by April 15, 2022. Microsoft addressed this bug with the release of the February 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2021

What’s interesting is the fact that the law enforcement in US could only detect 11,792 cyber attacks on companies and government agencies between 2005- June’20. And if that doesn’t work, then they sell the siphoned data for monetary benefits. Then what happened to the other cases…?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 21, 2022

The reality is that some laptops that might operate on Windows XP could house such models of hard drives that might have been manufactured before 2005. All other latest ones are nowadays housing Solid State Drives that consume less power, are super-fast and are in compact size than their other HDD counterparts.

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