Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2023

Each year since 2011, Microsoft has sent me a lovely email around this time: I've been fortunate enough to find a passion in life that has allowed me to do what I love and make a great living out of it all whilst contributing to the community in a meaningful and impactful way.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 12, 2024

2011 – Heimdal® wins CTF Championship. Ours is a story of perseverance, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of excellence through community empowerment. What better way to celebrate than by sharing that story with you? Source: […] The post Heimdal’s 10th Anniversary – Our Finest Hours appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 6, 2022

11 years now, wow 😲 It's actually 11 and a bit because it was April Fool's Day in 2011 that my first MVP award came through. At the time, I referred to myself as "The Accidental MVP" as I'd no expectation of an award, it just came from me being me.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2023

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.

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 9, 2023

Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner have been charged with the 2011 hacking of the leading (at the time) cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the laundering of around 647,000 bitcoins they stole. [.]

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.” The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin had gone into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 17, 2023

The Spanish National Police has apprehended a Ukrainian national wanted internationally for his involvement in a scareware operation spanning from 2006 to 2011. [.]

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 21, 2021

Chinese state-sponsored attackers have breached 13 US oil and natural gas (ONG) pipeline companies between December 2011 to 2013 following a spear-phishing campaign targeting their employees. [.].

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Gox in 2011 and money laundering. Gox in 2011 and the operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e. Bilyuchenko is also charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to run the virtual currency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 20, 2021

In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 13, 2023

According to unsealed indictments released last week, Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, have been accused of conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins stolen from September 2011 through at

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 10, 2023

Rashid reflects on the monumental Black Hat 2011 moment when Jay Radcliffe showed how to hack his insulin pump. Hacking to kill: Dark Reading's Fahmida Y.

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Hacking 85

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 16, 2019

his system's secret encryption keys in 2011 after he had moved the network's servers from Canada to the Netherlands during what he told the cartel's leaders was a routine upgrade. Impressive police work : In a daring move that placed his life in danger, the I.T. consultant eventually gave the F.B.I.

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Encryption 201

The Hacker News

MAY 28, 2022

He joined the gang in August 2011 and remained a member for A 37-year-old man from New York has been sentenced to four years in prison for buying stolen credit card information and working in cahoots with a cybercrime cartel known as the Infraud Organization.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 29, 2023

31-year-old Solomon Ekunke Okpe, of Lagos, was a member of a gang that devised and executed a variety of scams - including business email compromise (BEC), romance scams, working-from-home scams, and more - between December 2011 and January 2017. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Scams 84

Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed that virtually all of the hacked systems for rent at AWM Proxy had been compromised by TDSS (a.k.a An example of a cracked software download site distributing Glupteba. Image: Google.com.

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Passwords Malware Internet Internet 239

Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2021

The complaint outlines how Sterlingov allegedly paid for the server hosting of Bitcoin Fog at one point in 2011 using the now-defunct digital currency Liberty Reserve.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 20, 2022

In September 2011, an amendment was made to the bill under the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011. . NOTE- CFAA was drafted and implied to protect IT assets operated by the federal government and centralized financial institutes. Later, the bill was given a fair scope to make amendments following the 2001 terrorist act.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Founded in 2011, RailYatri is an Indian travel marketplace endorsed by the […] The post RailYatri Data Breach Leaves Over 30 Million Users Exposed appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. An online database of private information has been released, and it is thought the breach occurred late in December 2022.

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Data breaches Government Cybersecurity 91

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

OMB proposed to rescind the initial 2011 order […] The post Seeking SaaS: FedRAMP Launches Modernization and 10X Increase appeared first on Anitian. For the people and teams that live, breathe and eat FedRAMP every day, this became BIG news overnight.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2024

This isn’t the first incident suffered by IMF, the agency suffered a major security breach in 2011. Bleeping computer contacted IMF, which confirmed that that despite it uses the Microsoft 365, the incident does not appear to be part of Microsoft targeting recently disclosed.

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The Hacker News

MAY 21, 2021

26, 2011 and Feb. India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System (PSS) provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered between Aug.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 11, 2022

Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged Idris Dayo Mustapha for a range of cybercrime activities that took place between 2011 and 2018, resulting in financial losses estimated to over $5,000,000. [.].

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was first coined by cybersecurity expert Wendy Nather in 2011, and the concept is just as relevant today as it was then (if not more so). The security poverty line broadly defines a divide between the organizations that have the means and resources to achieve and maintain mature security postures to protect data, and those that do not.

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Cybersecurity 133

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Cloud Awards has honored innovation in cloud computing since 2011, spanning diverse industry sectors and welcoming […] The post TrustCloud Named Security Innovation of the Year (SMB) by the Cloud Awards first appeared on TrustCloud.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 15, 2022

SHA-1 was deprecated in 2011. NIST has set the hashing algorithm's final retirement date to Dec. 31, 2030.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2022

government on Thursday released a cybersecurity advisory outlining multiple intrusion campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors from 2011 to 2018 that targeted the energy sector in the U.S. and beyond. The [Federal Security Service] conducted a multi-stage campaign in which they gained remote access to U.S.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 23, 2022

Since 2011, Tropic Trooper has been operating with the goal of targeting organizations in the public sector, the healthcare industry, the transportation sector, and the high technology sector. What Happened?

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Healthcare Technology Cybersecurity 104

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The World Quality Report, released by HP, Capgemini, and Sogeti, presents the insight that the figure of companies comprising a full-fledged testing center has elevated from a mere 4% in 2011 to a dramatic 26% in 2014. This time, a crucial portion of VAPT testing budgets have gone to a kind of penetration testing featuring […].

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Penetration Testing 92

Bleeping Computer

JULY 19, 2021

Today, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted four members of the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as APT40 for hacking various companies, universities, and government entities in the US and worldwide between 2011 and 2018. [.].

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As far back as 2011 a presidential mandate said, “Records are the foundation of open government.” This mandate went on to say that accessible, readable public records supported the “principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration” in society, as well as a government’s march towards progress and efficiency.

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Government Risk 59

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Not that serious, but interesting : In late 2011, Intel introduced a performance enhancement to its line of server processors that allowed network cards and other peripherals to connect directly to a CPU's last-level cache, rather than following the standard (and significantly longer) path through the server's main memory.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 10, 2023

By early 2011 it was made open-source. According to enlyft there are approximately 50,192 companies that use Apache and the number has proliferated rapidly. Apache Kafka was originally developed by LinkedIn and was built for website activity tracking, capturing all the clicks, actions, or inputs on a website.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 14, 2022

This month’s Patch Tuesday has brought us some improvements and fixes for issues associated with Microsoft Edge Stable Channel (Version 102.0.1245.39), which incorporates the latest Security Updates of the Chromium project for CVE-2022-2011, CVE-2022-2010, CVE-2022-2008, and CVE-2022-2007.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 20, 2021

They were charged with several hacking crimes that unfolded between 2011 and 2018 where they targeted state entities, universities, and enterprises. 4 members belonging to APT40, a hacking group supported by the Chinese government, were indicted yesterday by the U.S. DOJ (Department of Justice).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 12, 2023

Bilyuchenko and Verner are charged with conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins from the 2011 hack of Mt. Bilyuchenko is separately charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to operate the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

The six-digit sequence has also ranked high on other lists over the years; SplashData, which has come up with lists using similar methodology, found "123456" in second place in 2011 and 2012; it then jumped up to number one where it stayed every year right through 2019. To read this article in full, please click here

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