Schneier on Security

APRIL 20, 2020

Since 2001 Microsoft has collected 13 million work items and bugs. To better label and prioritize bugs at that scale, we couldn't just apply more people to the problem. However, large volumes of semi-curated data are perfect for machine learning.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2021

Anyone believe a claim by Steve Jobs in 2001 that there was no personal computer in 1975? It is quite sad how someone can gleefully erase people to highlight himself. Being literate in history should require knowing that by 1974 personal computers already were on the cover of popular magazines.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 16, 2023

Whether it’s Hal refusing to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the wild thought experiment of Roko’s Basilisk—or even way back to (retellings of) Frankenstein’s monster or the ancient legend of the Golem—there’s a fear that our creations will turn against us. For some, AI is the stuff of nightmares.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The USA Patriot Act , passed in the wake of the terror attacks of Sept 11, 2001, requires all financial institutions to appoint at least two Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) contacts responsible for reporting suspicious financial transactions that may be associated with money laundering.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc., Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. VFEmail provides email service to businesses and end users.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2021

Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI stated that ransomware threats have the potential to be treated as global terrorist threats such as the September 2001 attacks. The post Ransomware attack on New York Law Department appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, is an American drug wholesale company and a contract research organization that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001. Cencora, Inc. The Company had $238.6 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2022 and had approximately 44,000 employees.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2020

” According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Stroganov has been a long-standing member of major underground forums since at least 2001. The post claimed that among those apprehended was the infamous cybercriminal Alexey Stroganov, who goes by the hacker names “Flint” and “Flint24.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Hoa Sen Group (HSG) was founded in the year 2001, it has 7,100 employees across all its 343 companies and has been earning annual revenue of around $1.18 Hoa Sen Group is the no.1 1 company in the field of manufacturing and trading steel sheet in Vietnam and the leading exporter of steel sheet in Southeast Asia.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2023

The other 19 most commonly used phone PINs that put their owners at cyber risks are as follows: 1111 0000 9999 1212 7777 1004 2000 4444 2222 6969 3333 5555 6666 1122 1313 8888 4321 2001 1010 Moreover, mobile phones operating on iOS 14 and Android 11 are enabled with a security feature to set a 6-digit pin, and among them, the commonly used digits are: (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 20, 2022

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

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 2, 2022

The game was first made available in January of 2001. RuneScape is a fantasy multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that was created and marketed by Jagex. RuneScape was initially a Java-based browser game constructed using the C++ programming language.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Launched in 2001 under the tagline “Network terrorism,” Mazafaka would evolve into one of the most guarded Russian-language cybercrime communities.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Slashdot’s verdict when Apple released the iPod in 2001: “No wireless. Slashdot’s verdict when Apple released the iPod in 2001: ”No wireless. Going back to another Mikko tweet, . Less space than a nomad. Less space than a nomad. pic.twitter.com/0X9Ea4gAaR — @mikko (@mikko) October 23, 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2023

Swissbit was founded in 2001 and has offices in Switzerland, Germany, USA, Japan and Taiwan. Swissbit’s storage range includes SSDs with PCIe and SATA interface such as mSATA, Slim SATA, CFast™, M.2 2 and 2.5” as well as CompactFlash, USB flash drives, SD Memory Cards, microSD Memory Cards and managed NAND BGAs like e.MMC.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2024

Not two months after terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Congress responded with the passage of The USA Patriot Act.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

NOTE 1- Sold with the name as SOFTWIN between 1996 to 2001, the software company was renamed as Bitdefender in the year 2007. However, the feature is available for a premium of $16 per year and includes a VPN access in the pay. It covers devices operating on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS devices, which is outstanding.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001. And I certainly agree that the benefits of a standardized encryption algorithm that we all trust and use outweigh the cost by orders of magnitude. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In 2011 at BSidesLV I gave a presentation about the danger of big cloud companies operating like the movie 2001 by Stanley Kubrick — ship automation systems with too much authority detaining and terminating their own crew.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 10, 2018

About the essayist: Todd Feinman is president and CEO of Identity Finder , co-founding the company in 2001. May these recent disheartening examples in the news spur brands to act today and take action to protect sensitive data and avoid the far-reaching negative impacts of high-profile data breaches.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2018

In 1990, Florin and Mariuca Talpes parlayed a $300 stake borrowed from a relative into a company which would become Bitdefender in 2001. I visited with Joe Sykora, vice president of worldwide channel development for Bitdefender, at Black Hat USA 2018 , and asked him to put the remarkable staying power of endpoint security in context.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 26, 2023

one-day drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, then the largest decline since the attacks of September 11, 2001. September 15, 2008: The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggers a 4.5% The post SMB cyber safety: De-risking catastrophic events appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

The San Jose, CA-based security vendor has been helping companies protect their web applications since the company was founded in 2001 by world-renowned ethical hacker Jeremiah Grossman , who also happens to be a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as well as a native of my home state, Hawaii.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The Estonian electronic ID cards have been manufactured by the Swiss company Trub AG and its successor Gemalto AG since 2001. At the time, Estonia had issued 1.3 million electronic ID cards offering citizens online access to a huge number of services through the “e-government” state portal.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 9, 2021

A sidewalk depiction of IBM’s Peace, Love, and Linux advertising campaign in 2001. The Linux Foundation is launching “sigstore,” a free-to-use software signing certificate authority open to all developers. ( “Peace, Love, and Linux” by kino-eye is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ).

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2022

In 2001, I joined a global retailer based in the Pacific Northwest as a network engineer. My first task was to build out a remote access VPN. At the time, after considering the options available, I decided on a simple system built around a Microsoft RRAS server (remember those?). Little did I know that the.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2018

The National Cyber Security Alliance is a non-profit group, underwritten by the top tech companies and biggest banks, that has been out there since 2001 promoting best practices and supplying programs to engrain this mindset in our society. Related: Using ‘gamification’ for security training.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2022

“The Revenue Agency, operational since 1 January 2001, was born from the reorganization of the Financial Administration following the Legislative Decree No. 300 of 1999. It has its own statute and specific regulations governing administration and accounting.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 4, 2021

The BBC makes a classic error in their new report by saying GM started electric mass vehicle development in 1990s (shutdown by Bush in 2001).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

IPv6 : v=spf1 ip6 :2001:4860:4860::8888 ip6 :2001:4860:4860::8844 -all. For example, hackers may forge a fake email, impersonating the CEO or any director, but SPF checks whether the sender has an approved IP address in the SPF record and blocks the email if it doesn’t. For example: IPv4 : v=spf1 ip4 :8.8.8.8 ip4 :8.8.4.4 -all.

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Cisco Security

MAY 11, 2022

HOLSEC-2001.a HOLSEC-2001.b DEVNET-1083 – Security Automation: Developing with SecureX (Theater – 45 Minutes). SecureX – DevNet Takeover Booth. a – Crash Course: Automating with SecureX Orchestration (4 Hours). b – Crash Course: Automating with SecureX Orchestration (4 Hours). You are invited.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The company was founded on November 30, 2001 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China. Its business activities include the provision of services for hard disk recorders, video codes, video servers, surveillance cameras, monitoring of ball machine, road mounts and other products, as well as security services.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The first malware to be classified as fileless was the Code Red Worm , which ran rampant in 2001, attacking computers running Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS). Is fileless malware new? Fileless malware attacks have been around for 20 years at least. But in the last few years fileless attacks have become more prevalent.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 21, 2019

ICANN has been pointing out vulnerabilities in the DNS system since at least 2001 , and for the better part of the last decade urging companies to adopt the more secure Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2018

Denim Group was originally founded in 2001 doing custom software development and eventually expanded its offerings to focus on application security, helping organizations deal with the security impact of the software they were developing. Bridging the gap. That’s where Denim Group comes in.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Eric Schmidt (CEO Google 2001-2007) famously noted that his company’s policy was to get ‘right up to the creepy line and not cross it.’ The closer an organization can get to this imaginary line, the greater the profit maximization. When does this become an invasion of privacy? .

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2023

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that was established on September 9, 2001, by Mark Curphey, a cybersecurity expert, with the objective of mitigating cyber attacks. OWASP has developed a list of the top 10 […] The post OWASP Penetration Testing: Your Ultimate Guide!

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