Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2020

The name “Silent Night” Zbot is likely a reference to a weapon mentioned in the 2002 movie xXx, it was first spotted in November 2019 when a seller named “Axe” started offering it on the Russian underground forum forum.exploit[.]in. Experts believe that Axe is the developer of the Axe Bot 1.4.1, comparing Axe Bot 1.4.1

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

In 2002 I sat in a local bookstore in Jackson Hole, WY that offered a few Internet-connected computers for hourly use. After chatting with the owner and petting the resident store dog, I took a few guesses at the password protecting these computers. It took me maybe 10 attempts. It was, of course, some variation […]… Read More.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2021

We use WiFi to connect to the Internet, but what is it, and what does it stand for? How does it have such a catchy name, and why do we sometimes have a weak Internet connection with a strong WiFi signal and vice versa? What is the difference between WiFi and Internet? Can you have WiFi without Internet?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 7, 2024

TunnelVision, as the researchers have named their attack, largely negates the entire purpose and selling point of VPNs, which is to encapsulate incoming and outgoing Internet traffic in an encrypted tunnel and to cloak the user’s IP address. The post New Attack on VPNs appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2024

On January 15, 2002, Bill Gates issued his famous “ Trustworthy Computing ” (TC) company-wide memo, slamming the brakes on Windows Server 2003 development and temporarily redirecting his top engineers to emphasize security as a top priority. The common denominator is trust—critical then and now. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2021

He’s had the internet since 1995, but didn’t start spending so much time on it until he retired from his position as chief helicopter pilot of the Port Authority New York/New Jersey in 2002. “It Jay McGowan, 83, spends about seven or eight hours a day online. It keeps my mind busy,” McGowan tells Avast. “It

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2021

This, in fact, was the same general approach to developing and deploying new software that existed in early 2002 when Bill Gates slammed the brakes on all Windows development to focus on implementing Trustworthy Computing. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

The company got its start in 2002 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, as a two-man operation that set out to help small firms filter the early waves of email spam. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Talk more soon.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 9, 2021

An attempt at a simple definition: a search engine is a software system that allows users to find content on the Internet based on their input. The introduction of the major search engines brought about huge changes in the way we use the Internet. There is a wealth of knowledge available for those that know where to look.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The global internet economy relies on cryptography as the foundation for a secure network. To put this in perspective, it took a group of 300,000 people and four years of work to crack a 64-bit key in 2002. Quantum computing will change everything from apps to internet search, web development, cybersecurity, and beyond.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

To paraphrase a well-known movie from 2002, “SSE, it’s all about the PoPs.” Cloud changed the game in the 2010s and led the enterprise to move to an “internet as the WAN” for connectivity. As the internet is now the onramp for Cloud and SaaS-based applications/services, SSE and SASE will be the means to access them.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 28, 2022

A conservative estimate from 2002 predicted that by 2005, cyber insurance would boast a global market worth $2.5 Astoundingly, the cyber insurance market shrank relative to the Internet economy. At the turn of the millennium, Lloyds of London wrote the first modern cyber insurance policy. It didn’t take off.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

Tenable Best for vulnerability management Headquarters: Columbia, Maryland Founded: 2002 Annual Revenue: $0.8 Proofpoint Best for end user data security Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California Founded: 2002 Annual Revenue: $1.1 billion in revenue, Trend Micro continues growing steadily past its first-gen antivirus vendor status.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 5, 2024

Keep internet traffic private from ISP and other third parties VPNs effectively remove the ability of third parties - such as your internet service provider (ISP) to sniff (see) your internet traffic. From a privacy lens, VPNs are niche tools - once some criteria are met, they can prove useful in some circumstances.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

And because none of the major browser vendors had enough market share to “ embrace, extend and extinguish “, as Microsoft had attempted when Internet Explorer was dominant, everyone was forced to follow the same open standards. Everyone benefitted. Unfortunately, as good as it is, Firefox is on shaky ground.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 6, 2023

The port has remained Japan's largest since 2002. The Internet is a free-fire zone were most organizations are simply unarmed." Its suppliers, including Denso Corp., Aisin Corp., and Toyota Industries Corp., have also secured a certain amount of inventory and will only have limited exposure to the system failure, Toyota said.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2024

The strategic era of IT leadership For technology leaders, the mid-90s were marked by the rapid growth of the internet, which created a landscape ripe for technology innovation. The early 2000s were marked by economic turbulence, notably the dot-com bubble burst and major corporate scandals.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Lewis has lived in Ireland since 2002 and claims he had worked as a taxi driver prior to Covid and became involved in this scam out of desperation. . Bashiru Aderibigbe, 45, was sentenced to 3.5 Both will have the final year suspended, a common practice in Ireland if one behaves well in prison.).

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Kali Linux

APRIL 26, 2015

Once openvas-setup completes its process, the OpenVAS manager, scanner, and GSAD services should be listening: root@kali:~# netstat -antp Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9390 [i] Online information about this feed: '[link].

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

He said people would write out large text files and share these on bulletin boards “because there was no internet.” ” No internet, no online stores, so the most you could steal was free long distance phone calls, which you would need to contact different databases around the world.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with., The new law has been designed to work alongside the GDPR, addressing the definitions of privacy and data.

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Auditors said they plan to explore the extent that TRIP and the 2002 Terrorism Risk Insurance Act are structured to address cyberattacks or cyberterrorism in a future report. Losses from cyberattacks might be reimbursed under TRIP if the attacks met certain certification criteria specified by the program,” the authors wrote.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Founded in 2002 and based in Redwood Shores, California, Imperva has made a name for itself as a provider of security solutions for applications, data, and the network edge. As most databases use web servers to connect to the internet, an organization’s data is inherently vulnerable to web-based attacks.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s a reasonable approach, considering the growing computing landscape and the threats that accompany cloud deployments, mobile computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). When the general public thinks of cybersecurity, they often focus on firewalls, encryption and ransomware. General standards fall short.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Avast Internet Security. Comodo Internet Security. Targeted Attack Prevention. Trend Micro. Deep Discovery Analyzer. Cloud Sandbox. Also Read: 10 Vendors Set to Innovate at RSA Conference 2019. Free sandbox solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

Launched in 2002 and specializing in wireless networking , Aruba Networks’ success led to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2015. Alongside its over 200 acquisitions in four decades, Cisco acquired SD-WAN market innovator Viptela in 2017 to cement its commitment to internet-based networking solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. AllegisCyber Capital.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“In 2002 I had a phone, but I had a separate piece of plastic and metal that was a camera and another piece of plastic and metal that had my music on it.” “People weren’t aware of the threat,” nor were the threats as closely interwoven with individuals lives as they are today, he said.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. 2002 Salt Lake City. By the time of the 2002 Olympics, experts responsible for locking down the winter event were in good spirits. People getting up to mischief? Not so much. 2000 Sydney. You may (or may not!) As it turns out, things did not go awry. 2012 London.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

org was an organization hosted at CyberBunker registered to Sven Kamphuis , a self-described anarchist who was convicted several years ago for participating in a large-scale attack that briefly impaired the global Internet in some places. Media reports indicate that in 2002 a fire inside the CyberBunker 1.0 Xennt in 2011 for $700,000.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. ” reads the Publish Service Announcement published by the IC3.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Vamosi: In 2002, I wrote an article for ZDNET titled “Jail Time is Not The Answer to Cyber Crime.” ” I wrote about the pending Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002 (CSEA) and said: “ The problem with this legislation is that it's often very difficult to determine who is responsible for any given cybercrime.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Since hackers try everything they can think of – pop culture references, internet memes, irony – to disguise malicious code, we’ll dive into the strange and weird to show you how far adversaries will go…. Adversaries use a large number of strategies to avoid detection, and comedy happens to be one of them.

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