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On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

Malwarebytes

Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. Since 2004, there's been an annual event designed to "Promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world." You may be asking, why 2004? Help required.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Kazakhstan wants to intercept all HTTPS Internet traffic of its citizens

Security Affairs

The Kazakhstan authorities issued an advisory to local Internet Service Providers (ISPs) asking them to allow their customers to access the Internet only after the installation on their devices of government-issued root certificates. The certificates are issued in compliance with the Law on Communications 2004 passed in November 2015.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

Krebs on Security

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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A sad story of pedophilia on how disgusting images fed the web

Security Affairs

The journalist Livio Varriale sheds the light on a story about pedophilia that starts from afar and still today finds its roots in the darker side of the internet. The drama is that on the dark side of the Internet there are ogres that abuse children. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. The scale is so massive that it makes up 15 percent of all breached users globally since 2004 (the year data breaches became widespread). Pukys: Nord puts a lot of effort, in terms of advertising, to the gaming/streaming community.

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