The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

My primer on the going forward privacy and security implications of IoT — What Everyone Should Know About the Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things — won second place in the contest’s IoT Security category. So keep reading and sharing. And thanks for your support.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

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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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2021

The flaw is wormable and affects different versions of Windows 10, Windows Server 2004 and Windows Server 20H2. The WinRM service is enabled by default on Windows servers running versions 2004 or 20H2 for this reason it only poses a serious risk to corporate environments, DeVries explained to BleepingComputer. WinRM *IS* vulnerable.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

TopSec is also a Tier 1 vulnerability supplier for China’s intelligence ministry and has provided cloud and IT security monitoring services nationwide since 2004. The company provided monitoring services to a state-owned enterprise facing a corruption scandal. ” reads the report published by SentinelLabs.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

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). Data scientists sorted through 27,000 leaked databases and created 5 billion combinations of data.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 16, 2022

A new study by Surfshark discovered that the average American has been affected by at least seven data breaches since 2004. internet user has lost 27 data points on average to online breaches, most of them emails, passwords and usernames,” by far the most out of any country around […]. The IT company added “every U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

I attended my first one in 2004, while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as The theme of RSA Conference 2023 — ‘stronger together’ — was certainly well chosen. Two impromptu meetings I had touched on this.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. The story passed over in silence and there are rare traces online.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 26, 2025

Notably, while cybersecurity professionals do not have to tackle AI ethical issues or the inherent biases in LLMs born from their internet and enterprise data training, the cybersecurity community can benefit from addressing these biases. This calls for, among other things, a “human in the loop.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Two year old vulnerability used in ransomware attack against VMware ESXi On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Defenders, meanwhile, have to guard everything all of the time, and most organizations have many more Internet pathways than they even know about, much less are taking steps to defend.” I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. Bots do what they’re told. I’ll keep watching.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

CISA also addressed the following issue in the latest turn: CVE-2004-1464 – Cisco IOS Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. Cisco IOS, IOS XR, and IOS XE contain insufficient condition checks in the part of the code that handles Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) security negotiation requests.

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DoublePulsar

AUGUST 19, 2023

Since I ran the official Serenity movie Browncoat site way back in 2004 for Universal, it seems apt to end with this: I’m gonna go to the crappy town where I’m the hero. pic.twitter.com/xJFNri4j2E / Twitter" I will return to Twitter (or Y or whatever this thing is called now) if @Bethesda_UK give me a review copy of @StarfieldGame.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They will go on the plain old internet and call up all manner of dubious sites and services without barely a second thought. What I assumed was the hitman site has been around since at least 2004. The final entry for the site on Internet Archive still shows an unused domain as recently as 2018. Some will look for drugs.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

From Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud and hybrid work endpoints , cybersecurity spending has also grown and shifted since COVID-19 changed the way the world works. “In In 2004, the global cybersecurity market was worth just $3.5 Companies continue to invest in protecting their increasingly digitalized business assets.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

Firewalls are used to segment or isolate networks and are an essential component to limit cyber threats and protect internal networks from the internet and untrusted networks. Establish firewalls at each Internet connection between the DMZ and the local network. What is a PCI DSS Compliant Firewall?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The dataset also contained payment logs with emails, dates, bank names, phone numbers, and internet protocol (IP) addresses. SHA1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm 1) has been broken since 2004 and can be breached quickly by criminals at relatively little cost. The 3.9GB-strong database held information from 2017 onwards.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in October 2004. There will be 6 billion Internet users by 2022 (75 percent of the projected world population of 8 billion) — and more than 7.5 billion Internet users by 2030 (90 percent of the projected world population of 8.5 billion, 6 years of age and older).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

Most of us connect our mobile devices to a Wi-Fi router for internet access, but this connection can leave our network and data vulnerable to cyber threats. And even though it’s been around since 2004, WPA2 remains the Wi-Fi security standard.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The term “phishing” was coined back in 1996, when cybercriminals attacked users of America Online (AOL), the largest internet provider at that time. At around the same time, phishers started targeting online payment systems and internet banks. The history of scams and phishing. The original content is usually removed.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s safe to say that without them, WordPress wouldn’t have grown to power over 28% of the internet. It wasn’t until May 22, 2004, when the third release of WordPress, named Mingus (v1.2), was released with support for a new feature named “Plugins”. This initial plugin functionality was added to trac on March 25, 2004.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last Friday, officials of Army National Guard alerted its current and former members that a data breach might have exposed private information of members since 2004 because files containing personal information was inadvertently transferred to a non-DoD-accredited data center by a contract employee. Army National Guard Struck by Data Breach.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Available as a free and open-source tool, Xplico’s primary objective is to extract application data from an internet traffic capture. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Exterro launched in 2004 and specialized in workflow-driven software and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Founded in 2004, Cloudflare initially wanted to determine the source of email spam and became dedicated to building a better, more secure internet. Who Is Cloudflare? Cloudflare became a public company in 2019 when it listed under the stock symbol “NET” on the NYSE.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

While the laws only affect California, they often push companies into adopting the rules broadly – for example, California’s strict auto emissions standards have been adopted in 16 other states since 2004. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) should grant users access to all legal content and apps equally.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

The few widely recognized categories of security are: Network security : Protects the connections between networks, including data transfers to and from the internet and hardware like routers and switches. Visit Broadcom 18. Endpoint security: Defends devices like laptops, phones, and servers.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Launched in 2004 in Bedford, Massachusetts, EDB specializes in software solutions for the open source relational database management system (RDBMS), PostgreSQL. As most databases use web servers to connect to the internet, an organization’s data is inherently vulnerable to web-based attacks. EnterpriseDB.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 6, 2023

Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported in CodeSonar 7.3. Warning mappings to industry coding standards: AUTOSAR CERT-C CERT-C++ CERT-Java CWE-C++ CWE-C# CWE-Java DISA-STIG JPL MISRA /2004 MISRA-C /2012 MISRA-C++ /2008 OWASP Power of 10 TS-17961 The post Announcing CodeSonar 7.3 CodeSonar 7.0 will be Sunset.

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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. Insight Partners.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Created in 2004 by the five global payment brands — Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and JCB — the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a security compliance requirement for businesses that handle credit cards. PCI DSS Overview. Negative press is a nightmare to reverse.

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BH Consulting

MAY 10, 2022

The agency’s 2021 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment report has more details.) On February 24th 2004, Bill Gates predicted at RSA that people would rely less and less on passwords over time. But how do organisations gauge their ability to pay? And do they realise what ransomware is really costing them? This too will pass.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2021

This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is. the RFC Editor are not candidates for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841. Protocol Police, contact may be made on your behalf with the Internet. was life, and that life was the light of all the INTERNET. Internet Policing (HIP).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

Avast Internet Security. Comodo Internet Security. Also Read: BigID Wins RSA Innovation Sandbox 2018 Contest. Sandbox Vendors. Enterprise sandbox solutions. Established. Crowdstrike. Falcon Sandbox. Malware Analysis. FortiSandbox Cloud. Advanced Threat Defense. Palo Alto Networks. Proofpoint. Targeted Attack Prevention. Trend Micro.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Together for a Better Internet: Celebrating Safer Internet Day 2025 andrew.gertz@t Tue, 02/11/2025 - 14:57 At a time when technology is integral to our lives, Safer Internet Day (SID) has never been more relevant. These measures align perfectly with the spirit of Safer Internet Day. With an estimated 5.8

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The incident cause “brief” outages of internet-facing firewalls that controlled communications between the control center and multiple remote generation sites and between equipment on these sites, according to a report ( PDF ) released by NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. .”

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