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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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Safer Internet Day: Exploring Reliability Online

Security Boulevard

Safer Internet Day has been a landmark event on technology calendars for more than 18 years. What began as a small-scale initiative as part of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004 has transformed into a global movement acknowledged by more than 170 countries around the world. Each year, Safer Internet Day focuses on a unique.

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Safer Internet Day 2022 – Keep Everyone Safe Online

Security Boulevard

Safer Internet Day 2022 lands on February 8. Safer Internet Day began as an EU SafeBorders project in 2004. The baton was then passed to the Insafe network in 2005, The post Safer Internet Day 2022 – Keep Everyone Safe Online appeared first on Indusface.

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Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites

Schneier on Security

The bulk of the websites that we discovered were active at various periods between 2004 and 2013. We’re now learning that the CIA is still “using an irresponsibly secured system for asset communication.” All of these flaws would have facilitated discovery by hostile parties. […].

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Patch Tuesday, June 2024 “Recall” Edition

Krebs on Security

Only one of the patches released today — CVE-2004-30080 — earned Microsoft’s most urgent “critical” rating, meaning malware or malcontents could exploit the vulnerability to remotely seize control over a user’s system, without any user interaction.

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Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System

Schneier on Security

Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters’ computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted. Here I am saying that in 2004.) Again, the solution is paper.

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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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