Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I wrote about this exact attack in 2005 and 2009. In the event targets' accounts were protected by 2fa, the attackers redirected targets to a new page that requested a one-time password. This isn't new.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

In 2005, AOL won a $12.8 Hawke had reportedly bragged about the money he earned from spam, but told friends he didn’t trust banks and decided to convert his earnings into gold and platinum bars. That sparked rumors that he had possibly buried his ill-gotten gains on his parents’ Massachusetts property.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2022

Stanx said he was a longtime member of several major forums, including the Russian hacker forum Antichat (since 2005), and the Russian crime forum Exploit (since April 2013). In an early post to Antichat in January 2005, Stanx disclosed that he is from Omsk , a large city in the Siberian region of Russia.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 14, 2021

Bennett spent several years as the New York-based CEO of the firm, before he and his partners sold Cyota to RSA Security in 2005 for $145 Million. Bennett, who is also the first Prime Minister to emerge from Israel’s high-tech industry, co-founded what would eventually become the cybersecurity firm, Cyota , in 1999.

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The Hacker News

JULY 20, 2021

Details have emerged about a high severity security vulnerability affecting a software driver used in HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers that has remained undetected since 2005.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

An ad circa 2005 for A311 Death, a powerful banking trojan authored by “Corpse,” the administrator of the early Russian hacking clique Prodexteam. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 30, 2018

In 2005, I coined the term "movie-plot threat" to denote a threat scenario that caused undue fear solely because of its specificity. "Knowing that, and then seeing the proposal for giant glass structures in front of my building ­- ding ding ding! -- what does a giant glass structure become in the event of an explosion?"

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

” Dmitri Golubov, circa 2005. Golubov was arrested in Ukraine in 2005 as part of a joint investigation with multiple U.S. . “My nickname was MikeMike, and I worked with Dmitri Golubov and made technologies for him,” Shefel said. “I’m also godfather of his second son.” Image: U.S. ” Mr.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

TrickBot is a distant descendent of the ZeuS banking Trojan, which first appeared in 2005, although it is most commonly associated with Dyre or Dyreza, which went down in 2015. TrickBot appeared in 2016, replicating parts of Dyre’s malware while preserving its banking credential harvesting and web inject architecture.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The hackers accessed company file servers that contained information about current and former employees from 2005 to 2020 and their beneficiaries and dependents. The investigation conducted by Canon found evidence of unauthorized accesses on its network between July 20 and August 6. ” reads the statement.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

Here’s a weird footnote in deepfake history… Old publishers of “facts” like map makers and encyclopedias gave up inserting fake data after the US Supreme Court ruled their facts can’t be copyrighted, as a New Yorker article from 2005 explained. The post Deepfake Map History appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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. Safer Internet Day 2022 lands on February 8. Safer Internet Day began as an EU SafeBorders project in 2004.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

ABE has undergone significant theoretical advancements since 2005. “You can still get useful information from the image, but if you don’t have the correct key, you won’t be able to decrypt certain attributes, such as a face or a license plate number.” Versatile benefits It’s taken a while to get here.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 18, 2022

Founded back in 2005, Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity giant that has earned the trust of the business community thanks to its impressive track record. In the world of cybersecurity, reputation is everything. Most business owners have little understanding of the technical side, so they have to rely on credibility.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

ru’s original WHOIS records, which shows it was assigned in 2005 to a “private person” who used the email address lycefer@gmail.com. ru)was registered in 2005 to two men, one of whom was named Dmitry Sergeevich Starovikov. And maybe that was the point. and starovikov[.]com.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Cyber Monday is the online version of a complement to Black Friday that debuted in the US in 2005. It was initiated to encourage online shopping on the Monday after Thanksgiving. Since its inception, Cyber Monday has grown into a mega annual shopping carnival breaking sales records every year – with fraud following closely Digital […].

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Microsoft may have retired the Boa web server in 2005, but that hasn’t stopped widespread use—and now the company is saying a vulnerability in the server’s open source component has been exploited by bad actors, targeting the energy industry and underscoring the continued vulnerability of the supply chain.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target and compromise organizations in the energy sector. [.].

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Heimadal Security

JULY 21, 2021

It has been on those drivers from 2005 and now the researchers have found that the real threat is that this bug could let hackers gain local system privileges. SentinelLabs has released a new report stating the discovery of CVE-2021-3438, a 16-years-old vulnerability present in printer drivers belonging to HP, Samsung, and Xerox.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

ISO 27001, sometimes referred to as ISO/IEC 27001 is an international standard that addresses organizational information security.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 25, 2023

Zacks Elite sign-ups for the period 1999–2005 were accessed, including name, address, email address, phone number, and the password associated with Zacks.com.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

and one that our founding editor Derek Slater offered up to readers way back in 2005—heck, if there's one website you ought to be able to trust to tell you what a CSO is, it's CSOonline. A CSO is a departmental leader responsible for information security, corporate security or both.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 18, 2022

I t was assigned CVE-2022-38392 and described as this: "A certain 5400 RPM OEM hard drive, as shipped with laptop PCs in approximately 2005, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (device malfunction and system crash) via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video.".

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2023

Have you also downloaded my Cybercrime Forum Data Set for 2022 including a free 256GB compilation of all of my publicly accessible research from 2005 up to 2023 for free in the form of a torrent ? Have you also grabbed a copy of all of my publicly accessible research from 2005 up to 2023 from here for free?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2021

What’s interesting is the fact that the law enforcement in US could only detect 11,792 cyber attacks on companies and government agencies between 2005- June’20. And if that doesn’t work, then they sell the siphoned data for monetary benefits. Then what happened to the other cases…?

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Hot for Security

MARCH 30, 2021

Back in August 2005, for instance, the CNN newsroom was hit by the Zotob worm, with the station reporting the incident live on air. Whether the near-simultaneous attacks against the TV station and parliamentary services are coincidence or not is currently unclear.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flaws from a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to attack organizations from the energy sector. State-backed Chinese hacking groups have used the Boa web server to target several Indian electrical grid operators, compromising an Indian national emergency response system and a logistics company subsidiary.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

The feature was first introduced in 2005 with the x64 editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Kento published technical details of its attack in a blog post and also released proof-of-concept (PoC) code for his attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

” Webkinz were originally released by the Canadian toy company Ganz on April 29, 2005. Webkinz are stuffed animals that have a playable online counterpart, www.webkinz.com, in “Webkinz World.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

It was formed in 2005 in response to European Union requirements to separate the natural monopoly of infrastructure management from the competitive operations of running train services. The company has over 13,000 employees for a revenue of around $8 Billion.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The good news is that most recent versions of SAP software are configured by default to drop unauthorized connections, Since 2005, SAP is providing instructions on how to configure an ACL for the Message Server. Experts pointed out that the problem could impact many SAP products, including S/4HANA and NetWeaver Application Server (AS).

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 7, 2021

I even wrote as far back as 2005 that the debate was [.]. This is a question that has been debated for decades in the cybersecurity arena. Media conflated hacker and cybercriminal very early on, and it has been challenging to correct that error and separate the terms.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

His (2005) argument that the computer doesnt matter is looking somewhat, but not exceptionally, dated. Non-fiction Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact , Vaclav Smil. A fascinating history. Smils writing is not the most fluid, which I say not as a criticism but a heads-up.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 8, 2023

The software has been maintained since 2005 when it was first released under the name CMSsystem, and has received 53 stars since migrating to GitHub in 2014. Pluck is a PHP-based content management system (CMS) used to set up and manage websites.

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Javvad Malik

JANUARY 24, 2022

Back in the olden times (in 2005) a website was setup called the Million Dollar Homepage. A brainchild of student Alex Tew who wanted to raise some money for university. The concept was simple, get a webpage composed of a million pixels and sell them all for $1 each. They were sold in 10 x 10 pixel blocks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that were first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development began at least in 2005. . The virus was developed by the US and Israel to interfere with the nuclear enrichment program conducted by Iran in the plant of Natanz.

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