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XKCD forum data breach impacted 562,000 subscribers

Security Affairs

The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers. XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

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20 Years of SIEM: Celebrating My Dubious Anniversary

Anton on Security

One of the most notorious and painful problems that has amazing staying power is of course that of data collection. I remember how our engineers struggled in 2002 with some API-based collection from a known firewall vendor.

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

Malwarebytes

Data collected by the Internet Storm Center dug into “Survival Time History”, which is “calculated as the average time between reports for an average target IP address. In 2005, one malware install which needed the.NET framework to run would helpfully install the whole thing for you if you didn’t have it.

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20 Years of SIEM: Celebrating My Dubious Anniversary

Security Boulevard

One of the most notorious and painful problems that has amazing staying power is of course that of data collection. I remember how our engineers struggled in 2002 with some API-based collection from a known firewall vendor.

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Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

Malwarebytes

In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo! None of the customer data was sold and Alibaba’s users didn’t incur financial losses from the episode, the company said in a statement. Like its nearest US equivalent, Amazon, the company also runs cloud services, a payment service (Alipay), and is active in digital media.

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New streaming ad technology plays hide-and-seek with gamers

Malwarebytes

Way back in 2005, dynamic ads were introduced to titles like The Matrix Online. As far as anyone connected to Twitch streaming where advertising is concerned, it seems to be more of an annoyance about fatigue and intrusiveness than anything related to privacy or data collection.

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Alleged FruitFly malware creator ruled incompetent to stand trial

Malwarebytes

As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006. The IP address was linked to the malware using data collected by CWRU, Malwarebytes, and AT&T.) Despite this, he was active in extracurricular activities. In high school, he participated in a computer club.

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