Adam Levin

MAY 24, 2019

Google announced a glitch that stored unencrypted passwords belonging to several business customers, a situation that had been exploitable since 2005. Google has begun contacting system administrators whose organizations would have been affected by the glitch to encourage them to change their passwords.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

That same IP was used to register the nickname “ Deem3n®, ” a prolific poster on Antichat between 2005 and 2009 who served as a moderator on the forum. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. That same Google Analytics code is also now present on the homepages of wiremo[.]co

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That time-sink proved to be a real obstacle for systems administrators because, back in the late 90s, patches weren't scheduled. What they came up with in 2005 was the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, or CVSS.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep. RDC emerged as a go-to productivity tool, and similar controls swiftly emerged for Macs, IoS, Android and other operating systems in wide use.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. This lead into WHAX in 2005, which used Slax. Merging into BackTrack At the same time, there was a similar project happening over at remote-exploit, Auditor Security Collection (based on Knoppix), which first started in 2005.

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