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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Using services like VIP72, customers can select network nodes in virtually any country, and relay their traffic while hiding behind some unwitting victim’s Internet address. Between 2003 and 2006, Corpse focused on selling and supporting his Haxdoor malware.

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NSA Attacks Against Virtual Private Networks

Schneier on Security

A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service organizations, and a number of airline reservation systems.".

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OWASP discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

The incident impacted OWASP members from 2006 to around 2014 who provided their resumes as part of joining OWASP. “OWASP collected resumes as part of the early membership process, whereby members were required in the 2006 to 2014 era to show a connection to the OWASP community. “ I think I am affected. What do I need to do?

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Critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in OpenSSH server

Security Affairs

Searches using Censys and Shodan have revealed over 14 million potentially vulnerable OpenSSH server instances exposed to the Internet. shows that around 700,000 of these are external internet-facing instances, representing 31% of all such instances in their global customer base. .” reported Qualys. Data from Qualys CSAM 3.0

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Impact Analysis: regreSSHion OpenSSH Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387) 

NetSpi Executives

CVE-2024-6387 details CVE-2024-6387 (“regreSSHion”) reintroduces a previous vulnerability from 2006 ( CVE-2006-5051 ) due to the removal of a critical line of code. Versions from 4.4p1 up to, but not including, 8.5p1 are not vulnerable due to a transformative patch for CVE-2006-5051. Apply available patches.

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RCE vulnerability in OpenSSH – RegreSSHion (CVE-2024-6387)

Pen Test Partners

The CVE, dubbed regreSSHion, is a regression of CVE-2006-5051 reported in 2006. Versions before 4.4p1 are also vulnerable unless patches for CVE-2006- 5051 and CVE-2008-4109 have been applied. Also ask yourself the question: do I need to expose SSH to the untrusted internet?

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WordCamps: What Is WordCamp, How They Started and Why You Should Go

SiteLock

In 2006, he came up with the idea to create a “camp” that would bring people together that were passionate about WordPress. On July 9, 2006, Matt shared this idea on his blog, MA.TT, hoping to put together an event in under a month. A Brief History of WordCamp.