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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.”

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What Is SQL Injection? Examples & Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

Instead, they rely on the server to create DNS or HTTP requests to force the application to send data to a remote endpoint that they control. Over the years, we have all been victims of one or several data breaches due to a database susceptible to SQL injection. SQL injection can be devastating to organizations.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. Gonzales is later involved in a string of hacking crimes, again stealing credit and debit card details, from around 2006 until he is arresting in 2008. billion dollars in damages.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning. Wired reported that some botnets were using the initial vulnerability to spread, but later patches mitigated that.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Perhaps even more significant was in 2008 when researcher Dan Kaminsky found a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol, one that could lead to cache poisoning. Wired reported that some botnets were using the initial vulnerability to spread, but later patches mitigated that.

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KrebsOnSecurity Threatened with Defamation Lawsuit Over Fake Radaris CEO

Krebs on Security

The Wayback machine at archive.org shows the Humanbook domain ( humanbook.com ) came online around April 2008 , when the company was still in “beta” mode. By August 2008, however, humanbook.com had changed the name advertised on its homepage to Radaris Beta. Eventually, Humanbook simply redirected to radaris.com.

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