Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The ISP’s Securence division bills itself “a leading provider of email filtering and management software that includes email protection and security services for small business, enterprise, educational and government institutions worldwide.” Internet is a regional ISP that provides fiber and wireless Internet service.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 9, 2021

Software applications (apps) are at the heart of modern business success and have transformed the way companies handle their operations. Hit by technical problems and contractual delays that skyrocketed associated costs, the software part of the project was never finished. The importance of apps to businesses. The force spent £14.8m

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur tracks SocksEscort as a malware-based proxy offering, which means the machines doing the proxying of traffic for SocksEscort customers have been infected with malicious software that turns them into a traffic relay. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com Page translation from Russian via Google Translate.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

“We released a security advisory in June of 2009 and a security update that helps keep customers safe. . “To help in keeping systems protected we encourage customers to practice safe security habits when planning for internal domain and network names,” the statement reads.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2019

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2009-0692 , could be exploited by an attacker to crash the ISC DHCP client and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client. Avaya did not address the vulnerability issue in some of its VoIP devices by applying the necessary patches that were released after the discovery of the flaw in 2009.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams. Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software. In this paid ad from 2004, Severa lists prices to rent his spam botnet.

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Scary Beasts Security

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Our slides are located here: Security in Depth for Linux Software As per other presentations, I'll leave it at that for now and follow up with a mini series of posts for the more interesting points. See awesome blog: [link] We presented on various intriguing aspects of sandboxing on Linux, covering vsftpd and Chromium as test cases.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

North Korea-linked APT Lazarus targets security researchers using a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software. ESET researchers reported that the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is targeting cyber security community with a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 9, 2021

mind you, I’ve heard people say things like (quotes are all fictitious, but all inspired by real examples; if you literally said the below, this is a coincidence): “We dread the day when our vendor releases a software update”. “We I recall the day when appliance “SEM” products have started replacing the old-style installable software SIM.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. Further reading : Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. Putting a Focus on FHE. It’s available on GitHub.

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Anton on Security

APRIL 9, 2021

I recall the day when appliance “SEM” products have started replacing the old-style installable software SIM. Anton’s old SIEM presentation from 2009 ( source , date: 2009) So, yes, even today’s SIEM tools produce the customer reactions I mentioned above. and then magic happens. But what happened instead was reality.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 6, 2021

Dell Laptops are said to be exhibiting some vulnerabilities in their software that hackers could exploit to gain remote access say security experts from Sentinel Labs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Nutanix, a cloud infrastructure and software provider has made it official that its cloud platform will be ransomware protected, thus making it conducive for businesses to implement their virtualization and other enterprise network storage needs with no hesitation.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the past, I largely implied ( even in 2009 ) that sub-second speed matters little in security, especially in the day and age of 200+ day response timelines. We will explore this in the next SOC paper in January. Speed does come up a lot in SRE discussions of automation, after all “humans don’t usually react as fast as machines.”

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Qualys researchers found that the flaw has existed for 13 years, since pkexec’s first release in May 2009. See the Best Patch Management Software & Tools. See the Best Open Source Security Tools. An Old Vulnerability Surfaces. There are tons of ready-to-use POCs (proof of concepts) available on GitHub.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The WIZVERA VeraPort integration installation program is used to manage additional security software (e.g.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2023

Lookout, which established itself in business in 2009, offers Mobile Endpoint Security solutions with millions of users and hundreds of millions in funding. Although the financial terms are yet to be disclosed on an official note, unconfirmed sources state that the deal is to be valued at $224 million, all in cash.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2022

“It’s worth pointing out that the wallet address is the miner reward receiving address of the Bitcoin Genesis Block , which occurred on January 3, 2009, and is believed to be held by Nakamoto.” Version 3 supports features to launch an XMRig Monero mining software. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov was a leader of two prolific malware groups that infected thousands of computers with malicious software. Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov has pleaded guilty to his key roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware operations.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

As detailed by researchers at Radware , NoName has effectively gamified DDoS attacks, recruiting hacktivists via its Telegram channel and offering to pay people who agree to install a piece of software called DDoSia. An ad for war.md, circa 2009. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. This software uses patented security architecture with 256-bit encryption, plus built-in two factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2019

Even though this is one of the most common vulnerabilities in SAP software.” SAP published updates for Security Notes released in October 2009, September 2010, December 2010, and March 2013. . “This month, 50% of the patches are Missing Authorization Checks, which is higher than the average 15%. ” adds Onapsis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Qbot , aka Qakbot , is a data stealer worm with backdoor capabilities that was first detected by Symantec back in 2009. It is interesting to note that the new Qbot variant has the ability to traverse a network and spread its replica, it is characterized by polymorphic capabilities that allow the threat to evade AV software.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “It’s best to check new software with an antivirus or at least use popular free virus-scanning services,”.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 , has “been hiding in plain sight” for more than 12 years and infects all versions of polkit’s pkexec since it was first developed in 2009, Bharat Jogi, director of vulnerability and threat research at Qualys, wrote in a blog post. Also read: Best Patch Management Software for 2022.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Amazon discovered the tiny chips when it acquired software firm Elemental and conducted a security assessment of equipment made for Elemental by California-based Supermicro. In 2009 the company announced a development partnership with In-Q-Tel Inc. , “Elemental also started working with American spy agencies. government.”

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2021

Dashlane is a password management software that’s popular for business and personal uses alike. The company was founded in 2009, and the first software edition was released in 2012. This software uses patented security architecture with 256-bit encryption, plus built-in two factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Bondars is one of the two hackers found to have been running Scan4you from 2009 to 2016, its service was very popular in the cybercrime community and was used by malware developers to test their malicious codes. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 30, 2019

In short, Shodan isn’t interested in listing what’s on a website so much as the computer serving the website itself, and what software it’s using, public-facing or not. This presents a double-edged sword as far as cybersecurity is concerned. . From the point of view of a cybersecurity specialist, Shodan can be an especially useful tool.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Financially motivated operations consisting in hacking into financial institutions , hijack gambling sessions or sell pirated and cracked software were conducted by the Unit 180. “The first code example appeared in the server message block (SMB) module of WannaCry in 2017, Mydoom in 2009, Joanap , and DeltaAlfa.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The group (also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , MenuPass group, Bronze Riverside, and Cloud Hopper ) has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Also Read: Best Encryption Software & Tools for 2021. Launched in 2004 in Bedford, Massachusetts, EDB specializes in software solutions for the open source relational database management system (RDBMS), PostgreSQL. McAfee is widely known for bringing the first antivirus software to market. Facebook, and Oracle. EnterpriseDB.

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Firewall Encryption Computers and Electronics Software 121

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Ever since Patrick Debois coined the word DevOps back in 2009 , teams and organizations have been clamoring to adopt relevant practices, tools, and a sense of culture in a bid to increase velocity while maintaining stability.

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Engineering Software 59

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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2019

Brinqa was founded in 2009 by Amad Fida and Hilda Perez, industry veterans seeking to leverage their collective expertise in risk management and identity and access management. Early on, a customer of their cyber risk management solution asked if they could assess a physical location, down to the fire extinguishers. “It

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The last global recession occurred in 2009. It also involves prioritizing backup servers, malware and antivirus software, and other just-in-case measures. Can criminal operations shut down like others do as an unfortunate side effect of economic unrest? Predicting the Future by Looking to the Past.

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