Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Not that serious, but interesting : In late 2011, Intel introduced a performance enhancement to its line of server processors that allowed network cards and other peripherals to connect directly to a CPU's last-level cache, rather than following the standard (and significantly longer) path through the server's main memory.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 13, 2023

Each year since 2011, Microsoft has sent me a lovely email around this time: I've been fortunate enough to find a passion in life that has allowed me to do what I love and make a great living out of it all whilst contributing to the community in a meaningful and impactful way.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. In 2011, researchers at Kaspersky Lab showed that virtually all of the hacked systems for rent at AWM Proxy had been compromised by TDSS (a.k.a An example of a cracked software download site distributing Glupteba. Image: Google.com.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The inquiry is primarily focused on whether or not this (along with several other breaches of customer privacy) violated a 2011 settlement with the Commission to uphold and enhance user privacy.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 20, 2021

In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The 36-year-old founder of the Bitcoin Fog cryptocurrency mixer has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for facilitating money laundering activities between 2011 and 2021.

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Cryptocurrency 137

The Hacker News

MAY 7, 2024

A Russian operator of a now-dismantled BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017. Alexander Vinnik, 44, was charged in January 2017 and taken into custody in Greece in July 2017. He was subsequently extradited to the U.S. in August 2022.

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Cryptocurrency 136

Bleeping Computer

JULY 21, 2021

Chinese state-sponsored attackers have breached 13 US oil and natural gas (ONG) pipeline companies between December 2011 to 2013 following a spear-phishing campaign targeting their employees. [.].

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The Hacker News

MAY 21, 2021

26, 2011 and Feb. India's flag carrier airline, Air India, has disclosed a data breach affecting 4.5 million of its customers over a period stretching nearly 10 years after its Passenger Service System (PSS) provider SITA fell victim to a cyber attack earlier this year. The breach involves personal data registered between Aug.

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The Hacker News

MAY 28, 2022

He joined the gang in August 2011 and remained a member for A 37-year-old man from New York has been sentenced to four years in prison for buying stolen credit card information and working in cahoots with a cybercrime cartel known as the Infraud Organization.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following revelations that the data had been exposed since 2011 — two years after responsibility for securing the state’s IT systems was centralized within Parson’s own Office of Administration. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R), vowing to prosecute the St.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Formally established in 2011, Padar's unit mostly runs on about €150,000 ($172,000) in annual state funding, plus salaries for him and four colleagues. (If Officially, the team is part of Estonia's 26,000-strong national guard, the Defense League. [.].

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

NEROWOLFE A search on the ICQ number 669316 at Intel 471 shows that in April 2011, a user by the name NeroWolfe joined the Russian cybercrime forum Zloy using the email address d.horoshev@gmail.com , and from an Internet address in Voronezh, RU. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.” The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin had gone into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com ” A report on Palvisa (PDF) purchased from Rekvizitai.vz — an official online directory of Lithuanian companies — says Palvisa was established in 2011 by a Vytautaus Mockus, using the phone number 86.7273687 , and the email address bo3dom@gmail.com. com (2017).

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

The six-digit sequence has also ranked high on other lists over the years; SplashData, which has come up with lists using similar methodology, found "123456" in second place in 2011 and 2012; it then jumped up to number one where it stayed every year right through 2019. To read this article in full, please click here

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Recent reports have confirmed that the outage was caused by WastedLocker, a ransomware often used to specifically target and disrupt business operations, and closely associated with Evil Corp, the hacking group behind a $100 million crime spree that began in 2011.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 20, 2022

In September 2011, an amendment was made to the bill under the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011. . NOTE- CFAA was drafted and implied to protect IT assets operated by the federal government and centralized financial institutes. Later, the bill was given a fair scope to make amendments following the 2001 terrorist act.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

This report identifies and analyzes how proactive detection in the EU is evolved between 2011 and 2019. Survey among incident response teams in Europe; Comparison with the 2011 survey. Among the goals of the project there is the exploration of new areas that could help to improve operational cooperation and information sharing.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Detected in the wild since 2011, FinFisher (aka FinSpy or Wingbird) is a spyware toolset for Windows, macOS, and Linux

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was first coined by cybersecurity expert Wendy Nather in 2011, and the concept is just as relevant today as it was then (if not more so). The security poverty line broadly defines a divide between the organizations that have the means and resources to achieve and maintain mature security postures to protect data, and those that do not.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 20, 2021

They were charged with several hacking crimes that unfolded between 2011 and 2018 where they targeted state entities, universities, and enterprises. 4 members belonging to APT40, a hacking group supported by the Chinese government, were indicted yesterday by the U.S. DOJ (Department of Justice).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Gox in 2011 and money laundering. Gox in 2011 and the operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e. Bilyuchenko is also charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to run the virtual currency exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017. Two Russian nationals have been charged with the hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 13, 2024

for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021. [.] Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C.,

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 17, 2024

Yep, turns out it is and with a very old password I'd genuinely used pre-2011 when I rolled over to 1Password for all my things. And another whose details appears alongside a Webex URL: Yes, it does. Which got me wondering: is my own data in there?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2024

This isn’t the first incident suffered by IMF, the agency suffered a major security breach in 2011. Bleeping computer contacted IMF, which confirmed that that despite it uses the Microsoft 365, the incident does not appear to be part of Microsoft targeting recently disclosed.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 14, 2021

An extremely thorough and eye-opening 2011 report by the AAUP exposes how extremist conservative professors manipulated political pressure to censor American voices they disagreed with: Regents and administration and some faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) allowed an obvious political vendetta against Ward Churchill to override their (..)

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The Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2022

government on Thursday released a cybersecurity advisory outlining multiple intrusion campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors from 2011 to 2018 that targeted the energy sector in the U.S. and beyond. The [Federal Security Service] conducted a multi-stage campaign in which they gained remote access to U.S.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2019

The Zhenai breach from 2011 added another 5M records to HIBP (I'm still working through a ridiculously long backlog of breaches.) References Scott will be running my Hack Yourself First workshop in Glasgow next week (this is the last stop on the UK tour, get in while you still can!)

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Javvad Malik

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Andy and I had met at the first BSides back in 2011, and we decided to recreate the photo we took back then. I pushed my way past the throngs of attendees and made it through the revolving doors just before Andy (@Sirjester) could enter. Time flies when you’re having BSides fun.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Yes, and that is what Sony exactly lost when they were hacked and the personal info of every one of its customers leaked in 2011. Huge sum, right? Related: Supply-chain hacks prove worrisome. This came to the news because Sony is one of the biggest names on the planet.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 13, 2023

According to unsealed indictments released last week, Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, have been accused of conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins stolen from September 2011 through at

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

has been associated with the user Kerens on the Russian hacking forum Exploit from 2011 to the present day. The very first post by Kerens on Exploit in 2011 was a negative review of a popular crypting service that predated Cryptor[.]biz .” Meanwhile, the Jabber address masscrypt@exploit.im

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Troy Hunt

JULY 2, 2018

Back in 2011, Microsoft gave me the rather awesome (IMHO) Most Valuable Professional Award for the first time. This is Microsoft's award for community leadership within a technology discipline which for me at the time, was developer security.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

O’Neill said he opened the investigation into Ngo’s identity theft business after reading about it in a 2011 KrebsOnSecurity story, “ How Much is Your Identity Worth? As I wrote of Ngo’s service back in November 2011: “Superget lets users search for specific individuals by name, city, and state.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 19, 2021

Today, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted four members of the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as APT40 for hacking various companies, universities, and government entities in the US and worldwide between 2011 and 2018. [.].

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CSO Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued on July 20, 2021, an alert ( AA-22-2021A ) addressing the successful Chinese intrusion of the United States oil and natural gas pipeline companies from 2011 to 2013. Learn what you need to know about defending critical infrastructure. |

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