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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach

Troy Hunt

The Dropbox and LinkedIn breaches, for example, occurred in 2012 before being broadly distributed in 2016 and just like those incidents, the alleged AT&T data is now in very broad circulation. It is undoubtedly in the hands of thousands of internet randos. For my part, I've got 4.8M

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The Dark Web Has Nothing on Data Brokers

Daniel Miessler

People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon. And the media doesn’t help either, not to mention InfoSec marketing departments. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers. To regular folks with some basic computer skills, the Dark Web seems like Enemy #1.

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Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyze GoBrut: A new GoLang Botnet

Security Affairs

Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in cyber-criminal campaigns, to modern cyber arsenal like the Sofacy one. Figure 4: Bot’s registration on the C2.

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Water utility CISO offers tips to stay secure as IT and OT converge

SC Magazine

Kristin Sanders, chief information security officer for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed last week how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing this challenge by leveraging a series of software solutions, sensors and internet-of-things tech.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

Mashable: Move over Heartbleed and welcome to shell shock, the latest security threat to hit the internet. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm. And it's a doozy program. Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

Domain The team knew how much BackTrack was growing in popularity, and as they did not switch the project name when using Ubuntu, it was time to create its own place on the Internet. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. At times, they would break their setup in the process.

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