Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

At the outset of their federal criminal trial for hijacking vast swaths of Internet addresses for use in large-scale email spam campaigns, three current or former executives at online advertising firm Adconion Direct (now Amobee ) have pleaded guilty to lesser misdemeanor charges of fraud and misrepresentation via email.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

com via Domaintools.com shows the domain was assigned in 2015 to a company called “ Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co. A records search at Domaintools for “Shanghai Blazefire Network Technology Co” returns 11 domains, including blazefire[.]net, com 2012-11-26 ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING (BEIJING) CO.,

Mobile 187

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. And new mechanisms, from ChatGPT plugins to LangChain , will enable composition of AI with thousands of API-based cloud services and open source tools, allowing LLMs to interact with the internet as humans do.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2024

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A lot has changed in the Microsoft technology world in the last 7 years since I launched ASafaWeb in September 2011. Internet Explorer is no longer the dominant browser ( Chrome was in 3rd place back then ). Windows Server has gone from 2008 R2 to 2012 to 2012 R2 to 2016 to 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2023

The standard enables email security solutions and internet service providers (ISPs) to filter in “good” emails and improve their ability to filter out “bad” emails. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance is a protocol that was first proposed in January 2012 and widely adopted in 2018 by the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. One such site — sun-technology[.]net

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Anton on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

despite “output-driven SIEM” concept having been invented before 2012 (to be honest, I stole the idea from a Vigilant consultant back in 2012). What data do we collect?” tends to predate “what do we actually want to do?” As a result, it then poses a real challenge of reconciling internal and external rule tracking.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Bloomberg, Vodafone identified hidden backdoors in software that could have handed Huawei unauthorized access to the carrier’s fixed-line network in Italy used to connect to the internet. ” Wait a moment … the flaws in the Huawei technology were discovered by Vodafone a decade ago. . ” said Huawei.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. I wrote about four systems for enabling trust: our innate morals, concern about our reputations, the laws we live under, and security technologies that constrain our behavior. Laws and security technologies are systems of trust that force us to act trustworthy.

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Government Surveillance Artificial Intelligence Marketing 363

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 — The Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) launched the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI) in 2020 to establish a baseline for how virtual private network (VPN) providers should operate. Social Responsibility: VPN providers will promote VPN technology to support access to the global Internet and freedom of expression.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In late August and early September 2021, Kaspersky technologies detected attacks with the use of an elevation of privilege exploit on multiple Microsoft Windows servers. Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. Executive Summary. Elevation of privilege exploit. Microsoft Windows 7. Microsoft Windows 8.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014. The campaign was uncovered by FireEye , threat actor targeted many organizations worldwide the world by exploiting vulnerabilities in Citrix, Cisco and Zoho ManageEngine products.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows slap Internet giants on the face”. Then, like Premier League transfers, the numbers went up and household names began to appear: 2012, LinkedIn, 178 million records, unsalted SHA-1 hashes. 2013, Adobe, 153 million, home-made obfuscation.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2020

Here are key takeaways: Middle East motivation Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states of the Middle East, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. SyncDog, it should be noted, supplies such mobile device containerization technology.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

Never in history have companies had access to so many technologies and tools to defend themselves. This has created what the Center for internet Security calls the “fog of more,” where a deluge of choices make decisions difficult to manage. So how should one choose?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2021

CVE-2012-1723. “Thus, we recommend organizations adopt defense-in-depth strategies to detect and respond to these attacks via anti-malware, EDR and deception technologies ,” he said. . Patch Available from Vendor. Patch Available Since. Patchable From Qualys. CVE-2013-1493. March 2013. CVE-2013-0431. February 2013.

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Daniel Miessler

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers. In 2012 they had tens of thousands of servers doing this, 24/7, comprising over 50 trillion transactions per year. Among those, Acxiom is particularly interesting.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Technological advancements have come a long way – from when internet utility was very limited to when internet connection was achieved only through internet protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) addresses to this modern age where IPv6 is the next big thing. And several technologies have been built and designed in its wake.

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Elie

JULY 13, 2017

in Internet Explorer and. This post analyzes the results of this survey and, whenever possible, contrasts the responses received in June 2017 with the ones from April 2012 and the. As of 2017, almost two out of three Internet users (61%) think they know what private browsing is, as reported in the pie chart above. also known as.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Mark of the Web (MOTW)—the technology that ensures Windows pops a warning message when trying to open a file downloaded from the Internet—is back in the news, but unfortunately not in a good way. MOTW was originally an Internet Explorer security feature. So somewhere between 2012 and 2016 it broke.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

However, they are prone to problems such as human error, including misinterpretation, incorrect tallying, and mishandling of ballots, especially during manual counts and recounts (Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001). The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been collaborating closely with the U.S.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bushnell first joined IDIQ in 2012 as the senior vice president for product, project and development. Most recently, Bushnell helped oversee the company’s partnership with Bitdefender® Total Security with Premium VPN to add award-winning internet security software to the IdentityIQ suite of benefits. Temecula, California, Nov.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

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. Conclusion.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

Craig Newmark Philanthropies has historically committed funds to cybersecurity causes and signed a letter this month calling for large philanthropic foundations and internet billionaires to consider doing the same. Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images). percent (or $15.2 million) of the $376.8

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I had the chance to meet with Randy Watkins, Critical Start’s chief technology officer at Black Hat USA 2019. Since its launch in 2012, the company has operated profitably, attracting customers mainly in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas and growing to 131 employees. and really help companies coast to coast.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Looking back at past leaks of private companies providing such services, such as in the case of Hacking Team, we learned that many states all over the world were buying these capabilities, whether to complement their in-house technologies or as a stand-alone solution they couldn’t develop.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics. Who is Versa Networks? Using VOS, Versa enables customers and service providers to deploy SASE and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Started in 1987, the telecommunications provider has become a multinational technology whale. At just $42M, Huawei added HexaTier’s patented technology offering cloud-based databases (DBaaS) security via a reverse proxy on endpoints. IBM comes with a presence in 170 countries and is the second oldest vendor on our list. billion.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 7, 2020

The global use of debit and credit cards (combined) grew from 5 percent to 9 percent between 2012 and 2017. About 47 percent of all European card transactions involve NFC technology. The Chinese electronic payments market is among the fastest – it increased 10x between 2012 and 2017. 2 Electronic Payments Are Rising.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2012 a group of 250+ security vendors formed the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance to combat authentication challenges "with a focused mission: authentication standards to help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords”, and Web Authentication API, or WebAuthn for short, was born. How do users enroll? What is WebAuthn?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). com from Archive.org in 2012 redirects to the domain qksnap.com , which DomainTools.com says was registered to a Jordan Bloom from Thornhill, ON that same year. A copy of pictrace[.]com

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

Fake Louis Vuitton store on Instagram As new and more secure, authentication technologies appear, scammers find ways to evade these, too. Kaspersky antiphishing technologies prevented 5 838 499 attempts to follow a cryptocurrency-themed phishing link, which is 16% more than in 2022.

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