Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The malware leverages the firmware update process to achieve persistence. ” Cyclops Blink is sophisticated malware with a modular structure.

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Malware Firmware Architecture Firewall 96

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Founded in 2000 , Sunnyvale, California headquartered Fortinet’s flagship FortiGate provides enterprise-grade firewall solutions. Additionally, FortiNAC can enforce company policies on device patching and firmware version. Who is Fortinet? The company acquired Bradford Networks and its Network Sentry NAC product in 2018.

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IoT Firewall Wireless Mobile 97

Notice Bored

JANUARY 9, 2021

For a long time prior to the year 2000, a significant number of software programmers had taken the same shortcut we all did back in "the 90s". Go ahead, show me the associated risk profiles and documented security architectures. It feels like 'just the other day' to me but do you recall "Y2k" and all that? We had all that back in 99.

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Internet Internet Risk InfoSec 52

McAfee

AUGUST 24, 2021

From the 1960’s to 2000 infusion pumps were mostly electromechanical devices with some embedded electronics, but the turn of the century delivered “smarter” devices with better safety mechanisms and the possibility to program them, which slowly opened the door to information security challenges. Figure 6: Disposable Data.

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Computers and Electronics Authentication Software Risk 145

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The three innovators and MIT patented the RSA algorithm, a proprietary system available through RSA Security until its public release in 2000. Still, research remains in early stages, so initial standards remain in draft form and a full mitigation architecture for federal agencies isn’t expected until the 2030s.

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Encryption Authentication Passwords Password Management 108