Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

2000 Sydney. remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. Nothing happened at the 2000 games, and it seems nothing happened at any earlier events either. Phishing and bogus domains remained a strong contender for taking the scammer gold medal, with ATM carding grabbing a runner-up spot. Not so much.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

During the reporting period, Emotet evolved into a botnet, increased its activity, and initiated new localized spam campaigns with spear-phishing functionality to install ransomware or steal information.". More on these things in a minute. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Identity Theft.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most of the tax-related attacks follow a few tried and true methods: A phishing email or scam call from someone purporting to be from the IRS, or an accountant offering to help you get a big refund. ” The internet archive has a first snapshot dating back to October of 2000.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

US Utilities Targeted with LookBack RAT in a new phishing campaign. Study shows connections between 2000 malware samples used by Russian APT groups. Heyyo dating app left its users data exposed online. Airbus suppliers were hit by four major attack in the last 12 months. Botnet exploits recent vBulletin flaw to protect its bots.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

2000 Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Requires K–12 schools to restrict children’s exposure to obscene digital content, monitor the online activity of minors, and educate students about appropriate behavior on the internet. Require phishing-resistant MFA.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. Phishing Simulations from Cyber Aware Phishing simulation is a program designed for business owners and employers to train their staff to identify phishing scams. The list will save your time and make a choice easier.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

A staple in the cybersecurity industry since 2000, Fortinet is known for its line of firewalls, including the FortiWeb web application firewall. A web application firewall is a specialized firewall designed to filter and control HTTP traffic in internet traffic between web clients and application servers. Fortinet FortiWeb.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data. Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

According to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there are 36 cybercrime categories. Here is how we (CSN) define cybercrime: the kind of crime that is only happening because the internet exists [such as ransomware and DDoS attacks]. 4,883,231 complaints reported since inception (2000). billion in victim losses.

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Cybercrime Scams Small Business Identity Theft 54

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Phishing and social engineering are common ways threat actors can obtain a symmetric key, but cryptanalysis and brute force attempts can also break symmetric key ciphers. The three innovators and MIT patented the RSA algorithm, a proprietary system available through RSA Security until its public release in 2000.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

While the Thales Group in its current form launched in 2000, the organization’s roots date to the 1890s when the small French subsidiary worked with General Electric to fill the demand for electricity and transmission technologies. Also Read: Top Cloud Security Companies & Tools.

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Firewall Encryption Computers and Electronics Software 120

ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

N etwork Chuck : Let's say I receive an email, a phishing email. Hanslovan: This is using nothing more than built in features in the operating system within Office to load and run malicious payloads downloaded from the internet. Vamosi: Here’s Network Chuck explaining at a high level the Follina attack in Microsoft office.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. One of the first instances was the Love Letter virus of 2000.

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Malware Ransomware Antivirus Internet 140

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2000 — Lou Cipher — Barry Schlossberg, aka Lou Cipher, successfully extorts $1.4 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

The Trend Micro Vision One solution offers various features from machine learning and behavioral analysis to sandbox integration and phishing protection. Web application firewalls (WAF) offer monitoring, filtering, and blocking of internet communications. Runner-up: ForeScout Modern NAC. Also, read our Best SIEM Tools & Software.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

These three names will go down in the history of internet commerce, right alongside Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. ‘Mafiaboy’ The trouble is Clark, 17, of Tampa, Florida, is teaching us much the same lessons in the summer of 2020 that de Guzman and Calce did in the spring of 2000. I’ll keep watch.

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