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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

Krebs on Security

Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc., 11, when the company’s Twitter account started fielding reports from users who said they were no longer receiving messages. “I have a account with that site, all the email in my account was deleted,” Senchak said. “I fear all US based data my be lost.”

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. government websites in 1998 and is sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2001. billion dollars in damages.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. For customers looking to bundle, Huawei offers vulnerability scanning , WAFs, and advanced DDoS protection. The DBSS database audit supports eight database types including MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021

Security Boulevard

The sudo vulnerability aka CVE-2001-3156 , seemed to go under the radar after it was announced and patches were released on 26th January 2021. From IoT devices to internet-based services, the security of countless devices and web-based services' are dependant upon a secure Linux account privilege model. Npower App Hack.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

Going Mobile and Going Global: 2001-2010. In July 2001, the Code Red Worm attempted to subject the entire Internet to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In fact, China itself would fall prey to the second iteration of Code Red in August 2001.

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