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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Using services like VIP72, customers can select network nodes in virtually any country, and relay their traffic while hiding behind some unwitting victim’s Internet address. Between 2003 and 2006, Corpse focused on selling and supporting his Haxdoor malware.

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Domain Age as an Internet Filter Criteria

McAfee

Use of “domain age” is a feature being promoted by various firewall and web security vendors as a method to protect users and systems from accessing malicious internet destinations. The sites and domains of the internet are constantly changing and evolving. The domain airnigeria.com was originally registered in 2003.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

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. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains.

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Microsoft July 2020 Security Updates address 123 vulnerabilities

Security Affairs

on the CVSS scale and affects Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019. Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350 , a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. Non-Microsoft DNS Servers are not affected.”

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Available as a free and open-source tool, Xplico’s primary objective is to extract application data from an internet traffic capture. Other significant Xplico features include multithreading, SQLite or MySQL integration, no data entry limits, and can execute reserve DNS lookup from DNS pack.

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

Herjavec Group

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. 2003 — Operation CyberSweep — The U.S. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S.