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Rainbow Table Attacks and Cryptanalytic Defenses

eSecurity Planet

A cryptanalytic attack is one where unauthorized actors breach a cryptographic security system through exhaustive searches for information related to the encryption scheme. Cryptanalysts or malicious actors can use basic information about the cryptographic scheme, plaintext, or ciphertext to decipher encrypted communications.

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SHARED INTEL: How digital certificates could supply secure identities for enterprise blockchains

The Last Watchdog

Related: The case for ‘zero trust’ There’s no disputing that blockchain technology holds the potential to massively disrupt business, politics and culture over the next couple of decades, much the way the Internet dramatically altered the world over the first two decades of this century. They haven’t always performed flawlessly.

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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. presidential election.

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

In our case, a link to a malicious Tor installer was posted on a popular Chinese-language YouTube channel devoted to anonymity on the internet. Visual Studio 2003 – 7.10 In response to the POST request, the C2 server returns a blob containing an encrypted second stage payload. 2021-Sep-25 21:56:47.

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UNRAVELING EternalBlue: inside the WannaCry’s enabler

Security Affairs

By scanning a range of IP addresses, they can identify potential targets that have SMB services exposed to the internet. The image below shows prebuilt EternalBlue exploits Cybernews screenshot Shodan and Similar Tools: Shodan is a search engine that scans and indexes internet-connected devices, including vulnerable systems.

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Top 20 Cybersecurity Companies You Need to Know in 2025

eSecurity Planet

IBM: Best for Advanced Encryption 13 $233.91 IBM Best for advanced encryption Headquarters: Armonk, New York Founded: 1911 Annual Revenue: $61.9 It offers strong security and value through traditional solutions such as firewalls, gateways, UTM, DLP, and encryption and a strong service portfolio. Visit CrowdStrike 6. Visit IBM 7.

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Nokoyawa ransomware attacks with Windows zero-day

SecureList

CLFS is a log file subsystem that was first introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 / Microsoft Vista and is implemented in the clfs.sys driver. It’s written in C and has encrypted strings. It was launched with an encrypted json config provided with a “–config” command line argument.