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2003 Testimony to Congress Proves That We Still Have a Long Way to Go In Building Secure Software

Veracode Security

I was the director of research and development at @stake, an information security consulting company. Back in the summer of 2003, the internet was plagued with worms such as Blaster and Sobig. The problems I spoke of in 2003, sadly, are still here with us 18 years later. It will take many years of hard work.”

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Internet scans found nearly one million systems vulnerable to BlueKeep

Security Affairs

GreyNoise is observing sweeping tests for systems vulnerable to the RDP "BlueKeep" (CVE-2019-0708) vulnerability from several dozen hosts around the Internet. Many security experts have already developed their own exploit code for this issue without publicly disclosing it for obvious reasons. Graham added. .

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2003 Testimony to Congress Proves That We Still Have a Long Way to Go In Building Secure Software

Security Boulevard

I was the director of research and development at @stake, an information security consulting company. Back in the summer of 2003, the internet was plagued with worms such as Blaster and Sobig. The problems I spoke of in 2003, sadly, are still here with us 18 years later. It will take many years of hard work.”

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1.9 million+ records from the FBI’s terrorist watchlist available online

Security Affairs

A security researcher discovered that a secret FBI’s terrorist watchlist was accidentally exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021. A security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 In July, Diachenko discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch cluster containing 1.9

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2003 Testimony to Congress Proves That We Still Have a Long Way to Go In Building Secure Software.

Veracode Security

I was the director of research and development at @stake, an information security consulting company. Back in the summer of 2003, the internet was plagued with worms such as Blaster and Sobig. This time I testified as a cybersecurity professional using my real name.

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Microsoft warns for the second time of applying BlueKeep patch

Security Affairs

Many security experts have already developed their own exploit code for this issue without publicly disclosing it for obvious reasons. Microsoft has released patches for Windows 7, Server 2008, XP and Server 2003. Recently, the popular expert Robert Graham has scanned the Internet for vulnerable systems.

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Anonymous claims to have hacked German subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft

Security Affairs

” The news of the attack was also confirmed by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the company had reported an IT security incident on Saturday night. But last Friday, the very stable FTP connection broke down because their entire system gave up in the evening and suddenly there was no internet.

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