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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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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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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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MY TAKE: Is Satya Nadella’s ‘Secure Future Initiative’ a deja vu of ‘Trustworthy Computing?’

The Last Watchdog

Org overhaul As Todd reports, not only is Microsoft basing a portion of senior executive compensation on progress toward security goals, it also will install deputy chief information security officers (CISOs) in each product group,and bring together teams from its major platforms and product teams in “engineering waves” to overhaul security.

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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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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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Security Affairs newsletter Round 283

Security Affairs

fitness chains Town Sports leaked online Group-IB detects a series of ransomware attacks by OldGremlin HOW DO PROVIDERS IMPLEMENT INTERNET BLOCKING IN BELARUS? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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