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Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot

Security Affairs

Threat actors behind the campaign used multiple accounts across several social media platforms to advertise password-cracking software for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Human-Machine Interface (HMI), and project files. The password cracking software also acts as a dropper for the Sality P2P bot. ” concludes the report.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Kislitsin is accused of hacking into the now-defunct social networking site Formspring in 2012, and conspiring with another Russian man convicted of stealing tens of millions of usernames and passwords from LinkedIn and Dropbox that same year. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

Wireless security refers to the technology and practices used to safeguard networks from unauthorized access, theft and other hostile actions. For example, Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) requires users to provide a password or passphrase to gain access to the network. What is Wireless Security?

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How to Apply the Lessons of 2019 to the Security of 2020

McAfee

A staggering 885 million customer financial records going back to 2003 were accessible because of this design defect. In August of this year, State Farm was hit with a credential stuffing attack in which attackers leveraged usernames and passwords from other data breaches to log in to other accounts and sites.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

The CEH certification from the EC-Council was introduced in 2003 and is now in version 11. CISA is ISACA’s (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) high-level certification designed for those who audit, control, monitor, and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems. CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker).

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Data Encryption for Cloud Backup Security

Spinone

The US government has been using AES to protect classified data since 2003. Computer technology moves very quickly and advances are made in decryption techniques all the time. Spinbackup Data Security Spinbackup never asks for your Google password. Keys that are too short can be decrypted more easily.

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