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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004.

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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. One such site — sun-technology[.]net

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Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal

Schneier on Security

And it's implemented by a computer, which makes it vulnerable to the same hacking that every other computer is vulnerable to. The most public incident dates from 2004 in Greece. And once that's in place, every government will try to hack it for its own purposes­ -- just as the NSA hacked Vodafone Greece.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

At least a dozen patriotic Russian hacking groups have been launching DDoS attacks since the start of the war at a variety of targets seen as opposed to Moscow. MIRhosting is a hosting provider founded in The Netherlands in 2004. Petersburg, RU called the Computer Technologies Institute Ltd.

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Sophos Sandboxie is now available as an open-source tool

Security Affairs

Now this technology will live on in the hands of its dedicated users.” ” The sandbox was developed by Ronen Tzur and released on June 26, 2004, he sold the solution to Invincea in 2013. Sophos is going to release the Windows sandbox-based isolation program Sandboxie in open source.

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US will help Baltic states to secure baltic energy grid

Security Affairs

The three states joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004, but they are still part of a power grid controlled by Russia. Now Lithuania confirmed it was looking for US technology firms to prevent the hack of control energy systems that could disrupt energy supplies. SecurityAffairs – Baltic Energy Grid, hacking).

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Cybersecurity lab identifies a surge in watering hole attack

CyberSecurity Insiders

Black Lotus Labs, a subsidiary of Lumen Technologies, has warned all website owners about an increase in ‘watering hole’ cyber threats. The researchers from the organization say that a hacking group operating from Asia was busy launching malware campaigns targeting websites operated by large and small businesses.