The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

I attended my first one in 2004, while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. Verimatrix CEO Asaf Ashkenazi described for me how his company is leveraging technologies perfected by the entertainment industry to protect mobile apps. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. The scale is so massive that it makes up 15 percent of all breached users globally since 2004 (the year data breaches became widespread). Data scientists sorted through 27,000 leaked databases and created 5 billion combinations of data.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 26, 2025

world, represent perhaps the most disruptive technology to transform IT, our industries and how businesses operate. As technology continues to advance, which ethical considerations do you think will become most pressing? Autonomous AI agents as our workforces or perhaps as the foot soldiers to decentralised applications in a Web 3.0

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2019

Computers, especially internet-connected computers, are inherently hackable, limiting the effectiveness of any procedures. The most public incident dates from 2004 in Greece. They reduce our reliance on security technologies we know how to do well -- cryptography -- to computer security technologies we are much less good at.

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Zero Day

JUNE 16, 2025

  The migration to Linux and open-source technology will happen in phases. One popular example is Munich, the capital of Bavaria, Germany, which moved away from  Windows to Linux  in 2004. For the latter, it appears Schrödter was referring to the migration from Windows 10 to 11. 

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Defenders, meanwhile, have to guard everything all of the time, and most organizations have many more Internet pathways than they even know about, much less are taking steps to defend.” I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. Bots do what they’re told. I’ll keep watching.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2021

Black Lotus Labs, a subsidiary of Lumen Technologies, has warned all website owners about an increase in ‘watering hole’ cyber threats. It was also known as Common Internet File System until 2004. The post Cybersecurity lab identifies a surge in watering hole attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2022

From Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud and hybrid work endpoints , cybersecurity spending has also grown and shifted since COVID-19 changed the way the world works. “In In 2004, the global cybersecurity market was worth just $3.5 But that technology can at best limit damage if the human element doesn’t improve.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

As a leading VC, BVP offers budding companies plenty to consider, with a set of roadmaps and tools for today’s technologies and market complexities. Notable cybersecurity exits for the company include AVG Technologies, Cognitive Security, OpenDNS, and Carbon Black. Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

To help you cut through the noise, weve curated a list of 20 top cybersecurity technology providers that stand out for their innovation, impact, and effectiveness. The company was formed in 2022 when the private equity group Symphony Technology Group (STG) merged technologies and products from FireEye and McAfee Enterprise.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The term “phishing” was coined back in 1996, when cybercriminals attacked users of America Online (AOL), the largest internet provider at that time. At around the same time, phishers started targeting online payment systems and internet banks. This allows cybercriminals to bypass at least some detection technologies.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Today the nonprofit Volatility Foundation is a top digital forensics vendor because of its innovative memory forensics technology. Available as a free and open-source tool, Xplico’s primary objective is to extract application data from an internet traffic capture. Considerations for Digital Forensics Software (DFS) Solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Launched in 2004 in Bedford, Massachusetts, EDB specializes in software solutions for the open source relational database management system (RDBMS), PostgreSQL. Started in 1987, the telecommunications provider has become a multinational technology whale. EnterpriseDB. Power to Postgres” reads the EnterpriseDB (EDB) tagline.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

Most of us connect our mobile devices to a Wi-Fi router for internet access, but this connection can leave our network and data vulnerable to cyber threats. And even though it’s been around since 2004, WPA2 remains the Wi-Fi security standard. Although WPA3 has been around for five years, its uptake remains less than 1%.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. 1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As cloud computing has become increasingly popular, bucket breaches have exposed millions of records to the public Internet. Since 2004, there have been 11,000 US data breaches. This increasing investment and reliance on cloud technology means that targeting misconfiguration for users isn’t going away.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last Friday, officials of Army National Guard alerted its current and former members that a data breach might have exposed private information of members since 2004 because files containing personal information was inadvertently transferred to a non-DoD-accredited data center by a contract employee. Army National Guard Struck by Data Breach.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The emergence of SD-WAN and SASE technologies bundled together has led many vendors to address both advanced routing and network security vendors for clients. The youngest secure SD-WAN pick is SASE technology vendor Cato Networks. Networking specialists like Cisco and HPE’s Aruba are moving deeper into security. Cato Networks.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

While the laws only affect California, they often push companies into adopting the rules broadly – for example, California’s strict auto emissions standards have been adopted in 16 other states since 2004. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) should grant users access to all legal content and apps equally.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

When personnel rely on sandbox technology for security, collaboration, and more, there needs to be appropriate policies surrounding use. As malware adapts to more robust security, sandbox technology for anti-malware analysis will only become more important. Avast Internet Security. Comodo Internet Security. Established.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2022

Adeagbo told the BBC in 2004 that he served a 2.5 The bogus domain was registered at NameCheap by "bridgetclark" who also registered more than 50 other domains with namecheap, each "deceptively similar to the Internet domain names associated with legitimate construction companies." million over a ten month period in 2001.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

The F-15 was designed over 45 years ago, before the Morris internet worm. With the advent of IoT, as soon as the software is outdated, the technology is considered disposable. With the advent of IoT, as soon as the software is outdated, the technology is considered disposable. Our Technology. This is unthinkable today.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

The F-15 was designed over 45 years ago, before the Morris internet worm. With the advent of IoT, as soon as the software is outdated, the technology is considered disposable. With the advent of IoT, as soon as the software is outdated, the technology is considered disposable. Our Technology. This is unthinkable today.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

The F-15 was designed over 45 years ago, before the Morris internet worm. With the advent of IoT, as soon as the software is outdated, the technology is considered disposable. With the advent of IoT, as soon as the software is outdated, the technology is considered disposable. Our Technology. This is unthinkable today.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The incident cause “brief” outages of internet-facing firewalls that controlled communications between the control center and multiple remote generation sites and between equipment on these sites, according to a report ( PDF ) released by NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. .”

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2018

And this year is a special occasion: a Quinceañera of sorts recognizing 15 years since the first Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004. “In the past there was a…lack of focus and awareness of the consequences of (going online) and the vulnerabilities that opened up with technology changes,” Grant told me.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. Longer history lesson Knoppix - Initial two weeks work Whoppix (White-Hat and knOPPIX) came about as the founder, @Muts, was doing an in-person air-gap network penetration test lasting for two weeks in 2004.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 22, 2020

The Defense Advanced Research Agency or DARPA periodically hosts these grand challenges that are designed to push technology to the bleeding edge. In its first autonomous vehicle challenge in 2004, no entrant finished the race, but the following year, all but one vehicle did. Wouldn’t it be exciting to see what could happen next?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Defense Advanced Research Agency or DARPA periodically hosts these grand challenges that are designed to push technology to the bleeding edge. In its first autonomous vehicle challenge in 2004, no entrant finished the race, but the following year, all but one vehicle did. Wouldn’t it be exciting to see what could happen next?

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Defense Advanced Research Agency or DARPA periodically hosts these grand challenges that are designed to push technology to the bleeding edge. In its first autonomous vehicle challenge in 2004, no entrant finished the race, but the following year, all but one vehicle did. Wouldn’t it be exciting to see what could happen next?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Cyber threats have steadily intensified each year since I began writing about privacy and cybersecurity for USA TODAY in 2004. Riccardi engagingly chronicles how company leaders raced down the path of Internet-centric operations, and then cloud-centric operations, paying far too little attention to unintended data security consequences.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put the risk and incredible rate of advancement in Russian cyberattacks front and center – with much of the internet (and the world) caught in the crossfire. Operating since about 2004, they regularly target insider information on large governments and international operations.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

With new technological advancements comes a need for heightened security measures. NCSAM launched in 2004, at a time where technology was nowhere near where it is today. We still relied on flip phones, and broadband internet was becoming more accessible for people worldwide.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2025

authorities worked with Dutch National Police, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie), the Royal Thai Police, and cybersecurity firm Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs. Operating since 2004, the site falsely claimed identities to register domains. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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