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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

” Dmitri Golubov, circa 2005. A week after breaking the story about the 2013 data breach at Target, KrebsOnSecurity published Who’s Selling Cards from Target? Golubov was arrested in Ukraine in 2005 as part of a joint investigation with multiple U.S. “I’m also godfather of his second son.”

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

There is also ample evidence to suggest that Glupteba may have spawned Meris , a massive botnet of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices that surfaced in September 2021 and was responsible for some of the largest and most disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks the Internet has ever seen. But on Dec. and starovikov[.]com.

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DEEP TECH NEWS: How ‘attribute-based encryption’ preserves privacy at a fined-grained level

The Last Watchdog

Customized decryption ABE builds upon digital certificates and the Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) that underpins secure communications across the Internet. ABE has undergone significant theoretical advancements since 2005. Here are my takeaways. Versatile benefits It’s taken a while to get here. But those are solvable challenges.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target. w s, icamis[.]ru

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SiteLock President Named to Prestigious Online Trust Alliance’s Board

SiteLock

Formed as an informal industry working group in 2005, the OTA is a charitable organization dedicated to enhancing online trust and empowering users, while also promoting innovation and the vitality of the internet. About the OTA. percent) malware infections around the world.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Canadian Flair Airlines left user data leaking for months

Security Affairs

Flyflair.com belongs to the Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines, founded in 2005. Database configurations revealed that one of the databases was exposed to the internet, meaning anyone could potentially use these credentials to access sensitive information stored in this database,” Cybernews researchers claim.