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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

Krebs on Security

Kaspersky began selling antivirus and security software in the United States in 2005, and the company’s malware researchers have earned accolades from the security community for many important discoveries over the years. government for its hacking operations, CEO Eugene Kaspersky says he ordered workers to delete the code.

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‘FRED’ Security FAIL — Ignored by US Rail for 20 YEARS

Security Boulevard

BCH vs. SDR, AAR vs. CISA: Railroad industry first warned about this nasty vulnerability in 2005. The post ‘FRED’ Security FAIL — Ignored by US Rail for 20 YEARS appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

” Dmitri Golubov, circa 2005. Golubov was arrested in Ukraine in 2005 as part of a joint investigation with multiple U.S. net that paid people to click on ads for Russian government employment opportunities. “I’m also godfather of his second son.” Image: U.S. Postal Investigative Service.

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Cisco Contributes to Cyber Hard Problems Report

Cisco Security

Last updated in 2005, this latest edition of Cyber Hard Problems: Focused Steps Toward a Resilient Digital Future focuses on the massive evolution that has occurred in cybersecurity, digital systems and society as a whole over the last several years. The result was the third edition of the Cyber Hard Problems report published last month.

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Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?

Krebs on Security

In 2005, Toha was a founding member of the Russian-speaking forum Hack-All. Toha announced in 2018 that he was selling the Exploit forum, prompting rampant speculation on the forums that the buyer was secretly a Russian or Ukrainian government entity or front person. That is, until it got massively hacked a few months after its debut.

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Israel’s Naftali Bennett Becomes The First Head of Government To Emerge From The CyberSecurity Industry

Joseph Steinberg

Naftali Bennett, elected yesterday as Prime Minister of Israel , appears to be the first entrepreneur and executive from the cybersecurity industry to have become the head of a national government. Bennett spent several years as the New York-based CEO of the firm, before he and his partners sold Cyota to RSA Security in 2005 for $145 Million.

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Real-Time Attacks Against Two-Factor Authentication

Schneier on Security

Attackers are targeting two-factor authentication systems: Attackers working on behalf of the Iranian government collected detailed information on targets and used that knowledge to write spear-phishing emails that were tailored to the targets' level of operational security, researchers with security firm Certfa Lab said in a blog post.