Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. Usually, these users have no idea their systems are compromised.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that were first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development began at least in 2005. . SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarMarker). The post Iran announced to have foiled massive cyberattacks on public services appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Nevada Personal Information Data Privacy Encryption Law NRS 603A. New Jersey — An ACT concerning disclosure of breaches of security and amending P.L.2005, New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. NERC) standards.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2022

The oldest flaws in the set of 66 recently added issues are dated back to 2005. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CISA). The post CISA adds 66 new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog appeared first on Security Affairs. Microsoft addressed this bug with the release of the February 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

I had the chance to learn more about ABE from Brent Waters, a distinguished scientist in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research. And since 2005 or so, one area of focus has been on sharpening the math formulas that make attribute-based encryption possible.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

Similarly, the states Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005) was one of the earliest breach notification laws in the U.S., NYDOH Oversight (10 NYCRR 405.46) The New York Department of Health enforces standards for securing healthcare data, complementing HRIPA and federal HIPAA requirements.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The experts pointed out that Boa has been discontinued since 2005. ” Microsoft experts explained that despite Boa being discontinued in 2005, many vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits (SDKs) continue to use it. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Boa). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

. “For example, the SEC brought a number of enforcement actions against individuals and companies who made false and misleading statements about alleged business opportunities in light of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hurricane Ida). ” reads the alert published by SEC. .”

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2021

Researchers from SentinelOne discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed driver. 20 May, 2021 – We notified HP that the “affected products” listing is incomplete and provided extra information.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

A database containing the personal information of more than 8.9 A database containing personal information of 8,929,503 Zacks Investment Research users emerged on a popular hacking forum on June 10, 2023. At the time, the company added that it had no evidence that financial data has been exposed due to the security incident.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Flyflair.com belongs to the Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines, founded in 2005. Environment files are commonly used in software development to manage environment-specific settings or sensitive information such as API keys and database credentials. According to SimilarWeb, the website attracts 3.2 million monthly visitors.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Programs like iDefense Labs Vulnerability Contributor Program (VCP) (launched in 2002) and TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (2005) were accused -at the time- of incentivizing the work of criminals and bad actors. . For those firms, bug bounty platforms have been a critical bridge to the global community of “white hat” security pros.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. On July 17, 2019, Capital One was informed of the incident by a GitHub user who saw the post. District Court in Seattle today and was ordered detained pending a hearing on August 1, 2019.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2021

The issue affects SAP Commerce versions 1808, 1811, 1905, 2005, 2011. ” April 2021 Security Patch Day includes two other Hot News security notes, which are updates to previously released notes. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2023

According to the notice, threat actors had access to an older database of customers who had signed up for the Zacks Elite product between November 1999 through February 2005. The company discovered the intrusion at the end of 2022, it believes the unauthorized access took place sometime between November 2021 and August 2022.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In July, researchers from SentinelOne discovered a 16-year-old security vulnerability in an HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers driver that can allow attackers to gain admin rights on systems running the flawed driver. SecurityAffairs – hacking, HP OMEN). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

The platform has been active since 2005, according to the DoJ, it generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Authorities dismantled the Try2Check platform, a Card-Checking platform that generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue. DoJ charged the Russian citizen Denis Gennadievich Kulkov with running the Card-Checking services.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

His talk was nostalgic, reflecting on the 40+ years of computer hacking. Moss also said that all hacking is not infosec and that all infosec is not hacking. “Hacking can provide a lot of joy and absolutely no income. But hacking, not so much. Where with infosec the goal is to produce income. It’s a job.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2019

“We made an error when implementing this functionality back in 2005: The admin console stored a copy of the unhashed password. To be clear, these passwords remained in our secure encrypted infrastructure.” SecurityAffairs – G Suite, hacking). This practice did not live up to our standards. ” continues Google.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

XKCD is one of the most popular webcomic platform created by the American author Randall Munroe in 2005, it is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. The popular webcomic platform XKCD has suffered a data breach that exposed data of its forum users, the incident impacted 562,000 subscribers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

CEO of NGN International, Yaqoob AlAwadhi stated that, from 2017 to 2018, cybercrimes aimed at financial thefts increased significantly with cyber-criminals largely exploiting software vulnerabilities through phishing mailings and hacked legal resources. SecurityAffairs – Gulf countries, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

million records dating back to at least 2005 were also compromised in the data breach. million records include some, but not all of the following personal information: name, address, telephone, and date of birth. 14 million individuals impacted appeared first on Security Affairs. 94% of these records (5.7

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006. He was rumored to have hacked into his high school’s computer system, although those rumors were never confirmed. This ruling has caused some concerns in the information security community.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I'm also proud to let you know that I've successfully released a full offline copy of my personal blog which is currently available in multiple E-Book formats including Amazon Kindle where the idea is to make my personal blog a recommended reading potentially increasing my readership and reaching out to new users internationally.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 30, 2021

There are a lot of parallels between computer security and biology. If you think you already understand hacking systems, then I’ve got a story for you. In this episode, we're going to be hacking biology. If you think hacking only pertains to computer systems. Did I just say biology. Then I've got a story for you.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. Various technologies and wireless protocols operate within specific frequency bands of this spectrum, each catering to distinct purposes (Tse, Viswanathan, & Letaief, 2005).

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

So in 2005 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA started a series of challenges to push the technology. In 2016, DARPA turned to hacking and sponsored a CTF challenge, the Cyber Grand Challenge, to see whether machines could successfully find and patch software vulnerabilities. Listen to EP 04 on: Apple Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 31, 2020

So in 2005 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA started a series of challenges to push the technology. In 2016, DARPA turned to hacking and sponsored a CTF challenge, the Cyber Grand Challenge, to see whether machines could successfully find and patch software vulnerabilities. Listen to EP 04 on: Apple Podcasts.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 31, 2020

So in 2005 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA started a series of challenges to push the technology. In 2016, DARPA turned to hacking and sponsored a CTF challenge, the Cyber Grand Challenge, to see whether machines could successfully find and patch software vulnerabilities. Listen to EP 04 on: Apple Podcasts.

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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. This lead into WHAX in 2005, which used Slax. Merging into BackTrack At the same time, there was a similar project happening over at remote-exploit, Auditor Security Collection (based on Knoppix), which first started in 2005.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Security enthusiast and Linux evangelist Binni Shah consistently offers valuable tutorials, guides, and insights for the cybersecurity community. Street @jaysonstreet.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

New York has already had laws on the books related to data security. In fact, New York's data breach notification law, the New York State Information Security Breach and Notification Act, has been active since December 2005. Law §899-bb. Law §899-bb.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that was first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development begun at least 2005. and Israel get Stuxnet onto the highly secured Natanz plant? The unanswered question is, how did the U.S. The AIVD , along with U.S.

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

Twenty years ago, I first attended the Black Hat and Defcon conventions – yay Caesars Palace and Alexis Park – a wide-eyed tech newbie who barely knew what WEP hacking, Driftnet image stealing and session hijacking meant. The community was amazing and the friendships and knowledge I gained, springboarded my IT career. About Black Hat.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. I’m talking about cybercrime unicorns, talking the fog of cyberwar among nation states, and about a new book that I think will be on the shelves of every information security professional later this summer. Oh my God, we've been hacked.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

Having a common framework around vulnerabilities, around threats , helps us understand the information security landscape better. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. SHOSTACK: So, um, you come again, came about, actually in 2005. I made you know, it was blogging in 2005.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

This isn’t the first time that the US opted out for a cyber attack to hit Iran, the Stuxnet virus first uncovered in 2010, was used to shut down nuclear facilities in Iran at least since 2005. SecurityAffairs – Iran, hacking). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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