Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

It was formed in 2005 in response to European Union requirements to separate the natural monopoly of infrastructure management from the competitive operations of running train services. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ADIF). The company has over 13,000 employees for a revenue of around $8 Billion. million ransom. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

Here are the key takeaways: Lower-tier hacks. No organization wants to find itself having to recover from a devastating ransomware hack – or dealing with an unauthorized intruder who has usurped control of its operational systems. The ongoing waves of Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon hacks are a good example of these lower-tier attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

“The report said that unidentified parties behind the cyberattacks used Internet Protocols in the Netherlands, Britain and the United States to stage the attacks.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarMarker). However, Iranian authorities always blame foreign hackers for the attacks on local critical infrastructure.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

And since 2005 or so, one area of focus has been on sharpening the math formulas that make attribute-based encryption possible. The public key gets used on both ends to encrypt the information that gets transmitted across the Internet; but only one party holds the corresponding private key to decrypt the data on the other end.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The good news is that most recent versions of SAP software are configured by default to drop unauthorized connections, Since 2005, SAP is providing instructions on how to configure an ACL for the Message Server. Researchers also found many SAP systems exposed on the internet that could be hit by remote, unauthenticated attackers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The requests were used by the attackers to download a Perl script to launch the Shellbot backdoor that leverages an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel as C&C. Security Affairs – Drupal, hacking ). The bot was designed to automate scanning a large number of websites and fully compromise the vulnerable ones. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

The wisdom of proactively purging stored data was driven home by the hack of Capital One bank. The accused hacker stole personal data for 106 bank patrons, including customer data from credit card applications dating back to 2005. This is the time to purge those data sets.” I’ll keep watch.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1834 — French Telegraph System — A pair of thieves hack the French Telegraph System and steal financial market information, effectively conducting the world’s first cyberattack. 1870 — Switchboard Hack — A teenager hired as a switchboard operator is able to disconnect and redirect calls and use the line for personal usage. .

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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. SecurityAffairs – G Suite, hacking). Google investigated the problem and confirmed that it has no evidence of improper access to or misuse of the affected G Suite credentials. ” continues Google.

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Allen is a widely respected thought leader on this topic, having launched Shared Assessments in 2005 as an intel-sharing and training consortium focused on third-party risks. Those can be hacked and present ways to come into a system,” Allen told me. • To hear the full interview, please give the accompanying podcast a listen.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

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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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

In the early 1990s, the Internet industry needed to move packets as fast as possible because some marketing genius came up with the idea that everyone could have “Unlimited Internet Access” for $9.95 Those people belong in the Internet Hall of Fame. Truth be told, AOL made the Internet, the Internet.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s safe to say that without them, WordPress wouldn’t have grown to power over 28% of the internet. Previous to this release, if a user wanted to extend WordPress or add specific features, they did so by using “hacks” created by themselves or others. But did you know that WordPress used to exist without plugins?

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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. In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Paper ballots can be miscounted or lost and DRE machines are susceptible to hacking and software errors. Additionally, many DRE systems have been shown to be susceptible to hacking and malware, posing a significant risk of undetected tampering (Appel, 2009). Security analysis of the Estonian internet voting system. Boneh, D., &

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished. Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. The domain Vip72[.]org Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

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. There is a quick answer, and a not so quick answer. As a result, we need to be able to adapt.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. com and usps-jobs[.]com.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. He uses Internet provided software gangs often search for and steal a particular high end make and model of car. That means I had to hack a script which is not as good as the PB TK tool. Sometimes it does the exact opposite.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2020

Like much of the medical infrastructure, these systems are highly vulnerable to hacking and interference. By hacking these systems and corrupting medical data, states with formidable cybercapabilities can change and manipulate data right at the source. In practice, hacking deep into a hospital's systems can be shockingly easy.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Understand that until the mid 1990s interconnectivity via the internet was largely academic. It was for UNIX systems and it was created by Dan Farmer and Wheat-say Vene-ma, who then co-authored a book in 2005 called Forensic Discovery. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Mikko had read some of my reporting on Netsky, which Skynet backwards, a virus also known as Sasser, was a typical virus-of-the-day back in 2005. So if a company doesn't get hacked, no one knows if a company gets hacked, it's headline news.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

presidential election interference (2016) The personal accounts of Clinton staffers get hacked; disinformation supporting Trump gets widely disseminated via social media. and Israel, 2005 – 2010,) Operation Aurora (China, 2009,) the Sony Pictures hack (North Korea, 2015,) and WannaCry (North Korea, 2017.)

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

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. And they wrote an article which you can now find on the internet, titled The threats to our products. By Salter and Schroeder.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 19, 2025

Meanwhile, researcher Jeremiah Fowler published findings this week that more than 2 GB of extremely sensitive adoption-related data —including information about biological parents, children, and adoptive parents—was exposed and publicly accessible on the open internet. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.

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