Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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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. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a From one of his ads in 2005: Domains For Projects Advertised By Spam I can register bulletproof domains for sites and projects advertised by spam(of course they must be legal). w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

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.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 9, 2020

Security information and event management systems — SIEMs — have been around since 2005, but their time may have come at last. Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free. However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems. Firewalls predate SIEMs.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With WordPress now powering 25 percent of all sites on the internet , there is a never-ending source of inspiration for others in the community by simply listening and learning. Although I’ve been in the community since 2005, I had never met Michael and thought it would be interesting to learn more about him and how he utilizes WordPress.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? Fetisov from Moscow.

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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. The company has over 13,000 employees for a revenue of around $8 Billion. .” ” reads the post published by Cyble. million ransom.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 12, 2021

By the researchers’ count, there have been at least 14 instances since the year 2000 where DNS message compression has caused vulnerabilities in a wide variety of products – everything from Cisco IP phones in 2005 to various TCP/IP stacks discovered as part of Amnesia:33 and Ripple20.

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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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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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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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. GHz and 5 GHz bands, providing high-speed wireless internet connectivity (Kurkovsky, 2006). IoT Security Techniques and Implementation.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

The earliest SIEMs cropped up around 2005 or so. Fundamentally, SIEMs collect event log data from internet traffic, as well as corporate hardware and software assets. And on the horizon loom a full blown Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks , which will drive data generation to new heights. Talk more soon.

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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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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They will go on the plain old internet and call up all manner of dubious sites and services without barely a second thought. The final entry for the site on Internet Archive still shows an unused domain as recently as 2018. That’s the URL I’ve just been describing via Internet Archive. Some will look for drugs. Guess what?

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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. .” The expert observed a large number of HTTP POST requests being sent by the same IP address as part of a widespread cyber-attack.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. Much like the Internet, PKI evolved somewhat haphazardly in the first two decades of this century to enable website activity – and it has come a long, long way since.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

He said people would write out large text files and share these on bulletin boards “because there was no internet.” ” No internet, no online stores, so the most you could steal was free long distance phone calls, which you would need to contact different databases around the world.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With the growing popularity of the Internet over the past decade, the retail holiday Cyber Monday debuted in 2005 as the online version of Black Friday. It quickly became one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and by 2011 consumers were spending $1.25 billion online on the Monday after Thanksgiving. 25% of U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

The accused hacker stole personal data for 106 bank patrons, including customer data from credit card applications dating back to 2005. At RSA 2020, Egnyte launched its new platform which anticipates data ingestion growing at an even higher clip — as 5G and the Internet of Things take deeper root, Lahiri told me. I’ll keep watch.

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Javvad Malik

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It must have been around 2005. Anyone can do an internet search and find the answer, the skill lies in knowing what question to ask. I was fed up with my job. So, I did what anyone would do – updated my CV and sent it out to recruiters. He also told me that he doesn’t expect people to know the answer to every question.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo! The news about this court ruling comes at a keen moment for China as it recently announced it wants to tighten restrictions on the information gathering by internet giants like Alibaba, Tencent, and others. Alibaba statement. Chinese restrictions.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. What SHA-1 history can teach us? Can the cybersecurity industry learn anything from the problems encountered with the move from the deprecated SHA-1 to the stronger and safer SHA-2 hashing algorithm?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005. Mr. Mirza declined to respond to questions, but the exposed database information was removed from the Internet almost immediately after KrebsOnSecurity shared the offending links. Postal Service are breaking federal law,” the joint USPS-FTC statement said. com , postaljobscenter[.]com

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

A young woman plays on the Electronic Arts (EA) newest product “Sims2 – Nightlife” at a Computer Gaming Convention on August 18, 2005 in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was a great look back at the beginnings of the WordPress and a look into the future of the open source software that powers over 30% of the internet. If you didn’t know, WordPress celebrated it’s 15 year anniversary on May, 27th, just weeks before this event. The organization of this event was nothing less than perfect.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 28, 2022

A conservative estimate from 2002 predicted that by 2005, cyber insurance would boast a global market worth $2.5 Astoundingly, the cyber insurance market shrank relative to the Internet economy. It didn’t take off. This estimate turned out to be five times larger than the market in 2008. billion in 2020, expected to rise to US$27.83

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2021

Security information and event management systems — SIEMs — came along in about 2005 to screen all incoming data packets and kick out alerts to anything that seemed suspicious. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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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. Google investigated the problem and confirmed that it has no evidence of improper access to or misuse of the affected G Suite credentials. This practice did not live up to our standards.

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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. The first WordPress plugin directory was born in late 2005 and looked like this: Premium Plugins Hit the Scene. But did you know that WordPress used to exist without plugins?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Gartner first coined the term SIEM in 2005 to combine the technologies of security event management (SEM) and security information management (SIM). To understand if SIEM technology fits your organization’s needs, you should understand what a SIEM is, how to use it, and how to avoid some of its common pitfalls. What is a SIEM?

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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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

I also shared how security education makes the internet a safer place and has the potential to increase your monthly income as a freelancer or agency. I started exploring Open Source CMS and blogging platforms in late 2005. Mike Demopoulos , the treasurer of Open Source Matters and also an avid WordPress community member, ran a Joomla!

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

” The internet archive has a first snapshot dating back to October of 2000. In 2005 the domain had switched to an outfit selling software to organize and store files. A bad start! Some digging revealed that the domain e-file.com originally belonged to a record shop called “Vinyl Junkie.”

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