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On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

Malwarebytes

Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. 2004 was a key year for several safety activities, encompassing both Safer Internet Day and the Safer Internet Forum. Was the general state of the Internet at the time so bad that all of these events sprang up almost out of necessity? You may be asking, why 2004?

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Exclusive Interview With David Monnier, Chief Evangelist Of Team Cymru

SecureBlitz

In this interview, we spoke with David Monnier, Chief Evangelist at Team Cymru, a risk management solution launched in 2005 with a network that extends to 143 CSIRT teams in 86 countries and over 1,000 network operators and ISP community that helps keep the internet safe.

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MY TAKE: How digital technology and the rising gig economy are exacerbating third-party risks

The Last Watchdog

Accounting for third-party risks is now mandated by regulations — with teeth. 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. That out of the way, business can proceed with less risk.

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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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Threat actors exploit discontinues Boa web servers to target critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

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. ” concludes the report.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

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. Legacy tech’s role.

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Canadian Flair Airlines left user data leaking for months

Security Affairs

This increases the risk of passengers’ personal information, such as emails, names, or addresses, ending up in the wrong hands. Flyflair.com belongs to the Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines, founded in 2005. The leak consisted of publicly accessible environment files hosted on the flyflair.com website.