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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

That same IP was used to register the nickname “ Deem3n®, ” a prolific poster on Antichat between 2005 and 2009 who served as a moderator on the forum. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. That same Google Analytics code is also now present on the homepages of wiremo[.]co

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

The Last Watchdog

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Once a penetration tester, Paul Asadoorian has been the founder and CEO of Security Weekly and host of a weekly show since 2005. Read more: Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021. Denial-of-Suez attack.