Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2022

Founded in 2006, Avira Operations GmbH & Co. Avira Crypto. KG is a German multinational software company best known for their Avira Free Security (a.k.a. Avira Free Antivirus). In January 2021, Avira was acquired by Tempe, Ariz.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

” The government says from 2006 until the service’s takedown, Liberty Reserve processed an estimated 55 million financial transactions worth more than $6 billion, with more than 600,000 accounts associated with users in the United States alone.

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Adam Shostack

JUNE 19, 2021

Here at Adam & Friends and its antecedents, we’ve been celebrating Juneteenth since 2006. That is, freeing them from the threat violence would be used against them, and they would have no recourse. The United States also needs more holidays that celebrate the United part. Of course, like most things here, we do it erratically.

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SecureBlitz

MAY 18, 2022

Malwarebytes was established in 2006, and it quickly rose to popularity as a free and easy-to-use. Malwarebytes is a popular anti-malware program that has been around for years and years. It protects you from various forms of malware, spyware, rootkits, and other nasties without slowing down your computer.

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Spyware Malware Cybersecurity Antivirus 119

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

According to iDefense, in 2006 the group was responsible for crafting a rootkit that took advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word, and was used in attacks on “a large DoD entity” within the USA.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2024

The incident impacted OWASP members from 2006 to around 2014 who provided their resumes as part of joining OWASP. “OWASP collected resumes as part of the early membership process, whereby members were required in the 2006 to 2014 era to show a connection to the OWASP community.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Editor's note: This article, originally published in 2006, has been updated to reflect recent trends. To read this article in full, please click here (Insider Story)

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The State of Security

MAY 4, 2022

When I joined nCircle as a security researcher in 2006, ASPL 117 had just been released. I missed the ASPL-100 release celebration, which included custom sweatshirts, but there was still one unclaimed shirt in the office and I brought it home, my first piece of company swag. That shirt still hangs in my closet all […]… Read More.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2020

In 2006, Stroganov and an associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a. The post claimed that among those apprehended was the infamous cybercriminal Alexey Stroganov, who goes by the hacker names “Flint” and “Flint24.”

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The State of Security

MAY 10, 2022

In the UK the Companies Act 2006 is the main legislation that forms the primary source of company law and businesses of all sizes must ensure […]… Read More. The post Building a Strong Business Case for Security and Compliance appeared first on The State of Security.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2006, Kidan was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding lenders along with Jack Abramoff , the disgraced lobbyist whose corruption became a symbol of the excesses of Washington influence peddling. ” The phishing lure attached to the thread hijacking email from Mr. Kidan.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As it turns out, the stolen data is 100% authentic, even if out of date for some of the affected drivers, and was allegedly obtained between 2006 and 2019. The personal information of millions of Russian drivers is being sold by hackers on an underground market for only a few hundred dollars. What Data Was […].

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Anton on Security

JANUARY 20, 2022

I have not kept copies of my oldest presentations (very few like this gem from 2003 survived), but my old speaker page reminds me that I focused on “Log Analysis for Security” (2004), “What Every Organization Should Monitor and Log” (2005) and “Log Mining for Security” (2006). script kiddies as they were known back then.

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Technology Engineering Data collection Firewall 211

Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2025

Cynthia Dwork (2006) introduced the fundamental idea, established its mathematical basis, and illustrated how privacy guarantees can be attained by adding numerical work. A cornerstone in privacy-preserving data analytics introduced the concept of differential privacy, its mathematical basis, and how adding noise ensures privacy.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stolen data spans from 2006 and 2019, local media outlets have confirmed their authenticity. “The cybercriminals put up for sale for $ 800 a database of 50 million lines with the data of drivers that were registered in Moscow and the Moscow region from 2006 to 2019.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

Barr conveniently ignores that CALEA-enabled phone switches were used to spy on government officials in Greece in 2003 -- which seems to have been an NSA operation -- and on a variety of people in Italy in 2006. Moreover, in 2012 every CALEA-enabled switch sold to the Defense Department had security vulnerabilities. (I

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Encryption Telecommunications Risk Government 279

Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2022

We saw them use this same kind of attack against the Estonian government in 2006,” he said. Sexton also asserted that this cyberattack is likely linked to the crisis in Ukraine, given that Israel has just joined other countries in sanctioning Russia after remaining neutral.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SolarWinds did not enable anti-exploit mitigation available since 2006 allowing threat actors to target SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in July attacks. Software vendor SolarWinds did not enable ASLR anti-exploit mitigation that was available since the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, allowing the attackers to launch targeted attacks in July.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

In 2006, The Washington Post reported that a group of five men used stolen or illegally created accounts at LexisNexis subsidiaries to lookup SSNs and other personal information more than 310,000 individuals. Also in 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that ssndob[.]ms Dun & Bradstreet , and Kroll Background America Inc.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

Barr conveniently ignores that CALEA-enabled phone switches were used to spy on government officials in Greece in 2003 -- which seems to have been a National Security Agency operation -- and on a variety of people in Italy in 2006. Moreover, in 2012 every CALEA-enabled switch sold to the Defense Department had security vulnerabilities. (I

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Encryption Telecommunications Risk Government 270

Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

“The Army Reserve started using CAC logon in May 2006,” Danberry wrote on his “About” page. His site has even been officially recommended by the Army (PDF). Mark shared emails showing Saicoo itself recommends militarycac.com. Image: Militarycac.com. I thought Why stop there?

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Malware Government Internet Internet 354

Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

From 2006 to 2012, Kislitsin was editor-in-chief of “ Hacker ,” a popular Russian-language monthly magazine that includes articles on information and network security, programming, and frequently features interviews with and articles penned by notable or wanted Russian hackers. “The company is monitoring developments.”

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2006, he came up with the idea to create a “camp” that would bring people together that were passionate about WordPress. On July 9, 2006, Matt shared this idea on his blog, MA.TT, hoping to put together an event in under a month. A Brief History of WordCamp.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 17, 2023

The Spanish National Police has apprehended a Ukrainian national wanted internationally for his involvement in a scareware operation spanning from 2006 to 2011. [.]

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Prior to that, akafitis@gmail.com was used as the email address for the account “ Fitis ,” which was active on Exploit between September 2006 and May 2007. Intel 471 shows akafitis@gmail.com was used to register another O.R.Z. user account — this one on Verified[.]ru ru in 2008. account on Carder[.]su su from 2008.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2021

In April, media reported that Boris Johnson ‘s personal mobile phone number has been freely available on the internet for the past 15 years after it was published in a think tank press release in 2006, but never deleted. ” reported the DailyMail.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 31, 2022

It will also give authorization to the fed to make amendments to the 2006 US Safe Web Act and will make it mandatory for public and private entities lodge cross border complaints against individuals and groups launching ransomware and other digital attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. The malicious code employed in the attacks is the Hupigon RAT , a RAT previously spotted in campaigns carried out by China-linked APTs such as APT3 (aka TG-0100 , Buckeye , Gothic Panda , and UPS).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

I have updated our 2006 paper on language pattern analysis to detect social network attacks. Some minor formatting changes were needed, given the last time I generated the PDF was 2011. The original post is here. Attacks by scammers appear to make sophisticated use of language ideology to abuse trust relationships.

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Network Security 72

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In the year 2006, the whole company was acquired by Hewlett Packard that changed the name of the brand from Voodoo to ‘Omen’ in 2013 maintaining the same until 2020 and supplying high end gaming HP Omen desktop and laptops to gamers with a ‘Mask’ symbol as logo.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2024

The flaw was introduced with the fix for another vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2006-5051. Notably, over 0.14% of these vulnerable instances are running an End-Of-Life/End-Of-Support version of OpenSSH.

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Threatpost

APRIL 9, 2019

Flowershop, Equation, Flame and Duqu appear to have a hand in the different phases of Stuxnet development, all working as part of an operation active as early as 2006.

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Pen Test Partners

JULY 1, 2024

The CVE, dubbed regreSSHion, is a regression of CVE-2006-5051 reported in 2006. Versions before 4.4p1 are also vulnerable unless patches for CVE-2006- 5051 and CVE-2008-4109 have been applied. A once-fixed CVE resurfacing in a later version, OpenSSH 8.5p1 released in October 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

After seeing success with Man Vs Wild television show in 2006, Bear launched his own television studio in association with Banijay Productions in 2019. But the intention of the cyber crook/s was clear- to create business disruption, to encrypt data from access for financial gain and to put a dent on the overall reputation of the company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Space Agency confirmed that the breach may impact NASA Civil Service employees on-boarded, separated from the agency, or transferred between centers from July 2006 to October 2018.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

The hack is the result of poor cyber security since its launch in 2006, administrator OSS said. Administrators of the website agreed to pay the ransom due to the low amount, but after receiving the ransom, the attackers never helped them to secure the website and on 11 January 2022 they leaked the data online.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2022

I have not kept copies of my oldest presentations (very few like this gem from 2003 survived), but my old speaker page reminds me that I focused on “Log Analysis for Security” (2004), “What Every Organization Should Monitor and Log” (2005) and “Log Mining for Security” (2006). script kiddies as they were known back then.

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