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Weathering Russian Winter: The Current State of Russian APTs

Security Boulevard

According to Richard Bejtlich’s paper on the topic , ‘the United States Air Force coined the phrase ‘advanced persistent threat’ in 2006 because teams working within the service needed a way to communicate with counterparts in the unclassified public world.’ Social engineering training. Monitoring. Regular patching.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. The DDoS attack is part of a political activist movement against the church called “Project Chanology.”