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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Malwarebytes

Since 2006, development of Tor has been conducted by a nonprofit organization called The Tor Project. The Tor network can be used to access the regular Internet, where it hides your IP address from everyone, including the people operating the Tor network itself, or the Dark Web, where everyone’s IP address is hidden from everyone else.

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Impact Analysis: regreSSHion OpenSSH Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387) 

NetSpi Executives

OpenSSH is a set of networking tools that provide encrypted communication to ensure secure remote access and data transfer over networks. CVE-2024-6387 details CVE-2024-6387 (“regreSSHion”) reintroduces a previous vulnerability from 2006 ( CVE-2006-5051 ) due to the removal of a critical line of code. What is OpenSSH?

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

Herjavec Group

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2

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Sustaining Digital Certificate Security - Entrust Certificate Distrust

Google Security

OU=(c) 1999 Entrust.net Limited,O=Entrust.net CN=Entrust Root Certification Authority,OU=www.entrust.net/CPS is incorporated by reference+OU=(c) 2006 Entrust, Inc.,O=Entrust, Certification Authorities (CAs) serve a privileged and trusted role on the Internet that underpin encrypted connections between browsers and websites.

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Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management in 2021

eSecurity Planet

As cloud computing has become increasingly popular, bucket breaches have exposed millions of records to the public Internet. Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the leading provider of cloud computing services. Much like a file folder on your computer, buckets store data in place of on-location IT infrastructure.

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Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021

eSecurity Planet

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are the smart consumer and business systems powering the homes, factories, and enterprise processes of tomorrow. Since 2006, Cradlepoint has grown into a dominant WAN , edge networking, and cloud solutions provider and was acquired by Ericsson in September 2020 for $1.1 Cradlepoint.

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