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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 Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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Top IoT Security Solutions of 2021

eSecurity Planet

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 For implementer services, the vendor offers managed IoT monitoring and managed security testing for validating embedded systems. Cradlepoint. Trustwave Features.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

In 2006, BackTrack Linux happened which was based initially on Slax, then moved to Ubuntu. Longer history lesson Knoppix - Initial two weeks work Whoppix (White-Hat and knOPPIX) came about as the founder, @Muts, was doing an in-person air-gap network penetration test lasting for two weeks in 2004. A fresh start in March 2013.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. Insight Partners.

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

Herjavec Group

Gonzales is later involved in a string of hacking crimes, again stealing credit and debit card details, from around 2006 until he is arresting in 2008. 2014 — eBay — A cyberattack exposes names, addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords of all of eBay’s 145 million users. . retailer (Polo Ralph Lauren). east coast.