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News alert: SquareX’s “Year of Browser Bugs” project exposes critical cybersecurity blind spots

The Last Watchdog

The browser has evolved from a simple web rendering engine to be the new endpoint the primary gateway through which users interact with the Internet, for work, leisure, and transactions. Notable projects included the Month of Browser Bugs (July 2006), Month of Kernel Bugs (November 2006), and Month of Apple Bugs (January 2007).

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Why do I need a certificate? .” ru in 2008.

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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

Krebs on Security

But Sholtis said he didn’t enter his Outlook username and password. 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.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Kislitsin is accused of hacking into the now-defunct social networking site Formspring in 2012, and conspiring with another Russian man convicted of stealing tens of millions of usernames and passwords from LinkedIn and Dropbox that same year. Nikulin is currently serving a seven-year sentence in the U.S. prison system.

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RCE vulnerability in OpenSSH – RegreSSHion (CVE-2024-6387)

Pen Test Partners

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. Also ask yourself the question: do I need to expose SSH to the untrusted internet?

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

The Last Watchdog

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

Herjavec Group

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.