The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

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. 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.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2023

years ago, and stayed “top of the charts” for all this time (public cloud computing was born, depending on who you ask, in 2006–2008). Similarly, to compromise a modern mobile device, you probably would use social engineering or an exploit, not a configuration weakness. Thus, this explanation is not “the Answer.”

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Cloud Migration Data breaches Social Engineering CISO 64

Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

In 2006, BackTrack Linux happened which was based initially on Slax, then moved to Ubuntu. This created BackTrack in May 2006. There is a quick answer, and a not so quick answer. Quick history lesson It all began in 2004, with Whoppix , a security operating system based on Knoppix. This lead into WHAX in 2005, which used Slax.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This type of rootkit was developed as a proof of concept in 2006, but in 2017, researcher Joseph Connelly designed nested virtual machine rootkit CloudSkulk as part of his Masters degree work at Boise State University. The rootkit does not have to modify the kernel to subvert the operating system.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

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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Social Engineering Backups Malware Ransomware 72

The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

nuclear arsenal in 2003 • Breaches of computers at the Department of Commerce in 2006 • Hacking of military systems at U.S. Navy War College and the Pentagon in 2006-2007 • Operation Aurora hacks of Adobe, Juniper Networks, Northrop Grumman, Dow Chemical and dozens of other marquee U.S. It’s an arms race like no other. Talk more soon.

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