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Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition

Krebs on Security

Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. Regardless of whether you use a Mac or Windows system (or something else), it’s always a good idea to backup your data and or system before applying any security updates. Kaspersky said it has since seen the exploit used together with QakBot and other malware.

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BEST PRACTICES: Resurgence of encrypted thumb drives shows value of offline backups — in the field

The Last Watchdog

Co-founder Jay Kim was running a family steel fabrication business when he took a trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. Kim: Yes, companies want assurance that they have an offline backup, yet they also want to be able to monitor what people are doing with those backups, as well. LW: Threats are still out there, essentially.

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Reddit discloses a data breach, a hacker accessed user data

Security Affairs

The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform. “A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords.

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Portnox Cloud: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2007, Por t nox began selling a software-based NAC solution to be used in local networks. authentication to gather endpoint information for reporting and enforcement. Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud.

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NEW TECH: DataLocker extends products, services to encrypt data on portable storage devices

The Last Watchdog

Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs. That’s why DataLocker built encryption into the storage device and made it accessible with password authentication.

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Cyber News Rundown: Italian Banks Hit with Ursnif

Webroot

Over 100 banks in Italy have fallen victim to the Ursnif banking trojan, which has stolen thousands of login credentials since it was first discovered in 2007. A California-based telemarketing firm was recently alerted to an exposed Amazon AWS bucket containing over 100,000 records and requiring no authentication to access.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure.