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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Developed by the SANS Institute in 2007, SIFT works on 64-bit OS, automatically updates the software with the latest forensic tools and techniques, and is a memory optimizer. The first version of Volatility was launched at Black Hat and DefCon in 2007 and based its services around academic research into advanced memory analysis and forensics.

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

Herjavec Group

1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S. In 2007, he is arrested and eventually pleads guilty to wire fraud, stealing millions of credit card numbers and around $86 million of fraudulent purchases. 1999 — NASA and Defense Department Hack — Jonathan James, 15, manages to penetrate U.S. presidential election. east coast.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Since the 1970s, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has offered encryption , authentication, bootstrapping, and digital signatures to secure digital communications. As encryption methods go, AES-128 and RSA-2048 are vulnerable to quantum attacks. Next-Generation Cryptography. KSI Innovator: Estonia’s Guardtime.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Exabeam UEBA 2021 Private Cato Networks SASE 2020 Private Confluera Cloud XDR 2019 Private Aqua Container security 2017 Private Netskope SASE 2017 Private Zscaler Zero trust 2012 Nasdaq: ZS Sailpoint Identity management 2007 Private. New Enterprise Associates (NEA). NightDragon. Sequoia Investments. YL Ventures.

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Is APT27 Abusing COVID-19 To Attack People ?!

Security Affairs

The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. The encryption is performed by a simple xor having as key the single byte 0 while the encoding procedure is a multi conversion routine which could be summarized as follows: chr(asc(chr(“&h”&mid(x,y,2)))).

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APT trends report Q1 2024

SecureList

The payloads were distinctively served, veiled as font files, in compressed and encrypted fashion. Careto is a highly sophisticated threat actor that has been seen targeting various high-profile organizations since at least 2007. This characteristic led us to highly similar incidents in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

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