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U.S. Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections

Krebs on Security

“This is the most significant technological and financial operation ever led by the Department of Justice against a botnet,” said Martin Estrada , the U.S. Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. attorney for the Southern District of California, at a press conference this morning in Los Angeles.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Technological Tactics.

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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. Talk more soon.

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A Question of Identity: The Evolution of Identity & Access Management

SecureWorld News

People, process & technology framework A successful IAM program requires all three dimensions—people, process, and technology—working in concert to enhance the user experience, fuel efficiency gains, and minimize enterprise risk. In this case, CISOs must manage the risks due to the technology debt.

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Episode 247: Into the AppSec Trenches with Robinhood CSO Caleb Sima

The Security Ledger

The “web” has, in the space of 30 years, transformed from a funky little corner of the Internet full of pictures and text to become the bedrock of modern commerce. As Mobile Fraud Rises, The Password Persists. These days, every business is online and a huge – and growing – chunk of business activity is transacted online.

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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. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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