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The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon

Krebs on Security

Some of the world’s largest Internet firms have taken steps to crack down on disinformation spread by QAnon conspiracy theorists and the hate-filled anonymous message board 8chan. Technology Inc. Technology Inc. Technology gives the latter the right to use more than 21,500 IP addresses. ” and “207.”

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GUEST ESSAY: A breakdown of Google’s revisions to streamline its ‘reCAPTCHA’ bot filter

The Last Watchdog

Most of us internet users are obviously familiar with CAPTCHAs: a challenge or test that is designed to filter out bots (automated programs) and only allow legitimate human users in. As a user, we only need to click on the checkbox, but it is actually a pretty advanced technology. That is, however, no longer the case.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

As first reported by Cyberscoop in 2020, a trial brief in the California investigation identified Nikulin, Kislitsin and two alleged cybercriminals — Oleg Tolstikh and Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko — as being present during a 2012 meeting at a Moscow hotel, where participants allegedly discussed starting an internet café business.

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DHS offers program to recruit and retain talent in Cybersecurity

CyberSecurity Insiders

As Information Technology usage is growing, the same old traditional hiring techniques won’t work while hiring for critical vacancies. And it includes identity theft, online criminal activity, threats related to internet routing, and other online incidents.

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Belgium telecom operators Proximus and Orange drop Huawei

Security Affairs

Orange Belgium is using Huawei equipment since 2007 for its mobile network in Belgium and Luxembourg, while the collaboration between Proximus and the Shenzhen-based company started in 2009 for the progressive upgrading of its network. The Chinese giant was already excluded by several countries from building their 5G internet networks.

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Shodan: Cybersecurity Tool or Hacker’s Yellow Pages?

Adam Levin

While not inaccurate, describing Shodan as a “search engine” for “internet-connected devices” is something of an understatement. Shodan doesn’t help provide much in the way of reassurance by featuring the top three searches on the site: all are links to vulnerable or unprotected internet-enabled cameras.