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Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity! But that action did not name any defendants.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

.” The DOJ’s statement doesn’t mention that RSOCKS has been in operation since 2014, when access to the web store for the botnet was first advertised on multiple Russian-language cybercrime forums. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,”

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BORN Ontario data breach impacted 3.4 million newborns and pregnancy care patients

Security Affairs

. “The personal health information that was copied was collected from a large network of mostly Ontario health care facilities and providers regarding fertility, pregnancy, newborn and child health care offered between January 2010 and May 2023.”

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IRISSCON 2023: OT, AI, and human empathy

BH Consulting

Stuxnet in 2010 was the first the most recent was CosmicEnergy in 2023. Ferguson pointed out that the standard model for building and securing an OT network is very different to IT, and many OT devices suffer from insecurity by design. Some were never intended to be connected to the internet.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. He was quoted as saying that he and his co-conspirators would steal the data and if Tesla refused to pay the ransom the company's secrets would be placed on the internet.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

He retired as a colonel in 2010. Prior to Mastercard, Abdullah was the chief information security officer at Xerox, where she established and led a corporate-wide information risk management program. She also served as the deputy chief information officer of the White House.

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FBI and DHS CISA issue alerts on e-skimming attacks

Security Affairs

The US FBI issued a warning for the US private sector about e-skimming attacks carried out by the Magecart cybercrime groups. E-skimming took place when hackers compromise an e-commerce site and plant a malicious code designed to siphon payment card data or personally identifiable information (PII).