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Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

Many of the infected systems were Internet of Things (IoT) devices , including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,” Kloster’s blog enthused. “We

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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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The cybersecurity researcher Dan Kaminsky has died

Security Affairs

Dan Kaminsky was very active in the cyber security community, he was a regular speaker at major cybersecurity and hacking conferences, including Black Hat and DEFCON. On June 16, 2010, he was named by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as one of the Trusted Community Representatives for the DNSSEC root.

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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet

Krebs on Security

RUSdot is the successor forum to Spamdot , a far more secretive and restricted forum where most of the world’s top spammers, virus writers and cybercriminals collaborated for years before the community’s implosion in 2010. “Thanks to you, we are now developing in the field of information security and anonymity!,”

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Russia-linked Energetic Bear APT behind San Francisco airport attacks

Security Affairs

The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. The Energetic Bear APT group has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors.

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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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Microsoft issues an out-of-band update to address SharePoint information disclosure flaw

Security Affairs

The CVE-2019-1491 flaw affects Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2 and 2013 SP1 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019. The flaw was reported by Saif ElSherei from the Microsoft Research Center’s Vulnerabilities and Mitigations Team.