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DEF CON 29: SEVillage Recap

Security Through Education

The SEVillage was established back in 2010 at DEF CON 18. It has been the official home for all things social engineering for 12 years straight. SEVillage is also the home for all social engineering speeches at DEF CON. Friday launched the Social Engineering Capture the Flag 4 Kids (SECTF4Kids).

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5 years for swatter who caused a man’s death for a Twitter handle

Malwarebytes

In that time period, roughly between 2007 to 2010, law enforcement was generally struggling to keep up. If you ended up in Internet trouble with trolls and / or doxers, you were essentially on your own. What happened here is an awful combination of threats, harassment, social engineering and swatting. The Swatting 101.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

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History of Computer Hacking and Cybersecurity Threats: From the 50s to Today

ForAllSecure

However, hacking did not always involve computers or networks, and its history is much older than the internet era. The virus was created by Bob Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies, and it spread through the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet. In 1971, the first computer virus, known as the Creeper virus , was released.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000. Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Internet of Things, or IoT devices, already represent a mature technological industry. households had an estimated 11 internet-connected devices per household.

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OnionPoison: infected Tor Browser installer distributed through popular YouTube channel

SecureList

In our case, a link to a malicious Tor installer was posted on a popular Chinese-language YouTube channel devoted to anonymity on the internet. Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 Visual Studio 2010 – 10.10 The channel has more than 180,000 subscribers, while the view count on the video with the malicious link exceeds 64,000.