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China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

Security Affairs

BlackTech is a Chinese APT group that has been active since at least 2010 and that known for conducting cyber espionage campaigns in Asia aimed at entities in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Krebs on Security

The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive.

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CIA elite hacking unit was not able to protect its tools and cyber weapons

Security Affairs

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Schulte was identified a few days after WikiLeaks started leaking the precious dumps. .

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog recently sat down with Satya Gupta, founder and CTO of Virsec , a San Jose-based supplier of advanced data protection systems. Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies. Gupta put memory attacks in context of the complexity that has overtaken modern business networks. Branching attacks.

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CSPM vs CWPP vs CIEM vs CNAPP: What’s the Difference?

eSecurity Planet

We’ll examine each of those cloud security technologies — along with CASB too — and their uses, and direct you to some of the top cloud security solutions. To set up and administer access controls using CIEM systems, administrators and security teams may need specialized training.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

With the launch the first stable release of BackTrack 4 in January 2010, the project got its own domain ( backtrack-linux.org ) and moved off remote-exploit. System Upgrades When the team started work switching from Slax to Ubuntu, they grabbed the latest release at the time (8.10 - Intrepid Ibex). With technology, trends change.

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