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Data Enrichment, People Data Labs and Another 622M Email Addresses

Troy Hunt

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How Does An IPv6 Proxy Work & How Enterprises Can Get Benefit?

Security Affairs

Technological advancements have come a long way – from when internet utility was very limited to when internet connection was achieved only through internet protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) addresses to this modern age where IPv6 is the next big thing. And several technologies have been built and designed in its wake.

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Belarusian authorities seized XakFor, one of the largest Russian-speaking hacker sites

Security Affairs

Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that Belarusian police have seized and shutdown XakFor, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. XakFor has been active since 2012, most of its visitors were Russian-speaking hackers and crooks. Belarusian police have seized the servers of XakFor (xakfor[.]net),

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The Dark Web Has Nothing on Data Brokers

Daniel Miessler

People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon. and in 2012 the New York Times said they had the largest commercial database on customers. Acxiom collects, analyzes and sells customer and business information used for targeted advertising campaigns. Among those, Acxiom is particularly interesting.

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China-linked APT41 group exploits Citrix, Cisco, Zoho flaws

Security Affairs

The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014. The campaign was uncovered by FireEye , threat actor targeted many organizations worldwide the world by exploiting vulnerabilities in Citrix, Cisco and Zoho ManageEngine products.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

Could agents take control of my computer over the Internet if they wanted to? Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this. I am less trusting of communications technology. This was in 2016, when Poitras built a secure room in New York to house the documents.

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We infiltrated an IRC botnet. Here’s what we found

Security Affairs

When targeted by a threat actor, the honeypot system uses their intrusion attempt to gain valuable information about the attacker. In order to capture malware and monitor cyberattacks across the internet in real-time, we run multiple honeypot systems that are contained in isolated execution environments, otherwise known as containers.

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