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Adconion Execs Plead Guilty in Federal Anti-Spam Case

Krebs on Security

For many years, Dye was a system administrator for Optinrealbig , a Colorado company that relentlessly pimped all manner of junk email, from mortgage leads and adult-related services to counterfeit products and Viagra. Adconion was acquired in June 2014 by Amobee , a Redwood City, Calif.

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Four in-the-wild exploits, 13 critical patches headline bumper Patch Tuesday

Malwarebytes

Looking at the urgency levels Microsoft has assigned to them, system administrators have their work cut out for them once again: 13 criticial patches 103 important patches. CVE-2021-33771 Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability for Windows Server 2012, Server 2016, Windows 8.1, Windows Media Foundation.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “Cryptolockers made a lot of noise in the press, but lazy system administrators don’t make backups after that.

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Legendary Entertainment Relies on MVISION CNAPP Across Its Multicloud Environment

McAfee

Legendary Entertainment is a global media company with multiple divisions including film, television, digital studios, and comics. Under the guidance of Dan Meacham, VP of Global Security and Corporate Operations and CSO/CISO, the multi-billion dollar organization transitioned from on-premises data centers to the cloud in 2012.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price.

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

Kali Linux

This was at a time when CD-R were at their peak, giving you 650-700 MB and USB media was not yet on the scene. However, because BackTrack was getting to be known, it had grown legs, started appearing in the media, it was becoming ingrained in pop culture, they wanted to keep the momentum going.

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