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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. None of these early threats went pro.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. User@first]@@[user@first]123) and a folder named PasswordPatterswhich includes building blocks for password guessing. Jason Project GUI. WebService.dll assemply version.

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How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Because many powerful SQL injection tools are available open-source , your organization must test your applications before strangers do. . Also Read: Best Penetration Testing Software for 2021. . Therefore encryption and hashing passwords, confidential data, and connection strings are of the utmost importance. .

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. Accel Investments. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties

Troy Hunt

When the LinkedIn data breach from 2012 finally surfaced in May 2016, it appeared for sale on a (now defunct) dark web marketplace called The Real Deal. Well, I've got bad news for you guys, you're already getting free penetration tests every day anyway, you're just not getting told of the results!

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Coercing NTLM Authentication from SCCM

Security Boulevard

In ConfigMgr 2012, this technique no longer works without also adding a few records to the site database to kick off client push installation. Functionality to pull the Network Access Account policy from the server and decrypt its password without having the local administrator privileges required to unprotect it using the DPAPI system key.