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Timeshare Owner? The Mexican Drug Cartels Want You

Krebs on Security

It is unclear whether the Dimitruks were robbed by people working for the Jalisco cartel, but it is clear that whoever is responsible for managing many of the above-mentioned domains — including the DNS provider datasur[.]host Constella found that someone using the email address exposed in the DNS records for datasur[.]host

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

“Using the internal router, it would be possible to poison the DNS cache of the LAN router of the infected node, enabling further attacks.” net , which advertised “free unlimited internet file-sharing platform” for those who agreed to install their software. in the British Virgin Islands. 911 TODAY.

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Google Chronicle announced Backstory to protect businesses

Security Affairs

” Backstory analyzes log data, including DNS traffic, NetFlow, endpoint logs, proxy logs and elaborates this huge trove of information into meaningful, and quickly searchable manner. Companies could use this data to quickly detect malicious activities. VirusTotal, Avast, Proofpoint and Carbon Black). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Quad9 to move offices to Switzerland, invites other privacy-focused firms to follow

SC Magazine

.” Quad9 is a non-profit offering a free recursive DNS service that does not log user data. and Google Public DNS. The company received a finding of law from the Swiss government that it will not be treated as a telecommunications provider, exempting it from laws that would mandate data collection.

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Review: Can We Trust the Waterfox Browser? (Updated 2023)

Security Boulevard

PROS Light on System Resources ( ) Compatible with most Firefox Extensions ( ) "No telemetry" and "Limited Data Collection" ( this could change, given the first con below) CONS Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage. Nothing’s changed there.

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Mystic Stealer

Security Boulevard

MysticStealer forum post advertising v1.2 In one forum, the seller advertised that the project's morpher enabled the bypass of SmartScreen, which members identified as a dubious claim based on the operation of obfuscators and SmartScreen. The seller later advertised Mystic Stealer on the XSS forum.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 223 – News of the week

Security Affairs

NCSC report warns of DNS Hijacking Attacks. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Former NSA contractor sentenced to 9 years for stealing classified data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.