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

The Last Watchdog

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. Another fundamental tweak was the onset of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) in May 2015. About the essayist.

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Earning Trust In Public Cloud Services

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About The Author. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. David runs MacSecurity.net. David runs MacSecurity.net.

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Do Not Confuse Next Generation Firewall And Web Application Firewall

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About The Author. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation. David runs MacSecurity.net and Privacy-PC.com. David runs MacSecurity.net and Privacy-PC.com. But that is another story.

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How Not to Pay the Ransom? No Soup For You, Ransomware!

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

David Balaban | Guest author. More About This Author >. Any experience with malicious encryption provides extra insights into the ransomware infection vectors and payload. It is a lesson to learn for the users and businesses. Data security. Encryption. Encryption Key Management.

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From Fiction to Reality - A Zero Trust Network Access Overview

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

David Balaban | Guest author. More About This Author >. Therefore, this concept is not attached to a specific vendor, but it requires seamless in-teroperability of different security products. Data security.

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AI Arms Race: The cat-and-mouse game with no obvious winner

SC Magazine

Today’s columnist, David Balaban of Privacy-PC, says government regulation could likely hold back the technology’s progress. Malware authors can also piggyback on the technology by creating environment-aware malicious code that adjusts its activities to the peculiarities of the target network.