Krebs on Security

JULY 14, 2020

” CVE-2020-1350 is just the latest worry for enterprise system administrators in charge of patching dangerous bugs in widely-used software. Then there’s CVE-2020-1421 , which protects against potentially malicious.LNK files (think Stuxnet ) that could be exploited via an infected removable drive or remote share.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the 1980s, the internet as we know it today was called ARPANET and used mostly by researchers and the military. According to Cliff Stoll, author of the book The Cuckoo's Egg , the community was small, and the level of trust was very high. There weren't enough users of ARPANET to warrant any real scrutiny of everyone's activities.

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NopSec

MARCH 16, 2020

As an average person I had to refer to the book I read and to the movie I watch to experience the uncertainty caused by a full-blown pandemic. Much like in the book – and movie – Gabriel Garcia Marques, “Love in the time of cholera”. That difficult situation is now a reality in the US and in the rest of the world.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Great book by the way!). It wasn’t until I started college that I started to dig deeper into operating systems, networking, and lower-level languages like C. I started to learn more about how the Internet worked and one thing led to the other. From that moment on, I knew what I wanted to work with, for the rest of my life.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among the oldest tricks in the book is to fake one’s demise or retirement and invent a new identity. After acknowledging someone had also seized their Internet servers, DarkSide announced it was folding. A rough timeline of major ransomware operations and their reputed links over time. Department of Justice.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

When people feel threatened by it they want to throw the book at Yeah. I wrote a book with Kevin Mitnick, a convicted felon. We do have we do have some people on the internet who have expressed concern about, you know, cyber criminal, I think is what we were originally going with. So attacker, malicious adversary a threat actor?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I still remember reading hacker Kevin Mitnick's book "Ghost in the Wires" a few years ago. I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support.

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