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5 pro-freedom technologies that could change the Internet

Malwarebytes

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. DNS encryption.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. When it was initially set up, it took advantage of two managed DNS servers assigned to it by GoDaddy — ns17.domaincontrol.com,

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Feds Charge Three in Mass Seizure of Attack-for-hire Services

Krebs on Security

” For one thing, the booter services targeted in this takedown advertised the ability to “resolve” or determine the true Internet address of a target. Some resolvers also allowed customers to determine the Internet address of a target using nothing more than the target’s Skype username. Attorney Schroeder said.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. I can not provide DNS for u, only domains. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a w s, icamis[.]ru

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KillNet hits healthcare sector with DDoS attacks

Malwarebytes

Often the attackers use enslaved computers, "bots", to send the requests. That attack was attributed to KillNet by the country’s healthcare computer emergency response team, Z-CERT. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says it helped dozens of hospitals respond to these DDoS incidents.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. For their latest Security Ledger Spotlight podcast, Paul Roberts sat down with David Brumley, Chief Executive Officer at ForAllSecure and a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

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