Threatpost

JANUARY 16, 2018

A bug in Lenovo’s Enterprise Networking Operating System could allow an attacker to launch an authentication bypass attack.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

In this paid ad from 2004, Severa lists prices to rent his spam botnet. Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. Severa was a moderator on the Russian spam community Spamdot[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2021

The flaw is wormable and affects different versions of Windows 10, Windows Server 2004 and Windows Server 20H2. This stack is used by the Windows built-in IIS server, which means that it could be easily exploited if the server is enabled.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

The Bifrost RAT has been active since 2004, it allows its operators to gather sensitive information, including hostname and IP address. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers discovered a new Linux variant of Bifrost (aka Bifrose) RAT that uses a deceptive domain (download.vmfare[.]com) com) that mimics the legitimate VMware domain.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 5, 2019

“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

CVE-2004-0210 – Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the POSIX subsystem.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

And in 2004, it emerged that identity thieves masquerading as customers of data broker Choicepoint had stolen the personal and financial records of more than 145,000 Americans.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The bulk of the websites that we discovered were active at various periods between 2004 and 2013. In addition, blocks of sequential IP addresses registered to apparently fictitious US companies were used to host some of the websites. All of these flaws would have facilitated discovery by hostile parties. […].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

ALAC was developed in 2004 and Apple open-sourced it in 2011, since then many third-party vendors used it. Security researchers at Check Point Research have discovered a critical remote code execution that affects the implementation of the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) in Android devices running on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 20, 2018

Back in 2004, when a 19-year-old Zuckerberg had just started building Facebook, he sent his Harvard friends a series of instant messages in which he marvelled at the fact that 4,000 people had volunteered their personal information to his nascent social network. This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

I attended my first one in 2004, while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. The theme of RSA Conference 2023 — ‘stronger together’ — was certainly well chosen. Related: Demystifying ‘DSPM’ This was my nineteenth RSAC.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 11, 2011

This is something I did way back when we started in 2004, it felt right to do it again. We've sold out registration every year since 2004.The One new thing I'll be doing as well is forming an advisory board. More on that soon, but my goal is to gather input on the program from a diverse set of voices. Hope to see you there!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

” The sandbox was developed by Ronen Tzur and released on June 26, 2004, he sold the solution to Invincea in 2013. The Sandboxie tool has been built on many years of highly-skilled developer work and is an example of how to integrate with Windows at a very low level.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

11 out of 16 targets cracked with 23 successful demos: Chrome, Safari, FireFox Adobe PDF Reader Docker-CE, VMware EXSi, Qemu, CentOS 8 iPhone 11 Pro+iOS 14, GalaxyS20 Windows 10 2004 TP-Link, ASUS Router — TianfuCup (@TianfuCup) November 8, 2020. Many mature and hard targets have been pwned on this year’s contest.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 9, 2012

2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2006 Predictions. 2006 How I Did. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here I am saying that in 2004.) Of course, Kuster did not employ a botnet virus to distribute his malware to real voters! He keeps it contained on his own system and demonstrates it in a video. Again, the solution is paper. And, no, blockchain does not help—it makes security worse.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Not since Google’s 2004 filing have so many journalists sped-read one document at the same time, eager to glean any possible insight unique to their particular point of view or publication and rush to post it before anyone else.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 19, 2010

It reminds me of Google in 2004, when the media fell in love with the concept of search. The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Mozilla announced some major changes to its bug bounty program that was first launched in 2004. Mozilla announced some changes to its Firefox bug bounty program, it promises bigger rewards for vulnerabilities and will accept duplicate reports if necessary.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

. “The ICO has specific responsibilities set out in the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. ” concludes the ICO.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

date back to 2004.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. Researchers from SEKOIA.IO

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This is the story of the LS-Studios, by Alexander Chursin , who had to close his business in 2004 after an FBI raid. The drama is that on the dark side of the Internet there are ogres that abuse children.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Two years before that, Davies was released from prison after being held in custody for 16 months on suspicion of murdering his new bride in 2004 on their honeymoon in India. .” Davies disappeared before he was convicted of fraud in 2015.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

” The SMBleed flaw impacts Windows 10 and Windows Server, versions 1903, 1909 and 2004, previous versions of the Microsoft OS are not affected. To exploit the vulnerability against a client, an unauthenticated attacker would need to configure a malicious SMBv3 server and convince a user to connect to it.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2024

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2020

Both vulnerabilities were addressed by Microsoft in August, the August 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates fixed the flaws in Windows 10, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, and Windows Server versions 1903, 1909, and 2004. and Windows Server 2012 R2.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2022

The scale is so massive that it makes up 15 percent of all breached users globally since 2004 (the year data breaches became widespread). The data analytics show: •A total 2.3 billion U.S. accounts have been breached so far.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The PCLOB was established in 2004 (when it didn't do much), disappeared from 2007-2012, and reconstituted in 2012. More precisely, it can examine what any executive-branch agency is doing about counterterrorism. So it can examine the program of TSA watchlists, NSA anti-terrorism surveillance, and FBI counterterrorism activities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That individual — Ernest Byaruhanga — was only the second person hired at AFRINIC back in 2004. Byaruhanga did not respond to requests for comment. who assisted Guilmette in his research.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 2, 2013

I went on to launch the Web 2 Summit in 2004, and it was at that event that Mary started presenting her annual Internet Trends deck. The Internet Summit had its last event in July of 2001, and the space was taken over by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who went on to launch All Things Digital , which has thrived to this day.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 – What it is and why we should be aware madhav Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:33 The inception of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004 came at a critical juncture in our technological history. As we are well and truly in the digital-first age, the need for robust cybersecurity measures is glaringly evident.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. Related: Predictions 2010. 2010 How I Did. 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2006 Predictions. 2006 How I Did. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 9, 2012

2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2006 Predictions. 2006 How I Did. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The company added that the incident may have impacted those that attended a public institution of higher education in Colorado between 2007-2020, attended a Colorado public high school between 2004-2020, individuals with a Colorado K-12 public school educator license between 2010-2014, participated in the Dependent Tuition Assistance Program from 2009-2013, (..)

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 31, 2013

I co-wrote this piece for Image & Data Magazine in 2004 (PDF), but its still relevant to the question posted by Andrew Wright on LinkedIn : How should great intranets be developed? As a project or as a series of rapid incremental improvements? For more see his blog post ).

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