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Estonia blocked cyberattacks claimed by Pro-Russia Killnet group

Security Affairs

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. e-Estonia refers to a movement by the government of Estonia to facilitate citizen interactions with the state through the use of electronic solutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Since the inception of data forensics almost forty years ago, methods for investigating security events have given way to a market of vendors and tools offering digital forensics software (DFS). Autopsy is its GUI and a digital forensics platform used widely in public and private computer system investigations to boost TSK’s abilities.

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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. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Is APT27 Abusing COVID-19 To Attack People ?!

Security Affairs

Security researcher Marco Ramilli analyzed a new Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed attack gathering evidence of the alleged involvement of an APT group. It hijacks method on an old office 2007 component (Office Data Provider for – MSOSTYLE.exe). I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

However, they had no intention of implementing any kind of sophisticated security or access control system. Because Web browsers run on any type of computer, the same electronic information can be viewed by any employee. What is an intranet? One of an intranet's most obvious virtues is its ability to slash the need for paper.

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“Bot Herder” Slapped With Federal Prison Sentence

Hunton Privacy

A former computer security consultant was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison for fraud stemming from his involvement with a cyber-crime ring that used botnets to infect an estimated 250,000 computers. He has also been ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution to companies defrauded by the scheme. million in fines.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Why aren't we getting enterprise RSS yet?

ChiefTech

Tuesday, 13 November 2007 Why aren't we getting enterprise RSS yet? I think this comment points at a symptom of why the adoption of enterprise RSS is so slow - and that is RSS is still very much misunderstood by the corporate computing world, Gartner included. . ©2005-2009. Please seek advice for specific circumstances.