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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. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud. As is true with any cloud service, the Seattle cloud computing company emphasizes the shared responsibility model. Out of Palo Alto, California, Cloudera started in 2008 by alumni of Google, Yahoo!, Alibaba Cloud.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: The Circle of Computing Life

ChiefTech

Sunday, 1 July 2007 The Circle of Computing Life I came across a great book a few weekends ago, called A Computer Called LEO , that tells the story of the first computer to be used by business. The first LEO or ""Lyons Electronic Office" consisted of: " 5,936 valves, plus another 300-400 in auxiliary equipment.

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Is APT27 Abusing COVID-19 To Attack People ?!

Security Affairs

Governments are doing their best to mitigate such a virus while people are stuck home working remotely using their own equipment. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) comprises a set of systems-management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments.

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

The following timeline tracks APT28 back to 2008 and gives us a quick view on how big and organized is the threat group over the past decade. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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Weekly podcast: NCSC and Kaspersky, parliamentary passwords and macOS High Sierra (again)

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017. The chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, has warned senior civil servants about using Russian antivirus (AV) software in government departments. Here are this week’s stories. Including interns on exchange programmes.

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

ChiefTech

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet?

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