Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The vulnerability was discovered and reported to Apple by Bobby Rauch , a security consultant and penetration tester based in Boston. In 2008, a cyber attack described at the time as “the worst breach of U.S. military computers in history” was traced back to a USB flash drive left in the parking lot of a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

A report from the security firm Team Cymru found the DDoS attack infrastructure used in NoName campaigns is assigned to two interlinked hosting providers: MIRhosting and Stark Industries. md , a website launched in 2008 that chronicled the history of a 1990 armed conflict in Moldova known as the Transnistria War and the Moldo-Russian war.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). 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. Attack Timeline.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

“Importantly, our own investigation has determined that, beyond this much-publicized security breach, the group has leveraged the same backdoor to open a covert access channel to the foreign offices of another two European countries, as well as to the network of a major defense contractor.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Examples include identity (from driver’s licenses and SSNs to Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and Facebook), delivery of important information and items (from the Post Office to Telcos, Internet, and FedEx and UPS), and protection (outsourcing both prisons and military jobs to private companies). No wonder 2008 was such a (continuing) disaster.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. 2008, wherein he addresses forum members with the salutation, “Hello Gentlemen Scammers.” 9, 2024).

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AIIM

APRIL 29, 2019

I got to know her in 2008 when she won AIIM’s Distinguished Service Awards due to her work in the New England Chapter. I’m looking forward to further growth as I take on the role of VP of Membership and Volunteer Engagement at ASIS (a community of security management professionals -- anyone from military police to CISOs).

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Dual-use items have both military and civil applications. Vice versa, all shipments of dual-use items from the UK to the EU will require a UK export authorization, as set out in the Export Control Order 2008. Systems, equipment, and components for defeating, weakening, or bypassing information security. Simulation software.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 16, 2009

electrical power grid gave practical significance to already high-profile issues in Washington — how better to secure the nation’s cyber-infrastructure. Late in 2008, the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency (the Commission) released a report citing the U.S.’s

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Arguably, machine to machine (M2M) communication started in the 1950s in military projects , where IBM developed the real time operating system concepts required to handle a number of complex applications, including the first missile tracking systems. Silos are jealously guarded as they are the source of job security and knowledge.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

and Israel get Stuxnet onto the highly secured Natanz plant? The development of the deadly cyber weapon started under the administration of George Bush Junior as part of a military operation named “ Olympic Games ”, but the Obama administration has been pushing a more energetic on the offensive program. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

I’m talking about cybercrime unicorns, talking the fog of cyberwar among nation states, and about a new book that I think will be on the shelves of every information security professional later this summer. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general. It’s not.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

C yber a ttack s on Georgia (2008 , 2019 ) Georgian government websites get defaced; thousands of government and private websites get blocked, including two major TV stations. Regulators are responding by implementing stricter data privacy and supply chain security standards. This means company leaders must do their due diligence.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

In the near term, new-school security awareness training can help alert your people to the tells of automated scamming. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. This appears to be the case with Qbot.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The threat landscape of cybersecurity changes daily, with hackers and cybersecurity professionals in a perpetual cat-and-mouse chase; hackers discover new ways to infiltrate and exploit their targets, and the cybersecurity industry looks for vulnerabilities, tries to anticipate new threats and responds when cyber security issues arise.

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