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RSAC Fireside Chat: Jscrambler levels-up JavaScript security, slows GenAI-fueled privacy loss

The Last Watchdog

Related: Next-level browser security That’s a question that spilled out of a thought-provoking conversation I had with Pedro Fortuna , co-founder and CTO of Jscrambler , at RSAC 2024. Jscrambler provides granular visibility and monitoring of JavaScript coding thus enabling companies to set and enforce security rules and privacy policies.

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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

Krebs on Security

It’s been a tough few months for denizens of various hacking forums, which are finding themselves on the defensive end of a great many attacks testing the security of their aliases and operational security lately. That’s about when AOL sold the platform in 2010 to Russian investor DST for $187.5

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

“My exploit pack is hosted there with 0 problems,” DCReaver2 says of a shady online provider that another member asked about in May 2010. Arrested in 2010, Skorjanc was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for selling and supporting Mariposa, which was used to compromise millions of Microsoft Windows computers.

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Ramnit is back and contributes in creating a massive proxy botnet, tracked as ‘Black’ botnet

Security Affairs

Security researchers at Checkpoint security have spotted a massive proxy botnet, tracked as ‘Black’ botnet, created by Ramnit operators. A few months later Ramnit was back, the researchers at IBM security discovered a new variant of the popular Ramnit Trojan. Security Affairs – cybercrime, Ramnit botnet).

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Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

Krebs on Security

More recently, Škorjanc served as chief technology officer at NiceHash , a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies like bitcoin. In December 2017, approximately USD $52 million worth of bitcoin mysteriously disappeared from the coffers of NiceHash.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

” Gupta said the report qualified as a “medium” severity security issue in Shifter’s brand new bug bounty program (the site makes no mention of a bug bounty), which he said offers up to $2,000 for reporting data exposure issues like the one they just fixed. .” pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites.

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MY TAKE: Here’s why the Internet Society’s new Privacy Code of Conduct deserves wide adoption

The Last Watchdog

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg infamously declared that privacy “is no longer a social norm” in 2010, he was merely parroting a corporate imperative that Google had long since established. What if companies stopped treating consumers as wellsprings of behavioral data – data to be voraciously mined and then sold to the highest bidder?

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