Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Launched in 2013, Microleaves is a service that allows customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe. The very first discussion thread started by the new user Microleaves on the forum BlackHatWorld in 2013 sought forum members who could help test and grow the proxy network.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In early 2013, researchers at Rapid7 published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. In December 2018, the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing a disconcerting scenario, UPnProxy was still up and running.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password. Palant said that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.” And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

” The SEC said the 800 million+ records had been publicly available on First American’s website since 2013. There’s no way to tell unless you can go back through all your logs all those years.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

In March 2013, several impossibly massive waves of nuisance requests – peaking as high as 300 gigabytes per second— swamped Spamhaus , knocking the anti-spam organization off line for extended periods. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

us began in September 2013 as a forum for learning and teaching how to hack accounts at Runescape, an MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy realm where players battle for kingdoms and riches. A review of passive DNS records from DomainTools indicates that in 2013 pictrace[.]com An administrator account Xerx3s on Abusewithus. Abusewith[.]us

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

” By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password. Palant noted last year that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.”

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. I neglected to reveal the sum the criminals managed to mine in the few hours before they were detected. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 February 2018. It was a paltry $24.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 27, 2014

“We don’t put an algorithm between you and your feed,” – Twitter exec Adam Bain, March 2013. We just want media products on top of those feeds that mine the best stuff and present it to us in a way that keeps us engaged, provides us significant value, and thereby keeps us coming back. “Please do.”

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 22, 2024

However, as the ship entered the largest channel, it struck an American mine. The mine was unfortunately omitted from the ship’s sailing orders for the day. The first mine struck near the engine room, and shortly after a second mine would hit near the stern. Soldiers clambering down the side by rope and net.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since Docker hit the scene in 2013, containers have become a primary way for developers to create and deploy applications in an increasingly distributed IT world of on-premises data centers, public and private clouds, and the edge. . ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. Related: My 2013 SIRA talk, " Building a Science of Security ", " Zeroing in on Malware Propagation Methods." That would be exciting and actionable.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2013

On December 18, 2013, the White House published a report recommending reforms to the federal government’s wide-ranging surveillance programs. companies to encrypt data in transit, at rest and in storage (including in the cloud); and.

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CGI

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Mon, 02/11/2013 - 07:00. Challenges include: Trawling, aggregating and mining of data, entity extraction to understand what the data actually is, Visualisation and Natural Language analytics, especially multi language. Challenges include: Tagging the information, its source and its provenance, Data mining and visualisation.

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Adam Shostack

MAY 20, 2020

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. Related: My 2013 SIRA talk, “ Building a Science of Security “, “ Zeroing in on Malware Propagation Methods.” ” How the intrusion happens is about questions like: Is it phishing emails that steal creds?

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ChiefTech

MARCH 17, 2013

My BarCamp Canberra 2013 presentation, "Pragmatic Ethnography" tried to capture a little of my own professional experience of working in the field. I'm not a ethnographer by training and its not on my CV, but I realise that I have often (and increasingly) employed methods that are common to ethnography in my work.

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CGI

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Wed, 10/09/2013 - 07:20. Back in 2011 a colleague of mine won an "IT strategy" consulting engagement with a major UK company. Scope and Specification: An IT Strategy War Story. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. He built a small, capable team, and hit the ground running.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. One of the most notorious one being the BlackPOS spyware that compromised the data of over 40 million Target customers in 2013. Warning signs. Ransomware.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days.

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CGI

AUGUST 16, 2013

Fri, 08/16/2013 - 08:00. A friend of mine once led an IT strategy consulting engagement for a UK company. Dismiss business benefits at your peril: An IT strategy war story. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. She spent time tailoring the method appropriately, took care to get the right messages in the proposal, built a team, and began work.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. HIBP's brand is intrinsically tied to mine and at present, it needs me to go along with it. The prevalence of them seemed to be really ramping up as was the impact they were having on those of us that found ourselves in them, myself included.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The access to plaintiff’s accounts and devices, however, is appropriately limited in time, i.e., only those items posted or sent after the accident, and in subject matter, i.e., those items discussing or showing defendant engaging in basketball or other similar physical activities (see Forman v. Henkin, 30 N.Y.3d 3d 656, 665, 70 N.Y.S.3d

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Archives Blogs

JANUARY 4, 2019

Your House is Mine. I’ve put together a photo montage of some of my favorites, click on an image to learn more about the item and its preservation concerns. A number of these artist books have been explored in greater depth in other posts on this blog: Earth Clock and The/Rapist.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

In Southern Pacific Personal Loans Ltd [2013] EWHC 2485 (Ch) , the High Court held that liquidators of a company in creditors’ voluntary liquidation were not data controllers for the purposes of the then data protection law, the Data Protection Act 1998 ( DPA ’98 ).

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CGI

JANUARY 9, 2014

And once the door is open, you have a custom-made collection of informed, real world feedback ready to mine for ideas to improve how you interact with your end-customers. Submitted by Guest on December 5, 2013. Submitted by cgiblog on December 5, 2013. So what should you do about it? You are correct about the importance.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. It intends to take the case to the Supreme Court.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 15, 2023

Here's mine: One of the problems the dashboard approach helps tackle is unsubscribing on an individual domain basis. And so on and so forth until my inbox looked like this: This was Azure auto-scale doing its thing and it was one of the early attractions for me building HIBP on Microsoft's PaaS offering way back in 2013.

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Robert's Db2

APRIL 29, 2014

I well remember a phone conversation, from about six or seven years ago, during which a friend of mine and I discussed an application project at his site which involved use of DB2 for z/OS stored procedures. Me: "In what language will the stored procedure programs be written?"

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Robert's Db2

OCTOBER 24, 2012

At this year's IOD event I've particularly enjoyed learning more about DB2 11 for z/OS , the beta program for which is expected to begin in March of 2013. I'm in Las Vegas this week for the IBM Information on Demand 2012 conference. DB2 11 will deliver a lot in the way of new features and capabilities.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

The very first feature I added to Have I Been Pwned after I launched it back in December 2013 was the public API. This is where it becomes their (your) problem rather than mine and that's particularly apparent in the next scenario.

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CGI

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Thu, 12/12/2013 - 10:00. These sites provide ad hoc stores of information that can be followed, searched, and mined but even more critically, help solve information 'unknowns' by linking people together. Turning Content Inside Out. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Content is changing - from author-controlled to consumer and collaboration-led.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I would never want to live in any of our properties we bought as investments.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018). DT is creating real-time data that can be “mined” to uncover information about products, customers, market trends, and financial risks. IDC estimated the world created.16 16 ZB (zettabytes) of data in 2006, then 2.83 Figure 2: Information Explosion.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We held over fifty stakeholder meetings between October of 2013 and April of 2015. It begins with fact-finding: gathering information, learning the institution, meeting with stakeholders from various functions. But retention policy is one area to catch up in order to keep the evolving program balanced.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

2013: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. Here they are: 2018: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2017: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2016: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2015: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2014: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2012: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2011: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

The unflattering profile was laid out in a series of documents tied to a lawsuit lodged by Michael Terpin , a cryptocurrency investor who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. “Gradually, I got to know Nick.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. And so when everyone else was running Novell networks, I was really deeply invested into what would become Active Directory at a later stage.

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