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Tainted password-cracking software for industrial systems used to spread P2P Sality bot

Security Affairs

Dragos researchers were also able to recover the password using the exploit over Ethernet, significantly increasing the severity of the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-2003. The CVE-2022-2003 was responsibly disclosed to Automation Direct and the vendor addressed it with the release of a firmware update. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

Krebs on Security

had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. Securities and Exchange Commission each announced they were investigating the company. In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp.

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ZombieBoy, a new Monero miner that allows to earn $1,000 on a monthly basis

Security Affairs

A security researcher discovered a new crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that leverages several exploits to evade detection. The security researcher James Quinn has spotted a new strain of crypto mining worm dubbed ZombieBoy that appears to be very profitable and leverages several exploits to evade detection.

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“The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” Our Turf?

Brandeis Records Manager

This premise is highly subjective and relative advice that a hoarder or crazy person or perfectly sane person might construe as “all records,” including their 2003 cinema ticket stub for Dumb and Dumberer and the takeout menu from a deli that closed in 1986. To be fair, shredders are mentioned elsewhere in the book.

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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

Krebs on Security

NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The earliest document number available on the site – 000000075 — referenced a real estate transaction from 2003.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

And I remember probably 2000 to 2003 ish, complaining when we when I think it was last year that we were at Alexa, Alexis Park for DEF CON. Mine was 2000. And so, myself and another individual named Rob Farrell, we were brought in to start a security team. of pleasure, or rage, where operational security levels are much lower.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

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. Kylie and I started investing while we were young.

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