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Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System

Schneier on Security

Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters’ computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted. Here I am saying that in 2004.) Again, the solution is paper.

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Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites

Schneier on Security

We’re now learning that the CIA is still “using an irresponsibly secured system for asset communication.” The bulk of the websites that we discovered were active at various periods between 2004 and 2013. All of these flaws would have facilitated discovery by hostile parties. […].

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Author Q&A: Former privacy officer urges leaders to prioritize security as part of cloud migration

The Last Watchdog

Cyber threats have steadily intensified each year since I began writing about privacy and cybersecurity for USA TODAY in 2004. Our hope lies in leveraging machine learning and automation to create very smart and accurate security platforms that can impose resilient protection. Acohido Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Last Watchdog podcast: Unwrapping ‘resilience’ guidance discussed at RSA Conference 2021

The Last Watchdog

I’ve been covering this cybersecurity gathering since 2004 and each year cybersecurity materially advances. By the same token, the difficulties of defending modern IT systems has redoubled as organizations try to balance security and productivity. I visited with Bruce Snell and Setu Kulkarni from NTT Security to discuss this.

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

The scale is so massive that it makes up 15 percent of all breached users globally since 2004 (the year data breaches became widespread). Essential security tool. VPNs factor into this shift, as the burden on individual consumers to preserve privacy and secure their sensitive data is greater than ever.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

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. It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com. ru: Andrey Skvortsov.

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CVE-2021-31166 Windows HTTP flaw also impacts WinRM servers

Security Affairs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2021 security updates addressed 55 vulnerabilities in Microsoft including a critical HTTP Protocol Stack Remote Code Execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-31166. The flaw is wormable and affects different versions of Windows 10, Windows Server 2004 and Windows Server 20H2. WinRM *IS* vulnerable.

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