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Dell SupportAssist flaw exposes computers to hack, patch it asap!

Security Affairs

To solve the problems Dell SupportAssist interacts with the Dell Support website and automatically detect Service Tag or Express Service Code of Dell product. The vulnerability affects the following Dell versions: • Dell for business PCs version 2.1.3 or earlier • Dell for home PCs version 3.4 or earlier.

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Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet

Security Affairs

Google announced to have disrupted the Glupteba botnet, a huge infrastructure composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs worldwide. The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Google Buys Nest

John Battelle's Searchblog

Today comes the news that Google is buying Nest , a move that, upon reflection, should have been obvious (the price tag of more than $3 billion, not so obvious!). Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs – made them relevant and far more valuable.

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

While sinkholing doesn’t clean up infected systems, it can prevent the attackers from continuing to harvest data from infected PCs or sending them new commands and malware updates. “It is possible that an infected computer is beaconing, but is unable to egress to the command and control due to outbound firewall restrictions.”

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6 Best Threat Intelligence Feeds to Use in 2023

eSecurity Planet

Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. The Exploits Block List (XBL) is a real-time database for IP addresses of PCs that have been hijacked and infected by third-party exploits.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Environmentally Sustainable IT

ChiefTech

interest in green IT by putting the blame for 2% of global CO2 emissions on the door step of the ICT industry : " CO2 emissions that ICT is responsible for includes the in-use phase of PCs, servers, cooling, fixed and mobile telephony, local area network (LAN), office telecommunications and printers.

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