Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

The Bifrost RAT has been active since 2004, it allows its operators to gather sensitive information, including hostname and IP address. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers discovered a new Linux variant of Bifrost (aka Bifrose) RAT that uses a deceptive domain (download.vmfare[.]com) com) that mimics the legitimate VMware domain.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

” The sandbox was developed by Ronen Tzur and released on June 26, 2004, he sold the solution to Invincea in 2013. The Sandboxie tool has been built on many years of highly-skilled developer work and is an example of how to integrate with Windows at a very low level.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

11 out of 16 targets cracked with 23 successful demos: Chrome, Safari, FireFox Adobe PDF Reader Docker-CE, VMware EXSi, Qemu, CentOS 8 iPhone 11 Pro+iOS 14, GalaxyS20 Windows 10 2004 TP-Link, ASUS Router — TianfuCup (@TianfuCup) November 8, 2020. Many mature and hard targets have been pwned on this year’s contest.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Mozilla announced some major changes to its bug bounty program that was first launched in 2004. Mozilla announced some changes to its Firefox bug bounty program, it promises bigger rewards for vulnerabilities and will accept duplicate reports if necessary.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

. “The ICO has specific responsibilities set out in the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. ” concludes the ICO.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 11, 2024

Only one of the patches released today — CVE-2004-30080 — earned Microsoft’s most urgent “critical” rating, meaning malware or malcontents could exploit the vulnerability to remotely seize control over a user’s system, without any user interaction.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. Researchers from SEKOIA.IO

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This is the story of the LS-Studios, by Alexander Chursin , who had to close his business in 2004 after an FBI raid. The drama is that on the dark side of the Internet there are ogres that abuse children.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2024

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

” The SMBleed flaw impacts Windows 10 and Windows Server, versions 1903, 1909 and 2004, previous versions of the Microsoft OS are not affected. To exploit the vulnerability against a client, an unauthenticated attacker would need to configure a malicious SMBv3 server and convince a user to connect to it.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 25, 2021

I’ve been covering this cybersecurity gathering since 2004 and each year cybersecurity materially advances. Resilience was the theme of RSA Conference 2021 which took place virtually last week. Related: Web attacks spike 62 percent in 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2020

Both vulnerabilities were addressed by Microsoft in August, the August 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates fixed the flaws in Windows 10, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, and Windows Server versions 1903, 1909, and 2004. and Windows Server 2012 R2.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

The company added that the incident may have impacted those that attended a public institution of higher education in Colorado between 2007-2020, attended a Colorado public high school between 2004-2020, individuals with a Colorado K-12 public school educator license between 2010-2014, participated in the Dependent Tuition Assistance Program from 2009-2013, (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The three states joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004, but they are still part of a power grid controlled by Russia. The three countries will be integrated into the European energy grid by 2025, without depending on the Russian grid.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com. The yearbook photos for the Amtek class of 2004 are not indexed in the Wayback Machine at archive.org, but the names and nicknames of 16 students remain. However, it appears that the entry for one student — the Wmpay[.]com ru: Andrey Skvortsov.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

CISA also addressed the following issue in the latest turn: CVE-2004-1464 – Cisco IOS Denial-of-Service Vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2021

“Both core and full installations are affected back to Windows Server 2008, including versions 2004 and 20H2,” said Aleks Haugom , also with Automox. .” Another concerning critical vulnerability in the July batch is CVE-2021-34494 , a dangerous bug in the Windows DNS Server that earned a CVSS score (severity) of 9.8

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JULY 22, 2019

The certificates are issued in compliance with the Law on Communications 2004 passed in November 2015. Recently the Kazakh ISP Tele2 started redirecting all HTTPS connections of its customers to a web page containing the certificate and instructions on how to install the certificate on major OS. ” states Tele2.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Infy malware was first submitted to VirusTotal on August 2007, meanwhile, the C&C domain used by the oldest sample spotted by the experts has been associated with a malicious campaign dated back December 2004. The group used the Tonnerre and Foudre (Thunder & Lightning) tools to spy on Windows-based PCs. .

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Threatpost

JANUARY 16, 2018

A bug in Lenovo’s Enterprise Networking Operating System could allow an attacker to launch an authentication bypass attack.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

I’ve been paying close attention to privacy and cybersecurity since 2004, first as a technology reporter at USA TODAY, then as Editor-In-Chief of ThirdCertainty.com, a corporate-underwritten news analysis blog.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

” Mikheil was the third President of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. According to Interpress media, the websites were defaced by the hackers that published a picture of Georgia’s exiled former president Mikheil Saakashvili with the message “I’ll be back!”

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The development of the Snake malware, aka Uroburos , started in late 2003 and was completed in early 2004. The malware uses custom communications protocols designed to avoid detection. The threat is continuously upgraded and the authors re-designed it after the public disclosures.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

And in 2004, it emerged that identity thieves masquerading as customers of data broker Choicepoint had stolen the personal and financial records of more than 145,000 Americans.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

SHA1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm 1) has been broken since 2004 and can be breached quickly by criminals at relatively little cost. Given a considerable portion of the stored passwords were hashed using weak password-hashing functions (MD5 or SHA1), they could easily be decrypted and used for credential-stuffing attacks.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MARCH 20, 2018

Back in 2004, when a 19-year-old Zuckerberg had just started building Facebook, he sent his Harvard friends a series of instant messages in which he marvelled at the fact that 4,000 people had volunteered their personal information to his nascent social network. This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 11, 2011

This is something I did way back when we started in 2004, it felt right to do it again. We've sold out registration every year since 2004.The One new thing I'll be doing as well is forming an advisory board. More on that soon, but my goal is to gather input on the program from a diverse set of voices. Hope to see you there!

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

I attended my first one in 2004, while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. The theme of RSA Conference 2023 — ‘stronger together’ — was certainly well chosen. Related: Demystifying ‘DSPM’ This was my nineteenth RSAC.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 9, 2012

2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. 2008 How I Did. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2006 Predictions. 2006 How I Did. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here I am saying that in 2004.) Of course, Kuster did not employ a botnet virus to distribute his malware to real voters! He keeps it contained on his own system and demonstrates it in a video. Again, the solution is paper. And, no, blockchain does not help—it makes security worse.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Not since Google’s 2004 filing have so many journalists sped-read one document at the same time, eager to glean any possible insight unique to their particular point of view or publication and rush to post it before anyone else.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 19, 2010

It reminds me of Google in 2004, when the media fell in love with the concept of search. The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

date back to 2004.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2019

That individual — Ernest Byaruhanga — was only the second person hired at AFRINIC back in 2004. Byaruhanga did not respond to requests for comment. who assisted Guilmette in his research.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The PCLOB was established in 2004 (when it didn't do much), disappeared from 2007-2012, and reconstituted in 2012. More precisely, it can examine what any executive-branch agency is doing about counterterrorism. So it can examine the program of TSA watchlists, NSA anti-terrorism surveillance, and FBI counterterrorism activities.

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