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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

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. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion. The website amtek-foreva-narod.ru

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Turla APT group used a new backdoor in attacks against Afghanistan, Germany and the US

Security Affairs

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. The threat actors are using the backdoorsince at least 2020. Threat actors targeted the previous Afghan government, Talos speculates.

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US will help Baltic states to secure baltic energy grid

Security Affairs

The three states joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004, but they are still part of a power grid controlled by Russia. Suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states, sources said, raising security concerns inside the West’s main military alliance, NATO.”

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Kaspersky

InfoGovNuggets

Questions as to the Kaspersky antivirus software company were raised by military intelligence in 2004, well before the 2013 threat assessment issued Pentagon-wide. “Russian Firm Was Long Seen as Threat,” The Wall Street Journal , November 18, 2017 A2. Who dropped the ball? Did the Russians have an inside track?

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Animatics and Anti-Communism: Payut Ngaokrachang Animates Hanuman for the USIA

Unwritten Record

Some were made for military service members. We work on a lot of cartoons in the Motion Picture Preservation Lab. Some were made to illustrate the dangers of drug use. But the most consistently surprising cartoons are the ones we find in the films of the United States Information Agency (USIA). You can see how it works in the clips below.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. One of the most single-minded of these security vendors is startup CyCognito.

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The Future of War (From Jan., 1993 to the Present)

John Battelle's Searchblog

The most notable of these continuing operations is the not-so-covert war in Pakistan, where the United States has carried out more than 300 drone strikes since 2004. This is virtual reality as a new way of knowledge: a new and terrible kind of transcendent military power. It also affects how we and our politicians view such operations.

Military 101