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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

com is no longer responding, but a cached copy of it from Archive.org shows that for about four years it included in its HTML source a Google Analytics code of US-2665744 , which was also present on more than a dozen other websites. Another domain with the Google Analytics code US-2665744 was sscompany[.]net. com, such as abuseipdb[.]com

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep. RDC emerged as a go-to productivity tool, and similar controls swiftly emerged for Macs, IoS, Android and other operating systems in wide use.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

In-depth technical analysis of a new method of extracting user cardholder data from compromised websites using legit Google Analytics protocol ? Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Denial-of-Suez attack. Jack Daniel | @jack_daniel.