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The Intranet Imperative (2005)

ChiefTech

I wrote this in June 2005. But when we look at modern intranets (and extranets), this definition raises more questions than answers – for example: Restricted or private to whom – does this include business partners or even customers? The history of intranets is one of a slow burn of adoption (or innovation, if you like).

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

In a typical PPI network, clients will submit their malware—a spambot or password-stealing Trojan, for example —to the service, which in turn charges per thousand successful installations, with the price depending on the requested geographic location of the desired victims. An example of a cracked software download site distributing Glupteba.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a From one of his ads in 2005: Domains For Projects Advertised By Spam I can register bulletproof domains for sites and projects advertised by spam(of course they must be legal). w s, icamis[.]ru ru , and icamis[.]biz.

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Episode 229: BugCrowd’s Casey Ellis On What’s Hot In Bug Hunting

The Security Ledger

Programs like iDefense Labs Vulnerability Contributor Program (VCP) (launched in 2002) and TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (2005) were accused -at the time- of incentivizing the work of criminals and bad actors. . When the first bugs for cash programs emerged almost two decades ago, they were controversial.

IoT 98
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SEC warns of investment scams related to Hurricane Ida

Security Affairs

“For example, the SEC brought a number of enforcement actions against individuals and companies who made false and misleading statements about alleged business opportunities in light of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ” reads the alert published by SEC.

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Efficient QR codes

Imperial Violet

The 2005 edition changed that to be ISO/IEC 8859-1 (i.e. If you're using base-10 then there's going to be a function that can “print” a uint64 to digits for you, so let's take digits as an example. We'll finish up with a quick look at an example, which is the thing that started me on this path in the first place: SMART Health Cards.

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NEW TECH: Exabeam positions SIEM technology to help protect IoT, OT systems

The Last Watchdog

Security information and event management systems — SIEMs — have been around since 2005, but their time may have come at last. At RSA 2020, for example, Exabeam announced that it was moving to a cloud platform , which allows new services to be rolled out far more quickly than before.

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