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Hackers targeting Drupal vulnerabilities to install the Shellbot Backdoor

Security Affairs

Experts pointed out that the Shellbot code first appeared in 2005 and is being used by several threat groups, it was also used in the massive crypto-mining campaign that was exploiting the CVE-2017-5638 Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) in March 2017. “

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Shellbot is known since 2005 and even available on GitHub. This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. The first folder to analyze is “a”.

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The Book Lives On

John Battelle's Searchblog

I also mentioned that the projects I’d been working on – notably OpenCo and The Book , would have to be retooled given my new commitment to the company I started back in 2005 (when I last wrote a book). In the post, I wrote: I love the book I’m working on, and I don’t plan to abandon it (I’m bringing on a co-author).

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: From ODBC to Mashing

ChiefTech

Tuesday, 5 June 2007 From ODBC to Mashing Mark Bower has written a couple of interesting posts about the origins of mashing, the first referencing a earlier post of mine about spreadsheets. Please seek advice for specific circumstances. Bower says: " James Dellow wrote last week on spreadsheets as an early mashup tool.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Enterprise Web 2.0 inside CSC

ChiefTech

experiences , its only fair I talk about mine: There are three enterprise level wiki experiments Im aware of at CSC (there could be more, and I believe there are some project or team related wikis around). Monday, 27 August 2007 Enterprise Web 2.0 inside CSC Since Im asking fellow Aussies to share their Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Just for fun - a SNA map in Many Eyes of my blog

ChiefTech

How does you blog neighborhood compare to mine? In fact, its lucky that my blog isnt too popular as this would have taken a lot longer to put together :-) Im still exploring this data myself but in the meantime let me know what you think: Are you in my blog neighborhood but perhaps we havent said "hello"? What other patterns can you see?

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Debating disastrous KM experiences

ChiefTech

Mine have all been disastrous experiences. Sunday, 24 June 2007 Debating disastrous KM experiences Ive commented a couple of times on posts by Paula Thornton in the FAST Forward blog , so it was great to see her drop by the ChiefTech blog to challenge me a little on my own thinking about the success of knowledge management (KM).

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