Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Since 2007, the Pwnies have celebrated the good, the bad, and the wacky in cybersecurity. Enjoy some of the best moments of this year's ceremony.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Here’s me in 2007 on the NSA backdoor. We knew the basics of this story , but it’s good to have more detail. Here’s me in 2015 about this Juniper hack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. Yesterday, Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007. The DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In 2008, Cyber Monday hit the big time as Thanksgiving fell five days later than in 2007 so the people were hungry for the online deals. Then, in 2005 the clever people at the National Retail Federation decided that an online frenzy of shopping was needed the Monday after Thanksgiving. We know this Monday as Cyber Monday.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 19, 2023

Fast forward to the launch of the iPhone in 2007, and once again, everyone was convinced the world was going to change dramatically. And unlike 1993, when the Internet was literally a blue ocean opportunity, or 2007, when smart phones were as well, this time everyone’s in on the joke.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Back in 2007, I called this the “ war on the unexpected.” It turns out the would-be “bomber” was just a vintage camera aficionado and the woman who reported him made a mistake, sources said. Why in the world was the passenger in custody for “several hours”? They didn’t do anything wrong.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 15, 2012

I am in the midst of writing a post on the history of FM, and I thought it’d be fun to post the PDF linked to below. It’s a summary of musings from Searchblog circa 2006-7 on the topic of conversational media, which is much in the news again, thanks to Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2021

for his key role in the distribution of the Gozi virus that infected more than a million computers from 2007 to 2012. The Gozi banking Trojan is not a new threat, it was first spotted by security researchers in 2007. Colombian officials announced the arrest of the Romanian hacker Mihai Ionut Paunescu who is wanted in the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Vostrom filed papers in 2007 to do business as Packet Forensics, according to Virginia state records. They estimated that those apps were downloaded more than 60 million times, including 10 million downloads of Muslim prayer apps. Measurement Systems’ website was registered by Vostrom Holdings, according to historic domain name records.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In this new post on the Ripple Effect Group blog , I decided to take a retrospective look at Gartner''s Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace since 2007. One of my observations is that over the last 4 years over half the vendors have remained fairly constant in the quadrant.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by an unpatched Python vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 (CVSS score: 6.8), that was discovered 15 years ago. As we dug into the issue, we realized this was in fact CVE-2007-4559.” Initially we thought we had found a new zero-day vulnerability.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 2, 2018

User data from 2007 and before was compromised. Yes, Reddit Was Breached; No, Don't Dump Multifactor Authentication Reddit suffered a data breach in June after attackers managed to bypass its SMS-based two-factor authentication system.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The APT41 group (aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. Once obtained access to the target network, the attackers attempted to steal credentials and compromise multiple computers.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Second, we demonstrate how to insert undetectable backdoors in models trained using the Random Fourier Features (RFF) learning paradigm (Rahimi, Recht; NeurIPS 2007). Moreover, even if the distinguisher can request backdoored inputs of its choice, they cannot backdoor a new input­a property we call non-replicability.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 19, 2018

But it has also found authentication error logs that recorded incorrect login attempts from before 2007. But Old Error Logs Contained Clear Text of Incorrect Passwords Human resources software developer PageUp says it doesn't appear that personal data exposed in a malware attack was actually removed from its systems.

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PerezBox

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2007 I joined FaceBook, in 2020 I am leaving Facebook. It’s been a fun run, but the time has come to say goodbye. Why leave Facebook? My reasoning is. The post Thanks FaceBook, Bye appeared first on PerezBox.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2023

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Singapore, Flexxon is a global company that specialises in next generation hardware cybersecurity solutions and industrial NAND storage devices. About Flexxon.

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Archives Blogs

MARCH 4, 2019

Will Eisner Week kicked off on March 1 st , so it’s a great time to remind library users of the rich graphic novel and comics resources available in Special Collections & Archives.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 1, 2021

a data broker acquired by Equifax in 2007. But these requirements were easily bypassed, as evidenced by a previous breach at Equifax’s employment division. The Work Number is a user-paid verification of employment database created by TALX Corp. ,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Evil Corp cybercrime group (aka the Dridex gang Indrik Spider , the Dridex gang, and TA505 ) has been active in cybercrime activities since 2007. Evil Corp has recently launched a new ransomware called Macaw Locker to evade US sanctions that prevent victims from making ransom payments.

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ChiefTech

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Monday, 5 February 2007 NSW KM Forum in 2007 Just to let you know, Im the incoming chair of the New South Wales Knowledge Management Forum for 2007. Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion. Please seek advice for specific circumstances.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“As reflected in court documents, from 2007 through 2019, Brovko worked closely with other cybercriminals to monetize vast troves of data that had been stolen by “botnets,” or networks of infected computers. Brovko was involved in the illegal practice between 2007 and 2019. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 1, 2007

Technorati tags: KM Australia 2007 , NSW KM Forum , Serena Joyner , Brad Hinton , Michel Bauwens , Patrick Lambe at 5:48 PM View blog reactions 0comments: Post a Comment Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2020

A couple of weeks ago, the popular security researcher Kevin Beaumont reported mass scanning for the CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability). That was quick, since 2 hours ago seeing likely mass scanning for CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Evil Corp cybercrime group (aka the Dridex gang Indrik Spider , the Dridex gang, and TA505 ) has been active in cybercrime activities since 2007. The malware drops ransom notes ( macaw_recover.txt ) in each folder, the ransom note includes the link to a unique victim negotiation page.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Kopter Group is Switzerland-based company that was founded in 2007 that was acquired by Leonardo in April 2020. The helicopter maker Kopter was hit by LockBit ransomware, the attackers compromised its internal network and encrypted the company’s files.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

It also was used in 2007 to register xeka[.]ru That same email address was used to register the account “Isis” at several other top Russian-language cybercrime forums, including Damagelab, Zloy, Evilzone and Priv-8. ru , a cybercrime forum in its own right that called itself “ The Antichat Mafia.”

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Dark Reading

APRIL 12, 2019

Working out of Bucharest since 2007, a pair of criminals infected and controlled more than 400,000 individual computers, mostly in the US.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

The APT41 group, aka Winnti , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Lookout pointed out that APT41’s activity has not slowed down since recent indictments by the U.S. government.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

”However, one feature of this particular package caught our eye: an obfuscation technique that was foreseen in 2007 during a discussion about Python’s support for Unicode, documented in PEP-3131 “ While inspecting the code the experts multiple strange, non-monospaced, sans-serif font with mixed bold and italics.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

That story cited a 2007 report (PDF) from iDefense , which detailed DaiLin’s role as the leader of a state-sponsored, four-man hacking team called NCPH (short for Network Crack Program Hacker). ” At the time of story, DaiLin was 28 years old.

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ChiefTech

MAY 19, 2007

Technorati tags: French Presidential Election 2007 , Blogosphere , RTGI , Social Network Analysis , Social Media , Visualization , Visualisation , Bill Ives at 10:11 AM View blog reactions 0comments: Post a Comment Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. Please seek advice for specific circumstances. Care of Bill.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Since at least 2007, the MOIS coordinated a series of cyber operation against government entities and private organizations around the world. MOIS is the primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a member of the Iran Intelligence Community. “Today, the U.S.

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ChiefTech

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

Saturday, 17 February 2007 Spending on enterprise social software to rise by 5.9% during 2007 A colleague pointed out these encouraging results from a CIO Insight survey on IT spending in 2007: Planned spending on social software ranked 20th in their list (last place), but the change in planned spending for that category reported was 5.9%

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Winnti (aka APT41 , Axiom, Barium , Blackfly) is a cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. Symantec researchers reported that cyberespionage group APT41 targeted organizations in Hong Kong in a campaign that is a likely continuation of the Operation CuckooBees activity detailed by Cybereason in May.

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ChiefTech

JANUARY 7, 2007

Monday, 8 January 2007 Enterprise 2.0 in 2006 and into 2007 No time to comment on these, but Ive had them flagged for a while a posts of interest about Enterprise 2.0 in 2006 (see his predictions for 2007 below); On the Collaboration Loop blog, Larry Cannell explains why there is more to Enterprise 2.0 than blogs and wikis.

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