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Orchard botnet uses Bitcoin Transaction info to generate DGA domains

Security Affairs

“It’s worth pointing out that the wallet address is the miner reward receiving address of the Bitcoin Genesis Block , which occurred on January 3, 2009, and is believed to be held by Nakamoto.” Version 3 supports features to launch an XMRig Monero mining software. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

Darkode was taken down in 2015 as part of an FBI investigation sting operation , but screenshots of the community saved by this author show that DCReavers2 was already well known to the Darkode founders when his membership to the forum was accepted in May 2009. DCReavers2 was just the 22nd account to register on the Darkode cybercrime forum.

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The Link Between Ransomware and Cryptocurrency

eSecurity Planet

E-gold use peaked in the mid-2000s before it was suspended in 2009 for legal reasons. For the past five years, there has been cryptomining , where bad actors infect systems with malware that leverages the CPUs to mine for coins, essentially crowdsourcing stolen CPU power.

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Parental Control Software Developer to Pay $100,000 for Children’s Privacy Violation

Hunton Privacy

The settlement comes one year after the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) alleged in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission that EcoMetrix was deceptively collecting and marketing children’s information.

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

ChiefTech

. ©2005-2009. 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). Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion.

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

ChiefTech

©2005-2009. 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. However, you need to come over and see my new blog at chieftech.com.au. Please seek advice for specific circumstances.

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Court Allows Discovery of Facebook and MySpace Content

Hunton Privacy

2009), Mackelprang v. With more than 400 million users, Facebook and MySpace are potential gold mines of information. Savvy lawyers are just starting to mine this valuable source of information. The court ordered the release of the plaintiff’s postings, pictures and other information on the social networking sites.

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