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Cisco Pays $8.6M in First False Claims Suit for Vulnerabilities in Security Product

Dark Reading

A security consultant reported vulnerabilities in Cisco's Video Surveillance Manager in 2009 - but the company ignored the issues and fired the consultant.

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10-year-old vulnerability in Avaya VoIP Phones finally fixed

Security Affairs

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2009-0692 , could be exploited by an attacker to crash the ISC DHCP client and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client. Avaya did not address the vulnerability issue in some of its VoIP devices by applying the necessary patches that were released after the discovery of the flaw in 2009.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs.

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Out-Innovated by Management Practice Blowback - a Video Conversation with John Hagel

Collaboration 2.0

My previous post about the ‘Shift Index 2009′ report is augmented by this video, and fellow ZDNet blogger Dennis Howlett attended the ‘‘Eastern Philosophy: Management Lessons From Emerging Markets’ Brainstorm Tech panel John and I [.]

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Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

The Security Ledger

Software is now central to the operation of our economy – as digital transformation washes over every industry. Niels Provos, Head of Security Efficacy at Lacework Niels’ subsequent work included a stint as the Head of Security at payments startup Stripe.

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Operation Lyrebird: Group-IB assists INTERPOL in identifying suspect behind numerous cybercrimes worldwide

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team, the suspect, dubbed Dr HeX by Group-IB based on one of the nicknames that he used, has been active since at least 2009 and is responsible for a number of cybercrimes, including phishing, defacing, malware development, fraud, and carding that resulted in thousands of unsuspecting victims.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

An ad for war.md, circa 2009. ru ) show that in 2009 he was a spammer who peddled knockoff prescription drugs via Rx-Promotion , once one of the largest pharmacy spam moneymaking programs for Russian-speaking affiliates. Neculiti was the owner of war[.]md Cached copies of DonChicho’s vanity domain ( donchicho[.]ru

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