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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. Much of my reporting on Vrublevsky’s cybercrime empire came from several years worth of internal ChronoPay emails and documents that were leaked online in 2010 and 2011.

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Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

IP holders – artists, newspapers, craftspeople – will press their lawsuits and infuse the market with uncertainty and hesitancy. But stress fractures are inevitable as market forces shift. Enterprise Data Moves Beyond Marketing. Why can’t the data from retail media networks inform supply chains, for example?

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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

Krebs on Security

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. ” In 2010, someone using the email address dugidox@gmail.com registered the domain dugidox[.]com.

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MY TAKE: DigiCert and Oracle partner to extend digital trust and scalable infrastructure globally

The Last Watchdog

Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010. Cavanagh As a latecomer to the hyperscale data center market , Oracle focused on its heritage of helping large enterprise customers securely and efficiently run their mission critical systems and applications, Cavanagh told me. “Our

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” ” Russian corporate records indicate this entity was liquidated in 2021.

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IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access

Krebs on Security

Many readers were aghast that the IRS would ask people to hand over their biometric and personal data to a private company that begin in 2010 as a way to help veterans, teachers and other public servants qualify for retail discounts. These readers had reasonable questions: Who has (or will have) access to this data? ”

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Predictions ’23: Advertising – Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Twitter

John Battelle's Searchblog

No company is more motivated, more data-driven, and has hired more accomplished industry veterans than Netflix, and if anyone is going to figure out what has so far been a total shitshow (that’d be the connected television market), it’s going to be Netflix. My third, focused on markets, is here. Predictions 2010.