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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Krebs on Security

Image Mozilla Monitor Plus video on Youtube. On March 14, KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people. Mozilla Monitor.

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CISA adds Stuxnet bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Security Affairs

CVE-2013-2596 Linux Kernel – Linux kernel fb_mmap function in drivers/video/fbmem.c CVE-2010-2568 Microsoft Windows – Microsoft Windows incorrectly parses shortcuts in such a way that malicious code may be executed when the operating system displays the icon of a malicious shortcut file.

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The Year In Writing, 2010

John Battelle's Searchblog

Predictions 2010 I'll be getting to this in a post later this week. It's Video of Bloody Jesus! The 2010 Web2 Summit Theme: Points of Control Introducing the theme of this year's event. Video Chat on the Plane? Search Getting Worse? What Did I Mean?! I wrote a series on this. This is a summary. Legal Gray Area?

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Administrator of RSOCKS Proxy Botnet Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

Many of the infected systems were Internet of Things (IoT) devices , including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. Later in its existence, the RSOCKS botnet expanded into compromising Android devices and conventional computers.

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French Data Protection Authority Unveils 2010 Annual Activity Report

Hunton Privacy

On November 16, 2011, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2010 (the “Report”) highlighting its main 2010 accomplishments and outlining some of its priorities for the upcoming year. In 2010, the CNIL received more than 4,821 complaints and 70,797 data processing registrations.

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Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison

Security Affairs

According to his LinkedIn profile , Schulte worked for the NSA for five months in 2010 as a systems engineer, after this experience, he joined the CIA as a software engineer and he left the CIA in November 2016. Schulte was identified a few days after WikiLeaks started leaking the precious dumps.

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Over 61% of Exchange servers vulnerable to CVE-2020-0688 attacks

Security Affairs

Security experts Simon Zuckerbraun from Zero Day Initiative published technical details on how to exploit the Microsoft Exchange CVE-2020-0688 along with a video PoC. Researchers from Rapid7 reported that 61 percent of Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 servers are still vulnerable to the vulnerability.