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Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet

Security Affairs

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. For example, users who click on a link looking to download a free game instead unknowingly download and install Glupteba malware.”

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Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

Krebs on Security

Ċ korjanc and his hacker handle Iserdo were initially named in a Justice Department indictment from 2011 (PDF) along with two other men who allegedly wrote and sold the Mariposa botnet code. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot. Slovenian police are reportedly still investigating that incident.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. Vamosi: Here’s a good example. There are’s a lot to unpack here.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. Vamosi: Here’s a good example. There are’s a lot to unpack here.

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2019 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 2

eDiscovery Daily

But, this case – where an attorney sought sanctions against another for hanging up on him – is a unique example of lack of cooperation: Court Denies Sanction Request for Attorney Who Hung Up on Opposing Counsel One Time : In Ewing v. 2011: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. Here they are: 2018: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4.

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memcpy (and friends) with NULL pointers

Imperial Violet

The C standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has a sane-seeming definition of memcpy (section 7.24.2.1): The memcpy function copies n characters from the object pointed to by s2 into the object pointed to by s1. Emphasis is mine.). For example, a local root exploit in the kernel was enabled by a dereference-based removal of a NULL check.).

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DB2 for z/OS ZPARMs that Organizations Consistently Set in a Sub-Optimal Fashion

Robert's Db2

In this sense, plan management functionality (along with REBIND PACKAGE options APREUSE and APCOMPARE) is intended to "take the fear out of rebinding" (in the words of a former colleague of mine). More information on this topic can be found in an entry I posted to this blog back in 2011 -- that information is still applicable today.