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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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What is DKIM Email Security Technology? DKIM Explained

eSecurity Planet

DKIM Fundamentals The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes full information on the DKIM and its standards, which were last updated in 2011. For example the filename nashville._domainkey.exampledomain.com Domain is the domain of the organization.

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Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See

John Battelle's Searchblog

Last year, for example, I wrote my predictions based mainly on what I wished would happen, not what I thought realistically would. It will be seen as the year the Internet adopted the planet as its cause. The only time we’ve seen a platform like that emerge is the Internet itself. For if not us… 1.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint. Anyone talking about it in 2011 most likely had inside information. However, on the internet, nothing is truly deleted.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

On the modern Internet, malware is a near-constant presence. Ransomware, for example, usually doesn’t self-replicate. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. Worms and the Dawn of the Internet Age: 1987-2000.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. But that neat framework has been thoroughly and utterly upended on the Internet, which, as you might recall, has mostly viewed regulation as damage to be routed around. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. But that neat framework has been thoroughly and utterly upended on the Internet, which, as you might recall, has mostly viewed regulation as damage to be routed around. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud. And the FEC?—?that’s