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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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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. By year’s end, Twitter will be roundly criticized for doing basically what it did at the beginning of the year. Twitter and Apple will have their first big fight, most likely over an acquisition.

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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. Why glorify the criminal hackers? And he had.

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