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Booter Boss Interviewed in 2014 Pleads Guilty

Krebs on Security

pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to cause damage to Internet-connected computers and for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal “booter” or “stresser” services designed to knock Web sites offline, including exostress[.]in net prior to our phone call in 2014. com and zstress[.]net.

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UK authorities sentenced hacker who blackmailed Apple for $100,000

Security Affairs

In March 2017, crooks claimed to have over 627 millions of iCloud credentials and threatened to wipe date from iPhones, iPads and Macs if Apple did not pay $150,000 within two weeks. Albayrak was arrested in late March 2017 by the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit. reported the NCA. But cyber-crime doesn’t pay.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

That object was crafted on 2018-10-09 but it was seen only on 2018-10-12. It’s not hard to see what the payload does (CVE-2017-11882 ), but if you run it on a dynamic engine you would probably have more chances to prove it. Opening up The Excel File it gets infected. 1 and OleObj.2. Stage1: Encrypted Content. But what is the key?

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

Later in that decade, Frederick Terman returned to Stanford from Harvard as dean of the engineering school and encouraged the development of electronics in local businesses. Kleiner was the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Perkins was an early Hewlett-Packard computer division manager.) According to the U.S.

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What IG Professionals Should Know About the Internet of Bodies

ARMA International

A company in Wisconsin had a “chipping party” in 2017 to implant microchips in some of its employees to make it easier for them to access the buildings and systems and to buy food in the company break room. [1]. Another common name for the IoB is embodied computing , where the human body is used as a technology platform. Legalities.

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TA505 Cybercrime targets system integrator companies

Security Affairs

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. During a normal monitoring activity, one of the detection tools hits a suspicious email coming from the validtree.com domain. That IP is assigned to Frontier Communications Solutions: a NY based company.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. Victims of Equifax’s 2017 data breach were given the go-ahead to launch a class-action lawsuit. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.