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A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang

Krebs on Security

At its launch, DarkSide sought to woo affiliates from competing ransomware programs by advertising a victim data leak site that gets “stable visits and media coverage,” as well as the ability to publish victim data by stages. The advertisement continued: “Network penetration testing. Under the “Why choose us?”

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Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet

Security Affairs

. “In the summer of 2020, Google determined that Glupteba malware was being disseminated on numerous third-party software download sites, online movie streaming sites, and video downloader sites, often advertised as “free downloads.” TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. com ,” a Russian-language service that sold access to thousands of compromised PCs that could be used to proxy traffic.

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Italian Garante Publishes Updated Guidelines on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Hunton Privacy

Laura Liguori of Portolano Cavallo reports that on June 10, 2021, the Italian Data Protection Authority ( Garante or “DPA”) adopted a new version of its guidelines for cookies and other tracking mechanisms (the “Guidelines”). Reiteration of Consent. At least six months must elapse before a user can be asked to make a choice again.

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Success of AI in academic libraries depends on underlying data

CILIP

Some of these collections of data are freely accessible due to the open access policy outlined by national research guideline in different countries and at their universities, data repositories in the private sector have a more controlled or restricted access. Article continues below advertisement.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

Lodrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 presentation. In early September 2021. It says that spy phones sold real time access to that information, which could have enabled domestic abusers and stalkers to track their targets. So I hope you'll stick around.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Diversity

ForAllSecure

million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. It was used to describe people who had access to the internet in their home, and those who did not, that still remains. But that's changing.