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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Icamis and Sal were in daily communications with these botmasters, via the Spamdot forum and private messages. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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EU to Force IoT, Wireless Device Makers to Improve Security

eSecurity Planet

In addition, the amendment also will ensure greater privacy of personal data, prevent financial fraud, and improve resilience in European communications networks, according to EU officials. The result has been devices with trivial vulnerabilities or flaws that have been solved for a decade or longer in traditional computing.

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Attack of drones: airborne cybersecurity nightmare

Security Affairs

Drones currently occupy a unique legal position as they are classified as both aircraft and networked computing devices. In China, the retail drone market reached $15 billion in 2021, with projections to exceed $22 billion by 2024. that require registration with local or federal authorities.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data. Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come.

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Vint Cerf: Maybe We Need an Internet Driver’s License

John Battelle's Searchblog

Is there a moment in the history of computing that is as significant as the one we’re in now? We clearly know in 2024, that the situation is a little more complex than that, that there is harmful behavior on the network. And that has been the workhorse of the design of computer chips for years and years.