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Hacker leaks passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers

Security Affairs

ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. When it comes to cyber warfare, America is no shrinking violet, of course. They use a botnet to feed a large number of usernames and passwords into accounts associated with the targeted entity.

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Connecticut Tightens its Data Breach Notification Laws

Data Protection Report

credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account. 60-Day Notification Window. The amended law expands this requirement to breaches involving Social Security numbers and taxpayer identification numbers.

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British Court rejects the US’s request to extradite Julian Assange

Security Affairs

Of course, the U.S. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. [link] — Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) January 4, 2021. government will likely appeal the decision.

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MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems

The Last Watchdog

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. The infamous Mirai botnet self-replicated by seeking out hundreds of thousands of home routers with weak or non-existent passwords. And we’re just getting started.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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