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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com. ” he observed.

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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains. Amongst those verified domain searches are government departments and they too are enormously varied; local councils, legal and health services, telecoms and infrastructure etc.

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. ” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. "Have I been pwned?"

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? Welcome to the hacker mind, in original podcast from for all security. I'm a principal on the security team at Cybereason, and I'm also a digital forensics instructor at the SANS Institute, Grooten: Martijn Grooten. It's natural.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5 The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

Named after a character from “Scooby-Doo,” the Creeper was originally intended as a security test for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the precursor of the modern Internet we know, love, and sometimes hate. As a security test, the Creeper’s effects on infected machines were minimal.