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Play Ransomware Group Unleashes New Threat on ESXi Environments: Analysis & Mitigation Strategies

The Play ransomware group, well-known for its double-extortion tactics, recently unveiled a Linux variant targeting ESXi environments. This development represents a significant evolution of ransomware strategies, and admins and businesses must unders...
Jul 23, 2024
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The Hidden Dangers in Your Dependencies: Responding to Trojanized jQuery Attacks

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Exploring Snowblind: A Fresh Take on Android Malware Exploiting seccomp

Cybersecurity threats continue to emerge regularly, and...
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Mitnick Free to Speak

Mitnick Free to Speak

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Kevin Mitnick was informed today by the United States Probation Office that he will be permitted to pursue several offers of employment including speaking engagements, security consulting work and writing for Steven Brill's online magazine Contentville. The approval represents a reversal . . .

UK: Hacking threat to national security?

UK: Hacking threat to national security?

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UK population of the opinion that the Internet poses a serious threat to national security, says WhichOnline survey. Nearly a third of all Britons believe the Internet poses a serious threat to national security, according to figures published by WhichOnline . . .

Learning how to hack the enemy

Learning how to hack the enemy

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With a few keystrokes, nearly 40 student hackers started mapping the computer network of Rutgers University. Using a Unix-based command known as a "traceroute," students who were sequestered in a room just south of San Francisco's Market Street caused every server . . .

How a cracker defeated Hackopen

How a cracker defeated 'Hackopen'

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Seven days after the start of our Openhack security competition at https://www.openhack.com we've had our first successful crack, of the e-commerce storefront. The rest of the site, including the Web server, mail server and database, is still secure and remains a target of attack.. . .

Counterpane To Offer Hacker Insurance

Counterpane To Offer Hacker Insurance

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Counterpane Internet Security plans to put money behind its claim that it can protect companies from Internet intruders. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on Monday will announce plans to offer hacker insurance policies of up to $10 million through Lloyds of . . .

Hacker insurance

Hacker insurance

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The recent rash of computer viruses and denial of service attacks has put online businesses on alert. The Internet is becoming the next insurance frontier. AIG, Marsh and Lloyd's of London all are offering policies covering hacker attacks, viruses and other . . .

Hacker attacks welcomed.. Im sure they are.

Hacker attacks welcomed.. I'm sure they are.

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The recent ZDNet OpenHack project claims to "Openhack data will help e-businesses develop the appropriate balance of Net security, openness". Jericho from attrition.org has a different view. "Does this bring flashbacks of any previous contest? Does for me. I seem to recall the same group running a contest like this before. I also recall the previous contest being extremely unbalanced, poorly setup, and very unclear as to the actual goal of it. Last time, the same group put a heavily secured Windows NT box up against a near default install Red Hat Linux box, and tried to claim Linux was less secure after it was hacked. Rather than change the default install of the linux machine by adding security patches, they added insecure third party CGI software that later proved to be the achilles hill of the Linux system. This was far from a fair contest. But wait.. they don't mention this at all."

No Love For Computer Bugs

No Love For Computer Bugs

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"Anthony Carathimas, an intense, dark-haired college student, is writing his first computer virus. His eyes locked on his computer screen at Sandia National Laboratories' Livermore branch, he tentatively types a line: Cat virus >> /etc/profile"

Hacking For The Common Good?

Hacking For The Common Good?

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He's nice-looking, polite and very intelligent. He goes by the name Rain Forest Puppy, RFP for short. It's a name that might suggest environmental leanings, but that would be a serious miscalculation. RFP may turn out to be the software industry's . . .

High-Tech Spy vs. Spy

High-Tech Spy vs. Spy

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Transmeta chief executive David Ditzel chuckles at the memory of the sudden interest in the company's trash weeks before taking the wraps off its new, top-secret Crusoe computer chip. But with hundreds of millions of dollars of research on the line, keeping the microprocessor's specifications secret was no laughing matter.. . .

Hackers are common criminals

Hackers are common criminals

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On British TV the other night, a young hacker from Wales was asked why he had broken into a computer and downloaded several thousand people's bank details. He replied that he had done it to prove that the bank's security procedures were inadequate. It should have been obvious that he had no criminal intent and naturally hadn't done anything with the downloaded details. If he hadn't done it, someone else would have. . . .

NASA: Hacker Threatened Mission

NASA: Hacker Threatened Mission

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A computer hacker put space shuttle astronauts' lives at risk by overloading NASA's communication system in 1997, the agency told the BBC in a program to be aired Monday. The hacker interfered with computer systems monitoring the heartbeat, pulse, and medical . . .

Kaspersky Lab Warns to Be Careful

Kaspersky Lab Warns to Be Careful

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Kaspersky Lab, an international anti-virus software development company, announces the discovery of a new Internet-worm "Jer", which has an ability to penetrate computers at the moment users visit infected web pages. . . .

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