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10 Funny Tweets to Promote #CybersecurityAwareness

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October 4, 2021. September 30, 2021. October 5, 2021. March 14, 2021. October 5, 2021. Linux is the best OS, just try to prove him wrong. Linux is the best OS prove me wrong. ?? Linux #infosec pic.twitter.com/lzUlaxOVNJ — Security_Nerd (@itssecuritynerd). October 2, 2021.

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What Does the World's Largest DDoS Attack Look Like?

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This refers to the average rate of legitimate traffic in 2021 Q2. Fifteen percent of the bot's IP addresses were located in Indonesia, while 17% came from India and Brazil combined, meaning there is a chance many devices in these countries are infected with malware. Mirai malware returns. So peaking at 17.2

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

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Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. That's over 3.7

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EP 31: Stopping the Mirai IoT Botnet, One CnC Server At A Time

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In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today. Vamosi: The internet. Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. The results can be massive enough to bring down parts of the internet.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

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Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. In fact, you can just spin up another VM.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

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He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. The point of this?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. It was a masterful piece of malware, carefully crafted to achieve a specific goal. But also war over the internet. When they did that. Physical war.

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