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There is a terrifying and highly effective "method" that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can't wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death.

Hello everyone! In this episode, I would like to talk about Github and how to remove sensitive information that was accidentally uploaded there. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239077 This is a fairly common problem. When publishing the project code on Github, developers forget to remove credentials: logins, passwords, tokens. What to do if this becomes […]

An Estonian man was sentenced today to more than five years in a U.S. prison for his role in at least 13 ransomware attacks that caused losses of approximately $53 million. Prosecutors say the accused also enjoyed a lengthy career of "cashing out" access to hacked bank accounts worldwide.

Hello everyone! I am glad to greet you from the most sanctioned country in the world. Despite all the difficulties, we carry on. I even have some time to release new episodes. This time it will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2022. Alternative video link (for Russia): https://vk.com/video-149273431_456239076 I do the analysis as […]

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2022. I release it pretty late, because of the my previous big episode about the blindspots in the Knowledge Bases of Vulnerability Scanners. Please take a look if you haven’t seen it. Well, if you are even slightly interested in the world news, […]

Hello everyone! This video was recorded for the VMconf22 Vulnerability Management conference. I want to talk about the blind spots in the knowledge bases of Vulnerability Scanners and Vulnerability Management products. This report was presented in Russian at Tenable Security Day 2022. The video is here. Potential customers rarely worry about the completeness of the […]