Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Below is a comment from Imperva’s CTO Amichai Shulman on the recent discovery of a compromised MIT server which was used to scan the internet for vulnerable web applications

“The act of searching for such sensitive online information via search engines is called “Google Hacking”. And although the name emphasizes Google, this type of search engine abuse pertains to all search engines. Automating the search queries and result parsing enables the attacker to issue a large number of queries, examine all the returned results and get a filtered list of potentially exploitable sites in a very short time and with minimal effort.

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Trusteer this week received a medal for its cybercrime prevention architecture in the Technology Excellence Awards category at the prestigious UK IT Industry Awards, held at Battersea Parks Events Arena. The annual awards, organised and run by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Computing, are the benchmark for excellence throughout the computer industry and offer a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence.

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On her husband’s efforts to put smiles on the faces of the military and their families MO says: “He's worked to send 600,000 veterans back to school on the Post-9/11 GI Bill and taken steps to help veterans translate military experience to the private sector job market. He repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- so that our troops don't have to live a lie in order to serve the country they love. He ended the war in Iraq -- our service men and women there will be home for the holidays. And just yesterday, the Senate passed two tax credits that he proposed to encourage businesses to hire America's veterans and wounded warriors.”

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  10. Flight Lieutenant William Wales to be deployed to Falkland Islands
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  15. Cryptzone: iOS/iTunes revelations mean the iphone and iPad can be totally 'pwned'



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