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ConnectWise Slash and Grab Flaw Once Again Shows the Value of Input Validation We talk to Huntress About its Impact
Written by Sean Kalinich

Although the news of the infamous ConnectWise flaw which allowed for the creation of admin accounts is a bit cold, it still is one that…

Written on Tuesday, 19 March 2024 12:44 in Security Talk Read 685 times Read more...
Social Manipulation as a Service – When the Bots on Twitter get their Check marks
Written by Sean Kalinich

When I started DecryptedTech it was to counter all the crap marketing I saw from component makers. I wanted to prove people with a clean…

Written on Monday, 04 March 2024 16:17 in Editorials Read 1568 times Read more...
To Release or not to Release a PoC or OST That is the Question
Written by Sean Kalinich

There is (and always has been) a debate about the ethics and impact of the release of Proof-of-Concept Exploit for an identified vulnerability and Open-Source…

Written on Monday, 26 February 2024 13:05 in Security Talk Read 1102 times Read more...
There was an Important Lesson Learned in the LockBit Takedown and it was Not About Threat Groups
Written by Sean Kalinich

In what could be called a fantastic move, global law enforcement agencies attacked and took down LockBit’s infrastructure. The day of the event was filled…

Written on Thursday, 22 February 2024 12:20 in Security Talk Read 1071 times Read more...
NetSPI’s Offensive Security Offering Leverages Subject Matter Experts to Enhance Pen Testing
Written by Sean Kalinich

Black Hat 2023 Las Vegas. The term offensive security has always been an interesting one for me. On the surface is brings to mind reaching…

Written on Tuesday, 12 September 2023 17:05 in Security Talk Read 2121 times Read more...
Black Kite Looks to Offer a Better View of Risk in a Rapidly Changing Threat Landscape
Written by Sean Kalinich

Black Hat 2023 – Las Vegas. Risk is an interesting subject and has many different meanings to many different people. For the most part Risk…

Written on Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:56 in Security Talk Read 1840 times Read more...
Microsoft Finally Reveals how they Believe a Consumer Signing Key was Stollen
Written by Sean Kalinich

In May of 2023 a few sensitive accounts reported to Microsoft that their environments appeared to be compromised. Due to the nature of these accounts,…

Written on Thursday, 07 September 2023 14:40 in Security Talk Read 2113 times Read more...
Mandiant Releases a Detailed Look at the Campaign Targeting Barracuda Email Security Gateways, I Take a Look at What this all Might Mean
Written by Sean Kalinich

The recent attack that leveraged a 0-Day vulnerability to compromise a number of Barracuda Email Security Gateway appliances (physical and virtual, but not cloud) was…

Written on Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:09 in Security Talk Read 2090 times Read more...
Threat Groups Return to Targeting Developers in Recent Software Supply Chain Attacks
Written by Sean Kalinich

There is a topic of conversation that really needs to be talked about in the open. It is the danger of developer systems (personal and…

Written on Wednesday, 30 August 2023 13:29 in Security Talk Read 1878 times Read more...

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Monday, 08 July 2013 22:17

Former Microsoft Exec Don Mattrick Wanted To Buy Zynga

When Don Mattrick left Microsoft for Zynga many were under the impression that Zynga must have made a pretty nice offer to lure him away from Microsoft. We are pretty sure that this is probably true, but there might be another reason that Mattrick left Microsoft as their Interactive Entertainment Business President. Back in 2010 Don Mattrick tried to get Microsoft to buy Zynga to help bolster what he saw as a big lack in social media games.

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Another Ville coming from Zynga

Just as I started to notice fewer requests to all-kinds-of-Ville games on Facebook, Zynga announced they will launch a sequel to CityVille. They don’t want to tell much about the game, but they revealed “It has all the features in CityVille that players love – from neighbor visits and crews to buildables – blended with some of the innovations we introduced in CastleVille and FarmVille 2 such a crafting and 3D graphics.”