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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 326

Security Affairs

Do You Trust Your Smart TV? ransomware gang BlackMatter ransomware also targets VMware ESXi servers Conti ransomware affiliate leaked gang’s training material and tools Conti Leak Indicators – What to block, in your SOC….

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 203 – News of the week

Security Affairs

CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2019 has arrived. Cyber Command disrupted blocked Russian troll factory during 2018 midterms. Cisco WebEx Meetings affected by a new elevation of privilege flaw. PDF zero-day samples harvest user data when opened in Chrome.

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The Book Lives On

John Battelle's Searchblog

” We spoke on the phone and I learned that the intersection of society and data was her passion – and that her background was an awful lot like mine. My first project out of grad school was Wired magazine. Sara and I met over Twitter, after she noticed the theme of the CM Summit – “Bridging Data and Humanity.”

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Brands As Publishers - Part 2

John Battelle's Searchblog

Initially, the benefits of such moves were clear: profitable properties (a new revenue source), good lists to mine for direct response conversion (marketing efficiency), and a high quality environment in which to market your Brand (well-lit Brand environments).

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Should businesses use collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowds?

ChiefTech

Earlier in the year, a report was published of researchers who looked at mining Twitter to predict the success of movies. ” Others, like The Economist magazine, still see potential: search-volume forecasts will help spot consumer trends of this sort with increased precision. via guardian.co.uk.

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Baja con Amigos

Daradiction

I know it it mine. Coincidence or not, Surfer Magazine's most recent issue had a feature story on the "Baja Renessaince" and one of the key points was that gringos are coming back less for the surfing and more for the vineyards. In fact, all that participate would probably say this is their favorite week of the year.

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