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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

Whether it’s infected emails stealing employee access credentials or the plague of r a nsomware that has menaced the business world in recent years, there are a number of ways malware can disrupt your organization. Though often conflated with one another, malware and computer viruses aren’t necessarily the same thing.

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Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See

John Battelle's Searchblog

The subject of this cloud has nothing – directly – to do with digital media, marketing, technology or platform ecosystems – the places where I focus much of my writing. If you’re wondering what’s made me feel this way, a couple of choice articles from 2013 (and there were too many to count) should do the trick.

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Yes, I am a broken record at times: Is this really revolutionary?

ChiefTech

see my case study from 2004 ) At Ernst & Young Australia we even supported account teams with a structured process to deploy project databases (called Engagement Team Databases and Pursuit Team Databases , they could be deployed on demand using an automated process) where users could edit each others pages or simply add comments.

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What Will Search Look Like In Mobile? A Visit With Jack

John Battelle's Searchblog

On your phone, there are no links to index, no publicly accessible commons of web pages to crawl and analyze. ” Mobile searches tend to be service related – “How do I get to this address,” and/or location driven: “What are good nightspots nearby.” Well, I’d call it “conversational.”

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

When Google went public in 2004, it was estimated that between 15 to 25 percent of advertising on its platform was fraudulent. All Facebook had to do was add the informational seed. Well, just like Google, it’s accessed through a self-service platform that lets you target your audiences using Facebook data.

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Security Keys

Imperial Violet

Predictions of, and calls for, the end of passwords have been ringing through the press for many years now. The first instance of this that Google can find is from Bill Gates in 2004 , although I suspect it wasn’t the first. Introduction. Most current examples attach via USB , but NFC and Bluetooth devices also exist. CTAP1 Basics.

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