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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Careers In Health Information Technology

Information Governance Perspectives

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. What is Health Information Technology? What’s it like to work in this field?

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Are Wikipatterns, Collaborative Patterns?

ChiefTech

In terms of enterprise social computing, wikis continue to be the flavour of the month and Stewart Mader taps into that interest with his new Wikipatterns book , the name reflecting the Wikipatterns site that he helped to start. Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Online customer service failure

ChiefTech

Going online I found an electronic form that I could complete to request disconnection. blog I work at Headshift , a social media and social computing consultancy, as a Senior Business & Technical Consultant. Of course, this doesnt mean the whole online customer service experience is all rosy either.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking High-Tech Cars

ForAllSecure

For example, a simple system that has only an on off switch. A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m challenging the notion of convenience by using our cars as an example. Lacking any formal computer training.

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A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet?

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A short history of intranets and what next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet?

Cloud 40