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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

since Q3 of 2007. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% One particularly potent emergent technology for scammers is blockchain and the related cryptocurrency and NFTs. Business targets. of cyber attacks IBM handled.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

It's cool because the first eight architects are the manufacturer Samsung and the rest of them are unique for your particular device. One afternoon in 2007, a container loaded with drug ecstasy went missing from a port in Melbourne, Australia. One of the pieces of information caught by your Wi Fi router is your MAC address.

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Well That Was A Year: A Review of My 2020 Predictions

John Battelle's Searchblog

And again, thanks to COVID, marketers were not exactly focused on public ledgers and blockchain in 2020. Even the publication of a terrifying expose of worker conditions in iPhone manufacturing plants failed to dent the company in 2020. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. I have no f*cking idea. ” Inane. Google zags.

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Predictions 2022 – Crypto, Climate, Big Tech, Streaming, Offices, Tik Tok…and (ugh) Trump

John Battelle's Searchblog

2022 will be a chaotic year for crypto – both the decentralized finance and social token/NFT portions of the industry, which will grow massively but be beset by fraud, grift, and regulatory uncertainty, as well as an explosion of new apps based on scaleable blockchains such as Solana and Avalanche. 2007 Predictions.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

.” 2021 will be a year where we search for the root causes of our failures over the past few years, and at the center of that failure is a communication system that mindlessly manufactures disinformation. 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. A free and open democratic economy can’t run on b t. Predictions 2012.

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