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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket.

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Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide

Security Affairs

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. Countries with several thousands of infected machines include China, Taiwan, Russia, Brazil and the US.”

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Beapy Cryptojacking campaign leverages EternalBlue exploit to spread

Security Affairs

exploit that could trigger an RCE in older versions of Windows (Windows XP to Server 2008 R2). ” Experts observed a spike in the activity of Beapy in March: Since Coinhive cryptocurrency mining service shut down in March, experts observed a drop in cryptojacking attacks.

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The Difference Between Data Architecture and Enterprise Architecture

erwin

Those that can mine it and extract value from it will be successful, from local organizations to international governments. Growth of non-relational models, 2008-present. Whereas a data architect’s scope, is mostly limited to the “What”(data), and from a system model/logical (level 3) perspective. The Value of Data Architecture.

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The World Is An Internet Startup Now

John Battelle's Searchblog

But as I scanned the room last night and watched those friends of mine, I realized that each of them was now involved in an Internet startup in some way or another. This is what we meant when we chose " Web Meets World " for the theme of the 2008 Web 2 Summit, but it's really happening now, at least in my world. And that was that.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Enterprise Web 2.0 inside CSC

ChiefTech

experiences , its only fair I talk about mine: There are three enterprise level wiki experiments Im aware of at CSC (there could be more, and I believe there are some project or team related wikis around). Monday, 27 August 2007 Enterprise Web 2.0 inside CSC Since Im asking fellow Aussies to share their Enterprise 2.0 and Enterprise Web 2.0

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Baja con Amigos

Daradiction

In 2008 I met Kris Krug. We share several auspiciously random overlapping networks, and since 2008 our friendship has blossomed into a deep personal friendship and working collaboration. I know it it mine. In fact, all that participate would probably say this is their favorite week of the year.

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