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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

Darkode was taken down in 2015 as part of an FBI investigation sting operation , but screenshots of the community saved by this author show that DCReavers2 was already well known to the Darkode founders when his membership to the forum was accepted in May 2009. “We’ve identified in excess of a thousand of his victims.

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Orchard botnet uses Bitcoin Transaction info to generate DGA domains

Security Affairs

“It’s worth pointing out that the wallet address is the miner reward receiving address of the Bitcoin Genesis Block , which occurred on January 3, 2009, and is believed to be held by Nakamoto.” Version 3 supports features to launch an XMRig Monero mining software. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This includes defining the product scope of the DT journey and the digital products and services that will deliver transformative change for a new future. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope.

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The Link Between Ransomware and Cryptocurrency

eSecurity Planet

E-gold use peaked in the mid-2000s before it was suspended in 2009 for legal reasons. There are few guarantees in the IT industry, but one certainty is that as the world steps into 2022, ransomware will continue to be a primary cyberthreat. A pair of recent reports underscores just how big that threat is. It is because of the cash cow.

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Parental Control Software Developer to Pay $100,000 for Children’s Privacy Violation

Hunton Privacy

The settlement comes one year after the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) alleged in a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission that EcoMetrix was deceptively collecting and marketing children’s information. EchoMetrix also will pay the State of New York a $100,000 penalty.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. In March, it transpired that a further 2.4

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

ChiefTech

. ©2005-2009. 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). Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion.

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