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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

On December 7, 2021, Google announced it was suing two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. AWMproxy, the storefront for renting access to infected PCs, circa 2011. Image: Google.com.

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Predictions ’23: AI Gets a Business Model (or Three)

John Battelle's Searchblog

What I’ll call “Enterprise Explorer” could be a hugely successful – and profitable – upsell to its top clients, who wouldn’t mind paying, say, another $10 million or so a year to have a useful, sexy, and energizing new application at their disposal. Predictions 2021. Predictions 2011.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Take the example of the pandemic: only some governments engaged pandemic experts to develop actions plans. Consider another example: the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, when terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage. As an example of a CSF, Table 1 defines the capabilities for CS to progress from Level 1 to Level 5.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023

IT Governance

However, cyber security researcher Andrea Draghetti discovered that the information was exfiltrated on 16 Match 2021, and concluded that the data might likely came from a separate, previously undisclosed data breach. JD Sports JD Sports confirmed in January that it had leaked the personal information of 10 million customers.

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The history of renewable energy

IBM Big Data Hub

The ancient Greeks, for example, used hydropower to turn water wheels that ground wheat into flour. 10 In addition, in recent years a biofuel known as renewable diesel has seen increased demand. link resides outside ibm.com), IPCC, 2011. [2] link resides outside ibm.com), IPCC, 2011. [4]” 11, 2021. [5]

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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

Although Creeper is the first known example of a worm, it is not actually malware. Designed to exploit a backdoor on Unix systems, and to stay hidden, the worm quickly spread, copying itself over and over again and infecting a full 10% of all networked computers. The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing.

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Grading my 2023 Predictions: The Batting Average Dips

John Battelle's Searchblog

Here’s what I meant by that: “Built, again, from a mashup of OpenAI technology and Microsoft’s Azure compute platform, E2 would address some of ChatGPT’s most annoying problems – its indifference to truth , for example, or the biases inherent to its Web-scale training corpus. ” So did they launch this kind of a service?