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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

AI is driven by data, and as a society we’re not particularly good at structuring, governing, or sharing data. If I can avoid talking about the joys of the upcoming election and/or the politics of Silicon Valley billionaires, I’m optimistic I’ll return to form. Let’s get to it. The AI party takes a pause.

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Predictions 2019: Stay Stoney, My Friends.

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so I will just summarize: Facebook’s only salvation is through a new system of governance. Because of this, unhappily, we’ll end up governed by both GDPR and California’s homespun privacy law , neither of which actually force the kind of change we really need.

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2020 in review: January to June

IT Governance

IT Governance has recorded more than 1,000 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents so far this year and 20 billion breached records. The top story from February was the long-awaited conclusion to a series of data breaches that Yahoo experienced between 2012 and 2016. Unprecedented. Challenging. In it together. New normal.

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Predictions Review: Trump, Zuck Crush My Optimism In 2019

John Battelle's Searchblog

Nearly 10 million people were displaced by climate change in 2019. And way will a founding CEO get taken down a notch in that scenario, ridiculous governance structures be dammed. And this past year, the best sociopaths won. A huge swath of the Amazon was on fire this past year – spewing yet another continuous torrent of carbon.

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Predictions 2018: How I Did. (Pretty Damn Well, Turns Out)

John Battelle's Searchblog

Score: 10/10. Score: 10/10. Score: 7/10. I love writing this post, and thankfully you all love reading it as well. These “How I Did” posts are usually the most popular of the year, beating even the original predictions in readership and engagement. What’s that about, anyway? But overall?

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

John Battelle's Searchblog

I’m generally inclined to be optimistic, but rose-colored glasses stretch time. Good things always take longer to emerge than any of us would wish. In some ways, this is foolhardy – like predicting that the election would drive 2020, only to see it overwhelmed by COVID-19. Facebook’s chickens come home to roost.

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