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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams. In 2010, Microsoft — in tandem with a number of security researchers — launched a combined technical and legal sneak attack on the Waledac botnet, successfully dismantling it.

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NASA hacked! An unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its network was the entry point

Security Affairs

The attackers exploited a Raspberry Pi device that was connected to the IT network of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) without authorization or implementing proper security measures. The Technology Security Database (ITSDB) is a web-based application used to track and manage physical assets and applications on its network.

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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 2011. 2011: How I Did.

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Predictions 2017 – How’d I Do This Year?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Score: 10 of 10. #2: One year later, chatbots have faded (but “appbots” are on the rise ), and voice-driven systems have secured a place in our shared culture. Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. Score: 7 of 10. #5. S core: 2 of 10. #6. Score: 6 of 10. #7. Score: 0 out of 10. #

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Weekly podcast: Dixons Carphone, Fashion Nexus, Yale and Alaska

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the 10 million affected by Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach, the exposure of hundreds of thousands of clothes shoppers’ details, Yale University’s ten-year old data breach, and a return to typewriters for government workers in Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Anchorage. Here are this week’s stories.

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Predictions 2017 – How’d I Do This Year?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Score: 10 of 10. #2: One year later, chatbots have faded (but “appbots” are on the rise ), and voice-driven systems have secured a place in our shared culture. Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. Score: 7 of 10. #5. S core: 2 of 10. #6. Score: 6 of 10. #7. Score: 0 out of 10. #

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Predictions 2017 – How’d I Do This Year?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Score: 10 of 10. #2: One year later, chatbots have faded (but “appbots” are on the rise ), and voice-driven systems have secured a place in our shared culture. Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. Score: 7 of 10. #5. S core: 2 of 10. #6. Score: 6 of 10. #7. Score: 0 out of 10. #

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