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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Security analysts and U.S. Image: FBI.

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. And second… Governance. But Governance? Data Governance. We’ll start with Governance.

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service.

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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. com from Archive.org in 2012 redirects to the domain qksnap.com , which DomainTools.com says was registered to a Jordan Bloom from Thornhill, ON that same year. A copy of pictrace[.]com

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

ARMA International

ZB in 2012, and the forecast is a mind-boggling 175 ZB by 2025! Organizations use DRM technologies and solutions to securely manage intellectual property (IP) rights and monetize the content. By some estimates, connected devices now outnumber people, and both are generating data. IDC estimated the world created.16

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties

Troy Hunt

Bug bounties have a really interesting way of changing the economics of security flaws and reversing the outcome from one where companies and customers lose, to promoting one where everyone wins. Today's post extends on yesterday's but I wanted to break it out into a discrete piece and come at it from a different angle. across the internet.

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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. I mean what's the remaining gap? But that shouldn't be that surprising given that only 2.3% We still have a way to go!

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