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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. By November 2013, Acidut was advertising the sale of “26 million SOCKS residential proxies.”

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

ARMA International

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018).

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Galperin is the current Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and noted free speech advocate. Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows. Her research includes artificial intelligence , blockchain technology, and how psychology applies to IT.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

According to Bleeping Computer , Crimemarket “was the largest cybercrime market in the country and a hub for trading illegal drugs, narcotics, and cybercrime services, while it also hosted tutorials/guides for conducting various crimes”. The ICO has issued an enforcement notice and a warning to the Home Office.

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Why Does Production Have to be Such a Big Production?, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including his most recent one, Understanding Blockchain and its Impact on Legal Technology , which we covered as part of a webcast on March 27. Encoding: Some programs prefer a certain background computer language. So, what seems to be the problem?

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. If you think that your data has been anonymised, according to the computational privacy group at Imperial College, you will be wrong. Could the Minister tell me how the right to be forgotten works with the blockchain?

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