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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer

Krebs on Security

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp.

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Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical

Security Affairs

The flaw also affected the Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure, the Fusion Middleware MapViewer, and four three Oracle Retail components. The CVE-2017-5645 flaw resides in the Codehaus versions of Groovy and affected OCA Unified Inventory Management.

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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

And their grander vision is to help establish a nationwide biometric database in which a hybrid facial ID/fingerprint can be used for things such as fraud-proofing retail transactions, or, say, taking a self-driving vehicle for a spin. SAFR was rolled out with little fanfare at two Seattle pilot schools about a year ago, in early 2017.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices. Obviously, this.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. bitcoin prices. Obviously, this.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic. And in many cases, employers would expect you to go to work even if you were sick certainly in, even in places like retail. Remember using early versions of it. And what's really interesting about solar IDs is it.

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