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Group-IB: The Shadow Market Is Flooded with Cheap Mining Software

Security Affairs

Group-IB is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations. Group-IB, an international company specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, is recording new outbreaks of illegal mining (cryptojacking) threats in the networks of commercial and state organizations.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018. iOS users also “unwittingly allow third parties to contact them directly about marketing, competitions and offers”. Wait a moment – cryptocurrency mining ? Here are this week’s stories. What’s that? An average victim machine could “generate about $0.25

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Gold Coast council to use wifi to harvest Facebook data during Commonwealth Games

The Guardian Data Protection

The data mining, which the council says is legal, will be used to market the city to tourists The Gold Coast council will use a new city wifi service to harvest Facebook data from visitors to next month’s Commonwealth Games. Related: Cambridge Analytica may be guilty of hype.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7 million it initially estimated.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

Some 27 percent of IT professionals who partook in a survey conducted by next-gen firewall supplier Imperva at RSA 2018 reported receiving more than 1 million security alerts daily. In addition, I see more and more service providers adopting SOAR, as the MSSP and MDR markets grow at 15% and 30% respectively according to Gartner.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

” Abhishek Gupta is the PR and marketing manager for Microleaves, which he said in the process of being rebranded to “ Shifter.io.” io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018. According to a help wanted ad posted in 2018 for a developer position at online[.]io, Leftclick and online[.]io

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Archivists and Records Managers, part 13

The Schedule

In the September/October 2018 issue of Information Management , William LeFevre wrote a piece entitled “ Leveraging Legacy Historical Records to Create Organizational Value.” data mining. employee training and education. strengthening corporate identity. documenting mission and history.