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Mine, Mine, All Mine

John Battelle's Searchblog

Author’s musical preferences not included… No Longer Mine When I write, I like to listen to music. I also don’t own a book collection, at least, not one I’d consider complete or accessible in the way my bookshelf was twenty years ago. The original MusicPlasma interface. I didn’t want to do the work.

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Cyber Security’s Impact on Climate Change: What Can Organisations Do?

IT Governance

IT Governance found more than 1,200 publicly disclosed security incidents in 2021 , which correlates to society’s increasingly reliance on computers and the expanding influence that criminal hackers have. Then there’s blockchain mining. Although they might appear to be distinct problems, there are ways that they influence one another.

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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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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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MY TAKE: 3 privacy and security habits each individual has a responsibility to embrace

The Last Watchdog

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. Why we’re in the ‘Golden Age’ of cyber espionageThe fact is cyber criminals are expert at refining and carrying out phishing, malvertising and other tried-and-true ruses that gain them access to a targeted victim’s Internet-connected computing device.

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Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices: GeoEdge

eSecurity Planet

IoT device security has also attracted the attention of federal government officials (see The IoT Cybersecurity Act of 2020: Implications for Devices ). The delivery of malicious code through advertising supply chains is an insidious attack spanning over the course of 15 years. billion in 2018.

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Weekly podcast: Browsealoud cryptojacking, Bee Token phishing and Olympic attacks

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Here are this week’s stories. and NHS sites in the UK.